As with all sibling issues, says Annalisa Barbieri, the cause of these feelings must go way back
Every year, I dread Christmas. My sister has no children or partner, is independent and retired; I have a husband and a teenage son. Our parents are dead. I don’t like my sister: she is a feminist, political, clumsy, loud and overbearing.
She has said that we are welcome to stay with her for Christmas (she lives abroad, but not too far), but I can’t do that; there’s nothing for my son at her house, and I can’t afford a hotel and three flights. She said she could come to us, but told us not to worry if we are busy. I feel pressured to reply.
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