Caller Seeks to Reconcile With Caregiving Sister She Abandoned

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You and this is sadly not a unusual situation and so let's let's let's back it way up okay.

Did you and your sister have fractions in your relationship fractures in your relationship before your dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

Okay so you guys have not had a great relationship for some time will help you any good.

Well, what happens is if there's any kind of fracture in the relationship. Being a caregiver will expose that amplify that to just almost crushing levels.

If you got anything going on. It will push the pressure of that particular with Alzheimer's. The pressure of it is just staggering. So what's happened is that it took you and your sister from the a truce relationship that we just had a headache the truth that you stay away from certain subjects and so forth to now assist full-blown battle lines, so to get back to the place of any kind of reconciliation is good be a lot of work and it's can be work that is way outside your purview to be able to orchestrate. You cannot make your sister be reasonable. You cannot make you be reasonable. You cannot make either one of you forgive, you can't do those things by yourself is going to take a lot of work.

Words that start well the first place may be to sit down with some type of family counselor, social worker, licensed mental health counselor somebody pastor somebody though that can at least have a conversation with you and start giving you some better tools to reach out to your sister then that then then you develop a way to reach out to her.

It may be a letters that go through her daughter. You just go to her if you can go to her relentlessly say look, I don't. I don't want to fight with you. I will work this out. I don't know what that looks like, but this is where my heart is what to want to have that relationship with you and I want to be a partner with you and taking care of her father. If that's something you want to express that to her in multiple ways in multiple times because it's gonna take a while for her to number one believe you wouldn't be able to count on and and so these are things that you have to own yet you bail but you don't need to get into all the drama of why you did. You said look I would when people are drowning.

They could pull somebody down with them just to be able to get here. That's what happens and that's exactly what that's exactly what you did and so you were you were ill-equipped with the pressure and in the suffocating journey and I get that we all are, but now it's time to go back and reassess okay. Where are we and what are we doing here and and what's what's the what's the next step for us and so I would I would start with that, I would start with understanding that part of the journey of being a caregivers learning how to make amends and were going were going to get it wrong. One of things I got a book call seven caregiver landmines and one of the things we talked about his excessive weight gain and this is what happens to us because we are we are not in a healthy place. Our bodies reflect what's going on in our hearts and and so you have these moments of overage of depression, of anger, whatever is all the Comanche, so if you can get to somebody who can help you consistently walk through that and give you the vocabulary of what it's like to go to your sister.

You don't have to. You don't have to grovel you have to stay focused on your message on what you try to accomplish or do you want to have a peaceful, loving relationship with your sister once you answer that question. Do you want to help her take care of your father and once you've established what your goals are, what you're trying to get out of this thing. Then you can go to her and offer these things that she's probably going to be a little bit reticent to get involved.

Since ICR is she didn't want to deal with. And like you said when you go to the store, you sear the store and she's just shooting daggers at you with her eyes.

She all the pressure you're feeling. She's feeling with your with your father. She's feeling that now 2+ the added resentment of all the things going on with use of this could take a while to detangling this if at all, and some of these things don't get the tangled you need to be prepared for that. Some things don't get fixed the set, a heaven doesn't mean that God can't do it doesn't mean that God won't do it just means that the nature some these things are that you cannot force somebody to be agreeable with you. You cannot force things and try to get the outcome that you want, but what you can do is be as upfront and be as clear and BS is amenable to God healing this as you possibly can. And that's what you asked for help from Scripture, and you asked for help from people around you who are professionals at this and and you can't go in there with your airing of grievances. If you going to try to help your sister yet to accept the fact that some of things that you have that are grievances or whatever, they're not necessarily be addressed. You not to get all the things that you want, but that's not the point you're trying to offer and try to push into something. Be prepared to get rejected. But that doesn't mean you quit if it's important to you.

Stay with it and go back to what our Scripture was a day with this widow said she needed something from the sky and he wasn't going to budge, but she just wore him down what you can do the same thing with love to do the same thing with making amends the same thing with offering to help wear them down so that they will believe your sisters got believe as I give you a starting point. All right, listen rep gets the break speed.

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