Posted by mair on April 2, 2002, at 14:29:48
In reply to My wonderful family, posted by sid on April 2, 2002, at 9:26:27
Sid - Your post seemed very timely to me. My bugaboo is not my sister or the brother in law from hell, but my father who is able to flip me into a 3 or 4 day anxiety attack just by saying the wrong thing to me. I struggle to keep my distance from him and then feel incredibly guilty that I'm not nicer to him and that I don't want to be around him. It strikes me as absurd that I am as old as I am (late 40's) and still let him get to me this way. I have no easy answers - I don't get together with him much, but it's tough to avoid his telephone calls. Sometimes I think you just need to do what's healthiest for you - if that means very few family encounters, so be it. I think you'll be alot happier for it, and maybe your insistence will dissuade your sister from forcing too many of these.
Mair
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