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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sibling and my parents have been fighting lately - mostly my parents saying my sibling does not help them or check in with them enough in their old age and also my sibling's spouse hates my parents and has been vocal about this.  My parents are nice to my sibling's spouse, so personal treatment is not the issue.  Anyway, there are a million factors to this story that I don't want to get in to, but long story short, my parents try to bring me in to their disagreements with my sibling.  I try my best to stay out of it and now, even change the subject if it comes up.  How have others dealt with this sort of thing?  Any advice?

Also, I live far away from the whole family and my sibling and parents live about 1 mile away from each other...  [/quote]

If I am annoyed, I say "I don't want to hear your nonsense." Or you can be more polite and say, "This doesn't involve me, I'm staying out of it."

You can always get up and leave or say bye and hang up. Or tell them to grow up and stop acting like children.

If they need help, perhaps they need to be in a retirement community/home. Why does sibling need to check in with them? She is grown. Or do you mean check up on them?[/quote]

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