Dear Hayley:

You are welcome. Sometimes there is no good that comes out of situations. When this is the case, only when the situation is different (you no longer live in this particular home), that good will happen, or good can still happen in your relationships with others, outside the home.

When FAMILY ROLES are established (your sister being the favorite, ‘the good daughter’, perhaps, while you may be the ‘bad daughter’), these roles stick. It is unfortunate. The place to release yourself from such roles is outside the place where these roles were created; outside the home, with people who did not create and are not maintaining these roles.

anita