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Open Question: Dealing with jealous older sister?
My sister is 9 years older than me and 30 years ago she decided to move to Australia and set up her own business. She has borrowed money on at least 3 occasions from our parents and not paid it back. When she came home for a family get together she said to me "I just can't compete with you can I". I was shocked at her remark; it was said because I bought Dad a Xmas card and she hadn't! She then rushed out and bought him one. How pathetic she is. She criticises me for not starting my own business and when I remarked on how nice a certain person was she said "Oh she's a frump and not well groomed". Then when she was mowing some grass in my parents garden/yard she deliberately aimed the mower towards me so that grass cuttings went all over my trousers. I knew she was spoiling for a fight but I just brushed myself down and ignored her. Was that the right thing to do? My parents do have a good relationship with me and I live near them and am always helping out and they let my sister know this. She is domineering, short tempered and abrupt, always falling out with people and having a new best friend. She never bothered going to university whereas I did and have a good job enabling me to work part time to make a living. She recently phoned my parents and I happened to answer the phone. Her voice was crackling with emotion when she said "Carole, Carole". But she then said "Can I speak to Dad". I think she hated the fact that I was in my parents house. She apparently told Dad that he should have put up a new fence and shame on him as he hadn't done it. Even from Australia she tries to dictate how he should do things. She even planted a new ornamental tree and moved the one I had planted to a less noticable place. Also she put photos of me in a drawer or kept turning them upside down in my parents' house. If she upsets my parents she goes into a flurry of activity going above and beyond what is necessary like cleaning all the windows in their large house when only 1 is dirty and saying how long it took her to do. Is she trying to prove a point? If we are in a room with our parents she refuses to look at me and stares out the window whilst I chat happily to my parents. Am I dealing with a jealous sister or is it just sibling rivalry?
Resolved Question: Is this the way to fix the british economy ?
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