To ask if you like your siblings

[Hiyanice]

Not too keen on mine and believe they feel the same

I am from a family of 8 siblings, clashed badly with 3 of them over something pretty serious several years ago and pretty much hate them now and it has impacted on my relationship with the rest.

I live miles away from them all so I hope that when my parents pass I will have lc to nc with the family.

Exhausting. They all endlessly row and bitch about each other. Until lockdown I hadn’t really noticed how tired of it I was.

Love and like my brother. He's great fun, an involved uncle and a decent human being.

No. Forced myself to for 40 yrs and realized that they are both bitches.

They're good people but we don't have close relationships. We get on better now that we all live very far apart and only see each other a few times a year.

Mine is one of my favourite people in the world. I feel very lucky.

I don't really speak to mine. Just exchange texts on birthdays and christmas.

I adore my sister; she is kind, calm, patient, hard-working and also very funny. I wish I had her tranquility.

Have a sister and a brother, both younger. We fought like mad in our younger years but get on pretty well as adults. Probably closer to my sister as we have similar tastes, political beliefs etc. Brother lives further away and getting time in his diary is impossible, he and his partner tend to spend a lot of time with her family so you have to organise stuff quite far in advance to see them. He’s also quite different from me politically, we don’t argue about it but feel we aren’t always on the same wavelength. Always lovely to see him though when I finally manage it.

Yeah I have one sister, we used to fight a lot as kids but she’s always been my best friend, we speak every day and usually see each other at the weekend at least once as well as occasionally in the week.

Definitely not. I wish I could go NC with them all tbh, but circumstances make that impossible.

Omg yes! I have 3 brothers who I love dearly and would do anything for them (all grown ups). Obviously growing up it was a different story and we definitely had difficult times! I think if we all had to live under the same roof again we'd definitely drive each other crazy! 😄

No I don’t speak to them at all and haven’t in almost 2 years

I have two brothers and two sisters, we all get on okay but I get on with my twin sister and one of my brothers best. I can’t stand my older sister she brings out the worst in me in terms of frustration, pettiness etc and I don’t like her as a person. My twin sort of bridges the gap or I’d rarely see her. (No ill will but she just constantly talks about herself and was very mean to me growing up and she’s still a bully to be honest).

I think for my own DC’s I will see how they get on and if they don’t I will tell them that’s fine but we should at least rise above it and be civil and kind and try not to fall out with family. We’ll see! It makes me nervous for them though. I hope they get on well.

Absolutely love all of mine but one is not very likeable right now.

I get on well with three of them. The other three no, not really.

On a good day. I can see they are complex individuals with their own unique combination of strengths, quirks and flaws. We have a lot of underlying issues in the family that never really get talked about, and sometimes it's hard to even keep a veneer of civility on it whereas other times they make me laugh and I think they maybe are the best of people after all. On a good day they probably like me, and on other days not so much. One I barely see, one I see often but get into arguments a lot, the other I see somewhere in the middle but we are a bit like chalk and cheese. Only I know she's good cheese and I hope she knows I'm good chalk. So that's ok.

I love and like them all. My DB is such a good man it restores my faith.

Yes. I think my brother is the only person with whom I will ever be able to have certain conversations, on the basis of our somewhat odd childhood. I had kids a good few years before he did, we have never lived on the same continent as adults but have a running chat and make a concerted effort to get together a couple of times a year at huge expense. Since having kids he has settled down massively and I really think has improved as a human (SIL has helped too, she is fab).

My sister is my best friend. I wish she lived next door. Her husband is like a brother to me too

My DH is 1 of 4 boys and they're all close and I love them like brothers too.

No. Haven’t seen mine for over 10 years. Don’t miss them.

I care about him bit we are very different people and don't see much of each other. I'm quite disappointed by how little he has grown up actuall, and I don't like the way he treats my mum sometimes. Although she can be a bit annoying. But I'm very much a put up and shut up person because I'm always too afraid of upsetting anyone, or hurting their feelings.

My sister is one of my best friends, we even work together!
My youngest brother is much younger than me but has turned into a really lovely adult and a great role model for DS.
My older younger brother is a very strange character and we’re not close. He’s moved away too so we haven’t seen him for a long time now.

DH has one sister who he hasn’t spoken to in about 3/4 years.

Yes love my sister, no one makes me laugh more.

I have a newish friend who I met in lockdown going on buggy walks together.
One day we walked by a man who started at us a bit. A few minutes later she told me it was her brother!
Didn't even say hello and I couldn't get my head around it.

I wouldn't be friends with someone like my brother though. I wouldn't have the patience for them.