anita,

It is more that she would attack me and say things like this:

1. I am so busy (implying that I am not).

– She has stated many times that she is the only one that has made anything of herself in our family. Which is absolutely objectively false – I have a doctorate.

2. I have so much on my plate – I have to focus on me now

3. I’ll look at it when I get time (in a rude way)

Or she would completely ignore it as if it was not important enough. So I began to downplay my life.

These reactions would be to something similar to this – like if I sent a photo. Something trivial/fun. But she made it stressful.

Wow, as I type this I realize how sad this is. Poor calisister. My life always felt unimportant. I felt like I could not share. I felt unlistened to.