In today's Ask Amy column, Amy Dickinson responds to someone who feels distant from their once-close sibling.
After my mother abruptly left town to be with another man, my brother and I were left to clean up the mess, literally and figuratively.
I have asked him if he doesn’t want a relationship, and he always says he does, but that he is just busy. They don’t even know of the declining health of our parents because they don’t reach out to them, either.You have called out your brother and his wife, and you’ve presented their lack of interest as a binary: They are either in, or they’re out.
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