My brother and I have completely different relationships with our mom and it's creating this weird dynamic where he thinks I'm too harsh when I set boundaries with her and I think he enables her guilt trips and manipulation. We can't even talk about family stuff anymore without it turning into an argument about who's handling things 'right.'
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who share the same origin story are discovering they've developed fundamentally different strategies for surviving it.
“Where Are You with Sibling dynamics and parental navigation?”
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