Dealing with unsupportive relatives
What is the best way to deall with close relatives who fail to offer any meaningful care or support or even understanding about breast cancer.? Initially in January, I received two emails from my K...
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Hi Deane, Robyn, Sarah, Sara and Hazel, thanks all of you for your thoughful responses. It helps to know that all of you have had similar disappointments and are clear about it not being good enough but not worth wasting too much energy on.
I tend to think it is a sign of my own inadequacy that I have relatives who treat me like this and a further sign that it gets me so upset, but your emails have helped me put this is perspective.
Deane, congratulations on taking part in the Mothers Day Classic: hope it went really well, and that the passing of this milestone was special for you and your family as you shared the event together. I am trying to remember that my mother and sister are probably doing their best, they just don't have the capacities some of the lovely people in my life have.