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[quote=Anonymous]Step one: Stop reading her emails etc every day. Save them up for once a week, because you don't need that negativity.   Canned response to whatever she raves about is some form of "great to hear everything's going well for everyone. awesome." And if she doesn't like that you answer less often, you're busy with your awesome life.

Step two: Stop telling her anything about what's going on in your and your family's life. Canned answer is that everything is great. You don't want to give her ammo.

She probably needs people close to her to be perfect. It fills a need in her and makes her feel in control. She also probably needs to pit people against each other, so that they don't connect as well and she gets to be the main person. She accomplishes this by needling you about the perfection of your relatives, because on some level you will start to resent things about them.

The key is to build a strong boundary around this stuff, so that you can be happy for your siblings and content with your own life.

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