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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Are you the OP that started another similar thread about what sibling should know about elderly parents, OP? [/quote]

This one?: 
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/694246.page
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OP here. Yep, that's me. I was trying to pinpoint. It really is as simple as show empathy and don't treat me like your hired social worker. I understand they cannot physically help much and that really doesn't bother me. My problem, and yes I have communicated this multiple times, is the complete lack of empathy for the fact I have many things pulling at me and if they don't like being yelled at by our parents than why would you try to make me the official communicator when I have to be yelled at regularly.

I really do appreciate the well meaning behind suggestions like hire help and have people tell your parents to behave. My parents WILL NOT accept help. At one point my brother not only suggested I hire help, but he had a full list of criteria the help had to meet to help me? I told him if he can convince them to accept it we can then chat about his extensive list of requirements. You tell my parents to behave over and over, but that will not make it so and no i am not willing to let them self-destruct. [/quote]

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