Real life: ‘I actually like my girlfriend's sister much more than my girlfriend’

‘For five years, I have been friends with B. Our daughters ended up in the same kindergarten class with an intensely annoying teacher, which created a bond. We both ran into the same walls and it was wonderful to laugh about it over a glass of wine. Our daughters also got along well, so we saw each other quite often.

B and I sometimes joked that we would never have ‘discovered’ each other in a different situation because we are quite different. I am rather light-hearted, she is heavy-hearted. For me, the glass is completely full, she is thirsty and walking in the desert. But we found each other and guided each other through those quite intense years with small children.

A month ago, someone from the neighborhood organized a dinner where we were both present, along with her sister, who I happened to sit next to. And I had a huge connection with her sister. We do more or less the same work, we love the same sport, we were both completely into Succession and coincidentally wore exactly the same top from Isabel Marant (from three seasons ago). And oh yes, we had also both eaten at the same beach tent in Barcelona three weeks prior. Destiny, then. I saw B looking at us a few times from her spot further down the table. B had once told me that the sun always shone on her sister. She cycled through the gymnasium while my friend B struggled and toiled to get her havo diploma after failing twice. The boys always danced around her sister with her olive-brown skin and green eyes, and she had also played hockey at a national level. Jealousy was lurking.

And as terrible as I find it, if I look deep in my heart, I find B's sister also a bit more pleasant and I would really like to build a friendship with her. But I don't dare to. I can't do that to B. What should I do?’

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