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[quote=Anonymous]I’m late 40s and have a brother and sister.  I have a good trusting relationship with both but am much closer to my sister.

My sister is the youngest and was always the clear favorite of both parents. My brother and l knew this from a very young age.  My dad also ranked us, my brother the lowest “useless” when he was about 10 years old, me being 2nd and “ok” and my sister being “the best”.  I have these exact phrases seared in my brain 40 years later.

My sister didn’t hear the ranking but my brother and l did.  I told her about it recently and told her how it probably F’d up my brother a lot, that ranking incident plus many others.  He was a total slacker, failed classes and barely graduated high school.  Then put himself through community college and then to university and got a degree and masters and graduated top of his class.  And he’s an awesome dad.

So l finally told my sister and she didn’t immediately believe me but she did after a few minutes. He is a mean bastard but we tolerate him for our mom’s sake.  If he pulled this S on the grandkids you can be sure l would tell everyone.  Hopefully your sibs believe you and protect their kids.

My brother and l know we succeeded despite him.  It’s not that we’ll ever be totally over it, but we’re aware of it and it doesn’t have power over us any more.  [/quote]

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