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To ask if you like your siblings

253 replies

Theeyeof · 10/07/2020 17:17

Just that really

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Whoopsies · 10/07/2020 18:05

Yes, I have 2 older sisters and I love them dearly. We aren't overly close, all live far apart and are all quite different but we usually whatsapp every day (with our mum too) and see each other 5/6 times a year. They are both wonderful amazing women who I'm very lucky to have in my life!

IHaveBrilloHair · 10/07/2020 18:06

Not even a little bit!

Jojoanna · 10/07/2020 18:07

Nope

Talcott2007 · 10/07/2020 18:07

Not really. Very Very different people. She possesses many traits that I find intensely unpleasant. We have very little to to do with each other aside from the kind of mandatory family things. In my case it's a DSSis though not a full sibling so I don't know if that is part of the problem. I was 11 and she was 6 when our parents got married then I moved out at 15 anyway after they decided to move to the other end of the country for DStepF job and stayed locally with my DF. Get on well and really respect DstepF etc. so I don't think its simply a case of not having a bond because of no blood tie. I mean I don't want anything bad to happen to her and if she was in trouble I would try to help if i could but if not for the fact that our parents are married would I want anything to do with her or seek her as friend? Nope.

BlusteryShowers · 10/07/2020 18:07

This thread is really making me sad for my children Sad I wouldn't be without my sister and I really want my son and daughter to have that relationship too.

Lobsterquadrille2 · 10/07/2020 18:08

Yes and no. I like my older sister but am less keen on my older brother. However, we have a common bond because nobody else really understands what it was like growing up with our parents - which is so obvious that someone may have said it already. None of us felt grief when our father died but we wouldn't share that with anyone else.

Regretsy · 10/07/2020 18:08

Yes and feel very lucky. They keep me sane. However am estranged from another close family member and my life is better, am a big advocate for not keeping people in your life who make you miserable, so can completely understand those with NC with their siblings.

Destroyedpeople · 10/07/2020 18:10

No none of them what a shower of idiots

pepperpod28 · 10/07/2020 18:11

Yes. They are total dickheads sometimes, and we could all throttle each other, but I love them and I love hanging out just the 3 of us. Even though there is an 10+ year age gap between oldest 2 and youngest one we all seem to like similar things. I think/hope they feel the same.

Cabinfever10 · 10/07/2020 18:12

Nope I've been NC for years with her she's a nasty piece of work

AudTheDeepMinded · 10/07/2020 18:13

Get on well with younger brother, took a while but we got there! Dsis, hard work! think I'm being phased out and not at all sad about that really, which is telling.

WindsorBlues · 10/07/2020 18:13

The pair of then do my head in more than anyone else in the world. But we love each other, are very close and I know that they'd be there for me no matter what if I ever needed them.

Id be very sad if I couldn't give my baby a sibling.

Aria20 · 10/07/2020 18:13

I always wished I had a sister growing up and DH wished he'd had a brother so I wonder if we'd have been closer to our siblings then?

I have 2 boys close in age who although bicker they are close so I hope that continues. Then I have a daughter who is the youngest by 6 years I do feel sad that she doesn't have a sibling close in age but her older brothers dote on her

Isitbedtimeyet4 · 10/07/2020 18:17

I like my sister a lot more since I’ve had children, she was horrible when we were growing up but she’s a really really good aunt!

megrichardson · 10/07/2020 18:17

No. Nc for most of our lives now, long may it last.

mumofone2818 · 10/07/2020 18:35

noooooo & nc with 2 of them. best friends with the other. funnily enough my other sibling i am close with is also nc with the other 2.

dont plan to change it

Picklypickles · 10/07/2020 19:01

They're ok I guess! I have 2 half brothers, the youngest is 8yrs younger than me and we don't have much in common apart from the fact that we're both pretty antisocial! The other one is 5yrs younger than me and can be annoying know-it-all but his hearts in the right place really!

Iamclearlyamug · 10/07/2020 19:03

I utterly adore my younger brother and would literally die for him if necessary

KetoWinnie · 10/07/2020 19:06

I only have one brother and he had a different childhood to me, which he does not understand or acknowledge so.......... it's not easy. I think he's a good person and I wish we were closer but my parents don't do ''close'' and they've infected him with it. I'm emotional and sensitive and dramatic apparently. I'm not at all. I was stonewalled by them whenever I tried to express an emotion, and my brother has just 100% bought in to their narrative. It's sad really. Not for my parents. Sad for me!

EddieVeddersfoxymop · 10/07/2020 19:07

Nope. Currently working out how little contact I can get away with due to her antics of late.

KetoWinnie · 10/07/2020 19:07

@mumofone2818

noooooo & nc with 2 of them. best friends with the other. funnily enough my other sibling i am close with is also nc with the other 2.

dont plan to change it

How does that work, being NC with some of the family?

My family mobbed me and cut me off when I tried to unsubscribe from my mother.

pinkyboots1 · 10/07/2020 19:07

I love the youngest brother and I wish that I the oldest brother would fall off the planet. He's not a nice man at all.

NotTheMrMenAgain · 10/07/2020 19:07

Nope! My only sibling is a narcissist and I have as little contact as possible. DM is our only link and when she is gone I'll never see or speak to him again.

KetoWinnie · 10/07/2020 19:08

Oh right, I see, so it's you two together.

853690525d · 10/07/2020 19:08

Yes. I think they're amazing. Flawed but amazing.