Apologies for the long paragraph...
I've recently been trying to express myself more to my parents, after a half resolved issue between both my sister and I came to a slight closing... however through all the suppressed anger, and pain I finally spoke up once again to my parents about how she's admitted to abusing me in the past. She is my best friend and I love her so much but I still feel so much pain knowing the person who is meant to love, and understand you the most can hurt you so badly. After communicating to my parents I received the same reaction as I had the last time that I spoke out about it, where my mum told me that my sister "would never do that and it wasn't abuse", and my dad telling me that I "have to let it go and move on". In a way he is correct though I do have to move on and get past this issue if I want a healthy relationship with my sister again... and I do want us to be okay again, I really do but I do know that you can't always expect the reaction you wanted and actually receive it too. I wish they believed me. I wish they acknowledge the truth behind their favourite kid. I love my parents and I love my sister but I just want to finally receive an I'm sorry after enduring the pain for so long.
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Dear @Red_Tapir
Welcome to the R/O forums!
We're glad that you decided to join us here, and we hope you find the support on the forums useful.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience of abuse from your sister. I can hear that you're feeling quite invalidated by your family around the abuse, which would be a tough thing to experience.
I know you mentioned that the abuse was in the past, but I just wanted to check, do you currently feel safe at home? Our service has a duty of care to report any instances of child abuse, which you can read more about here (scroll down to see section 3 on mandatory reporting).
Also, I'm not sure if you've heard of 1800 Respect. They offer 24/7 confidential information, counselling and support for people impacted by abuse. You can contact them on 1800 737 732 or visit https://www.1800respect.org.au/
Thank you for the caring words 🙂 I no longer suffer from abuse thankfully and haven't for awhile now and she doesn't live with me but I am happy to say she has shown shes matured and has apologised on her half so I feel alot more safer now.
And thank you for linking the services I haven't heard of them so I'm glad that you have provided them I will be sure to use them as I'm trying to find new ways in where I can heal from this!
I'm happy to hear that your sister has matured and apologised to you @Red_Tapir 
It sounds like speaking to your parents and having their acknowledgement is important to you, and I'm sorry to read that you didn't have the conversation you hoped for with them. It must hurt not to be believed, and I'm really sorry you're going through that.
Do you think it might be helpful to speak to a counsellor about the situation? 1800-Respect might be able to help link you in with the right services. We are also here to support you through this - I wanted to share this article with you - it explains how to access a mental health care plan.
I will check in with you via email today to see how we can best support you!
