Oh! garde, thank you! It's only in the last six years that my sister's attitude towards me has come to the fore. Much, I feel, is to do with jealousy, pent-up for many decades'. She perceives my getting 'more' in every which-way from our parents' than she did!
Her husband died from the effects of a cancerous melanoma 32 years' ago, & she still is depressive about his death, just sitting around home, doing nothing, except whingeing. Even after a decent amount of mourning time, she never bothered to 'get out & about' to enjoy time remaining of her life. Now it's too late, she turns 80 on Sep 30th, although could pass for 70, on a good day. She's too many arthritic problems to be able to walk around a shopping centre etc.
Her children, well the eldest, daughter, is a 'basket case'; the next, son, is bipolar, is 53, & still lives with her, & just studies various Degree Courses nonstop, & the youngest, daughter, is a 'loser', who's worked all her life as a nurse, & NEVER has 5c to her name, but still has a huge mortgage to pay-off on house bought decades' ago! NONE have ever married. There're way too 'dysfunctional' for that!
My two children have 'done well' in life.
My son is a Head Chef, with Patisserie Certificate, & B.Hosp.Mgt.
My daughter has both her Bachelor's & Master's in Finacial Planning, & is a Senior Advisor, in her Company. She's also married, with now a gorgeous little baby girl!
So my sister has much jealousy on that account.
What's to do? At this stage, I've no idea!