What should be your take in such a situation? / myLot

May 9, 2026 9:06am CST

After a long time, I happened to get a call from a school friend. He had something to share with me and eventually broached the topic after initial informal exchanges. So here's a lady, his sister who's into Claude to share her pain, her thoughts and is happy with the responses she gets. She shares it with her brother who she feels is cynical about her getting too involved with Claude. Newspaper reports with virtual dependence of such measures have drastic consequences and his fears are justified. This sister now in her late 40s had lost her job recently in a bizarre decision by the management and has been struggling since. So when the brother expresses his resent on her getting too involved, she flares up. She says that he's unable to even comprehend the fact that she's dependent on a bot rather than him as he'd too insensitive to feel the pain she's undergoing. From what he said, he has been trying his level best to boost her mood and has even booked tickets for a short trip to a hill station. He has already applied for leave. She says, that she doesn't want to leave home as she's more comfortable in the confined walls of her room and that she's forcing herself just for his sake. So he feels that right from childhood she being younger has always been his parents' favorite and he had been struggling to get a footing for himself. In the absence of his parents, who are no more, he being a bachelor by choice, is unable to understand what he should do. He said that after she'd read out the responses/interactions, he'd been waiting to hear whether she had asked anything about what job would suit her etc which would have drawn the interaction to a close. Just a sharing of pain and the balming effect of sophisticated reciprocity wasn't enough. To which she'd responded that while alone at home she had been trying to do many things but controlled just for the sake of her brother. This being something very personal between a brother and sister I could only say that he should just leave it to time. How do you analyse the mind of the sister and the relationship that's begging for attention?

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Amber

@AmbiePam (118813)

• United States

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That is a very sad situation, and the sister is obviously not quite right mentally. While I hope he can try to help her, there are only so many things he can try before just leaving her to deal with the consequences of her own actions. It is so sad virtual assistants are taking the place of real people.

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APARAJITA BHATTACHARJEE

@mytunemagic (268)

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What are the things he should try? He said he sat through all those conversations on topics she likes to talk about even though he doesn't feel like, he says she's more skilled than him so he leaves her doing most of the things, she has been their parents' favorite for her intelligence and sympathy for all, for her ability to connect with others, socialise, talk.....she complains that she has to do most of the chores in the house but there has been times when she'd said that he doesn't know how to handle things, doesn't work at home and cares more about others outside, struggles and strifes to get a firm footing at workplace only because he knows he has to shoulder the responsibilities alone and doesn't care about her...at home they stay like two different planets. Now that he came up with so many things struck me as surprising...that too over a telephone call after so many years. It seems like he's extremely lonely..