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[quote=Anonymous]I went through a really resentful period.  And I'm not the sib in the family you would have guessed would be doing the most.  No one would ever have described me as touchy-feely.  The others tend to help when one feels like a hero and the other is on town.
 
What has me more accepting emotionally is 1.  I can't change the others, 2. It's easier now because my kid is grown up and I have more time.  And 3. I also see in the rear mirror that the child ,now a man, learned as much, may be more, from  how I lived than what I said.  He was watching the whole time.  So, I don't make a big deal about it but we talk about how his grandparents are doing, including the funny and not so funny parts.  We talk about how I do get mad and feel bad about being resentful and sometimes just don't want to do it.  He's old enough now that I think he's gets that compassion is hard and it starts at home.  I also see how my nieces and nephews are learning from watching all our behaviors.  How they judge and go on to act from that becomes their character.  None of this meant to be preachy.  We do reap what we sow.  The older I get, the more I think nothing really changes.  Our parents were right.  We're going to be just like them...the bad and the good.  It's a cycle.  The part you play is up to you.[/quote]

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