She Believes Her Blind Sister Should Help Care For Their Parents As They Get Older, But Her Sister Didn’t Get Any Assistance Past The Age Of Eighteen Like Her And Her Brother, So Her Sister Doesn’t Think She’s Obligated To Pitch In
This woman has a brother and a sister.
Her sister has been blind since the day she was born.
Since her parents understood that her sister would have a difficult time in the world, they did their best to give her everything she needed in order for her to be independent.
“They made her do things herself when we were growing up, and they made it clear she needed to be able to support herself when she became an adult. To make sure she stood on her own two feet, they said she had to support herself when she turned 18,” she said.
Once her sister was 18, she moved out of their parents’ house to attend college.
If her sister had instead decided that she wanted to continue living at home, their parents would have told her she had to work and pay rent.
While she acknowledged that it may seem like their parents were strict with her sister, they knew that it was difficult for people with disabilities, so they wanted her to have the best chance of succeeding.
However, her sister doesn’t view her experience in the way her parents claimed they intended it to be.
After graduating from college, her sister continued her education and earned her doctorate degree.
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Now, her sister works as a biologist.
Currently, their parents are aging and are expecting her, her brother, and her sister to assist in caring for them.
But her sister refuses to help take care of their parents.
“She says my parents should have planned better and is saying the same things they used to say to her back to them. I know she’s jealous because my parents didn’t do for me (their other daughter) or my brother what they did for her, but it’s easier for me and my brother to make our way in the world because we aren’t disabled,” she explained.
In her view, she and her brother wouldn’t have had as many struggles as her sister has had, so that is why she thinks their parents treated her sister differently.
“She says me and my brother should support our parents because we lived at home past age 18 and never had to pay rent, and our parents helped us, but not her,” she shared.
After having this discussion with her sister, she believes that her sister has a lot of resentment and bitterness toward her and her brother.
Her brother thinks that their sister is being overdramatic.
She responded to her sister and said that she should be doing all she can for their parents now so that they have the funds necessary to eventually move their parents into a nursing home.
While she and her brother are financially contributing, they don’t make as much money as their sister does.
But her sister has doubled down on her opinion that she’s under no obligation to help their parents and that nobody can make her do so.
She insisted that her sister needs to help their parents like she and her brother are already doing.
Do you think she’s wrong for telling her sister that she needs to help take care of their parents?
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