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Lying for my sister

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ZiSunka

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I sold my dad's riding mower for $500.

My sister hates me because I didn't tell her I was selling it. But she was at my house when I was setting up the garage sale and after I asked her for a year if she wanted it, I had told her for another year that if she didn't want it, I was going to sell it. I asked her one more time before I sold it. She even helped me set the price on it. Now she says I sold it without her permission. :doh:

She's also mad because I told her husband that I sold it. She's mad because I put her share of the money in an envelope and gave it to her son to give to her (she's been angry with me since June and won't visit me and won't let me visit her), and she set it on the desk in the kitchen where her husband found it and put it in the bank. She thinks that if I never told him that I sold the mower, he wouldn't have taken the money to the bank.

She has a problem with spending and thinks nothing of spending $1000 at a single store in a single day, plus she hides credit cards from her husband with thousands of dollars in charges on them that she can't pay, plus she sneaks money out of their account to spend on senseless things like tiny pink babydoll shoes because she thinks they are cute (she's in her 50's now).

She emailed to tell me that she hates me for all this, plus much much more.

What's the best way to deal with her?
 

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Reply to her very simply.

"Dear Sis,
I am sorry you feel that way. I love you. Talk to you soon.
Love,
Sis."

She has an impulse control problem that I used to have, and am suffering for greatly now. I have so much credit card debt, I had to go into debt consolidation to help me. One of the many reasons my husband left me was my spending money when we couldn't afford it.

Don't let yourself get sucked into her game of fighting. She says she hates you, but that is her black and white thinking. She is angry about getting caught with the money and blaming you for it. She is behaving like a spoiled child who did not get her way. Ignore it.

Hugs,
Trish
 
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It's been 48 years we've been building this destructive pattern, I guess I can't unlearn it in a week.

I know I've been enabling her to do this kind of stuff. I wanted to do something long before now, but I was so desperate to keep the relationship going that I bought into her lies and moods and did whatever it took to keep her liking me.

When I think of all the times I gave up something I valued or gave into her to keep her on an even keel, it kind of makes me ill. I'm part of the reason she hasn't dealt with this already, aren't I?

Yep.
 
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Relationships with borderline people are very complex. Most people need help breaking the patterns. I would suggest you look into therapy for yourself to help you learn boundaries and to detach with love. You will find that she probably does not hate you, but is just not showing her anger in a healthy way. The more you help yourself develop boundaries, the more you will be helping her.

Hugs,
Trish
 
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I agree with you. I remember several years ago, the book Boundaries really helped me mold a new relationship with her. Maybe it's time to re-read that book. I have joined a support group for families with a BPD loved one, too, and have a counsellor who specializes in BPD available by phone. And I have a great fiance who is very supportive.

And of course great people at CF like you! :)
 
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It sounds like you have a lot of support. My husband and kids would have benefited from a family support group. Maybe it would have saved my marriage. Praise the Lord my kids and I get along great, but that was not always the case.

I am grateful that I have a terrific therapist who has really been my driving force to guide me through this, and I have changed so much in the past six years.

Keep up the good work.

Warmly,
Trish
 
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