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Addison Mauldin
Finally realized that mom has been triangulating my sisters against me for years, which destroyed our relationships and made me the outcast. My sisters are definitely toxic, but mom made everything worse. This has been going on all of my life, so it can't be senility.
I became her caregiver and social outlet for 28 years and I think she did it to keep me dependent on her and at her beck and call because nobody else in the family liked me. I can't even look at her now. Her social worker told me to get away from her and let my sisters take over her care. Validation and knowing it's probably a personality disorder isn't making me feel any better.
Tarra Bates-Duford PhD, LMFT, CRS, CMFSW, BCPC has more than 15 years in the field of mental health, relationships, and behavioral sciences. Her PhD in forensic Psychology specializing in familial dysfunction and traumatic experience allows her to work with individuals and families struggling with familial dysfunction, trauma, and sexual abuse and assault. She also has a masters in Marriage, Couples, & Family therapy. She is a certified relationship specialist with American Psychotherapy Association.
Everyone tells a lie at some point or other in their life, no one is perfect. There is no one reason why someone might tell a lie as he/she might tell a lie to escape an uncomfortable situation, shame, guilt, cover up something that occurred, spare someone elses feelings, or in an attempt to hide or mislead. Generational lies can be particularly distressing for family members as the lie may have been told and maintained over several generations making it hard to trust other family members and get to the truth. Every person and every family have their own secrets; however, the content and significance of the secret varies.
One thing that is typically true of all lies involves intent, purpose, and lack of notification of the other party or group. In other words, liars make a conscious choice to provide misleading information and fabricate the truth. He or she hides the correct information from others allowing deception to occur. Although, we often hear a lie is a lie, some lies are more harmful than others. Some people lie to spare the feelings of others, for example, if you are asked if the meal tastes good and the individual is waiting excitedly for your response you may agree the meal tastes good when it does not. This type of lie is done to avoid hurting other persons feelings. However, there are other lies that can create harm, leading to distress. These types of lies can include making false reports, denying something occurred, or creating a fabrication that isnt based on anything real.
Telling a lie is not the worst part of lying, it is maintenance of the lie, telling another lie to support the first and convincing others including ourselves that the lie is the truth. By telling lie after lie, we eventually suffer from building a false version of reality that increasingly distances us from our real selves. Lies can also be damaging if we pretend something didnt occur or is not occurring. This type of lie can be damaging for several reasons, such as, it creates confusion for others, he/she she begins to question what they believe they saw, heard, or felt. For individuals that are lied to in this particular situation self-doubt can quickly become an ongoing theme in their life. If deception is allowed to continue without correction, rather they are maintained, than harmful family legacies can develop.
Harmful family legacies consist of a pattern of hurtful, painful and/or damaging behaviors that have been passed down from one generation to the next through a process called modeling. When adults or caregivers repeatedly interact in a family system in an unhealthy way, they are imprinting this behavior on their children. Many children that have been exposed to a harmful or toxic environment often repeat or mimic the behaviors in adulthood, in their own personal relationships. Interestingly, some adults raised in a harmful environment that do not repeat the toxic behaviors of their caregivers will often marry someone that may share some or most of the toxic characteristics of their childhood caregivers.
Traumatic, painful, or life-changing secrets and lies can potentially damage an entire familys mental health and well-being for generations. The most frequently kept secrets within a family include, but are not limited to, finances, serious physical and mental health conditions, infidelities, incest and other abuses, addictions, and parentage. While maintaining privacy from the outside world is important, maintaining deception within the context of the family can create distrust within the family, often, turning family member against family member. Distrust within our families can negatively color how we perceive the word around us, making up more suspicious of the intentions of others.
Secrets within the Family can lead to the following challenges: Distrust within the family Inability to bond or maintain relationships Can destroy a relationship Can impact how we see ourselves and our place in the world Lead to self-doubt and a second guessing of what we feel we saw, heard, or felt. Lead to feelings of resentment Create a false sense of reality Lead to incomplete inventory of self and family Increased anxiety The need to provide false or misleading information Tell additional lies to maintain and secure the secret Somatic issues On going generational pass down of lies and secrets Lead to distorted or fabricated family history Discovery
A few years ago, a teenager was referred to me because of behavioral concerns in school and at home. The child initially was flourishing in school, exemplary grades, engaged in sports, and actively volunteered in multiple community activities. However, in recent months prior to the referral the teen had begun to exhibit signs of withdrawal, easily angered, experienced a decline in grades, and had been suspended from sports due to aggressive behavior. The teens parents were at a loss for what was causing the sudden shift in his behavior. However, it was later discovered the teen had received a visitor while spending time with friends at the local park. The teen was told the person that he had been led to believe was his father was actually not his biological father. For the teen, this created intense feeling of self-doubt, feelings of betrayal, and an incomplete perception of self.
By maintaining, thus, reinforcing the lie for more than 15 years family members participated in multiple lies and deception to support the initial lie. Some family members were aware of the lie, others suspected there was a lie, but there was an unspoken agreement to never discuss or acknowledge the infidelity that led to the childs birth. Although, Infidelity is never an easy topic to discuss, as children become adolescents and move closer to adulthood, it is important to have conversations surrounding issues that are pertinent to his/her well-being. It is also important to break negative family legacies and promote healthy functioning. Remember, behaviors that are modeled are often repeated. Therefore, as responsible adults we want to model behaviors that encourage informed decision making, endless opportunities for children, and healthy functioning.
My family has begged me not to confront Sue yet because of how trying a time this is for everyone. My dad is terminally ill and we're all focused on making him as comfortable as possible while we also work to help my mom with clearing out their house, preparing for a sale, and handling many other issues that take up a large amount of emotional bandwidth for everyone.
I'm hurt. I know her behavior is largely because of her mental illness but I feel I need to emotionally protect myself from her. I'm at a loss for what to do. My heart is broken.
When dealing with a lot of overwhelming family dynamics it is easy to feel paralyzed and unsure of what to do as the first step. Try to identify the different areas that need to be addressed and outline what needs to take place under each area.
If you do wait to talk to your sister, take advantage of the time to begin rebuilding your relationship with your other family members. A good way to start is to write a personal letter to each family member expressing your sadness and dismay at the untruths you have heard. Show empathy for how they must have felt believing those untruths. Avoid talking about or blaming your sister. You want your communication to be about how much you would like to start over with them. After this communication, reach out and try to find things to do with each family member to rebuild the relationship. Avoid forcing your family to choose between you and your sister. Even if such a request is justified, it will not help you make a fresh start and could further drive family members away.
If you decided to take a break from Sue, communicate your intentions with your sister rather than just ignoring her. Inform her of your need for space. You could consider writing her and letting her know that you have found out that she has been misrepresenting you to the family and that you need time away to sort out your feelings. Be sure to include your rules for engagement - for instance, is she allowed to call you, meet up with you, write to you? And how will you handle family gatherings where you might be together?
If you decide to talk to your sister directly about what you have learned, come prepared with what you are hoping to get out of the conversation and your expectations for moving forward. Communicate what you are and are not willing to allow for you to have a relationship with her. Be prepared to be clear about what you need from her to forgive her and what it will take to start rebuilding trust.
Lastly, recognize that you are going through grief and be kind to yourself. You are grieving the loss of what you thought your relationship was with your sister and recognizing you may never have the type of relationship you want.
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