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Old 07-13-2008, 10:38 PM
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How do you protect your own heart?

Visiting my sister in her rehabilitation centre is so painful. She is abusive to me and always spends the entire visit trying to get money out of me and telling me how no one in the family supports her. She gets hysterical and yells and screams and cries at me. She does all this in front of her daughter who becomes frightened and scared and upset. It is so stressful that I can feel myself shaking and feel waves of nausea washing over me.

I don't know what to do.

I feel like I'm supposed to come to these visits so I can show my support, and so she and her daughter can see each other. But they're tearing me up. I can't bring my husband with me (they don't allow men on the grounds) and so I have no support to get through these visits. They're absolutely awful. I start dreading them as the weekend approaches and literally feel ill just thinking about them.

So what do I do? How do I get through this? How do I keep myself sane and protect my own heart while going through this week after week?
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