So, as for the first one, I don't know how exactly they went from being a close-knit trio to two of the three siblings sniping at each other and trying to force the third to cut ties, and I wonder if maybe they never were as close as LW assumes.
At any rate, LW is not "stuck" in the middle, LW has chosen to allow their siblings to put them in the middle and to stay there. What LW should do if they want this to stop is tell each sibling directly that they have no intention of engaging in any more gossip about anybody, especially family. And then stick with it. Everybody's an adult here! They all can just hang up the phone.
(LW's siblings are probably both talking about LW behind their back, btw, because they're certainly talking about each other that way!)
As for the second letter, it's amazing how LW2 dances around why, exactly, Brother has mysteriously started acting like a douche. You'd think that anybody would say "I have no idea why my brother has started doing this!" so either this letter was incompetently edited by Amy or, equally likely, LW2 knows perfectly well what they did to piss him off.
Not that Brother's behavior sounds okay... but frankly, neither does LW's, just from the quoted text. You can't reasonably tell your brother not to visit your father when you might be there.
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So, as for the first one, I don't know how exactly they went from being a close-knit trio to two of the three siblings sniping at each other and trying to force the third to cut ties, and I wonder if maybe they never were as close as LW assumes.
At any rate, LW is not "stuck" in the middle, LW has chosen to allow their siblings to put them in the middle and to stay there. What LW should do if they want this to stop is tell each sibling directly that they have no intention of engaging in any more gossip about anybody, especially family. And then stick with it. Everybody's an adult here! They all can just hang up the phone.
(LW's siblings are probably both talking about LW behind their back, btw, because they're certainly talking about each other that way!)
As for the second letter, it's amazing how LW2 dances around why, exactly, Brother has mysteriously started acting like a douche. You'd think that anybody would say "I have no idea why my brother has started doing this!" so either this letter was incompetently edited by Amy or, equally likely, LW2 knows perfectly well what they did to piss him off.
Not that Brother's behavior sounds okay... but frankly, neither does LW's, just from the quoted text. You can't reasonably tell your brother not to visit your father when you might be there.