All the things you recognize when your sister is your best friend

My sister is one of my best friends. It has always been that way since our childhood. We regularly crawled into the same big chair that stood in the living room of our parental home, always played together, and truly never fought. Now that we are older, I unfortunately can't remember the last time we sat together in one chair, but luckily that love for each other expresses itself differently now. Is your sister also one of your best friends? Then you undoubtedly recognize the points below.

1. You talk to each other every day
Not a day goes by without you speaking to your sister at least for a moment. How could it be otherwise? In the past, you saw each other every day because you lived in the same house, but now you have to come up with other ways to talk to each other. A small contact moment in the form of a message is often enough to not miss each other too much.

2. You have the same interests, so you never run out of things to talk about
It's quite handy of course if you talk to each other every day, but if you have the same interests, you also never run out of things to say. My sister and I can chat for hours about the latest trends, our jobs, our men, and our creative outbursts. And if there's a bottle of wine on the table during that conversation, we are even happier.

3. You ask each other for advice about everything
Everything, absolutely everything, is first discussed between you before a decision is made. These can be tiny things like how short we are going to have our front strands cut at the hairdresser, but especially the important matters are discussed in detail first. It doesn't even occur to me to make a big life-changing decision without first informing my sister. Really, if I ever get proposed to, I will call her first before I give an answer.

4. You know her wardrobe by heart
When you need to come up with an outfit, you also have her wardrobe in your mind. Bonus points if you also have the same size AND the same style, because then you dive into each other's closet at least once a week. Where you used to sometimes clash because one of you took something from the other without asking, you now lovingly borrow each other's favorite clothes.

5. You prefer to go on vacation together
My sister is the best vacation partner I could wish for. We know each other inside out, so we know exactly when to give each other space or when the other wants to go out, and because we had the same upbringing, we also enjoy many of the same vacation habits. You don't have to discuss much: wonderful.

6. No one understands your humor, except for you two
I've stopped counting how many times my sister and I have been on the floor laughing at something that other people will never understand. There is no one I can laugh with as hard (really, often until no sound comes out) and when I receive a message that says ‘only you understand this’, I already know that a hilarious story is probably coming.

7. You dare to ask each other anything
Everything that is discussed between you automatically falls into a no judgment zone. Want to day drink on the terrace at 12:30 on a Wednesday afternoon? She must have a reason for it. Do hundreds of photos need to be taken for her Instagram because the angle is just not good enough? Fine, just hand me that phone. Has she been struggling for hours to write the perfect message to her annoying friend/boss/neighbour and it just won't work? Let me see, from now on it's our message. Nothing is too crazy when it comes to your sister.

8. You can tease each other without consequences
Your sister is the only one you can tease with her silly habits, because you have them too. My sister and I regularly crack up over the fact that we constantly complain about being too heavy but never do anything about it, about the way one of us nervously babbles somewhere because we are just somewhat anxious mice, or about that glass of wine we poured without thinking, five minutes after we had concluded that we really need to drink less. Whatever it is, you can say anything to each other. And only to each other, because if other people would say the exact same thing to her, they wouldn't be celebrating for a long time.