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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10106757/Sibling-rivalry-lasts-adulthood-study-reveals.html

https://www.boomermagazine.com/sibling-estrangement-and-the-road-to-reconciliation/

I had a wonderful time coming up with this list: https://shepherd.com/best-books/making-good-trouble

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/10/18/texas-school-administrator-holocaust-invalidates-pain/8509046002/

OprahDaily, Oprah's new platform, ran this story last week that featured Brothers, Sisters, Strangers.The article was picked up by Yahoo.com. https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/relationships-love/a29609819/signs-of-toxic-family/?fbclid=IwAR279n1qPsWb7_mbuelie79M8WQLPfyptGV_1_1SwxdXQRDfRyHKqAyZIOs

Dear Ms. Chapman, My two daughters have been estranged since summer 2018, three years now.  One went into the Navy, soon to be stationed in Hawaii,  the other lives with her boyfriend about 45 minutes  away.  The Navy daughter and I are very close, the other older daughter also has not spoken to me in three years. When I turned 60 last September she texted me. It had been 2 ...

Phil W. reconciled with only sister after decades of estrangement. Here, he identifies the reason he distanced himself from his family. Reading Brother, Sisters, Strangers has caused me to think about my decades-long estrangement from and reconciliation with my younger sister. Often, there isn’t one dramatic cause of a ruptured relationship. In my case, estrangement was the result of a long-ago event that shattered our family and left all of us broken ...

I am the fifth of six siblings.  My father married my mother and, my oldest brother arrived all before they both turned 20.  Following the birth of the sixth child, my parents divorced.  Consequently, my mother began working out of the home and my oldest sister became like a second mother to the youngest sibling.  I, at age 8, became very independent.  I held close a best friend and her ...