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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The friends might be imaginary. [/quote]

I hate to say it but I was thinking this too. I cannot imagine someone in OP's sister's situation hosting dinner parties. [/quote]

Maybe or maybe not. I have a neighbor who matches this description except she seems fairly consistently employed (in a WFH job) and she definitely has friends and a social life, as I have met them. She is a little younger than OP's sister (late 20s, maybe right around 30), and I know that her parents are paying at least a portion of her rent even though I do think she makes enough money to pay it herself, as I have met and spoken to them as well (super nice people, they seem to have a healthy relationship with their daughter and the financial arrangement seems to be viewed as a way to ensure she can live more independently while also not having to budget too carefully which might be something she's not particularly good at.

She is active in a couple hobbies, seems to have around 10-15 consistent friends, 4 or 5 of whom come over fairly often. I do think she gets depressed at times and on more than one occasion one of her friends has stopped by to ask me if I've seen the neighbor out of the house recently or to express concern for her her. My sense is that the neighbor is very likable generally, has a good and supportive family, and has a number of friends from college/grad school who care about her, but that she struggles with mental health and executive functioning.

If my neighbor had a sister or had visited her family for the holidays, I'd even think perhaps OP was talking about her. But she's an only child and her parents stayed with her over the holidays instead of the opposite.[/quote]

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