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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every sibling needs a job - responsibility. Someone needs to keep everyone informed and mediate between them. Misunderstandings cause all sorts of trouble. And the reality is an aging, in need of care parent, is facing the end of life and can be depressed, angry, vindictive....exacerbating the tensions.

Also, [b]siblings don't realize that regardless of having the same parent/s each has lived their own life with the parent and can have had very different experiences. So basically, everyone expects each sibling to feel the same based on their own experience, and are angered that others don't feel the same way as them.[/b]

Not sure that makes sense, but I realized very quickly in dealing with my own dad's end years that each of us had a very different dad. What I stressed with each was Dad is going to die. We want him to die with dignity, yes, but we need to have a relationship with each other when it was over. We managed. Barely.[/quote]

VERY TRUE.[/quote]

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