My Parents Love My Younger Sister More Than Me! What Should I Do?

hi everyone i'm sarah this is my sister laila she's four years younger than me unfortunately my family loves her more than me i'm not even sure if they love me at all actually i've always been aware that my parents have been nicer and more understanding towards layla it had never bothered me because i thought it was normal for them to treat her this way since she was younger but recently after everything that has been happening i began to suspect that my parents just like laila a lot more than me i'm going to tell you about everything that happened all i ask is that you share your thoughts in the comments do you agree that my parents are treating us differently please let me know we moved to a new city during the summer in our old house laila and i were sharing a room our new house is bigger so now we each have our own room we knew that summers in this region are really hot but it turned out to be even hotter than we imagined at night we literally weren't able to sleep the house had air conditioning only in our parents bedroom and in the living room so layla and i didn't have it in our rooms after a while we had no choice but to start sleeping in the living room i hated sleeping in the living room since i now had my own bedroom but i didn't have any other choice since our parents had spent a lot of money during the move and it would be inconsiderate to ask them to buy two more air conditioners one night i went to the living room to go to sleep as always layla wasn't there yet she didn't come before i fell asleep when i woke up in the morning i was surprised to see that she wasn't there on my way to the bathroom i could hear that she was in her room she was doing a tick tock i went into her room to ask how she'd slept at night in the heat and guess what it wasn't hot there of course i was surprised i looked up and saw the ac unit on the wall yes my parents got her a brand new air conditioner that made her room nice and cool so she was able to sleep like a baby in her own room that night of course i was really mad my mom and dad were having breakfast i asked him why only layla had gotten an air conditioner very calmly my dad explained your sister told me she wanted to sleep in her room and asked me if we could get her an air conditioner so i went and got one for her they installed it while you were at school i began to tell him dad i live here too you know that i don't like sleeping in the living room either my mom quickly said we would have gotten you one if you'd have asked for it so i said let's get one then and dad said it might be difficult for us to buy it this month but let's talk about this again next month i didn't want to argue with them about it but they were obviously playing favorites and now they were babbling irrationally to cover it up like i said in the beginning they had always been nicer to layla but this time what they did went way beyond that the ac incident really changed how i viewed my parents actions and i began to notice more things like this this is when i started to realize that my family loves layla more than me let me give you another example ever since elementary school i've had to do house chores every day i do the laundry i take out the trash when my mom tells me she's going to be late from work i cook but i've never seen layla so much as bring an empty glass from her room back to the kitchen my mom makes her bed i iron her clothes once when my mom told me vacuum the living room i said i need to study for a math exam i have tomorrow can layla do it my mom said of course not so i asked why not do you know what she told me because you need to do it what kind of answer is that and without another word i did it like an idiot laila's birthday is coming up next month i realized this when my mom said i thought i'd get laila a cake shaped like the tik tok logo this year what do you think for leila's birthdays she always gets a cake that looks like whatever she's into at the time for example last year she got a cake that looked like a roblox character but for my birthdays my mom just bakes regular cakes ask my mom it's a family tradition she's baking my cake herself to show me how much she cares about me before i would have believed it but now i know that she doesn't care about me at all because if that were the case she'd be baking layla's cakes too once i started noticing things like this they just kept on coming maybe it had always been this way and i just never noticed one morning my sister came to the kitchen with a limp she had hit her foot against the edge of the bed she was very angry saying mom i was writhing in pain on the floor for 10 minutes i kept calling for you why didn't you come i couldn't believe my ears when i heard my mom's explanation oh no that was you calling me i heard it but i thought it was sarah so i didn't come you sound so similar that i get confused i wish i'd checked on you she was saying these things like i wasn't there it's like she wanted me to know she doesn't care about me at all i couldn't take it and said dear leela next time you should scream i'm layla i'm layla so that mom knows it's you my mom couldn't say anything but looked at me as if i were the one who did something wrong it was so obvious that layla was a little princess of the family but i'd never figured it out because i'd always been so naive here's another example my folks never ever miss one of leila's performances at school if it's during the day my dad always takes time off from work i don't get to perform anymore but my dad rarely came to mine even when i was little when he couldn't make it he'd just say he had to work but when it comes to layla my dad doesn't seem to care much about work or anything else my parents come to the theater early to find a good seat in the front row and they cheer for their precious daughter like crazy during the whole show the other issue with school is our grades whenever i get a good grade my dad will say that either the questions were easy or i just got lucky that it was a subject i'd prepared for he'll find a way to tell me that i didn't really deserve such a good grade with layla it's just the opposite her grades are not that great but he always makes up excuses for her every time she gets a bad grade he tells her you said you had a headache that morning that must be it or that teacher is too demanding of you to try to prove that it's not her fault things like this kept happening and it made me really upset i got hung up on stuff that i wouldn't normally care about i had to find a way to solve this problem i found a website that provides therapy online and signed up it wasn't very expensive i saved up my allowance for a while and got an appointment with a therapist from the site we did a video call that lasted an hour i told her about everything i'd been through at the end of the session she said sarah you can't solve this problem alone neither i nor another therapist can help you you need to face your parents and tell them everything like you just told me if they love both of you equally which i believe is the case they will have to convince you or you could be right and they might be favoring your sister without being aware of it if that's the case it's again your parents who need to put in the effort so that you don't feel like they don't love you so don't waste your time with therapists the only way you can resolve this issue is with your family what she was saying made a lot of sense i decided to talk to my parents the first chance i got last sunday layla was at a friend's house so it was a good time i said to my parents i need to talk to you about something important naturally they were very curious i think i talked non-stop for an hour and a half they didn't interrupt me even once they just listened a couple of times i couldn't stop myself from crying actually even telling them about everything felt really good but unfortunately their reaction did not make things any better at first they said we aren't playing favorites at all and we love both of you very much that wasn't the problem but what my mom said next really hurt me your personalities are so different that might be why we're treating you and layla differently layla is kind of like a cat she only pays attention to us when we pay attention to her her natural inclination is to stay away from us that's why we need to be extra nice to her all the time your personality is just the opposite i turned red with rage when i heard that last sentence i knew what she was saying but i pretended i didn't understand i asked what do you mean by opposite my mom couldn't say it outright opposite of a cat's she said i think she was regretting the example she gave i couldn't hold it in so you mean like a dog layla has the personality of a cat and i'm like a dog no matter how badly you treat the dog it still comes back and sucks up to you right is that what you actually think of me i asked my mom shook her head i guess the way i said it didn't sound too good but i just wanted to say you have different characters she said trying to defend herself i think what my mom said clearly proved they were treating us very differently when they saw that i was upset they tried to console me my dad said both you and your sister are so precious there's nothing you need to be upset about but i'd already gotten my answer they wanted to keep talking about this but i couldn't take it so do you agree that my parents don't treat the two of us equally i still feel that they love layla more than they love me and on top of that my mom's cat and dog analogy about our personalities was really weird can you please share what you think in the comments i promise that i will read all of them see you you

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Published: Thu Dec 17 2020