The following questions are related to ‘Siblings’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I desperately need advice on what the next step is to take for my youngest brother. This all began with his lying about graduating from college, were he was 2 classes shy. He lived with my parents for a year with no job and isolated himself in his room. He ended up stealing money [...]
Q: My son is 33 and my daughter is 31. About once every three months my son calls her and leaves horrible, vulgar messages on her cell phone. He calls her names and tells her how much he hates her. Then he calls me and says he has hated her since the day she came [...]
Q: My 2 1/2-year-old son has three half-siblings (8, 11 and 13) who live out of state. His siblings’ mother is pressuring us into setting up a webcam so that his siblings can “see him”. While this may make the three older half-siblings feel better about missing their half-brother, might it cause distress for the [...]
Q: My brother married a woman about 12 years ago who has never really warmed up to our family. She was raised an only child in a rich household that did not reach manners, responsibility or morals. Her mother is emotionally damaging and it has spilled into her adult life. She is verbally abusive to [...]
Q: My sister-in-law has recently sent my husband numerous emails with the following: Accusing us of not wanting her and her husband in our daughter’s life and that we give “framed pictures of our daughter to everyone and their dog but not them”. (We only see them at family functions and always give them pictures. [...]
Q: My brother was dating a girl for about a year whom we all liked. At the one year mark, when it wasn’t certain where their relationship was going, or if he was being deployed to Iraq — he ended up being discharged and not going — she announced she was pregnant. My family immediately [...]
Q: I start with this quote: “A [sibling] with a Personality Disorder may intimidate an elderly parent for money or manipulate a legal situation to eliminate siblings from an inheritance.” (From your article on personality disorders in relationships.) Question: We have exactly this situation; how do we cope? Throughout her married life, our sister flew [...]
