Responsbility for Adult Siblings? How do you handle it?

sevmom
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:18:48 +0000

Parents are at a different level for most people? We had aunts and uncles but were not all that close to any of them, they had their own families who took care of their end of life stuff. That is why I started the thread- what to do with dealing with issues with siblings, loved ones that are not your parents . My mother and FIL were only children, MIL had only one sister who died before her with no children, father had older sisters but he was not raised with them. My kids are very close to my sister. I did not have that kind of relationship with any aunts . I also don’t unfortunately feel all that close to my niece and nephews ( from my husband’s side of the family) and have zero thought they would ever feel any responsibility for us as we age… We don’t live near them and only see them now and again. I think discussion about dealing with parents as they age was/is a different discussion than dealing with sibling issues.