How close are you to your siblings?

I have one brother, we are very close. I consider him and his wife amongst my closest people and we talk / see each other often.

I have one lovely older brother. I haven’t seen him in person for 8 years now, but we do stay in touch.

Not close. I do not see my half siblings or the dad we share. He's always been unavailable, remarrying and rescuing the new spouse's adult kids from their various life situations. My brother I'm not close to. My family is very dysfunctional. It would be trauma bonding if we were close.
I do not dislike him and when we do see each other, which is very infrequent, we are amiable. My mum isn't the huggy type and I think we are the same. I look at close families with a mixture of awe, interest and confusion.

One amazing older sister. See each other most weeks, although have gone periods when we haven't seen each other for few weeks or a month or so due to work or holidays but it doesn't matter. We had a difficult childhood and she looked after me when I was a teenager and into my twenties. Couldn't imagine life without her.

My three aunts remained close even in old age. They used to go on holiday together with their partners and I once met them all out shopping together. but they were not close with their brother (my father). I have two sisters. I have cut off all communication with one of them. The other lives nearby and we do see each other fairly regularly but we aren’t close. We were always different and have had very different lives. I once read that ‘your children are people you once knew’ and I think the same could be said of siblings. I am closer to some of my girlfriends than I am to my sister but we are always there for each other in an emergency which is what I think matters most.

One brother who lives abroad. I do wish we were a bit closer but we talk often and get along well, he's a good uncle to my DC (he's childfree by choice). It is nice having somewhere free to stay for an abroad holiday!

Ive not spoken to her in about 6 years. Shes selfish, doesnt work, blames her life on everyone else and is an alcholic.

I supported her for years but reached my limit

My sister is my favourite person. Don't see her in person as much as I would like, but we always go away for a weekend to celebrate our birthdays. I speak to her on the phone anything between 2-5 times a week, and we text in between. Probably meet up every couple of months but we live in different countries.

My sister is a totally toxic Narcissist - I haven’t seen her in over a year and ideally would never have anything more to do with her as she has such a detrimental effect on my mental health - she makes me wish I’d never been born! Siblings can be a blessing, or in my case a curse.

I'm nc with my 3 siblings. Nothing in common with any of them and no shared values. I saw no point in maintaining a meaningless relationship that I gained no benefit from.

One is my best friend, the other I have a mostly affectionate but distant relationship with.

We never speak on the phone. We all hate it, like good MNers

I only have one sister and we live in the same city. We talk once week and we mostly meet every Saturday, so I would say very close yes.

My sister and I weren’t close as kids but now very much so in middle age. It’s been lovely to have the relationship slowly build.

Late 60's/early 70's.

Get to that age and you really can't be fucked anymore. I accept our differences and have minimal contact.

I feel less and less connection with my sisters as time goes on.

They are very critical about everything and everybody and I just can't be bothered with it. Because of course they expect me to think like them.

The good thing is we all live in different countries.

My sister is one of my best friends.

We message at least once or twice a day, speak a few times a week and regularly go out / holiday together. We've lived together as adults, too.

This thread is very sad! I have one brother and two sisters. Am as close to brother as possible - he has health issues and would probably be 'on the spectrum' nowadays, ring him every other day. Sister next in age to me has gone NC. We used to be very close but she is equally balanced, with chips on both shoulders. It's a shame because I don't know my DNs and she literally lives round the corner, but it's her choice. DB endured a deeply traumatic event and she didn't once call to see how he was, and I called her out on it. Her response was to go NC, and it's not the first time.

I am closest to my youngest sister, and there's a 9 year age gap. Our kids are close too. My mum was pretty close to her siblings but my dad wasn't, in terms of how often they saw each other but blood was still thicker than water.

My own kids, in their 20s, are close. My elder two really are each other's best friends, and are in daily contact. They go clothes shopping together with my youngest!

Most of my friends are close to their siblings.

Not close at all, we had a very traumatic childhood which seemed to push us apart rather than bind us in any way. My older brother and I began to spend more time together in our 30s however he relapsed into heroin use and died of an overdose. My younger brother is an extremely low functioning alcoholic and despite everything that’s happened with other brother I still cannot find it in myself to work on my relationship with him even though I know he will likely die of his addiction too. He has put me through so much pain and misery over the years I just can’t involve myself in his life anymore.

I've got 4 sisters. 2 sister lives overseas. Last week I went to the town in grew up in 200 miles from where I live now. My sister flew in from overseas. Another sister drove 100 miles to get there and 2 of my sisters still live in the town we all grew up in. It's the first time we've all been together for about 4 years. 4 of us meet up twice a year though and my younger sister sometimes comes to visit me if she's passing for work. Maybe twice a year. I visit my 2 sisters in my home town 2 or 3 times a year. We all get on well. As we get older I think we are all aware every time we all meet up we have a photo taken because it's in the back of our minds it might be the last time we are all together. I absolutely dread losing a sister. 1 of my sisters is 12 years older than me, another 10 and another 8 years.

I have 3 siblings - I see them all to varying degrees, one maybe once a month, another once every couple of months and the other probably three times a year. We have periods where we speak fairly regularly in a whatsapp group, followed by periods where the group stays silent for weeks.

I don't really text any of them one on one though and I wouldn't say we were close. We're alright I guess.

DH has a brother, who he sees only when forced, normally once a year. He does not like him one bit and would rather he didn't have to see him at all.

I know very few people with siblings who are actually close to them.

1 sibling 4 years younger than me. Lives 3hrs drive away and has done since age 17. We weren’t close growing up and not particularly close now. See each other once or twice a year when sibling comes to visit parents. We get on but don’t have much in common. It’s sad but that’s just the way it is

DB38 haven't seen him since childhood (family drama)
DB39 not close but know he's there if I need him
DS34 very close
DS 35 we are close

DS32 we talk every few months but can be close
'D'S 27 don't talk at all (she slept with my bf at the time and got pregnant, shit time of my life)
'D'B19 don't talk at all we didn't grow up together and just found we don't gel but don't have any bad blood
DS 22 we are very close and grew up in same household together

I am 27. All are half siblings altho I never say 'my half sister/brother' they're just my siblings if in conversation.

Not at all. Most of my adult life has been spent living in a different country to my brothers. Last time I did live at home was for two years, I spoke to one of them if we met on the street, the other every couple of months. That was 11 years ago, no contact since I left.

I have two you get siblings, brother and a sister. We speak most days and see each other at least once a week. My relationship with both of them is different but both are good and close (in fact that’s why I want to have three kids).
I think it’s sad that not all siblings get along or get to enjoy a close relationship but it’s not always that easy. I didn’t get along very well with one of my siblings as a teen (cat and dog) now we are besties - that transition was sped along by the death of a close family member.

I only really see my brother when we all get together as a family, but we get on really well, we just both accept that we have busy lives, but at the same time we would be there for each other and drop everything if it was needed.