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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
(((((Seeker1950)))))
Unfortunately, neither you or your sister have ever truely learned how to communicate and resolve with each other. It is very hard to teach old dogs new tricks, it is not impossible but both you and your sister need to have a therapist to help you overcome this. Sorry to say, it can only take place if there is a real desire by both of you to overcome the way your parents interrupted healthy communication to take place.
I can relate to the struggle as I too have a sister and her communication means, talk to me in a condescending manor and talk over me and god forbid I disagree with her know it all ways. So I truely sympathize with your struggle.
(((((Hugs))))))
Open Eyes
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Thanks for your insights, and feedback, Open Eyes. Sister would never see the need for help from a therapist!...unless it was in her church...which seems rather cult-like to me....So there is the dichotomy.
I realized a while back that much of both my sister's and my own involvement with religion was a means to achieve approval from our distant father, whose only approval and encouragement to us came when we joined the church. I'm not dissing the church here, just saying I've come to realize that our absent and distant, non-affectionate father only gave approval to us re/our commitment to the church. And, yes, this is a whole other can of worms than the recent Christmas debacle which prompted my initial post.