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Monthly Archives: December 2011
PTSD Sibling Post Holiday Therapy Needed?Take This Test.
If the main villain in the family tragedy is a sibling or step sibling – here’s a post holiday quiz to see if you need help. Continue reading
Posted in dysfuntional family, extended family, half siblings, Holiday with siblings, holidays, Sibling Forgivenss, Step Siblings, Uncategorized
Tagged blood brother, Christmas, Cinderella, divorce. step-mother", family rules, half-siblings, Inception, max, midlife siblings, post-holidays, sibing relationship, sibling rivalry, step-sibling, stepsiblings, Surviving holidays with family, ugly step sister, Where the Wild Things Are
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Have Post Holiday Blues About Fractured Family Rules?
Want to make a New Year’s resolution to change the rules that put you through such annual misery? Continue reading
The Weather Outside Is Frightful for Dysfunctional Families
If you’re in a dysfunctional family or suspect you might be – cheer yourself up by watching other people’s pain. Go to the movies . Continue reading
Red Flags for a Sibling “I Hate You” Story Pre- Holiday Daze
Perhaps your brother was pushy or slugged you behind Mom’s back. Maybe you had sisters who got much the new prom dress when you did Goodwill. Divorce may have shattered that family nest like a hurricane leaving you with a dual life of two houses, two beds, two sets of parents, stepsiblings, left you a and a rudderless childhood. Continue reading
Posted in Aging parent, brother, half siblings, Holiday with siblings, holidays, Parent, Step Siblings
Tagged family, family drama, holiday, sibling rivalry, siblings, step, step brother, step sister
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Need Excel Spreadsheet for Step-parenting/grandparenting on the Holiday?
My blood grandson will spend Christmas week with his Dad. My daughter’s new husband ‘s children spend the holiday with their Mom. My blood granddaughter will spend Christmas week with her Mom and grandfather- my ex husband. The festive season takes a genogram to map. Continue reading
Are Your Bloods, Half’s and Steps in an Endless War-Pre Holidays ?
Do your half siblings hate their whole siblings? Are your bloods and steps in an endless war ?
If yes is the answer to any of these- approach the holidays in a new way.
TV’s Modern Family Shows Us Sibling Rivalry
“Modern Family” mirrors the real sibling relationship, showing how old childhood baggage get carried forward into adult years. Sibling rivalry can last until midlife and longer. Continue reading
Who Will Be The Favorite Child This Chistmas?
Cleopatra was her father’s favorite child. As the royal pet ,she killed at least two of her siblings and her father murdered another- to triply insure her destined role as the beloved child and Egypt’s most storied ruler. In Stacy … Continue reading
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Judy Garland and Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands face the Holidays
Johnny Depp is another victim of Christmas, as mutant Edward Scissorhands, as a Frankenstein fictive sibling. On Christmas Eve ,the mutant blade- fingered Depp almost fits in with his adoptive family, including sister Winona Rider, then misery strikes Continue reading
