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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  No other siblings and parents have passed on. Have shown last contact to therapist and have dealt with it in therapy.  Mentioned younger because birth order seems to matter in terms of how people deal with things.  Without going into too much detail, break in contact coincided with a happy event in my life.  Therapist suspected that jealously was involved.  [/quote]

Yeah, no.  No real therapist is going to blame this on your sibling being jealous of you. This post is very telling. [/quote]

Well, the therapist saw the contact and you didn't, so I'm not sure you (or any of us) are really in any place to judge.

That some of you continue to deny jealousy as a plausible explanation for estrangements is hilarious to me.  Again I'm in no place to judge the reason for this particular estrangement but there's a reason it ended up in the 10 commandments. Humans are jealous creatures.[/quote]

I also noticed that. Jealousy/envy has been around as long as the mankind. Fairytales are written about it. Mom/daughter or step-daughter, dad/son, sibling rivalry. I also found the long post about "poor sibling" incredulous. I don't know any siblings who have everything exactly the same in life and going with that is normal, not something one has to hide because another doesn't have. If you cannot tell your family (parents/siblings) that you got a promotion, your kid won an award or you bought a new car without them getting jealous by default, then who can you tell??? [/quote]

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