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This topic is a tough one for me as well. I know my brothers love me...but we never learned how to be very supportive of eachother. We were left to sink or swim by my father. My brothers show a very strong, supportive relationship with their families...but when it comes to me...their heads are in the sand. I think it is too painful for them. I have learned to accept it...but it's still painful. Blood really does not mean anything - there is no "should". You learn to pick who you want in your life.
One day maybe my brothers and I will let our hair down and really talk... I know how to do that - but they cannot handle it at this point.
May you find a few really great people who just love you for you.
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“A person is also mentally weak by the quantity of time he spends to sneak peek into others lives to devalue and degrade the quality of his own life.” Anuj Somany
“Psychotherapy works by going deep into the brain and its neurons and changing their structure by turning on the right genes. The talking cure works by "talking to neurons," and that an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.” Norman Doidge
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