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Dear Annie: Estranged Sister Reaches Out to My Kids Online
The older sister claims the narrator used her children as leverage and played the victim during 15 years of family estrangement, while the narrator defends blocking her outreach.
- Recently, the estranged older sister reappeared and contacted the narrator's teenage children on social media, messaged the husband she never met, then blocked him.
- The family history shows the sister withdrew and avoided contact after messy arguments, stopped taking the narrator's calls, and most relatives sided with the estranged older sister, isolating the narrator.
- The sister repeatedly asked the oldest sister for unsupervised visits with the narrator's teenage children, accused the narrator of using the kids as leverage, and the narrator called the estrangement a blessing before blocking her on the children's social media accounts.
- The outreach has immediate effects on the narrator's teenagers and family ties, as the narrator keeps them away due to past cruelty and now questions ties with three siblings.
- The Dear Confused column advises direct contact and an honest conversation, noting different perspectives explain the split and recommending a counselor to help both sides for the children’s sake.
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Dear Annie: Should I let my estranged sister back into my life after she reached out to my kids?
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