Awwww....That is wonderful! I bet it might fit in a nice little frame for you to put on your nightstand! That is wonderful that she thinks of you and loves you! I wish I had that with my sister!
The sister I hated is becoming a beloved....
by FreedomFrog 14 Replies latest jw friends
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nomoreguilt
Freedomfrog........That your sister is persenting to you the olive branch is a wonderful thing. Like your sister, I am the next younger to our oldest brother. There are 4 of us, each 2 and a half years apart. My brother abused me all of our developing years. Even as a late teen he did so, physically at times.
However, like your sister, I was big enough to overlook those events and over the years have tried to develope a relationship with Him. he had been disfellwshipped for over 25 years for smoking and throughout those years it was ME alone that would approach him to show him kindness and not rebuke. he was re-instated in 2000 and now thinks his sxxx doesn't stink. He has gone back to heavy drinking and called me just last week, drunk and tried to smooze me and say how we need to get together again. I'm sorry, I tried too many times, always the peace maker.
Goof for you dear, cherish your sisters feelings for you now. It's a positive thing for you and her. Follow up on it and don't ever let it go again.
There is so much more involved in my family life, but it would take volumes to relate.
NMG
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Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit
Real love rocks, doesn't it!?!?
Don't blame yourself too long. If you ever told her your feelings about your childhood together, it would probably mean a lot to her and tie you together even more so, if you felt the need to explain--you might not need to, but it never has a bad effect. Thatsa nice!
Bless you!
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FreedomFrog
Just to give a small look into what we (my sister and I) had to live with...
Since she was younger I was responsible for anything that happened including her getting into trouble. At a very young age (kindergarten), she would get bad grades because she didn't want to do the work...of course she got beatings...(hair pulling, switches, spankings...and so on). The frustration my mother had was then onto me since I didn't "help" her get better grades or whatever it happened to be that day. My sister has a scar on her forehead (mom threw a log)...I have a scar on my finger (mom jerked a can out of my hands). Even though they were accident scars and mother apologized, they were because of anger my mom had. Since the blame was on me when my sister did something, it taught me to actually dislike my sister so much that I never did get along even up to our early adulthood.
I hated my sister being around me and now looking back, it was more than likely because if she was around me then the abuse would be on both of us.
There is a lot to the story but it would end up in a book. I really don't think I would have been a "bad" sister if parenting wasn't horrible.
BTW...I'm even blamed today for my sister leaving the Borg since I didn't stop her...LMAO. One of the reasons I'm being "shunned" even though I'm not DF'd.
My sister lives in Florida and I in Ohio so we don't get to hang around much. After she left the borg, I left a year later. Before she moved to Florida, we were starting to get closer. She moved there with my aunt to get away from our parents since she couldn't stand the DF'ing and shunning. She's been there since '05 and seems to be happy.
Edit to correct spelling..
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