Sisters and brothers

[StuckInTheMiddleWithTwo]

Can brothers and sisters be as close as same-sex sibling pairs? I had a sister growing up and always thought siblings of the same sex seemed to be closer. DH and his sister have nothing to do with each other at all, while DSis and I keep in regular contact. DD recently got a little brother and part of me is sad that she won't get to experience the close bond that I have with my sister. Can brothers and sisters have the same closeness?

I have one brother and one sister, I was closest to my brother when growing up. Closeness doesn't have to depend on whether the siblings are male or female,there are other factors that might have an effect - age, upbringing, temperament etc might all play a part.

I have an older brother and I'm a bit "whatever" about him, but that's probably because in my early 20s he treated me like shit and I'll never forgive him. He's probably forgotten all about it, but I never will. I don't usually see him from one end of the year to the next and that's fine with me.

I think what brought home the fact I can take him or leave him is when he was taken into hospital earlier this year, I didn't lose any sleep.

I have a brother ( no sisters ) we are very close . We always have been , when we were growing up we were close and chose to live together when we got to our older teenage years for 2 years
We have always both worked full time in completely different jobs but recently my DB had enough of the trade he was in and I was able to get him a job in the same industry as me. So we see each other at work now too.
Pre covid we went out together for meals / shows etc about once every 2 months as well

I found been able to get a man's perspective on somethings very useful too
( He does not mansplain tho )

I'm super close with my brother. I also have a sister who I love dearly but we're nowhere near as close. My brother is one of my favourite people in the whole world and we're just super close emotionally. We also make each other laugh so much. Sometimes we'll just get consumed by laughter to the point where we're both crying. I love it! We are close in age (just shy of 2 years) which I think adds to the closeness. Also, we can fight and we certainly did when we were younger, but we've never fallen out if that makes sense? We're so comfortable with each other that we feel completely safe to disagree because we know that it won't damage our bond.

Aww, that's lovely to hear @AlCalavicci and @Aria2015! Do you think anything your parents did or didn't do helped you create and maintain that bond or was it just personalities matching?

My brother and I are very close. We are in our 30s now. Absolutely detested each other as kids.

I dont recall our parents doing anything in particullar to encorage friendship but they did let us do our own thing ( within reason of course ) we spent many happy hours building dens in our bedrooms and slept in them for many nights , we also went off on our bikes for hours together or we would build huge lego buildings , before lego kits were around so it was up to our imagination .
As were grew up we still loved each other but did not spend as much time with each other ( we still lived together ) .

We can talk for hours about alsorts and though we have different opioions on somethings we never argue we just agree to differ and move on .
If it was not for him , I dont think I would of made it through my DHs death . I could not of coped without his quite but very solid help .

I'm not close to my brothers at all but that is because there are 2 of them and I always felt left out by them, they never really included me in anything, it's nothing to do with them being boys just their personalities!