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When strangers mistake your romantic partner for your sibling

My girlfriend and I are the same size and we share clothes but people keep assuming we're sisters and I don't know how to correct them without making it weird.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Heteronormative assumptions render your love invisible by recasting it as family resemblance.

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