Mirror agony aunt Coleen Nolan advises a reader who used to be close to her quiet cousin, but now her actions are getting on her nerves
Dear Coleen,
I’m an 18-year-old girl and would like some advice on how to deal with my cousin, who’s the same age and literally copies everything I do. Embarrassingly, she even wore the same dress as me to our school leavers’ prom and I felt like a total laughing stock.
I’d been planning my outfit and look for months and then she showed up in exactly the same thing. I ended up crying in the loos. It was a step too far. We kind of grew up together as our mums are sisters and very close, but while we got along when we were kids, we’ve grown in different directions and are very different people now.
I’m very sociable and outgoing, and love sports, dance and drama, while she’s quite introverted and struggles to make friends. Whenever I complain about her to my mum, she has a go at me for being unkind and rants about blood being thicker than water, but I just want to live my own life.