I know my eldest sister is very emotionally fragile, so most of the time I end up holding back my honesty just to protect her feelings. I don’t fully tell her how I feel, and I also don’t always share things I hear people say about her.
It’s not that I think she doesn’t deserve the truth it’s just that I know how deeply things affect her. She tends to take everything so personally, like any criticism is an attack on her whole personality rather than just a specific action.
So I find myself choosing silence or softening the truth most of the time, just to avoid hurting her… even when part of me wishes I could just speak freely.Has anyone else dealt with this kind of situation?