Managing A Relationship With A Sibling With Borderline Personality Disorder
Disappointment can happen. It’s okay.
Watson encourages one to resist the impulse to try to solve the disappointment that has come up. You can both survive it. “This interaction may just need time to sit for you and your sibling. You need to sit with the discomfort of disappointing them. And they need to sit with the disappointment of not having the thing they were expecting going how they want…Acknowledge each party is disappointed, and that’s that. You’re okay with that. It diffuses the conflict. [Say] ‘I’m okay with this. I can come back and talk about this another time.’”