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I got an older brother (3 years) and a twin sister.
I've always been competing with my brother my whole life, I believe it actually drove me to be better than I otherwise would have been. My sister and I never really had a competition, we really just did our own things separately.
Lately though I've been really bad with jealousy. My brother pulls down +$80k, and my sister is +$60k... and I've been unemployed for 7 months now. It gets worse as I was originally making more money than either one, but with bad luck and the turn of the economy I'm now hoping to get a job working a cash register.
My brother hasn't met anyone I've dated in almost 11 years now (never got that serious), so relationship jealousy has never arose. However... 7 months with no job has obliterated any of my self esteem and really flared up worries of being viewed as the failure in the family.
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"Smite the rocks with the rod of knowledge, and fountains of unstinted wealth will gush forth." - Ashbel Smith as he laid the first cornerstone of the University of Texas
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