To ask if you like your siblings

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Just that really

No contact with my one brother, who is 18 months younger. He accused me of stealing from him when I was administering/executing our late parents estate, when I’d actually given him some of my half because his bone idle work shy girlfriend had just had a baby. Accusing me of that is something I can’t forgive.

No. She is vile and always has been since she was a teen.

She looks down her nose at everybody because she lives in a very naice house with a paddock, gets to stay home because her husband (who I do like a lot and is very different to her) is a consultant surgeon.

I was a mum before her which she hated but because she has 4 she acts like she wrote the book on parenting and criticises everything I do with regards to my dd.

She is rude and treats me like sh1t on her shoe. My dp hates her for this and gets very cross that i don't put her in her place. I say nothing to keep the peace although I have pretty much gone nc since October when she was particularly vile and did something on purpose that put my dd at risk...the incident could have resulted on my dd becoming very sick and it could have killed her. That I cannot forgive.

I maintain a level of communication via the family WhatsApp but that is it, I don't see her and I don't speak to her.

Both mine emigrated in the early 80s.
Still feel close to them.
Haven't seen them for some years but technology keeps us in touch.

Yes, love them both dearly, they are my go-to people and I really struggle to fathom how some siblings don't get on! It boggles my mind and is beyond me.

Not particularly.

Too much of an age gap between us to have mutual interests when we were children, so we just used to squabble and/or avoid each other. As adults we still have nothing in common, no mutual friends, mutual interests etc, so no reason to spend time together really. They also have small children which I can't be bothered with at all. Shared parentage is in no way a reason to contrive some sort of relationship as far as I'm concerned, so we often go months and months with no contact, and I can't say I miss them.

We are not very close. She never uttered a single word to me after my many miscarriages - not a single text or message to say she is sorry or to ask how I am. I’ve come to the conclusion that she just doesn’t really care that much. Oh well.

I am one of seven. To be honest I only know the 3 closest in age to me well enough due to age differences! The other 3 I think are nice enough but I’m not close to and we see each other at important occasions but that’s it. The other 3 - one I don’t get on with well but we both try. The other 2 I get on with really well and like a lot - I would be lost without them. I imagine it is complicated by the fact my father was married 3 times and we have different mothers.

We’re all completely horrible to eachother but love eachother very much.

My eldest brother I can take or leave, he's insecure and hard work. My other brother is a great guy who I'd want to be friends with even if we weren't related. My sister - I'd feel great relief if she dropped off the planet, as she's the black cloud over every family get together.

No.
Not nice people at all.

Not at all. Which is sad really as my parents only had a second child so I wouldn't be alone in the world when they pass away (their words)

We're complete opposites in just about every way and they're genuinely not a very nice person for more reasons than I have time to list. If we were not related our paths would never cross. I only ever hear from them when they want something.

Yes, I have a younger brother and we get on great most of the time. Not so much when we were younger but we became friends more as teenagers (I think a lot of the arguments when we were younger were started by me but I stopped as I got older).

My DH gets on ok with his siblings. He’s probably closest to his older brother but they do argue regularly (not fall out though), younger brother he gets on great with but sees less of as he lives further away and younger sister he gets on ok with but doesn’t have much in common with as she’s still a teenager.

I have one who is 4 years younger.
I love her dearly but if we weren't related we would never have been friends; wildly different interests, education, aspirations, sense of humour, approach to parenthood and so on and so on.
Have way more of a friendship with my SIL (DH's brother's wife) whose views/experiences of the above are closely matched to mine.

Blood ties will out though.

I am an only child but get on very well with my Cousin .My DH has 2 Sisters and get on well with them too.I think its sad when siblings do fall out but inevitable sometimes I guess!

Yes. We don’t live close to each other but we talk almost every day on the phone, see each other every school holiday for at least a few days and go on holiday together several times a year. Our children are very close to each other as well now, which I love.
Covid has been particularly hard because I haven’t seen her since Feb, the longest I have ever gone without being with her, and I miss her, and her children, terribly.

Yes I like him but he's 8 years younger than me and we're at totally different phases in our lives so don't really be much in common and if he wasn't still living with our parents I probably wouldn't see much of him!

DH is pretty indifferent to his sister despite only 2 year age gap tho. We only really see her at family birthdays or if MIL organises a family lunch etc we probably wouldn't see her independently

Not much. Brother and I were close as kids (18 months between us). Now he's an arrogant arse who has cocked his life up and I feel sorry for and also irritated by him.

Sister is 8 years younger and was a spoilt brat. Is still up her own backside and we don't have much contact. When my parents die I can't imagine ever seeing my siblings again. I mostly make polite small talk at my parents house at family occasions. I doubt I'll keep in touch once parents are no longer alive.

I feel like they are both deep down very nice people, but we don't get along. I suspect it's because the environment we grew up in pitted us against each other, and it's very difficult to get out of entrenched habits as an adult. I wish them well but find contact quite stressful.

Nope, was an entitled dick because he was always the favoured child and got everything he wanted even if that meant my mother taking money from me that I'd earned in my weekend job to give to him. Then he did a role in an organisation where they are put up on a pedestal so made it 100x worse. I work in the same organisation but a different role. He literally laughs in my face about how pathetic I am for not being one of the chosen. He hasn't worked for the organisation in almost ten years but he's still apparently a god and everybody should bow down to him.

Funnily enough because he always got what he wanted he has no concept of not being able to do something because you can't afford it and has huge debt.

Nil fucks given. Stop going on long haul holidays you can't afford and then I'll have some sympathy.

He isn't the type of person I would be friends with if he wasn't my brother. To self centered and self pitying. Wants everything to fall into his lap, and good god the carry on when it comes to women is ridiculous.

I have five, I'm indifferent about three of them, intensely dislike one and the other one is ok but wouldn't say she's my best friend. We send occasional texts, birthday and Christmas cards but that's about it.

Yes.

Love them both very much. One is my older sister, we fought terribly at home but these days are very close. My younger sister is the absolute bees knees. Though have never lived with her so not as close. The three of us are very different but it seems to work!

Yes We’re in constant contact and see each other regularly. Kids love their aunts, uncles and cousins too. Even the teenagers in the family.

I love my younger Sister, like my older Brother and tolerate my Eldest Brother.