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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So everyone in your family is messed up and defensive and combative except you?  Based on your posts, you are not immune from the family dysfunction.  You are mean and defensive to people offering advice---does that sound at all familiar?  You and your sister are more alike than you think.  [/quote]

No, you're right.  I'm not immune from it.  But I at least try.  And yes, I have high expectations of myself and other people, probably too high to meet.  But like everyone else on this board, I do not appreciate being attacked.  I asked honestly how that conversation could have gone down differently.  I seriously do not see how what I did - offer sympathy, try to understand the situation, and attempt to offer the advice that was asked for - was so wrong.  I do not see how what I did justifies my sister screaming and cursing at me at the top of her lungs, talking over me, etc etc.  My family brings out the worst in me and this is why I try to avoid them.  I made the mistake of violating that tenet last night.  With my sister, all you can do is say mmm hmm, mmm hmm, I can see how you might feel that way, mmm hmm, mmm hmm.  It's like a conversation that you just have to endure because no matter what you say, you will be wrong.  It's a trap.[/quote]

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