Do you get on well with your siblings

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Or not I don’t really have a relationship with them

Nc with both my sisters. Hth

Absolutely not.....😡

One sister. Not close

Yes. I love them both. We don't see each other as often as we'd like but when we do it's always fab. They are smashing humans who I choose to spend time with

A younger sibling died when we were small children and I think that helped us to understand early just how much we really needed and loved each other.

We are lucky.

Yes, get on well with my brother. I don’t think he’d ever confide in me about anything really, but we meet up and go out and chat by text message

I Adore my siblings, they’re the other pieces of my heart.

My sister is one of my best friends, my husband flew her and my other best friend over as a surprise for my 40th (we live overseas) - it was the best gift I’ve ever had.

Nope, my sister is very strange.

4 brothers no sisters. Get on well with all of them though I’m closest to one who I call the sister I never had. Get on great with all their wives too

Not massively. I have one sister. We are in contact but only usually to discuss DF, once anything happens to him, I doubt we'll be in touch very much. No falling out but just very different people.

Nope

Not really. He's ok, but we don't choose to spend time together

Very different people, he's career driven with no family, I had children fairly young so now have teenagers.

It also pisses me off how much my parents fawn over him, yet he gets away with everything. Example - he never sees them at Christmas two years in a row, yet we have to jump through hoops to make every Christmas work for all (even if it means us doing nothing that we want) It's just accepted that he's faaaaarrrr too busy

So no, he's not my favourite person

Don’t have much to do with them.

They’re decent people, we’re just very different & live spread out.

One of them I see every couple of months but only at my parents house. The other I’ve not seen or spoken to (other than odd texts) for a year

No i feel very bullied by them. My DM has been unwell for my whole adult life. I stayed local to look after her whilst they all went onto Uni and to do their own things. They were quite happy to leave me to get on with things however as adults now they're all settled they want to criticise everything i have done for DM. To stress she is well cared for as stated by all medics involved. I feel very hurt I have done my best despite having no medial background one of them has trained as a medic and is very judgemental. I am not sure if anything happens to dm i will remain in contact which is sad as im sure its not what our mother would have wanted. I have suffered with my mental health over the years and they have even suggested i have not done my best due to my health. They all have degrees and i feel they look down on me by the way they speak to me

Yes. She is my best friend. I speak to her most days and see her a couple of times a week.

Yes.
My brother and I squabble like little children and love each other dearly. We have eachother's backs and give support. But we fight if we're in each others company for more than a weekend.

NC with one who is a narc.

I'd love to get on with my sister but she doesn't like me. She only gets in touch if she wants something.

Yep. One sister, who I love. We message every day, talk on the phone at least once a week and see each other every couple of weeks. She’s brill.

I have a genuine soft spot for my DB, I'm sad that he lives overseas and we only message occasionally. Sadly he has no interest in me, he's quite an arrogant person who struggles to see outside his own bubble.

His health isn't great, and he had an accident recently which I heard about second hand and which made me cry, but I could never tell him I love him and miss him and worry for him. I don't think his wife likes me either.

I don't think I ever did or said anything wrong, I just don't feature.

Yes. They're dependable and rather brilliant.

Yes. Very well.

I am lucky that DH and I both get along well with our siblings and their spouses. The ones who are local we see quite a bit, and we stay in touch with the ones who are not geographically close.

There are 4 of us. I get on with 2 of them. One genuinely has affection for me and would walk through fire to help me and vice versa, the other only has affection for me when they need something, but is generally OK so I don't mind.

The one I don't get on with is a complete narcissist/sociopath/psychopath take your pick if we could get them in front of a professional they'd be able to write a book about them and has been cut off by almost everyone, the only reason anyone keeps any contact is because of their children. Once the children are adults and we don't need to make sure they aren't being neglected I doubt very much anyone will have anything to do with them at all.

I see my children being the kind of siblings who get on for harmony's sake but won't ever be truly close. I hope to be proved wrong and they're cherished by one another but they're chalk and cheese...you can't force these things.

One of my sisters is a psychopath. The other lives abroad and it wouldn't bother me if I never saw her again really.

I have three siblings, I love them all but have absolutely nothing in common with any of them and don’t speak to or see any of them regularly.

They’re all close to each other (two are DT’s) but I’m not. I’m adopted though so don’t know if that has anything to do with it.