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She turned out to be a lovely person, very rich, very kind, very skinny and elegant and beautiful. By comparison, I’m dumpy, work a mid-paying job, am a lifelong renter, and am rather introverted and shy. We live utterly different lives. Honestly I feel like crap whenever I’m around my half-sister, despite how nice she is.

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Part of the problem is that our (shared) mother died when I was six. I grew up imagining that my mother would always be proud of me, no matter how mediocre my life. And now I feel like I’ve met the sister my mother really *would* be proud of, the sucessful beautiful happy one, and it’s just so hard to be around her. I haven’t reached out in 8 months now.

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Sorry me again. One more post and I'll stop hogging your thread. I was reading your OP and something seemed off. I realized you were comparing yourself to your half sister and evaluating you both in the way the world would measure you. But as a mom, I have to tell you that is not what loving mothers and families do. Yes, we are proud of outward accomplishments and appearances, but we also try to understand the details in each child that makes them unique. Maybe it's a funny way they tell jokes, or how they are always ready with a hug, or some hobby that is unique to them. You're mom would be proud of you because you are her child. Doesn't matter if another child has more worldly accomplishments. Yes, she would be proud of how your half sister turned out, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't be proud of you. That's not how moms work.
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