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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My younger sister is pregnant with a girl and has warned the rest of us that she will ban us from engaging with her child if we continue toxic behaviors around her. The toxic behaviors she is citing is as follows:

- comments about having a bad hair or skin day
- comments about losing or gaining weight 
- comments about beauty and being pretty

We are a large family with 5 sisters so obviously a lot of our talk is about who lost weight who started a new workout who iss eating what meal plan etc.

I know she means well but it seems a bit extreme. We feel like we must walk on egg shells around her. [/quote]

Maybe dial down that talk some as she's not wrong. But, as for "what happens" that's on her. If she wants to completely disengage from her own family, that's only going to harm her and her kid. Additionally, Baby Girl is going to hear things she doesn't like in life and you're sister is going to learn that the hard way. [/quote]

I'm team sister too. My mom has 4 sisters and they were so obsessed with looks and weight that both my sister and I developed severe eating disorders. I think we would have been better off if my mom cut us off from them and realized how bad it was that a lot of their talk was about weight, diets, and looks (who got pimples, how everyone's hair looked). Ugh!![/quote]

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