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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They might not necessarily hate that you're independent, as much as they just relate to and understand your sibling more easily. [/quote]

This is the dynamic in my DH's family.  His sister has always been...sloppy.  Her personal emergencies and issues became family emergencies and issues.  My DH just dealt with this own issues without involving the entire family.  So the same sort of things happen around successes too.  My SIL's success have become family things to celebrate.  My DH's are ignored or brushed aside.  It used to bother me because it felt like they were always ragging on him.  When in reality, he was, he just wasn't involving them in the minutia of his life the way his sister was.  Without knowing every nitty gritty detail of every day they felt left out, and thus lashed out more at him.  But it was just never his style to share like that.  So he does a kind of grey rock with his family, only telling them what they really need to know and giving generalizations about everything else.  It's a dynamic I don't really want to be a part of, so I mostly just keep my mouth shut.[/quote]

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