Family dynamics are fluid. Two rival siblings might unite against a parent, only to betray each other when the immediate threat passes.
The Anatomy of Kinship: Crafting Family Drama Storylines and Complex Family Relationships
The silence that followed was not empty. It was a room suddenly filled with ghosts: the uncle they never knew, the mother who had built a world on omissions, the father who had gone along with it, and the two children who had been raised to believe that love was a performance and silence was loyalty.