To ask if you like your siblings

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Just that really

3 siblings. We don't really spend much time together. Nothing in common. I like them but doubt we would be friends if we weren't related.
I don't like my older sister who hated and bullied me as a child.

My sister and I are very close. She lives in Australia so we don't see each other in person that often but we video chat at least once a week and we get each other in a way no-one else does. She's definitely one of my favourite people.

Yes I speak to my brother every day sometimes for just 5 min, sometimes for 30 minutes. He lives an hour away and before lockdown we were going for a pub meal every month, so I haven't seen him much since March.
We are both in our 40's

No. Older brother by two years.
He belittles and puts me down. Can turn on the charm when he wants something. Don't bother with him any more.

2 yes. 1 is a really nasty person. Don't know where she lives, don't bother with her. She's too nasty, and there's only so many times you can help and have it thrown back in your face. Happier without.

Oh that's what my older brother used to do when we still spoke.
Everything was some belittling or patronising comment.
It was being punched in the face on a regular basis throughout my childhood that really put me off him though.
Of course he now denies it but he is a terrible revisionist.

Very close with my sister (5 years younger), when we were kids she did my head in. Have a difficult relationship with my brother (3 years older) but we were thick as thieves growing up. He suffers with his mental health and it makes having a relationship with him very difficult. I do try, just not at the expense of my own MH.

Interesting question...reading through all has made me think of my own situation. Oldest of 5. Like 1 sister- always supportive. Brother has been enabled to the point that when things go wrong, we'll fix it. He's 48, and it's always someone else's fault when things go wrong. He owes all of us money...Second last sister deeply unhappy with her own life snd lashes out at the the rest of us. Lives with my parents, running their house lime a gulag. Has no children but knows where I'm going wrong with mine. Called my husband an ugly dwarf because I'd had a disagreement with her. Last sister golden child.
Love them all, but life is more peaceful in lockdown when I don't have to physically deal with them. Not helped by FOG my mother has saddled me with as the oldest...

Yes.

One sister, two years younger. We talk everyday and get on very well. We had our ups and downs, particularly in our late teens/early twenties, and she is closer to our parents than me which is the only real source of tension. But she is one of my closest friends and I know we will always be there for each other. It helps that our partners get on very well as well so we can all spend time together happily. It’s nice!

My daughters are 4 years apart and fight like cat and dog and it makes me sad to think they may not be close as adults.

Not close which makes me sad sometimes but we get on

Can’t live without my sister. Went abroad for 6 months. Couldn’t bare it and would never go so far away again. We talk on the phone virtually every hour.

Yes, I love them all dearly.

I love him because I grew up with him and we had fun together but I don't respect him much as an adult because he's a spineless, useless father and husband. I don't tell him that though.

Yes, but I'm 8 years older and we didn't really live together very long due to parents separating. He's ace though but maybe because we didn't spend all our time together I think that way.

I guess no. I have very little contact, neither of us initiates or withholds contact. We just have nothing really to say to each other. I think most siblings once adults don't really have much to say do they? No idea what we would talk.about anyway.

Yes so long as we don't talk politics, conspiracy theories or parenting styles.

Not really - if they were in my work place I don’t think I’d want to know any of them. Mu parents left the parenting to my siblings and my parents is the only reason to communicate. After my parents die - they are very old now I don’t think I’ll ever see my siblings again, and that’s something I will not be sorry about, it will he bitter sweet.

No- we have nothing in common, haven't spoken in about 2 or 3 years. He has turned out to be an arrogant dickhead with zero empathy.

I don't dislike my sister; I would (and have done) anything for her. Sadly, that is not mutual. She's very self-centred. She leaves me to do all the running around for the elderly members of the family and, whilst I am often the one to organise family events, she won't help but will take the credit (if she's even there). Despite the fact we live only a few miles apart, I think we have only met independently once in the last few years (and that was only because mum suggested it when we both happened to visit her at the same time). This year, I have given up trying to maintain contact as she often didn't reply, she's only messaged me a few times and that has been when she wanted something.

It does sadden me but I feel that she needs to pull her weight and rebalance the relationship. She doesn't have many friends (I would probably go so far as to say she doesn't have any friends nowadays) but I still think she needs to do her bit else I am going to grow to resent her.

I have no full brothers or sisters. My only full sister died. I love two of my half brothers very much and their wives/partners. My step sister I also adore and am very close to.

Two of my brothers have absolutely broken my heart. One of them through his own breakdown but lashing out in the most hurtful way possible. The other one is a drug dealing, tax dodging nightmare who I had to cut out for my own good.

Nope. She's a nasty piece of work.

No

I adore my siblings. They are my favourite people in the world. They are the only people in the world who have shared my upbringing (to a point as I’m the eldest). We are all so different but there isn’t any point when we speak or meet up when it’s awkward or quiet. Especially when we all congregate at the same time and even now, when we all live in different countries.

I accepted that we are ‘odd’ by many people’s standards but, once we got through the child/teenage scrubbles, we are all really quite close. Through this virus bullshit I have sent all of my siblings gifts, and they have sent me gifts throughout too. It’s lovely and I am amazed in how we all get along

Totally adore my brother and his wife. They are both amazing and cool. I know how lucky I am! My own parents were both estranged from of their siblings. Think they are pleased we get on so well.

I watch Long Lost Family quite a lot. I’m always amazed that the adopted person seems to gel immediately with their family of origin and their siblings, if there are any. I wonder if they had all been brought up together whether they would get on as well . I often fantasise about finding out I have a long lost sibling I didn’t know about. Someone who I would feel the sort of immediate connection with that I don’t feel with my family. Or even that I am am adopted myself. Sadly I am the mirror image of my mother, so no room for fantasy there.