My sister always tries to one-up me and it’s making me hate her
DEAR DEIDRE: EVERY time I achieve something, my younger sister has to go one better.
She seems to go out of her way to steal my thunder, and it’s making me hate her.
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I’m 32 and she’s 29. She’s kind and sweet, and we have always got on well – but she is also an attention-seeker.
When I got engaged, she had a massive crisis the day before my party because she was still single and made it all about her.
At my wedding 18 months later, she came wearing a show-stopping dress and announced her whirlwind engagement to a guy she had only just met.
She couldn’t let me be in the limelight for one afternoon.
Now I’m pregnant with my first baby and my sister is pregnant too.
Naturally, her baby is due a month before mine. She seems to think this is lovely, as our kids can grow up close.
But I just feel angry, especially as I tried for ages to get pregnant and she managed it at the first go.
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Of course, she has terrible morning sickness so is getting everyone’s attention.
Maybe I’m being unfair. But I don’t want to be around her right now.
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DEIDRE SAYS: Sibling rivalry is common, even as adults.
On the face of it, it does look as if she is trying to get one over on you.
But there could also be an element of coincidence.
It genuinely sounds like she wants to be close, rather than to hurt you.
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When your babies are born, you will probably be glad to be dealing with the same issues at the same time – and it will be nice for them to grow up together.
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