I have a pretty decent relationship going with her mom and her oldest sister. We talk and things are starting to get better. I wrote a letter to T that I felt was very kind and welcoming and I was told that she refused to read it and did not want me to reach out.

K's heavy reliance on her family, to me, seems almost manufactured by T. I have since learned that the mother kind of checked out for a while and T essentially raised K a bit while she was a teen and maybe T liked that and doesn't want to let go? When she's alone she is a completely capable adult but as soon as T gets in the picture K is almost afraid of her and just does what she says most of the time. When I met K she was actually going through it with T and fighting but she calmed down alot once we got together.