To ask ladies with brothers

[HaveSomeGrace]

What kind of relationships do you have with your brothers? Did you ever want a sister? How many of you are there? Are you the youngest, eldest etc?

My daughter is 1 of 5 but no sisters. I wondered what it might be like for her as she grows as I won’t be able to give her a sister, ever.

Cheery my dad was the youngest of 5, with a 20 year age gap between him and the oldest. Two sisters, two brothers and him - He did all off the care for his mum when she was elderly and ill.

It depends on personality not gender, surely. After all a girl isn't guaranteed to get on with her sister just because they're both girls. I have 3 brothers. I get on with all of them but Im particularly close with the brother who is 1 year younger than me

I am the youngest and have 5 big brother's and no sisters and i loved growing up with boys it was great. The only thing i hated was not being able to stand up and wee like them 😂

PurpleMac, your dad sounds wonderful. Unfortunately I have not come across this in my life. Even my DP has two sisters one brother. Their mother had dementia, looked after by a daughter and care arranged by a daughter. It is not that the brothers did nothing, they would do stuff when asked, they just saw/see it as women's work , which is, of course ridiculous.

I never minded not having a sister until I became an adult. Now I see all my friends with sisters holidaying with them, taking the kids out at weekends etc and I am so sad from longing for that for myself.
My brother lives miles away and is very insular so I only see him on FB. I have no nieces and nephews and I think it would have been more likely to have happened if I'd had a sister.
I'm so glad to have two of each as they will always know what it's like to have a sibling of their sex and the opposite sex and they have three times more chances than I've had to be an uncle or aunt one day.

My brothers and I don't talk often because we live in different countries and they are typical men who don't use the phone to keep in touch. When we are visiting or at family gatherings, we are very close and get along great!

We were close as kids, one brother and I had the same friends as teenagers, the other I found annoying at the time. As adults we would be close if we lived nearer, especially the brother I was friends with as a teen.

I loved my Brother to death, he used to wind me up like nothing else but he loved me dearly, and me him. Unfortunately he died 8 years ago and I really do miss him. I also have a sister but I am not close to her but there is a 12 year age gap. I wish I had my Brother still, there is something special about having a big bro... all those Brothers to look after her, she is very lucky!

My Husband has a great relationship with his Sister too. I have three boys and their relationship is amazing but I have no idea what it will be like in 15 years.

Love my brothers to bits. We are very close even though we live at different sides of the country. We speak weekly and meet up with our families every few months.

I don’t have a great relationship with my parents and it’s been hard as they don’t quite understand it but they respect me enough not to question it.

Growing up it never crossed my mind about a sister. I did have cousins I was very close to and one of my cousins is my best friend and we speak daily without fail. I am god parent to her children and she is like a sister to me.

@Cheerymom

I agree with you; my best friend cares for her elderly dad with dementia whilst also getting a lot of grief off her mother and is gaslighted a lot. She’s one of two; the eldest being her brother who gets no where near as much stress from their mother as my bf does.