DEAR ABBY: My father died by suicide three years ago. My sister, who was initially supportive, later drunk-dialed our mother and said a bunch of nasty things about her and me. Mom didn’t cut the conversation short and later told me what was said, which included that Dad had done it because my other sister and I are “unstable” and because he was sick.
I haven’t talked to my alcoholic sister for a few years now. She previously ruined a family holiday with a different drunken outburst. She also squandered some money I had given her for a car. I want to confront her, but I know she’ll deny, deflect it back and try to insult me. I have no time for this.
I am disabled with severe recurrent depression and anxiety. I was the one who found Dad after the suicide, and it deeply affected me. I’m floored that not only would my sister not understand this, but that she’d continue backbiting me.
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