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When family illness creates division between siblings

My mom has been calling me every day since her cancer diagnosis but she won't talk to my brother at all, and now he's angry at both of us because he says I'm enabling her avoidance and he feels completely shut out of what might be our last months with her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Grief and fear are reorganizing family relationships in ways that feel both protective and destructive.

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