Congratulations messages

Congratulations messages for your sister

You knew about this before anyone else did, including the doubts. That is what makes a sibling congratulation different from everybody else’s, and these six use it.

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Six messages you could actually send

Continue writing opens that message in the card with the words already in it, so all that is left is to change a word and send it. The last message is the longest of the six, and it is the only one you have to copy across yourself.

  1. Congratulations. I heard about every bad day of this on the phone, so I know exactly what it took and how close you came to giving up on the whole thing. You did it anyway. Extremely proud of you today.

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  2. You did it. I never once doubted that you would, which I hope is some small comfort now that it's actually done. Congratulations, and go let everyone at home make a proper fuss of you for a change.

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  3. Congratulations, behen. This is genuinely good news and I'm glad it's yours. Whichever of us was supposed to turn out to be the sensible one, I think that particular question is settled now.

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  4. Well done. Now come home for a week and let everyone feed you and tell the story to relatives who won't understand a word of it. I'll be the one in the corner saying I told you so, rather loudly.

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  5. Congratulations. I'm properly proud of you and I'll say so publicly if forced, though I'd rather you just took my word for it. Whatever comes next, the arrangement is exactly the same: I'm on your side.

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  6. Congratulations. I want to say the thing a lot of people won't bother to say: none of this was luck and none of it was easy. You carried a genuinely difficult year without once making it anybody else's problem, and you've come out of it with exactly what you set out for. I couldn't be prouder of you today.

Writing your own

Use the doubts. A sibling is often the only person who heard the two in the morning I am going to fail this. Reminding her that she was wrong about her own chances is a compliment nobody else is in a position to pay.

Say proud without hedging, once. Siblings usually route affection through teasing, which is fine, but a single unhedged sentence in the middle of the jokes is what she will read again. One is enough; two starts to sound like a speech.

She had the running commentary. Give her something that stays.

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It arrives as a sealed envelope they open on their phone.

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