To ask if you like your siblings

[Thedays76]

Seems everyone I know has amazing sibling relationship. I just don’t

I love my sister. She drives me demented sometimes but I still love her. We live several hours apart so I only see her once or twice a year but we do text often.

I get on with and like my siblings when I see them but I only see them once or twice a year for special occasions and we’re-not really in touch inbetween, no texting or anything like that and although they don’t live that far away we never meet up of our own accord, all contact is fascilitated by parents.

I have five siblings- 1 sister and 4 brothers.

I get on very well with sister and brother no.4. I have no relationship at all with brother no.1, an okay relationship with brother no.3 and have just cut off contact with brother no.3 due to his misogyny , which he had disguised until recently.

Our parents are both dead now and tbh the cracks that were there before they died are now widening into chasms.

I love my brother.

My dh and his brother rarely talk and dislike each other.

Very close with one, and fairly distant from two who live far away.

We had a very difficult time during my parents' decline and passing both in the same week a few years ago. I think that was inevitable.

No real dislike or anything, just emotional distance. I think if we got together we would all be happy to see each other but that is a complicated arrangement especially with Covid. I did see my closest sister last week for the first time in a year at least.

It was wonderful. We both love to cook so we had a kitchen nostalgia fest, making some family tradition foods.

I care about her becsuse of our shared history and sometimes we have a good laugh together but would describe her as an aquantance really. Big age gap and little in common, lives far away so we speak rarely and I only miss her if shes absent from family occasions. And yes @CazM2012 my dm in particular does try to force a relationship, always has done and finds it very upsetting that we've not close despite having an actively awful relationship with her own siblings.

Nope haven't seen him in well over a year. We don't speak either and I'm quite happy for this to continue. He is a nasty , bitter and resentful guy.

I like my brother. We don’t meet up very often as he lives in a different country.

Neither of us like our older sister. It wouldn’t worry me if I never saw her again

I have a twin brother and a brother and sister a decade older.

Twin bro and I get on really well, we were great friends until our late teens/early twenties, but now, due to life and work, we easily go months without speaking. When we do eventually get together, everything is great and easy.

My older siblings, we get on fine but we’d probably never hang out if we weren’t related.

I get on really well with DH’s sister but she lives several hours away. DH probably wouldn’t keep in great touch with her if it wasn’t for me pushing him. They get on when put in the same room, but they don’t seem to think about one another much. DH and her DH get on really well too when put together, but never make any effort to be in touch.

At the moment, no. My brother the so called logical one has joined in with the family mobbing of me.

Yes, love them. I think they’re wonderful people.

I had a deep bond with mine - we saw each other infrequently due to geography and different lives but when we were together it was straight back into our childhood relationship (this is a good thing). I miss them everyday.

My parents and grandparents both close to theirs on both sides.

DH has a weird family dynamic. Lots of sudden fallings out then tearful reunions. He gets on well with one sister, distant but in contact with another and nc with his db after being best of friends for years and falling out over plumbing. Very weird.

I'm NC with my sister, occasional contact with my brother. Few texts here and there, see him once a year. That's enough.

Two of them yes

One I can't stand and when our parents are gone I look forward to never having to speak to her again

I have 3 siblings.
I get on really well with #1, I get on wwell with #2- we dont see each other often- I dont like the way he allows partner to treat him at all, its sad he can't see what we all can.
I get on with #3 reasonably well but hate his behaviour in one aspect of his life - So I have distanced myself over the years quite a lot.

I get on well with my DSIS, and I love the shared history / memories

And I know I can rely on her

But I wouldn't say we're super close

I have a very strained relationship with my younger brother, we're polar opposites. I do love him though and we're there for each other if needed.
My elder sister in the other hand is my closest friend. I'd be lost without her a vice versa. We both live overseas and time together is precious. Due to COVID we've not seen each other since summer 2019, she's coming here on Friday, there'll be tears!

I have 5 older siblings.
I love all of them. I see more of my sisters than brothers.
When my dd died, ALL my siblings were by my side and got me through the horrendous weeks/months that followed.
DH also gets on with all my siblings.

Nope.
I don’t actively dislike them, we just have nothing in common, live far apart and never speak or see each other except at our parents’ at Christmas. If we weren’t sisters but met some other way (school/work/mutual friends etc) we wouldn’t be friends.

I'm the eldest of 4. I like my siblings that came directly after me (21 brother and 16yo sister) however my youngest sibling (13yo brother) is a lazy, unhygienic, cheeky, entitled prick most of the time 😁
He shits on the toilet seat and smears it up the walls, doesn't know how to make toast or turn a cooker on and can't even wash his hands or tidy up after himself.

Sisters, yes they're fab. My brother, yes but he can be frustrating.

I have 3. I'm very close with one but not the other 2. They live about 3 miles away from me but don't seen them from one year to another. I have only met my youngest nephew 3 times. I wouldn't do them any harm but not interested in them (nor them me). Blood doesn't make a family IMO.

No, I don't have a relationship with my brother. We never got on as children and have nothing in common as adults. I can't remember the last time I had a meaningful conversation with him and last saw him at a funeral 3 years ago.

I have 3 brothers (2 older 1 younger) and love them so much.

We all get on really well, I’d do anything for any of them.

Big no.

Thought I had two brothers and a sister.

After the way they ganged up and acted when our mum died in 2018 I cut contact straightaway. Typical greed over inheritance.

Now I wouldn't give them the steam off of my piss.

They do not exist to me anymore.