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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do I just need to forget about it and let my sister deal with it and try to ignore her behavior?[/quote]

As a pp said, it might be necessary for someone to run interference. If there's no one else to do it, than you may need to take the task on for the sake of your sister. [/quote]

I wish mine had run interference for me at my wedding. Instead I heard all the outrage after the fact. "yeah, that was terrible! I didn't talk to her afterwards I was so mad for you!" [/quote]

I'm the first PP who said to find like-minded family to run interference. I wish my sister would have too, but she was almost MORE interfering than my mother! She didn't like the shoes I chose, she demanded that I choose a cheap dress that would fit her price range, she went dress shopping with me and could not have been LESS interested in the fact that she pressured me to pick the first dress I saw because it was on sale--even though I didn't fill it out and it wasn't the dress of my dreams and even DH admitted a few years later that he didn't really like it for similar reasons. Oh, and even though we went on a federal holiday, she still wanted to go to some work lunch that her co-workers planned that day, so she cut it short and dropped me off at a Metro station so I could drag my dress all over town instead of driving me home so that she could make it to some monthly event that she does with her colleagues. That should've been my first sign that she wasn't going to be a good MOH.

So, OP, I am giving you advice based on my experience. It's a good thing that you, as a sister, actually see you mother's actions as problems and not "poor mom, sister-getting-married doesn't appreciate her." I did not have that and, well, since then I have become more assertive and distanced myself from my crazy sister, who is actually worse than my mom.[/quote]

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