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Monster kitty that is an horrendous story. I am so sorry for you and your nieces. It is so difficult when you can't protect people from themselves. It appears that even tough love didn't help your SIL. Now that my sister is lashing out in anger I fear that she faces a similar future. I don't...

Thank you Sara. You are very kind and an inspiration to anyone that wants to make the conscious choice to save their own life. I applaud you and wish you the best of everything life has to offer. I don't feel amazing. I feel selfish and angry. I am strong because of many difficulties I have...

My sister and niece are very close, actually enmeshed. It's not a healthy relationship. Unless it is my sister's wish for my niece to live with me, the mere suggestion would cause a war. Even then I doubt my niece would leave my sister because she would feel like she was abandoning her parents...

Thank you all for sharing your thoughts and perspectives. I believe that this is rock bottom for my sister and it is difficult to watch from afar. I have told her that I love her, no matter what. I told her I am here to help in any way I can but am not in a financial position to help with money...

Lizabu, I think this is why I am getting the anger. I told my sister in October that my mom wanted to retire but was hesitant, and to let my mother off the hook with the financial demands. She seemed to hear me and take it well, but ultimately I enabled my mother's independence financially and I...

Badger, I know that she had an interview and it looked promising. She was in the running and while it wasn't expressed, I believe that her bad credit took her out of the picture. She did assist a friend of my mother with home health care, but those people moved away. Lizabu, did your sister...

I think my main issue is my serious need to disengage. There is a middle sister (I am the oldest) who has an equally dysfunctional life. There is so much enablement and toxicity that I can't handle it any more and I feel guilty for feeling that way. My son was recently diagnosed with type 1...

I agree that it is toxic but I can't control what my mom does. I seriously hope that they don't move in with her but I think it's inevitable. In the meantime I want nothing to do with my sister and that is bothering me. I feel guilty for needing to put distance between myself and this situation...

Her husband is in denial. Apparently they all are. Niece is in college but didn't want to work last summer, so didn't.

My sister refuses to place my niece at this point, and she is in college at a school 40 miles from me. My mom lives closer to the school and offered her home to my sister's family but they "don't want to live in the city" . Yes, you read that correctly. That is what we are dealing with. There...

I am in a rough place and would like to hear the opinions of others in the situation. My sister lost her job 3.5 years ago due to insubordination. She had that job for over 10 years but due to changes made by management she had become unhappy and started badmouthing management. She received a...

I found out today that my foot is fractured and we leave for WDW On Saturday. I have a full boot and some pain. I fractured my other foot a few months ago. I have osteopenia. I normally do WDW at full tilt but it appears that wont be possible this time. I was wondering if it is possible to...

I usually take mine to the bar for a Bloody Mary.

I can understand avoiding stores and areas with a high crime rate. Unfortunately for some people there is no choice. I don't understand avoiding a store or location merely because it is heavily populated by working class individuals. I can't imagine living with such a limitation. Stepford...

It's over when you say it's over. When you personally can't take anymore disrespect or abuse, the marriage will be over. You don't need permission to live in a place of mutual respect. That is a right you can only enforce in your life for yourself. I don't believe that God or Jesus would...

We found a B&B in Providence. We haven't really "done" Providence so that will be nice and we might hit Newport.

DH and I are looking for a getaway this weekend. We live in Boston. I know all sea coast areas are booked but we can't even get a decent hotel in Providence right now. I know most places want a 2 night minimum. We have looked in Vermont and NH and there is nothing. Where can we go for a...

I was tied up and raped at the age of 15 by a man for whom I babysat his children. I am just realizing now the damage that did to me, at the age of 54. It made me a very "difficult" woman in that I will not be domineered in any way. This has been an issue in many relationships and not in a...

I would have a hard time believing that an actual nutritionist would be mislead with or without pictures, of processed foods.

Well yes, there is always that. :rolleyes1