{"id":28676,"date":"2025-12-23T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2025\/12\/23\/dear-abby-should-i-kick-out-my-controlling-sister\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:42:10","slug":"dear-abby-should-i-kick-out-my-controlling-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2025\/12\/23\/dear-abby-should-i-kick-out-my-controlling-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Abby: Should I kick out my controlling sister?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Family Drama and Friendship Concerns<\/h1>\n<h2>Introduction to the Issues<\/h2>\n<p>A woman is concerned about her sister&#8217;s behavior and how it&#8217;s affecting her life. The sister, Blanche, has been manipulative and controlling, causing tension in their relationship. The woman&#8217;s fianc\u00e9 has suggested that they sell their property and move out of state to escape the hostile environment.<\/p>\n<h2>The Situation with Blanche<\/h2>\n<p>The woman and Blanche stopped being close when Blanche was 13, and the woman was 6 years old. They reconnected when the woman&#8217;s husband passed away, and Blanche convinced her to move to her state. The woman used her insurance payout to buy a property with two houses, one for each of them. However, Blanche refused to pay rent and offered to clean the woman&#8217;s house instead. This led to many arguments, and the woman and her fianc\u00e9 decided to sell the property and move away.<\/p>\n<h2>Concerns About Blanche&#8217;s Future<\/h2>\n<p>The woman is worried about Blanche&#8217;s well-being, as she can barely pay her own bills. Blanche has received an eviction notice with eight months&#8217; notice, but the woman is concerned that she might refuse to leave. The woman&#8217;s fianc\u00e9 suggests that they may need to call the sheriff to remove Blanche from the property.<\/p>\n<h2>Advice on Handling the Situation<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s recommended that the woman discusses this issue with a lawyer and documents the condition of the house where Blanche lives. When it&#8217;s time for Blanche to leave, it&#8217;s suggested that the police be present to ensure she doesn&#8217;t damage the property.<\/p>\n<h2>A Different Concern: Friendship and Communication<\/h2>\n<p>A widow is concerned about her friends only calling her when they&#8217;re running errands, never from home when they&#8217;re with their husbands. She finds it rude to be called while her friends are driving and making stops. She&#8217;s thought about asking them to call her back when they&#8217;re home, but it seems like they&#8217;re too busy.<\/p>\n<h2>Understanding the Friends&#8217; Behavior<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible that the friends are busy and call when they have the opportunity, even if it&#8217;s while they&#8217;re driving. They may also prefer to keep their conversations private, without their husbands listening. The widow shouldn&#8217;t take this personally and could ask her friends why they call her at those times to get a better understanding of their behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family Drama and Friendship Concerns Introduction to the Issues A woman is concerned about her sister&#8217;s behavior and how it&#8217;s affecting her life. The sister, Blanche, has been manipulative and controlling, causing tension in their relationship. The woman&#8217;s fianc\u00e9 has suggested that they sell their property and move out of state to escape the hostile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[4002,4317,1196,6290,1087,4462,3216,3030,2593],"class_list":{"0":"post-28676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle","8":"tag-behavior","9":"tag-dear-abby","10":"tag-family","11":"tag-friendship","12":"tag-interpersonal-relationship","13":"tag-manipulation-psychology","14":"tag-property","15":"tag-psychological-stress","16":"tag-sibling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28678,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676\/revisions\/28678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}