To ask what your relationship with your siblings is like

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Have a very poor relationship with one of my siblings and get on with one.

I love, love, love her!!!

There’s only one year and 2 weeks between us though so we grew up together, had the same friends and did everything with each other.

Non existent which suits me!

My sibling has always been jealous of me because he thinks my parents favour me when actually I was just wiser in my life choices and it’s been a massive chip on his shoulder. We are NC and that’s fine.

I haven’t seen my brother in about 14 years, I haven’t seen my sister for three years, before that I hadn’t seen her for about ten years. I doubt I’ll ever see them again, which doesn’t bother me.

Have a fantastic relationship with 1,hardly speak to the other

I lost mine a few years ago and feel that lost keenly. We only saw each other a few times a year but when we did we snapped back to how we were as kids.

He was the only person I truly shared my childhood with and I am infinitely lucky it was such a happy one.

Complicated.
We are 18 months apart and have been through a lot as our mum left when my sister was a few months old.
We are now in our thirties and my sister has never sought therapy and I think is becoming a little bitter and angry with the world.
I have had loads of therapy and feel like I at least have some awareness about why I find certain aspects of life difficult/triggering or have an unhealthy pull towards rescuing people rather than focusing on my own betterment.
We love each other but we’re very different and don’t see each other much because she has lived abroad for over a decade.
We do FaceTime though.

I adore her. She's 16 months younger - and bosses me around - but I lover her

We're in our early 50s Where did the time go?

DS1 stopped talking to me over a year ago, never got a reason why! DS2 is an addict so nothing there, DB1 see him at family birthdays DS3 speak to and see regularly! So 1 out of 4 😂

She’s my best friend.

I have a brother who is 3 years younger than me. I tolerate him but our relationship is not great.

Pretty good. 2.5 years between us and we live 250 miles apart. We're also very different. But I think we recognise that and accept it. We phone/facetime a lot and see each other as much as our distance and busy lives allow.

We live miles apart and have our own lives but I know 100% if I needed him he would be here. Works both ways and if need I would help him bury his bitch of a ex’s body. Lucky it never came to that.

Very close to some of them. But awkward with others. Big family, I suppose the more there are, the higher the chance of finding at least one that you're close to and at least one who you clash with

NC with both of them for over 10 years. Nasty belittling bullies.

Love them dearly but wouldn't choose them as friends.

The above ^^ is why I’m only having 1 child!

I have one Brother officially, haven’t seen him for about 15 years as he is a dick so I went NC.

Suits me perfectly 🤷‍♀️

Mixed. We're extremely close, but she's very hard work and I worry about her a lot. She's older but I feel like I have to look after her/lend her money/ save her.

So it's mixed but we get along very well.

Non existent , perhaps an odd email now and then

Mine lives abroad, we aren't in contact and that suits me (we weren't when she lived closer either). I can't remember the last time we saw each other, we're in our 30's now. I don't think we ever particularly fell out, I just hate the way she treats our parents. If she ever deigned to attend a family event I would be civil to her for the sake of my mum.

It's odd because I have adopted siblings (I was the adopted one) and birth siblings. I get on well with one of my adopted siblings and one of my birth siblings, the other adopted and birth ones I speak to at family occasions but wouldn't ever seek out because they're just very different people to me.

My adopted brother is like my best friend. My birth sister is similar, and they get on spectacularly well, too. I think some personalities just 'click' and others just don't regardless of shared history or not.

7 of us

Only two are in contact with each other. All the rest hate each other.

I’m one of the ones that has nothing to do with anyone else, but I’m past the hating state. I just know they’re all greedy, untrustworthy, materialistic and cruel.

One has recently contacted me after over 30 years and wants to have a new type of relationship. Not like sisters, but more as adults, iykwim. I’m so fucked up with all sorts of horrible memories coming up, so I’m in a world of confusion at the minute. So tempted to start a thread, but I’m not sure if I’m brave enough.

I have a sister who is 4 years younger and we.didnt really got on until I moved out, but now we are very close.