Are you your parent’s favourite child?

[Bobje]

I am categorically most certainly not!

But life goes on.

Are you?

I don't think my parents have a favourite. They were definitely way nicer and more supportive to my DB when we were both growing up, but I think that's because I was the weird First Pancake practice child, so he got the benefit of all the shit they did wrong with me 😁

I think I used to be at one point, but Im not anymore. Same with my dc being the favourite gc. Now we are a place they call to on their way back from visiting the favourites. I used to give a shit, now I just do my own stuff and if they like me then fair enough, if they dont, then fine

Yes, but only because my sister is abusive, mentally and physically.

Solidarity.

My sister and I are definitely equal. But we do love teasing our parents about which one is the Favourite.

No. My brother is the golden child he is much younger I am too much like my dad for my mum 🤣

My brother is the one they worry about. He has social anxiety and frankly wasn’t raised the way he needed to be. They treat him like a child even though he’s almost 40. My sister is the one whose company they enjoy the most. She took after my dad in terms of profession, has the same interests as both parents and imbibed their ideas of being superior to ‘ordinary people’. She regularly behaves not very nicely and it is accepted as ‘you know how she is’. She’s very successful work wise but not emotionally secure.

I went a very different way professionally and don’t have the same interests so am not seen as interesting. I am not an overachiever professionally and had to do a lot of work on myself to become more grounded as a human.

My sibling dynamics are a major reason I don’t want more than 2 DC.

Growing up we always claimed that the other was the favourite so my parents said that they obviously didn't have a favourite.

I would say that I was slightly closer / had more in common with Dad and my sister is probably closer / has more in common with Mum, although I love them equally and feel that they love us equally.

I never was, until my brother married someone who loathes my mum. Now I am favourite by default.

I don't kid myself that she actually likes me though.

I think my parents have always been very good at treating us pretty equally growing up, and have always been very even with financial support. We all have our own little WhatsApp groups with them, and spend time with them one on one.

My brothers do sometimes make little jokes about me being the favourite now, but I make much more of an effort. I speak to them every day, I spend time with them as much as I can, I go on holiday with them still. My brothers are always invited, but they just don’t seem to prioritise our parents as much as I do. Which is fine, they have their own lives, but I do think it’s contributed to me being a little closer to them.

I genuinely don’t feel that they love me any more or less than the others though!

My brother, the youngest is the favourite.

My sister, middle gets the most help.

I get zero help but am expected to sort out every issue for everyone

No, but I'm not the least favourite either, so I'm happy with that.

I am, but I'm also the only one! Although on some days I am still the devil reincarnated based on the one wild party I had as a teenager...

No favourites here. All treated equally. No clue how they managed that!

Well I'm an only child

I was my dad’s favourite because only I recognised the abuse my mother perpetrated against him. My mother only really liked me when she got something out of it. My vile, narcissistic sister was her favourite.

I'm the youngest and my dads favourite I believe. We connect on things none of my siblings have an interest in. I've recently become my mums favourite I think as the golden oldest boy has gotten himself in her bad books and since having kids myself I think we are closer. I'm also the one that does jobs here and there for her which also means she favours me more I guess.