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fromPsychology Today
4 days ago
Parenting

Did My Mom Really Love One of Us More Than the Other?

The favored child dynamic shifted dramatically during adolescence, leading to feelings of rebellion and alienation.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 months ago
Mental health

Harriette Cole: I just want them to admit the truth about my childhood

When family refuses to acknowledge childhood mistreatment, seek therapy to process feelings and develop healthy independent ways to live.
Parenting
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

Did My Mom Really Love One of Us More Than the Other?

The favored child dynamic shifted dramatically during adolescence, leading to feelings of rebellion and alienation.
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Relationships
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Help! My Family All Vacations Together. I Never Get Invited.

Parents prioritized one nearby child's family, causing perceived favoritism and exclusion of the distant sibling's family on vacations.
Parenting
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

My parents are paying for my younger sister's college, but I had to take out loans. It's unfair and makes me angry.

Parents' changed parenting created resentment when they fund a younger sibling's full college while the older sibling worked and repaid loans.
fromSlate Magazine
3 months ago

Help! My Twin Swears I'm Out to Get Her. Uh, All I Did Was Deny Her Very Bizarre Demand for My Eggs.

I had a learning disorder, and my sister would constantly correct people and say she wasn't the "stupid" one-I was. My sister started the college track in ninth grade while I went to a middling school. Our parents did their best to treat us equally and celebrate our accomplishments, but you really can't compare taking a beauty school test to getting a master's at 21.
Relationships
Mental health
fromwww.mercurynews.com
7 months ago

Asking Eric: My mother just told me why she plans to cut me out of the will

Parental financial favoritism can wound adult children; therapy and reframing self-worth apart from money may help more than cutting contact or immediate forgiveness.
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