Finally, the much-awaited movie The Other Boleyn Girl has arrived in theaters. Having read the book, I'm absolutely dying to see this movie, especially because it has two of my favorite actresses in the main roles, Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. They play two sisters, Mary and Anne Boleyn respectively, in perhaps one of the most dramatic sibling rivalries of all time over the affections of King Henry VIII.
The story is certainly an intriguing one, and while I assume (and hope) that none of us are caught in such a whirlwind of competition with a sister, this particular brand of rivalry isn't a new one. So let me ask you this; have you ever competed with a sister?
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Sisters are meant to compete! Of course we do!
1we competed a bit, yes, but i was always good at the things she wasn't, and vice versa. now we realize that we are sooooooo different from one another, we don't really compete THAT much.
2We are completely different so we don't really compete at things. It also helps that I am four years older so we never really had the same friends, boyfriends, or even in the same school (she was in elementary and I was in middle school, she in middle and I was in HS, etc.)
3Other: I only have a brother.
4same here mandy_frost!
5I have 2 older sisters and 2 older brothers...with an age gap of 12 years...
it's not really fair to say that we *competed* with each other, but I always challenged myself to be different from all 4 of them...to take a seperate path and prove that MY WAY is OKAY. I was always told to go to 4 different colleges and take on 4 different career paths and on and on and on....so it was easy for my inner-self to say "DONT DO WHAT THEY DID" not because they are bad people (al contrario, they are WONDERFUL people) but because I always felt the need to find my OWN identity.
And now at 23, I feel like I'm at par with them and feel very proud of that.
6I chose Other...
Me and my HALF sister don't really see eye to eye.
7We hardly ever talk and when we are in the same place at once...she's very phony...! So yep we compete at things when ever she wants to be a b*tch! LOL
Not at all, actually. We're two very, very different people, and competition was just never part of our relationship.
8no, bc we're so different! she's medical, i'm marketing. and i love her to death!
9No my sister and I are 6 years difference in age and shes still very young (13) but me and my cousin who is only 4 months younger than me grew up like sisters and competed ALL the time, but not really over boys, mostly clothes and friends haha
10I compete with the sister who is only a year younger. I don't compete with her but she does it with me. She is always out there to prove that she is better than I am. But I also think that our birth order causes this to happen, too. My sister is the middle child and I am the oldest. I don't compete with my baby sister at all; she is 5 yrs younger.
11No ....not with either one of my sisters(one is younger,the other is older) but i suspect my younger sibling was in her own silent competition with me at times.
12No sister, just a brother.
13I have two sisters, one half sister who is 9 years older than me, we really don't compete that much. However, my younger sister is only 13 months younger than me, so we've pretty much competed our whole lives. Nothing that would generate any hard feelings, its usually all in good fun.
14My sister and I are only a year apart so you'd think we might have some areas we'd be competitive about, but we're so different that it's never been the case.
15No sister to compete with, so I don't know.
16I'm an only child!!!!
17My sister is 3 and a half years younger than me. Even though we've never had the same friends or anything, we've always argued and competed. We still don't get along and I'm 23 and she's 19.
18Not even close. My sister and I are the best of friends. She has my back 100%, she definitely doesn't try to compete with me! Nor do I.
19I have no sister but I do have a brother. We competed in academics and martial arts.
20we competed for attention nd academics, we styll do
21Not so much anymore. When we were growing up, it was really bad. My parents sort of played us against each other so we'd try to compete and do better at school and at our minimum wage jobs. So ridiculous!
22We have a 13 year age difference, which is kind of awesome because we didn't really have the chance to fight that much since she was out of the house by the time I was older.
23I wish I had a sister to compete with! I've got two younger brothers.
24no sister here either
25these comments make me kind of sad. i have daughters and i want them to be close and support each other. i don't get the whole competition thing (only child here).
just tonight my younger 2 were seeing who could hula hoop or jump rope longer. i said "does everything have to be a competition?" and my 9 year old said "just the important things" and then we all cracked up laughing at how silly they were being.
i reminded them that someday it will be just the 2 of them (our oldest daughter is severely disabled) and that they will be so thankful they have each other when their dad and i are gone. there is enough room for everyone to be their best self, why not embrace the best your sister can be. would you want her to be a failure or unsuccessful? i would think it would wonderful to be able to talk about how fablous your sister was. and who else will remember the christmas you got your easy bake oven and your dreamy first crush with you? your sister is part of you.
26lickety split,
and we Love each other so very much. We share everything and help each other through
problems. We are 4 years apart so we haven't always been the best of friends! But we do realize that we will always be there for each other and be each other's rock if something comes up.
27Try not to worry too much. My sister and I had our problems and we had our fights, but now that we are older we realize that we are our only sisters
My sisters and I are soooo different that there isn't much of a point to compete. I pale in comparison to their looks and their smarts.
My step sister is a different story. My stepmom always tried to pit us against each other because we are a year apart. I am insulted by her attempt because we are beyond different - I'm a MD2B, she is a bipolar mess who is regularly in and out of rehab and has illegitimate kids that she doesn't have custody of.
28After 10 years I think my stepmom got the point, but I will always be annoyed that she would consider us anywhere near equal...
My sister and i are so different we could not find one thing to compete over . We could not act ,think , look any different . Yet we have a really healthy relationship.
29Never over a guy. We're 9 years apart. But she's a little snot and she's so self-entitled so we pretty much fight about her attitude.
30My sister and I have a three-year gap and more than competing, we're more supportive of each other and we're pretty good friends. We've teamed up and lost a lot of weight together, I've helped her get a position in the company I work for and even though we did fight and argue as kids, there's really no competition going on right now.
31I don't deliberately compete with my sister.
You know what they say about good-looking people -- they don't need to be interesting to draw people of all sorts in. She actually IS interesting and stuff, I just have to work harder at developing my personality to draw people in.
32Our approaches to people are different.
I also remember in middle and high school how the fact that beauty pageants were soliciting for her compete took precedence during family-friend/acquaintance/church parties over my above and beyond achievements in school.
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