AIBU to think that single people are jealous of other people with partners and children?

[moomin35]

Am I wrong to think that my siblings who are 5 years older than me (in their early 40's) may be jealous of me because I have a long term partner and baby on the way? They've always been really close but have recently been cutting me out of things more and more. Some people have said they may be jealous but i truley don't know whats at the bottom of it.

[Burren]

Lots of possible reasons. Their lives are unusually busy at the moment. They are closer to one another than to you. They find the version of you who drinks mineral water in the pub a bit dull, plus you remember everyone else's drunk moments. One of them is having an affair and only wants to confide in the sibling they are closest to. You are naturally growing apart and only noticing it now. You've changed, or they've changed, and the dynamic has changed as a result.

Any of those, plus many more without having to infer jealousy of your coupled and pregnant state. They might actually feel sorry for you.

[thebody]

I think like calls to like.

my youngest are teens now and I work with littlies so in my leisure time I wouldn't really want to mix with parents and small kids.

been there and done that.

maybe as you are pregnant op they think you wouldn't want to be going out for drinks etc.

presumably they choose to be single? people so you know.

[sooperdooper]

I remember when I was single, someone I went to uni with got married straight after, had kids etc, and she started acting like she somehow felt sorry for me that I wasn't doing all that, which was odd since I was perfectly happy with my carefree life!

She ended up a bit of a bore about it, trying to marry me off to her DHs friends, I drifted apart from her, she was completely unable to understand that I was perfectly happy as I was and I found her really patronising