I’m a 19-year-old university student. I have a one-year age difference with my sister, which is why she is with me at every institute — school, academy, college and, now, university. My parents always compare her with me as I’m more intelligent than her, which is why she resents me. She also wants my parents to hate me and, as she is older, my parents listen to her.

It has left me feeling insecure because they always listen to her and not me. Every time she gets a chance, she speaks ill of me, taunts me and criticises me, including over my make-up, my looks, my dress sense, my hair, my acne and everything else.

‘My Sister Hates Me And Runs Me Down’

‘My Sister Hates Me And Runs Me Down’

What I really want is for it to not affect me at all, or I want to leave my house and be alone for the rest of my life. However, that is not possible as long as I’m not........

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