My sister burned the bridge between her and the rest of the family . When she got married and had kids she was happy because she got all the attention because she had the only grandchildren . She was constantly badmouthing her younger siblings to our parents who would generate take her side for some reason . When I got married and had kids of my own she somehow stepped up the insanity and shit talking and focussed more on antagonising me . When I stopped fighting back and started ignoring her nonsense everyone saw shit for what it was and started calling her out when she was out of line . I think she saw the writing on the wall and told me never to contact her again . The last insult was when I sent a present through my parents to her daughter for her birthday . One month later she sent a present through my parents for my daughters birthday . It was the same thing I sent to her ! Not the same type of thing , the exact one that I had sent . Everyone had watched her daughter unwrap it and their house and my daughter unwrap the same gift at our house . And that ' s how you burn bridges .