Personal advice column addresses family favoritism and emotional manipulation

A Slovak advice column featured a 50-year-old woman seeking guidance about lifelong favoritism from her mother toward her older sister. The woman described how her mother has consistently prioritized her sister throughout their lives, while the sister maintains an unhealthy fixation on their mother and manipulates her. The situation prompted the woman to move to Bratislava in her twenties to escape feelings of being unimportant within the family dynamic. Despite both daughters now having their own families, the woman continues to struggle with her inability to confide in her mother about personal problems due to the persistent favoritism.