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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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LadyPrigsbottom · 10/07/2020 20:14

I like them, but I don't have a good relationship with the iyswim?

messyhouselady · 10/07/2020 20:14

Sadly I’m beginning to like mine less and less the older we get.

MaverickDanger · 10/07/2020 20:14

I don’t mind my sister, we’re just very different. I can take or leave my brother, he’s a spoilt brat marauding as an adult.

I really like DH’s siblings, we get on very well.

Chloemol · 10/07/2020 20:15

Yes

PinkIsland · 10/07/2020 20:17

Most of them yes but there is one that I am now thankfully totally estranged from. Him and his wife are very toxic and hold the whole family to ransom with threats of not being allowed to see his kids or him.

FrippEnos · 10/07/2020 20:18

853690525d

What a nasty and vile comment about someone that you don't know.

Destroyedpeople · 10/07/2020 20:20

I think it might be one of my half sisters. The cunty one.

MillicentMartha · 10/07/2020 20:23

My brother is nice. Different to me, different life experiences but we like each other, I think. My sister and I are more similar and we irritate each other a bit more. She’s 10 years older than me and had a difficult few years with her first marriage but seems very happy with her second husband. They both have grandchildren now. Brother and sister used to get on with each other really well, but my SIL and sister really don’t like each other! I can see both points of view, though. Grin So it’s made the whole dynamic really tricky. Now that our parents are dead, we never get together as a group, sadly.

Downinthedumps99 · 10/07/2020 20:25

Id never had a close relationship with my brother, he always acted like i never existed.
I thought he was up his own arse.
He also lived at opposite end of the country to me.
Now in our 40's he has moved to the same town i live in so that our children can grow up together. Its been a year now and i see him and my sil and nephews 2 or 3 times a week, iv grown to like him as a person and him me and quite honestly i dont know what id do without him now.

Wimpeyspread · 10/07/2020 20:26

Yes - as long as I don’t have to live with them

DontDribbleOnTheCarpet · 10/07/2020 20:26

I'm not close to any of my siblings. One I actively dislike(long history of violence against me), two I just have nothing in common with (same parents but I was brought up mostly in a different country to them). I have a half brother but I've never met him and I don't really want to.

ColourMeExhausted · 10/07/2020 20:27

Sadly, no. One DB, younger by two years. As kids we were so close. Then he went to boarding school and when he came back at 13, things had changed. He has a lot of issues (see boarding school at a very young age) and I feel he resents the rest of us and feels left out. I love him but we are not close. I am trying though, and since I had my DC that has helped, he's an occasional but very good uncle. It's sad though, especially given how close we were.

2pinkginsplease · 10/07/2020 20:29

Not really, he is selfish, ignorant, ungrateful and disrespectful. I don’t speak to him unless he upsets my mum and then I go and have words with him, he rarely listens but it makes me mad the way he speaks to our mum!

DontGoIntoTheLongGrass · 10/07/2020 20:30

Yes. In teens when we lived at home we wished each other dead. As soon as we moved out of parents home we massively get along. I have older sister and younger brother.

catsjammies · 10/07/2020 20:30

Very much. I'm closer to my sisters than my brother but I really enjoy spending time with him when I can, my sisters are just better with texting/calling. Wish I lived in the same country as any of them.

catsjammies · 10/07/2020 20:30

Very much. I'm closer to my sisters than my brother but I really enjoy spending time with him when I can, my sisters are just better with texting/calling. Wish I lived in the same country as any of them.

GameSetMatch · 10/07/2020 20:31

Yes I love him, don’t always agree with him but I love and support him.

EmpressLangClegSpartacus · 10/07/2020 20:33

@DontGoIntoTheLongGrass

Yes. In teens when we lived at home we wished each other dead. As soon as we moved out of parents home we massively get along. I have older sister and younger brother.
Except that I’ve got younger sister & younger brother, this. We all get on great now we don’t have to live together.

I suspect if DSis & I had had to share a room the relationship would have never recovered.

Runnerduck34 · 10/07/2020 20:35

Have one sister and one brother , both younger but I'm closer in age to dsis. When we were growing up i didnt get on with my sister, probably because we shared a room so always arguing , I got on really well with my brother and was close to him. As we've got older Im now much closer to my sister and see her every week , whereas my brother I only see every couple of months. I do like both of them though! Relationships evolve, but i really hope my children stay close to each other as adults.

PinkSparkleUnicorns · 10/07/2020 20:36

I have one brother, detest him

dementedma · 10/07/2020 20:37

I have 4. Fond of them all but find one more difficult than the others. But we're family when all is said and done. We all live in different countries so rarely get together in person

853690525d · 10/07/2020 20:40

FrippEnos. No, not so. I haven't called anyone a name, much less insulted my entire family. If the problem is everyone else, it probably isn't.

Destroyedpeople · 10/07/2020 20:42

Look if I told you anything about my so called siblings you would agree with me.

Start on someone else who says they don't like their siblings

It's not like I am unique is it?

I get on fine with other family members.

Lifeisabeach09 · 10/07/2020 20:44

Ambivalent. Love them dearly but find them hardwork and hard to relate to.

Destroyedpeople · 10/07/2020 20:45

And out of all the people here who said they didn't get on with their siblings...why start on me?