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: My mother and I have had a very tense relationship in the past few years. She has always been very controlling and manipulative. In the past, I would do whatever she asked of me to keep her happy and thus stayed in her “good graces”. Recently, however, I realized that I have been sacrificing [...]
Q: My husband was raised by an alcolohic/drug dependent father. His whole family, including his mother, is in denial to this day about the whole thing. My father-in-law died 31 years ago, and his name hasn’t been mentioned since at any family gathering, etc. (except in our home, where I have told my children everything [...]
Q: My brother has been using drugs and been an alcoholic since he was a teenager. He started selling drugs and did this for a couple of years after high school to support his habit. Our mom told him to stop and promised him a good paying job. So he quit selling about 6 years [...]
Q: My brother (26) may possibly have a mental health condition but has never been diagnosed. He’s threatening, violent (when he’s in fits of rages), and blames everyone else for his downfalls in life. Very rarely is he happy or positive, and very rarely does he have anything good to say about anyone. My mother [...]
Q: I am a 40-year-old daughter of a controlling, narcissistic, verbally abusive 67-year-old mother. As long as I can remember, my mother has been angry or depressed. Her temper was frequent and frightening and then the next day, we just “moved on”. My mother has never, ever apologized for any wrongdoing on her part, for [...]
Q: I have an extremely controlling sister-in-law, and now my brother does not seem to want to know me. I think this is because after 9 years I have finally put a boundary around what is and is not acceptable, such as my sister-in-law turning up on my doorstep expecting tea and sympathy whenever she [...]
Q: My question is about my 34-year-old brother. Since the age of 3, he has dealt with being type 1 diabetic. Just recently, in the past few years he has been diagnosed with having epilepsy, and he is bipolar. It has been very difficult for my Father and Mother considering for years they have been [...]
