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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it gives you any hope, what you’re describing sounds very much like my sister in her 20s. We had the same childhood so I’m well placed to comment, and the stuff she came up with was nuts. My parents were more patient with it than I was and continued to reach out to her and try to maintain a relationship. Now she’s in her 30s and seems to have mostly returned to sanity. Every now and then she’ll make some statement about our childhood that is completely warped, but most of the time she’s fine and has a good relationship with me and with our parents.[/quote]

This was also my sister in her early 30s. Went to therapy and between her and her therapist they figured it all out. My parents strategy was to take the long view and ignore all of the comments about their “prior communication style” and “alcoholic father” (who could go weeks and never drink and never got seriously drunk”) and my mother the “co-dependent,” etc.  It all faded into the background, etc.  [/quote]

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