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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Thank you for all the replies, even the ones flaming me. The perspective is useful.

My sister has always maintained that it wasn’t rape. I don’t really know the details and didn’t feel right asking my sister about them. She said it was a pattern, many incidents over a period of many years. Our mom used to travel for work and would leave my sister alone with stepdad (and me and our other sibling, but we didn’t know anything was amiss).

Even though my sister is extremely financially successful, she does have a pattern of being a bit of a pot stirrer within the family. For example, she once sent a letter to several family members stating that our mom was financially abusing our grandfather and trying to get everyone on board to take over grandpa’s finances. She also reported our mom to adult protective services for elder abuse. I was not involved in any of this, but it is true that our mom was probably taking advantage of grandpa for many years.

My sister does not really like that I talk to our mom and historically, mom and sister have sometimes been competitive over me and my sibling. A teeny tiny part of me wonders if this isn’t the ultimate card that my sister has to play to get me over to her side and burn the bridge with mom, once and for all.

I’m just explaining why I’m slightly less tenacious about this than I maybe should be.

Regardless, I appreciate the discussion here.

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So your reasoning for not believing her is that she once (accurately) accused your mom of elder abuse?

Sorry to say it but you sound like a coward. [/quote]

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