How like your sister are you?

[aWorminaManger]

I don't see my sister very often, or even phone her much. But whenever I speak to her I know that she will understand me better than anyone. She shares all the same sorts of attitudes and anxieties that I have. If I am worrying stupidly about what some work colleague thinks of me she will empathise and not condemn. If I am worn out and overwhelmed with life she will know exactly how I feel.

No one is so similar to me as she is. Am I just lucky, or is this very common?

I always think I have nothing in common with my sis, but she's been away travelling for a year, and every few days when I have some boring bit of news/useless fact/minor drama, it feels slightly like I've had an amputation when the instinct to just phone her up and chat can't be answered. It's quite weird actually. I never would have said we were incredibly close, but being apart has made me realise I totally took her for granted.

Looking forward to her coming back though!

That's so lovely

I have a brother only, but have 2 dds... I would love for them to develop a relationship like the one you have with your sister.

So far, so good - they get on very well, but time will tell, I suppose.

Well expressed. That's what it's like for me and my sister too. We live in different countries but talk on skype/msn every couple of days.

My god, I miss her .

physically very alike- we're identical twins (of course i am the slimmer more glam one !!!)

other than that we are nothing alike- tbh we don't really like being in the same room together- very different views on life and the universe!

My sister is 10 years younger than me, only 17 ... and I find her astonishingly easy to read - because she's like me 10 years ago in many ways ... she is less responsible and less neurotic(probably because of birth order) and more demanding (again, birth order) but her reactions to situations are uncannily like mine were - so I know that although she behaves like a pitiless oaf, she is actually very sensitive to mood and can be trusted to do the right thing for someone vulnerable.

Glad to hear of some othe rclose relationships. Notnowbernard I have to say that when we were little we did argue, and she was a typical prima donna big sister, who was sometimes quite horrid! But that didn't, and doesn't, mean anything at all.

I have a big sis and a little sis and i get on really really well with them both. Sometimes we don't talk or see each other for a while but i know that if i needed them they would come running. In fact as I have recently split up with xh they did come running and are both working really hard to make sure i am ok.
I think it is partly luck if we can have such as fab relationship with our sisters, so treasure them and don't take them for granted

Wel I am rather jealous of some of the people on here - there are 6 years between me and my sis and I am not sure we have anything in common. Sometimes it feels like we grew up on different planets not the same house.
I would like to have a close relationship with her but I don't think shes interested.

get on with my little sis very well, although she lives in London and me in Devon, and yes, i know XACTLY what you mean, I can always rely on her to know how i'm feeling, esp. where my parents are concerend. I think it's becsuse she's seen my every mood, and knows thats just how i am, so i dont feel that she judges me, and i dont feel that i have to be anyone but myself with her. we're very lucky i think

my sis is my best friend. She has looked out for me and been nothing but kind to me my whole life. She is the sort of person you aspire to be like. So nice in every way. I get excited when I know she is coming around, because I know we will talk non stop, and have lots of topics brimming over to discuss with eac other - we are very similar in our parenting, and our children treat each other like extra brothers and sisters. I know I am very lucky, and my dds will be very luckly if they have half the rlationship me and my sis do. And she's been through so much in life, yet has always got a smile.

Not at all. In fact, we hardly speak, only at family dos. There is 2 years between us, but also a total difference in our outlook on everything from family to lifestyle to priorities, to everything really. I am also not like her as I am married with 3 kids and she is a lesbian with none (though sh ehas been civilly partnered! - we werent invited).

She is totally the l ast person I would call for advice and she neverunderstands how I feel. I am much closer to my 4 brothers than to her. Almost any female friend is more appropriate to talk things over with than she is.

I sound like a bitch. But there are just some people you are not going to get along with, and I am afraid for me my sis is one of them.

I hope my dds get on better - I would think they will, as a lot of the probs with my sis were caused by my mum. I'm not about to cause those sorts of problems between my children.

We understand each other very well and speak on the phone quite a lot.

As for being similar, well, we are I suppose, but due to going to very different schools our lives went very different ways iykwim.

Well I have 3 sisters and am prob closer to one (sis1) than the others although her parenting and mine are very different and I do disagree with a lot of her decisions - we speak on the phone about once or twice a week.

Sis2 - we get on and I love her DSs but she has always been selfish and still is really - I call her about every 2 weeks.

Sis 3 is 15 years younger than me and we were very close when she was growing up. We get on well but don't speak that often - she has a busy job and social life - text and e-mail a bit.

And they all get on with each other in different ways and degrees!

My sister is my best friend. There are eight years between us, we always got on, but it wasn't until I became an adult too that we developed such a close relationship. We speak every two or three days and I really don't know what I would do without her. I wish we lived near each other.

my sister and i could not be more different. we rarely see eachother due to distance, and in all honestly dont speak that much on the phone and when of us eventually gets round to ringing the other we have nothing to say! she's not very understanding of many of my problems as she's totally 100% career minded and i'm the complete opposite.