I am My Sister, I Am Not My Sister’s Keeper
The R Spot with Iyanla
Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 908 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Iyanla shares the story of her estranged relationship with her sister, which changed her view of every woman who enters her life. So when two women call in with breakdowns in relationship with their own sisters, Iyanla is ready to listen. The first caller recently learned that her and her sister had different biological fathers, but she doesn’t know how to bring it up to her sister for fear of her sister feeling disconnected from their relationship. Iyanla’s second caller is a woman with a family rift due to perceived jealousy, but after their mother died, the caller desperately wants to connect with her sister. Iyanla guides both callers to seeing things from another perspective in order to grow.
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| 0:00.0 | I amma I had a baby daddy relationship I spent time in a relationship with a married man I had to learn the skills and tools required to make my relationships healthy, fulfilling, and loving. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the R-Spot, a production of Shandaland Audio in partnership with I Heart Radio. I want to tell you a quick story. I had an older sister and we were pretty good with each other. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm not going to say we were close because we weren't. |
| 0:48.0 | But we were respectable and amenable and agreeable, and we did a lot of stuff together. |
| 0:55.0 | As we grew older, she kept playing the role of the older sister. |
| 1:00.0 | And she had to believe that not only was she supposed to tell me what to do, but that I was supposed to do it. |
| 1:08.2 | That was one extreme. |
| 1:09.6 | And the other extreme was, she didn't tell me anything. |
| 1:14.3 | The daughter had a baby, she didn't tell me. |
| 1:16.8 | Her son was in trouble, she didn't tell me. |
| 1:19.0 | I could never understand, but like I said, |
| 1:21.3 | we were amenable, we were not close. |
| 1:23.8 | Well, something happened. |
| 1:25.3 | I don't know what it was. |
| 1:27.2 | I wish I could tell you, but I can't. |
| 1:29.8 | And we just stopped speaking. |
| 1:33.8 | Had she called me, I would have answered. |
| 1:36.0 | Had I called her, she probably would have answered. |
| 1:38.6 | But we just stopped speaking for three years. |
| 1:44.2 | And then one day I got a call from a mutual friend |
| 1:48.7 | that said to me, your sister is dead. |
| 1:53.5 | It just scrambled my brain. |
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