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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand why you feel the way you do - you never agreed to carry this out by yourself and it's a big load for one person.

But, from your sister's perspective, should she not marry this guy? Let him take care of her if that's what they both want? Maybe she could really be happy with him - should she give that up because her parents invested in her? I know you know the answer is no, but it sounds like your family is disappointed that they won't get a return on the investment they put into her, but your sister is not the stock market. She's not an insurance plan. She's a person, she has her own life to live. I realize that sounds selfish, but it's also true. Children are not economic commodities, not any more at least.[/quote]

OP here. That is extremely untrue and a disrespectful way of phrasing our relationship with our parents. Our parents gave us everything we wanted even at a great cost to themselves. They did not bring us here so we can hunt for husbands. They brought us here so we can become women of substance and learn a skill or two and contribute to the world. We were supposed to stick together and take care of each other. I feel as if I have been abandoned. Ever since she met this boyfriend of here, she is distracted, and spends all her time with him and thinking of him and texting and talking with him. She doesn't have time for me and now she is making plans without me and that doesn't include our family.

I feel...left behind and replaced by her boyfriend. I miss her terribly and can envision that once she's married she'll not really interact with us much. She had been protesting the arrangement the past few years. She didn't like finance and she'd loudly complain about how she wanted to go far away from her family and me because she couldn't be herself around us. I thought she was just being moody but now, watching her jump at the chance to run away with this man, she was dead serious.[/quote]

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