It sounds like you are playing a me-reasonable-and-she-unreasonable game. You must see it from her point of view if you want to move forward

The dilemma It has been more than six years since I last saw or spoke to my sister. No explanations – just silence.

I am the eldest, there are three years between us and while we had differences growing up, our circumstances are similar in later life. So, what went wrong? A massive sudden temper flare-up and rage when I cracked a joke that she did not find funny, spewing out old grievances and resentments from our childhood that “came out of nowhere” and lots of tears. Despite my shock, I put it down to the menopause and believed we could forgive each other and move on, but all communication stopped abruptly.

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