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[quote=Anonymous]I honestly want to know but please be kind, this is a stressful situation for us. My sister is going through an awful divorce. At least we think so because no one has actually filed for divorce yet but after a whole lot of nastiness we are actually hoping for it. They have been separated for a while and my sister is living with my parents. She's been severely depressed but is finally coming out of it a little bit. Anyway, besides the horror my sister has been through it's also been really difficult for my parents watching my sister go through this. My mother turns to me a lot for support and advice and while I want to be there for her as much as I can I have 4 little children, a husband and a job to worry about. She always wants me to invite my sister places and for me to come over and see her at night after my children have gone to sleep. This week my parents are on vacation and my mom keeps texting me asking when I'm going to see my sister, make her dinner, etc. My kids started summer break this week before camp starts next week so it's a really busy week for us too with lots of plans we made before my parents decided to go out of town. DH and I have a date night planned tonight (and it's been months since we've done that) and now my mom wants me to invite my sister too. I feel like I just want to explode at my mom and tell her to stop putting so much of the responsibility for my sister on me when I have enough on my plate too but I know that probably won't help. My DH is super supportive so that helps but I just wanted some unbiased opinions if I'm being unreasonable for not wanting to do more or if my mom is unreasonable for putting this on me. [/quote]

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