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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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Sunny345H · 10/07/2020 19:38

No. Barely speak to my sister apart from a few messages on birthdays. We live in different countries and its been years since we saw each other.
We have nothing in common and concersation is very difficult. She is never the type of person I would be friends with and to be honest she's the type of person I would bormally try to avoid.

overwork · 10/07/2020 19:41

Nope. Have nothing to do with her. Our parents mention her in passing on occasion when I'm with them, but most of the time it's as if she doesn't exist to me which is fine. Presume it's the same in reverse.

Destroyedpeople · 10/07/2020 19:42

@853690525d5369 or whatever your name is ...'the common denominator is you'...
You don't know anything about me or my so called siblings so save the nasty comments fir real life thanks. I was just answering the question.

Westiegirl3 · 10/07/2020 19:43

Yes, have a brother 5 years younger and I adore him. Would give him anything he needed or do anything for him and him the same for me.
We speak and text everyday and try to see each other weekly

Madre1972 · 10/07/2020 19:44

I am one of four. I speak to and am very close with one brother. I am NC with the other 2 and don’t see that ever changing. My youngest brother is a drama seeking drunk and my sister screwed me over for something of value when I was in hospital following emergency surgery. I’d rather stick pins in my own eyes than have anything to do with either of them.

Thehop · 10/07/2020 19:44

I love my half siblings, but think of my full brother as dead. He’s nothing to me and i hope never to hear from him or our mother again.

gluteustothemaximus · 10/07/2020 19:47

Nope. NC with both of them.

Very sad. Wish I did have siblings that had my back and I had theirs. Cousins for our children, and lovely family times Sad

MingeofDeath · 10/07/2020 19:48

Not really. One of them I have never liked, we're very different people and have never got along. I view them as someone I was forced to spend time with as a child. If we were not related I would not know her as I would never be friends with someone like her. The other one I'm pretty ambivalent about. I haven't spoken to them/seen them for years. They probably feel the same way about me.
I do feel a slight twinge of envy when I see people that have a good relationship with their siblings becuase I wish I had that at times.

WhoresDerves · 10/07/2020 19:49

No, two sisters i hate, 1 i intensely dislike and a brother im ambiguous about, but i love my sil, she's fab Smile

homebird29 · 10/07/2020 19:53

I care for my brother, but we have nothing in common and don’t really see each other very much. We were abused as children (emotionally and physically) and he didn’t think any of it was wrong, continues to have a relationship with our parents. Just couldn’t bring myself to do the same, as it was so wrong. I don’t hold it against him, but it has meant we don’t have a real sibling relationship.

LadyofTheManners · 10/07/2020 19:57

Actual sister? No. Hell no. Haven't spoken in 20 years
In laws; yes love them to bits. One of them is a bit abrupt sometimes but once you know her you take no notice

LookAtThatCritter · 10/07/2020 20:00

My little sister is my favourite person in the entire world.

BadEyeBri · 10/07/2020 20:01

I love my little brother. We don't live in each other's pockets but we're always there for each other. There's not much I wouldn't do for him.
When we were growing up it was a different story. We couldn't be in the same room as each other and my mum would cry regularly because we hated each other so much.

Aria2015 · 10/07/2020 20:02

Hey yes, I really like all 3 but have an especially close bond with 1 of them.

SingingSands · 10/07/2020 20:04

Yes, I have a younger brother and he's pretty cool.
Wish I saw more of him, but we live hundreds of miles apart.

BikeRunSki · 10/07/2020 20:04

Yes, all 3 of them, getting better with age

GrumpyHoonMain · 10/07/2020 20:04

We all love each other and see and speak to each other regularly but we don’t always like each other, which I think is normal. It’s not possible to like people 100% of the time!

MiddlesexGirl · 10/07/2020 20:05

We used to fight like cat and dog until we both moved out of the family home. Now we get on but are like chalk & cheese, we have nothing in common it’s strange to think we were raised under the same roof.
I could have written this post myself. Although we did gravitate to completely ignoring each other which was preferable.
I get on OK with her now but will never be close.

Foxinsocks1 · 10/07/2020 20:06

I don’t really know my DB anymore.
We were very close as kids even up until uni age. We’re very different people now, different outlook on life, different priorities and I’ve lost a lot of respect for him. I see him a few times a year and speak another once or twice a year.

Mangofandangoo · 10/07/2020 20:07

Yes, love them to bits

Mumofone87 · 10/07/2020 20:08

I’m 1 of 9, can’t stand 2 of my sisters, 1 I tolerate, 1 is like my best friend. 2 are still children, I like them fine and enjoy spending time with them, and 2 have sadly passed. I’d like to think I’d be close to my brother if he was still here but we weren’t on the best of terms when he died.

InFiveMins · 10/07/2020 20:08

Yes I love my brother and sister to bits, our bond has only become stronger in time.

KatherineParr4 · 10/07/2020 20:09

I like one of them but not the other. Unfortunately the one I like is very very antisocial and doesn't want to meet in person. The other I have never really got on with. There is a lot of history and stuff which is repressed, and it makes our relationship very toxic.
I would love to have siblings I was close to, it would make such a massive difference.

bettsbattenburg · 10/07/2020 20:10

No, I have 3 of them and they are all very close but I'm not close to any of them - I never have been even as a child.

fortheloveofcrisps · 10/07/2020 20:12

Love one - the other is not who I thought they were and I really don't like who they have shown themselves to be.