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Re: Family problems
« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2018, 09:09:39 PM »
And if that happens, I will be asked if I am going..............

Has Big Sis exluded Pink Sis from events before? If this isn't the first time then she may already know or at least suspect something is going on.
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Re: Family problems
« Reply #16 on: August 19, 2018, 05:47:16 AM »
And if that happens, I will be asked if I am going..............

Don't go!  :thumbsup:
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Re: Family problems
« Reply #17 on: August 19, 2018, 06:17:47 AM »
And if that happens, I will be asked if I am going..............

Has Big Sis exluded Pink Sis from events before? If this isn't the first time then she may already know or at least suspect something is going on.

When my mum died each Sis organised separate buffet events about half a mile apart. I attended both by cycling furiously from one to the other  noooo:
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Re: Family problems
« Reply #18 on: August 19, 2018, 08:21:45 AM »
Why would Pink Sis even bother wanting to send flowers ( joint gift or not)   - does she think that you don't talk to her as well ?? It may well be that they will never see eye to eye but expecting you to chose one or the other is naive and immature.

As BM says - honesty is the best policy here. Tell Pink Sis you have been invited to the party and will be going and you assume she has not had an invite due to them not talking - if Pink Sis wants to sort it out with Big Sis that is their business.

This cloak and dagger stuff and trying to remember what you said and to who will  inevitably fail. Which will then make you the focus of the 'betrayal' and the anger magnet.

I have 2 brothers - they are both very different. But my brothers don't really speak to each other  - this is since my mum's funeral and issues with their respective partners. These are their issues though and not mine.  They both know I am keep in contact and see them both but when they ask about the other I refuse to act as any sort of intermediary . They are grown ups allegedly   noooo:

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Re: Family problems
« Reply #19 on: August 19, 2018, 08:42:38 AM »
I have 2 brothers - they are both very different. But my brothers don't really speak to each other  - this is since my mum's funeral and issues with their respective partners. These are their issues though and not mine.  They both know I am keep in contact and see them both but when they ask about the other I refuse to act as any sort of intermediary . They are grown ups allegedly   noooo:

There was similar situation in my family. My two elder brothers never got on and this went back to childhood. I used to see and keep in contact with both but I wouldn't get involved. It was their problem, not mine.

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Re: Family problems
« Reply #20 on: August 19, 2018, 08:52:30 AM »
Why would Pink Sis even bother wanting to send flowers ( joint gift or not)   - does she think that you don't talk to her as well ?? It may well be that they will never see eye to eye but expecting you to chose one or the other is naive and immature.

As BM says - honesty is the best policy here. Tell Pink Sis you have been invited to the party and will be going and you assume she has not had an invite due to them not talking - if Pink Sis wants to sort it out with Big Sis that is their business.

This cloak and dagger stuff and trying to remember what you said and to who will  inevitably fail. Which will then make you the focus of the 'betrayal' and the anger magnet.

I have 2 brothers - they are both very different. But my brothers don't really speak to each other  - this is since my mum's funeral and issues with their respective partners. These are their issues though and not mine.  They both know I am keep in contact and see them both but when they ask about the other I refuse to act as any sort of intermediary . They are grown ups allegedly   noooo:
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Re: Family problems
« Reply #21 on: August 19, 2018, 08:57:30 AM »
Why would Pink Sis even bother wanting to send flowers ( joint gift or not)   - does she think that you don't talk to her as well ?? It may well be that they will never see eye to eye but expecting you to chose one or the other is naive and immature.

As BM says - honesty is the best policy here. Tell Pink Sis you have been invited to the party and will be going and you assume she has not had an invite due to them not talking - if Pink Sis wants to sort it out with Big Sis that is their business.

This cloak and dagger stuff and trying to remember what you said and to who will  inevitably fail. Which will then make you the focus of the 'betrayal' and the anger magnet.

I have 2 brothers - they are both very different. But my brothers don't really speak to each other  - this is since my mum's funeral and issues with their respective partners. These are their issues though and not mine.  They both know I am keep in contact and see them both but when they ask about the other I refuse to act as any sort of intermediary . They are grown ups allegedly   noooo:

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Re: Family problems
« Reply #22 on: August 19, 2018, 02:29:02 PM »
Opinions differ. I will report on developments  ::)
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Re: Family problems
« Reply #23 on: August 19, 2018, 02:31:11 PM »
Opinions differ. I will report on developments  ::)
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Re: Family problems
« Reply #24 on: August 19, 2018, 05:48:53 PM »
Good luck  scared2:
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Re: Family problems
« Reply #25 on: August 19, 2018, 06:56:38 PM »
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Re: Family problems
« Reply #26 on: August 19, 2018, 07:05:29 PM »
 cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing:
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Re: Family problems
« Reply #27 on: August 24, 2018, 06:00:27 PM »
Funeral is Thursday..................... scared2:
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Re: Family problems
« Reply #28 on: August 24, 2018, 08:52:49 PM »
Funeral is Thursday..................... scared2:
Is that the one where the fight breaks out or the one after because the fight broke out at the funeral before?
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Re: Family problems
« Reply #29 on: August 25, 2018, 07:05:36 AM »
All of those
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