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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a mean older sister and I try to fix things now at holiday celebrations. But then she gets me going again. I've never met someone I didn't get along with as much as my sister. I'm very easy going. We're like oil and water.

I actually blame my parents a lot more for my sister and I's disagreements than I blame her. We were 10 years apart and everything was absolutely different in our childhoods. I did so many chores and even my parents acknowledge that I did 90% of the household work (that's being generous). They said it made me a better person and they didn't try to get her to do any chores because she was so difficult. They constantly told me that life isn't fair when I was growing up. I agree that life isn't fair, but we should have been treated equally. I learned last month that they're paying for her grad school and I went and cried in my car. I so wanted to go to grad school but couldn't make the finances work and it's been a big regret. [/quote]

Sounds like you have crappy parents, but it would blow your worldview apart if you really acknowledged that. So you blame everything on your sister, who you started to resent when she was a CHILD. All of the things you talk about, in this discussion of mean sibling behavior, are things your parents did. I think you resent her for being born. If she doesn't do the dishes at holiday gatherings, so what? Why do you? Stop volunteering. [/quote]

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