Abby Connolly
Recently, she’s been feeling even more left out after her older siblings started having children and named them after each other but not her.
They bragged to friends and family how they named their children using their “sibling’s initials,” but that never included her.
Instead, they’ve always referred to each other as siblings but still see her as a distant half-sibling.
“I realized at that point I was struggling to cope with that and that it sucked to not get that closeness my parents promised we’d have, especially when I have tried, and I have asked,” she said.
She doesn’t want her parents to force her siblings to bond with her. A lot of pressure has been placed on her to do it herself.
Since the tension between her and her siblings has been bothering her, and she doesn’t want to talk to her parents about it, she found a therapy program to go to.
It’s a free local program for teenagers to enroll in without their parent’s permission or insurance.
She liked the idea of not having to explain to her parent’s why she needs to go to therapy, so she’s been attending the program and staying quiet about it.
However, everything fell apart when one of her aunts saw her leaving the program one day and told her family.
Suddenly, everyone jumped down her throat and asked her why she needed to go to therapy, almost accusing her of not needing it. Her parents told her she should’ve gone to them.
She told her family she shouldn’t have to justify why she was in therapy and that all they needed to know is she’s getting the help she needed.
