Topic : 05/22 The True Life of Marcia Brady

This show hit home, I only wish it had been on about 2 years ago, when my father, whom I spoke with 2-3 times a week suddenly stopped calling me, turned his assets over to a friend, power of attorney  to a neighbor and accused me of stealing from him!    Believe me, this scenerio happens and it's a nightmare when it does.  This person put a restraining order on my family and had my father moved to a  nursing home without our knowing where he was.  My father died within 2 months, again without a word to us.  We never got to say goodbye!   You think it only happens in movies?  I wish. 

Fortunately no one in my family has been a total victim of my abusive sister like Maureen's father is a victim of her brother.  However, my sister has constantly caused problems in my family, and she has always tried to control us.  I can totally relate to Maureen's comments that being around her brother for a given  period of time makes her feel like she is going crazy.  My sister is one of the cruelest people I have ever met in my life.  However, if YOU were to meet her, you would think she is perfect.  She has the perfect life, a wonderful husband, a large house, and two perfect children.  She knows how to present herself to people.  However, there front doesn't last for long.  They have moved twice in the last 4 years simply because my sister is not happy. 

I feel really conflicted because I have removed myself completely from my sister.  She is 14 years older than I am, and I have always looked up to her.  However, when I became a mother I realized she wasn't worth the stress.  Plus, I feel she is too unstable to be around my family.  However, she would never make an effort to see me anyway.  I would have to fly to see her.  I would never want to because I am always on egg shells around her.  She has the same MO as Kevin...acuse and retreat.  Plus, she is very cruel and unapolgetic.  It just breaks my heart that I will never have a relationship with her. 

My sister used to have a slight hold on my other sister.  She used to tell her horrible things about my mother and me.  However, luckily my sister saw the light recently after she had a child.  Our older sister was not there for her a bit during her difficult pregnancy, and her new son's medical problems.  In fact she only lived four hours away, but didn't see her new nephew until he was over a year old. 

Seeing Maureen's brother makes me very thankful that my sister is no longer controling my family.  It still makes me sad because she does continue to hurt our feelings, but her days as our "puppet master" are over.  It is just heart breaking when this happens in a family.