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[quote=Anonymous]If your siblings called a group meeting a year ago, and you agreed to help out until everyone figured out what to do, you need to call another group meeting and say that the situation as it is now is not working out for you and you need to know what if anything they are willing to contribute. If the answer is that they will do essentially nothing, you need to accept that and decide what if anything you are willing to do. That may mean having a meeting with your parents and saying that you are not willing to live with them anymore and that they need to accept outside help and paid caregivers or move or whatever. You think your siblings could leave their kids and their lives for however long you think is reasonable, but **they do not want to do that.** You think your parents should not have to disrupt any aspect of their lives but you think that the siblings should. You have decided to do that with your own life but that is a decision that you made, no one forced you to do it. Until you take that to heart and realize that you are the only one who can make changes to the situation, nothing will happen. Even if your siblings came for a week or two you would still be mad at how unfair the situation is.[/quote]
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