If you're the youngest of 3 or more siblings and all of you are grownups, this poll is for you.
When making family decisions, how often do your older siblings overrule you?
@Indefinite_Article re: adult siblings... me: WTF? Once you're adults who TF gets to order another sibling around? Or manipulate them into doing something.
Where's the WTF are you talking about button? LOL None of us tell anyone else what to do, how to do it, or when.
We generally live in the same hemisphere, but not always.
@Aranciata_rosa @Indefinite_Article call my mother was dying. I was a social worker with a thanatology focus. I ended up moving back home for a while because it made sense that everybody else lived somewhere else. After I moved overseas my brother became the caretaker of our father when he developed dementia, because that made sense. When our father died, her brother was the administrator of the estate because he was a CPA and it made sense. It seems we are very pragmatic people.
@Aranciata_rosa @Indefinite_Article in the extended family we have a variety of severely disabled individuals who cant function who have care plans set up. After I became an attorney, I suggested to sibs that they needed to get lawyers to deal with some of these issues. I couldn’t because I wasn’t licensed in their states. My father had dementia, and lived with my brother because bro was available. We seem to be very pragmatic and have specialty areas. Not all families are that way.
@J_Windrow
No ordering around, exactly. More like my proposals, ideas, suggestions, requests don't carry much weight.
@Indefinite_Article Not all families are the same. While I am the youngest, I am also the most strong willed. I am the one with the most education, and yet I am the one with the least amount of financial resources. If the others plan something and they want me to attend, they find out what it would require to have me attend assuming I am on the same continent and in the same hemisphere. That said, if I want my siblings to do something with me, I make accommodations for them.
@J_Windrow @Indefinite_Article In my extended family is a set of seven adult siblings who have had to cooperate through one parent’s lengthy illness, one sister’s mental and substance abuse issues, another sister’s rapidly advancing dementia… Y’know, family stuff that needs family to make decisions about the best way to preserve their loved ones’ quality of life.