My family and the other family involved are both Indian. In Indian culture family friends are treated as family, and what I mean by that is that my mom calls the other mom "sister" and I call her my auntie. And in general my family has been really close to their family. 

To expedite the story I will give names,  I will call the other family's daughter Sarah. Okay so my brother wasn't very popular when it came to highschool. He had friends but they were on the nerdy side. Sarah on the other hand was pretty involved and was considered popular in highschool. They both got accepted to the same college and our folks wanted them to look out for each other since it was a 3 hour drive from school. 

My brother ended up finding friends pretty quickly in school while Sarah didn't have any. My brother offered Sarah to come hang out with their friends, but she refused and as my brother said was condescending about it. Later on in the school year, my brother basically became really popular and when Sarah went to hang out with him and his friends. She basically tried to put him down (his words), by bringing up embarassing/cringey stories from highschool. 

My brother got pissed and basically told his friends to not to talk to her anymore. Sarah didn't have any friends, or anyone to even hang out with. She started coming home every weekend, got depressed, did poorly in her classes. 

Throughout the time, I only heard through my parents what was going. Now when I came back our family friends are extremely cold towards us. They decided to tell people that my brother spread rumors about her and that's why she couldn't handle college. Right now Sarah is in therapy and she will be taking classes at a community college before going back to school. And this is after being saludicitorian in highschool.

I want to resolve this so my family can be good friends with them again. This isn't just impacting our relationship with them, but with other Indian families.
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My brother and his friend were friends in highschool. My brother made them closer friends and started making fun of her. She got depressed and started hanging out with his friends. She was
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My family and the other family involved are both Indian. In Indian culture family friends are treated as family, and what I mean by that is that my mom calls the other mom "sister" and I call her my auntie. And in general my family has been really close to their family. 

To expedite the story I will give names,  I will call the other family's daughter Sarah. Okay so my brother wasn't very popular when it came to highschool. He had friends but they were on the nerdy side. Sarah on the other hand was pretty involved and was considered popular in highschool. They both got accepted to the same college and our folks wanted them to look out for each other since it was a 3 hour drive from school. 

My brother ended up finding friends pretty quickly in school while Sarah didn't have any. My brother offered Sarah to come hang out with their friends, but she refused and as my brother said was condescending about it. Later on in the school year, my brother basically became really popular and when Sarah went to hang out with him and his friends. She basically tried to put him down (his words), by bringing up embarassing/cringey stories from highschool. 

My brother got pissed and basically told his friends to not to talk to her anymore. Sarah didn't have any friends, or anyone to even hang out with. She started coming home every weekend, got depressed, did poorly in her classes. 

Throughout the time, I only heard through my parents what was going. Now when I came back our family friends are extremely cold towards us. They decided to tell people that my brother spread rumors about her and that's why she couldn't handle college. Right now Sarah is in therapy and she will be taking classes at a community college before going back to school. And this is after being saludicitorian in highschool.

I want to resolve this so my family can be good friends with them again. This isn't just impacting our relationship with them, but with other Indian families.
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My brother was popular, got in a fight with my sister, got popular, was called out by his friends for being unpopular, got depressed, now my family are angry and resentful.
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