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Can i ask is your older sister bossy

118 replies

PeterandSandy · 24/03/2022 14:50

For those that have an older sister is she bossy? Mine is and controlling and i noticed someone on here having a problem with their older sister the other day.

So can i ask is your older sister bossy and how do you manage. I find it difficult to manage my sister at times.

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PollyPutTheKettleOnKettleOn · 24/03/2022 14:51

I'm bossier than my older sister!

It is an older sibling thing though.

Nietzschethehiker · 24/03/2022 14:54

Yep mine is and the honest answer is I don't. I don't have a relationship with her but I admit my dsis is not rational so it could be a her thing (although in fairness I am sure she thinks the same of me...the dislike is mutual because she thinks I should bow to her and I don't).

I'm very careful although I have two ds not to do the older sibling being responsible for the younger sibling rhetoric.

To be fair to dsis its not just me, she firmly believes she is in charge of everyone , god help us.

WeAreTheHeroes · 24/03/2022 14:56

I'm an older sister and definitely bossy. So bossy in fact I am answering for my younger sister Grin

Dahlietta · 24/03/2022 14:57

I am definitely bossier than my older sister Blush

Excited101 · 24/03/2022 14:58

She’s not super bossy, but I’m struggling a lot with her at the moment, she’s probably the most self centred person I know, it’s exhausting.

DogsAndGin · 24/03/2022 14:59

Yes mine has always been controlling, and she has lots of much worse traits, too. I cope by living a very long way away and only seeing her a couple of times a year. Lockdown has helped with that, too!

ineedsun · 24/03/2022 15:00

No, my younger sister is definitely the bossier of the two of us but I don’t care. I’m pretty chilled and probably do her head in

PermanentTemporary · 24/03/2022 15:00

Yes, but it's fine Grin

She's a doer and gets stuff done. I admire that. I've learned, eventually, that I don't have to do everything she says, the world won't end.

finalpunt · 24/03/2022 15:02

Mine is and always has been.

Family' friends and relatives that we saw regularly, but not every week, always commented on how I was quiet and shy - I wasn't, my sister was always that gobby that nobody else got a look in.

She is nearly 50 and I am 47, still hasn't changed now - always thinks she knows best. Will screech at me across a room to get me to go to her if we are out - think Bianca's "Riiicckkkkyyyy".

Used to drive me nuts when I was growing up, we were quite distant in our 20's but are very close again now.

I cope by ignoring her or telling her to shut up. I am brilliant at literally switching off to any conversation she can have and she won't even notice that she is the only one talking Grin.

She knows that she is like this because I tell her, so do my nieces and my Dad, her husband will tell her to give it a rest sometimes if we are all eyerolling at her and he comes in.

I also cope because whilst she is literally a pain in my arse she would also be my fiercest defender (which has been annoying in the past because I can actually stick up for myself) and would be there in a instant if I need her. I know it comes from a place of love.

piglet81 · 24/03/2022 15:02

I think my sister and I were born the wrong way round - she’s younger but definitely the bossy one! We’re very different personalities overall.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 24/03/2022 15:03

Yeah she is.

NaturalBlondeYeahRight · 24/03/2022 15:05

I am the older sister and I am bossy😀 I am reasonable and easy going though (not as a teen) iyswim- I have to be bossy as we’d never get anything done as a family otherwise!

Porcupineintherough · 24/03/2022 15:06

Hell yes. But generally in a good way.

Ihaveoflate · 24/03/2022 15:06

Yes, she has been for most of our lives and it's the reason we've had very little to do with each other in adulthood. She's a bit more relaxed now for various reasons, and we're getting on much better.

DizzySquirrel90 · 24/03/2022 15:07

Nope

nokidshere · 24/03/2022 15:07

I have 5 sisters and we are all bossy! I think it stems from having to fight to have our say as children.

WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles · 24/03/2022 15:07

Are older bothers bossy too or is it just sisters? Probably not, brothers are probably assertive.

No doubt I will be called joyless Grin but this is one of my pet hates, bossy is one of those words usually used against women in a pejorative sense, like nagging. Men are assertive and firm and focused, women are bossy and rude and nagging.

RumJerrySailorRum · 24/03/2022 15:08

I'm both an older and younger sister.

I'm bossy.

But then my siblings are brothers and they need bossing about!

My SIL's thank me for it 😂

WhatHaveIFound · 24/03/2022 15:08

Mine likes to think she can boss me around from a distance and I let her think she's getting her own way. In reality nothing could be further from the truth!

nokidshere · 24/03/2022 15:09

Sorry posted too soon...

We live a fair distance from each other these days and so our relationships are pretty good, we can just switch the screen off if anyone gets too overbearing!

RumJerrySailorRum · 24/03/2022 15:09

Also, as the saying goes..

I'm not bossy, I just have better ideas!!

Trinacham · 24/03/2022 15:10

She has been in the past, but think it got better as we all got older. She tends to be the organiser but think that's just because she's the best at it (I'm youngest, with a brother between us)

WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles · 24/03/2022 15:11

These bossy elder sisters are going to grow up and be domineering mothers in law no doubt Wink

JesusSufferingFuck22 · 24/03/2022 15:12

Not at all bossy with family. Though I'd imagine she is quite assertive at her work. She a "high heid yin" in the nhs. We get on just fine but due to circumstances don't spend an awful lot of time together.

Trinacham · 24/03/2022 15:12

@WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles

Are older bothers bossy too or is it just sisters? Probably not, brothers are probably assertive.

No doubt I will be called joyless Grin but this is one of my pet hates, bossy is one of those words usually used against women in a pejorative sense, like nagging. Men are assertive and firm and focused, women are bossy and rude and nagging.

I have an older sister and brother, and my brother is the opposite of bossy! Maybe that's how it goes with having 2 sisters😆 he's learnt to be laidback and quiet about things
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