Only child here! But I heard stories you know and this one is my mom’s. She wasn’t the favorite one. She had an older sister who got everything she wanted (because if she didn’t, she would make everybody’s lives miserable). So she got better gifts, better everything. She was older so I guess she enjoyed it more than my mother who was 5 years younger. She would get presents just because she barely passed. My mom would get grounded if she got less than A+. They got older, her sister wanted to study something. Piano, handcrafts, clay, acting class, secretary, business school. Their parents paid every single class or major she wanted to start, but she never finished one. Finally my mom made it to a very well known university to start an engineer major. They paid but within the first year, her older sister came home (she was already married because she got pregnant) and she complained about it. Like their parents shouldn’t be paying such an expensive university (at that time scholarships didn’t exist). The parents actually stood up for her. And they mentioned how she never finished anything and the least they can do now is pay for her career since she never gave any problems. (They had to constantly go to the school because she was a real problem). And I still don’t know why she was their favorite. I guess first child and she was pretty.

Their relationship was horrible (between my mom and her sister). Teachers would say (in front of the older sister) that the only reason they keep her in that school is because of her younger sister. (My mom was a really good student). My mom told me they paid more attention to her when she was little because she was so cute and funny. But when they were getting older, parents, aunts and uncles wanted to see accomplishments. And then they started paying attention to my mom. Because she had amazing grades, medals and certificates. She told me that her mom would take one of her old medals and give it to her older sister so people would pay attention to her as well. But that didn’t work.

Now, my mom is a successful engineer. Her older sister didn’t study anything, she doesn’t work in anything because she can’t do anything and because he’s lazy she doesn’t even want to do anything like cleaning. So she basically lives for free because her sisters (my mom and a younger sister who also did well in life) pay her bills. Her children don’t care about her because she never cared about them.