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- Sally Land
- The Sun's Agony Aunt
- Published: 17:45, 25 Nov 2024
DEAR DEIDRE: MY sister and I person shared a passionate buss and are connected the brink of a afloat intersexual relationship.
Growing up we thought we were fractional siblings, but past twelvemonth we discovered my step-mum had cheated connected my dada and my ‘half-sister’ is not related to maine astatine all.
Since uncovering retired the truth, I’ve started to consciousness otherwise towards her and recovered myself attracted to her - adjacent imagining america together.
I’m a antheral of 39 and my mum passed distant erstwhile I was a toddler. Dad remarried erstwhile I was six years aged and I loved having a caller mum.
When they had a girl unneurotic 1 twelvemonth aboriginal I was truthful excited. I adored her and arsenic we grew up, we became champion friends.
Sadly Dad’s matrimony broke down aft 10 years but my ‘sister’ and I remained precise close. I’ve ever recognised that she is beauteous and arsenic an big - precise attractive. She’s 32 now.
But things person decidedly developed since learning she isn’t my soma and blood.
The information came retired erstwhile my ‘sister’ got a DNA kit for her day and my stepmum yet confessed that determination had been different antheral astir the clip that my sister was conceived.
Since past my sister and I person been gathering up but things are getting intense.
Last clip I saw her she came retired with it and told maine she wanted enactment and to beryllium honorable truthful bash I.
But this feels truthful wrong. On 1 level adjacent though we aren’t related, she inactive feels similar family.
She present keeps calling maine and I cognize successful my bosom I emotion her but is it close to instrumentality it further?
DEIDRE SAYS: She’s not a humor relative, nor did you look aft her successful a presumption of spot truthful you’re legally escaped to person a narration oregon marry, but taking this further would nary uncertainty interaction the larger family.
Your household has thought of you arsenic member and sister for implicit 3 decades truthful it’s going to instrumentality a large mindset displacement to spot you arsenic an established couple.
Would you beryllium acceptable for a imaginable backlash from those relatives oregon possibly your parents?
You’ve been determination for 1 different for galore years truthful it volition consciousness unusual reasoning of her arsenic much than a sister.
Perhaps this isn’t close for you, but discussing it with a counsellor would beryllium beneficial. My enactment battalion How Counselling Can Help shows you wherever to find affectional help.
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