life help: I am 15 and my older sister is 18, at dinner time the typical conversation is about my sister all the time, how her day was, her day at school, etc.. - Help.com

i know exactly how you feel. its frustrating i know. i’m 15 too and my sister is 19 so were very close to the same situation. but my sister hates me. she points out all my weaknesses and everything bad about me. for along time i thought my sister was perfect but then i realized that wasn’t true, everyone has there downs. even though your sister may seem perfect, perfection doesn’t exsist. for along time i lived in my sisters shadow. the best advice i figured out is find out what makes you different from her. find out what your really good at but shes not. and talk to your parents. tell them how your feeling, or even if your feeling daring, talk to your sister. i never talked to my sister about it. but now that i think about it, it would have helped. so my advice is talk to either your parents or sister or even both. i wish you all the best of luck!! and trust me you’ll get out of those shadows eventually, it just takes some time.

my sister is 6 years older than me. i’m going on 17 and she’s going on 23. i know exactly how you feel. i always feel like i’m living in her shadow. the best thing is to just tell your parents. like, try to let it come up in conversation some how. i am serious, what you’re saying is word-for-word what i say to myself all the time. well, really i only confronted them about the whole not asking me about my day because i always ask them about theirs. i haven’t exactly gotten to the part about being in my sisters perfect shadow. you tell your parents and let me now how it goes!

well seeeing as its been said twice befre im not gonna tell you that i know exactly how you feel, but like the other 2 i’ve gone through the same thing with my 3 sisters me being the youngest. the thing you have to remember is that you are NOT your sister and even though your parents dont seem to realize it now they will eventually, you just have to show them. do not try and follow in your sisters footsteps becuase it gives you more chances to be compared to her. make your own path. Also Nobodies perfect i used to think the same thing about my sister cuz of the way she acted infront of my parents, but there’s alot that’s not perfect that i never knew about. Basically my advice is Be yourself and dont try to beat out or compare yourself to your sister cuz its juz ends up for a messy relationship with her.