This is so familiar to me. My golden child sister had a lot of complex issues during her pregnancy and needed family to pitch in for help and support.I dropped everything as in my personal goals and my life in order to go and help her with the infant for a couple of weeks.While I was being a full-time mommy to her infant ,she and her husband bullied me so much.Her husband was suggesting very sneakily that I should put my life on hold and become a full-time carer for their infant until my sister is able to do so.I didn't say yes to it ,but smiled and kept quiet at those suggestions. Oh boy,oh boy the bullying, the insults I suffered oh boy.I think they were trying to make me succumb to the bullying and make me agree to their outlandish demands.They have known prior example of me dropping a semester in my college to take care of my grandmother.I was so angry at the same time had to control my anger in order to be attentive and passionate towards the infant I was looking after.Not only that my sister called me names in front of her friends who visited, her in-laws visited and they too started demanding servitude as if I was a family slave or something. I came back home as scheduled. After a couple of years my sister's husband actually suggested I should adopt their kid as my sister got very busy with her career and she may not do a good job of raising the kid.Yep,can you believe it?I didn't agree to any of it.I minimized contact with them.Human behaviours are so complex.
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