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True enough. One of the risks with writing to an advice columnist and thus submitting yourself to the advice of not one but many is that these readers do not know you. But, there she has, written to Cary, someone who I might point out also has no idea who she is.
But, she has given us what she thinks are the important points in her story: my party, losing control, just blankedly labeling the siblings as dysfunctional, a bit entitled. Not even knowing her, one clearly sees her sense of entitlement, her lack of graciousness, her sense of drama from what she chooses to say and not say. (For example, if the siblings are willing to take care of teh parents, they sound not so extreme dysfunctional for this occassion. And, in Oprah parlance, dsyfunctional is not drug or alacohol related but rather personality-driven,i.e.i don't like the way they are passive aggressive.) These are important clues. She may not be despicable, but she shows a distinct lack of maturity or graciousness of the heart. In other words, she does, to quote a post, sound like a pill.
