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'm the eldest, due to many issues I don't speak to ds2 but I am on good terms with ds3 and db1, though their is a 17 year age gap between me and ds3 and 22 with my and db whom I've never lived with but we get on well

Sister I see perhaps once a year for a day. Sporadic emails. Brother who can’t be bothered with anyone. See him about the same. I wish I was close to my siblings but we are not a close family. I have tried hard to make things different in my own family .

I have an older brother, older sister and a younger sister.
Brother spends half the year in Thailand, we catch up by phone occasionally but are not close, was close to older sister who now has dementia, so communication is difficult and I find spending time with her difficult and upsetting.
I dislike my younger sister, she is not a nice person.

See my ds and dB when we visit with our dm every week, and get on okay, but I feel when my dm passes, that we will drift apart. Dm is the glue that holds us together. I often feel a bit awkward round my ds, but don’t know why. It’s sad when you think you’ve been brought up together to not have that special bond.

One sibling I adore, one I really don't get on with as he's been intimidating and aggressive towards me. I try not to see or speak to him but unfortunately at the moment I have to because of family stuff.
As kids we all got on.

ive Always said there are always 2 sides to every story! I’m sure your siblings have their own reasons as to why you don’t get on or they behave in a certain way!

2.5 years between me and Dsis. We speak by message occasionally but we don’t really get on great tbh. We’re just very different people and we rub each other up the wrong way. We’ve got each other’s backs though if necessary.

@iamNOTmagic
@Charley50
@QueenofmyPrinces
@IHaveBRilloHair

Seriously, all of you bi**g about your siblings. Says a lot really!
If you are that concerned talk to them about it? Clearly you can’t be...
I’ve always said there are always 2 sides to every story! And there’s always a reason why people say things or behave in a certain way. Maybe look at yourselves first?

I lost my step brother in a riding accident and we were never close so I always say if you’re unhappy talk to them whilst you still got the time!

Poor contact in my big family. Mainly due to dysfunctional alcoholic father who damaged us all. We all have issues with trust.
I speak to 3 of them over the phone. There is no contact between the other 6. Sad really.

Both older one by 5yrs one 7ys. I talk to neither and they don't speak to each other. I was treated awful compared to them growing up and I'm nc with my mother now too.

1 DB, 2.5 years younger than me.

I adore him. He can be a complete idiot, but I know he cares about me (his wife tells me so!) and worries about me, because I live alone without a man...

No, he's great. I love his kids too.

Love them both to death and would do anything for them. Although my relationship with one can be difficult sometimes because we are so different. She has no filter, that causes issues sometimes. But i do love her very much, even when we have our outbursts. Im less close with my other sister, she lives far and we dont see each other as often. But when we do meet up we get along great and it just feels like home to be with her, even if we havent seen each other for a while.

@iamNOTmagic
@Charley50
@QueenofmyPrinces
@IHaveBRilloHair

Seriously, all of you bi**g about your siblings. Says a lot really!
If you are that concerned talk to them about it? Clearly you can’t be...
I’ve always said there are always 2 sides to every story! And there’s always a reason why people say things or behave in a certain way. Maybe look at yourselves first?

I lost my step brother in a riding accident and we were never close so I always say if you’re unhappy talk to them whilst you still got the time!

I love my sibling dearly but we’re not very close! Two very different people but I’d always be there if he needed me.

Very close to both my siblings
Can't imagine what my life would have been like without them

This thread made me sad.

I have a brother 8 years older and we never really got on, he's not a horrible person or anything like that, we are just very different and end up arguing because of differing opinions about everything. However, he's my only blood relative left in this world at this point so I make an effort to visit a few times a year (different countries) and stay in his home. We will forever keep in touch, but we'll never be very close.

All three of us are early forties. One of them I’d step over if they dropped down dead in front of me (might even give them a kick to make sure they were really dead). My relationship with the other is not as good as it could be (due to their alcoholism). I’m the eldest and I think my parents wish they’d had an only child.

Just moved hundred miles to move in with my sister

Excuse me Bellaboo, I told you my sibling has been aggressive and intimidating towards me. He is a big person, I am small. I know why he is the way he is ; it's sad, but i still don't want to be around him anymore quite frankly.

My brother is 3 years older, and we don't have a relationship. We've never been close. Doesn't bother me

I don’t really have a relationship with my siblings, we’re very different people. We do get on fine when we see each other but that’s not often and we don’t text or phone each other either. It makes me a little sad especially that my DC won’t have a relationship with their aunties and uncles as I’ve always had a great relationship with mine

Text both of them every day and have the best laugh in the group chats.

Although we can only see each other once every few weeks because we end up wanting to throttle each ither when we met in person.

Odd I know.

Very close to my sister- see her weekly, see my youngest brother every few weeks and my other brother once a month. All chat and get on. Feel very lucky after seeing this thread.

@bellaboo100
You really went through the whole thread to say that?
How do you know how some of us have been treated by our siblings?

You're odd, and clearly hard of thinking.

He told me to fuck off so I have. The peace it has brought is wonderful.