To ask if you like your siblings

[Hiyanice]

Not too keen on mine and believe they feel the same

I love both of mine so much, now as adults I love the people they are and value their opinions above all other. I’m lucky. I hope my kids have the same.

Yes, even though we are very different and don't see much of each other due to living in different countries, we like each other.

You'll get mixed responses on here obviously. Everyone has different circumstances, a lot don't like them, a lot do. ??

Don't dislike him, but we're very different people. Just very little in common.

Don't see much of each other, only really when our parents arrange a get together for us all - and even then it annoys me that they make such a big deal with my brother and his partner being available, like they are particularly important

It's a shame really, we got on reasonably well when children, very close in age. I think Mum and Dad are a bit disappointed that we don't make more of an effort with each other, we just don't have much in common! My children are teens/almost adults and my brother hasn't started a family yet - so we've never been at the same stage of life IYSWIM

@Reasonistreason

I don’t dislike my brother but have absolutely nothing in common with him. We hardly socialise, only meeting at family occasions organised by DM. Friendly when we do meet but not that bothered if I see him or not. Sad really. We dont even remember our childhood the same. I’m much closer to my DH’s brothers.

Similar here - I'm very close to my DH's brother and in particular his wife, we call each other the sister we never had

Love, love, love my sister.

Generally feel indifferent to my brother. Only see him once a year.

@Littlefish are you me? (Or my sister 😆)

My sister is my best friend.

I wouldn’t mind if I never saw my brother again. He announced, whilst drunk, that he and I don’t get on and it was amazing. From that point I could stop trying and pretending and now I can just call him out on his bullshit whenever I have to see him, instead of being the butt of his jokes and putting up with his rudeness.

NC with one but the rest are all pretty great

I’m a bit younger than my brother and sister so they teased me mercilessly when I was ‘the little one,’ and my sister was sometimes horrid to me as a teen, but since growing up we have never fought or argued and actively seek out each other’s company fairly regularly. We essentially like each other and certainly love each other, even though we are very different people.

My siblings know me like nobody else ever will. My sister's are my best friends and I speak to them pretty much every day.
My brothers are further away but we still like each other and meet ups are fun a few times a year. I count my sister in law as my sister too. My brother adores her and he has great judge of character. We all have kids and they are growing up to be firm friends which is lovely

Love my younger sister to bits and really struggled with lockdown making it impossible to see each other.

Older sister is a bully and we have very little and very superficial contact. I think I loved her 20 years ago but she has got worse and as I know so little about her and her life now, I'm not sure that I do love her now. I certainly have hated her verbal assaults many times over the years.

Get on v well with my brother; he’s lovely. Hedoesn’t do birthdays or that sort of thing, but he’s funny, kind and a really lovely person.
I do really love my sister, who can be very kind, but it’s never unconditional and if I don’t behave as she wants I get punished. The onetime I really stood up to her, she didn’t speak to me for two years.
My brother’s much more straightforward - there are never any games.

I have an older sister & a younger brother, my sister is very overbaring, I used to think she was my best friend, but I now see she is a bit of a bully, I don't think it's intentional, but it's there.
My brother is brilliant though! We didn't get on so well when we were younger, but he is absolutely great now, he has done so much to help me recently, & I feel so awful for not making more of an effort before, but I'd be a bit lost without him now, & he's great with my kids & they absolutely adore him.

I adore my siblings. There are four of us and when we get together we have the best time. They are my favourite people in the world, other then my DC.

My dad was one of 8 and they all have a similar relationship so I suppose it’s all I know: big happy family get togethers where everyone is thrilled to see everyone.

No, my sister expects us to act like best pals but treats me like shit. Although to be fair she treats everyone like shit.

Row terribly with them. Tell them off for misdeeds. Bicker. Occasionally sit on each other out of frustration. Love each other very very dearly.

My brother is the best.
We are two peas in a pod our sense of humour is one of a kind.

I also have a sister. She's the worst person I've ever ever met. My children don't even know she exists as we don't speak because every word out her mouth is poison.

No nc now have been for years.

I have different relationships with all three of mine - love them all though. We have our disagreements but laugh like anything when all together - shared sense of humour and shared experience!

They are friends though all very different from me/ each other.

They (and those they've married) have been rock solid support in time of trouble. They got together and shared their (very moderate) incomes with me for several months so that 'none of us would be poor just all a little poorer'. This meant that my children and I did not lose our home when my husband suffered a catatrophic accident.

They are people I'd not have met to make friends with at school or work, because we all inhabit such different worlds. They allow me insight I'd never have!

Nope. We all dislike one another

Absolutely.

I have a brother & a sister. One is 6 years older, other is 17 months younger and we all get on really well but only see each other altogether on average once or twice a year. I see them separately more. They are my life.

I hate mine for failing to exist.

I've one sibling and we've both never liked one another and now don't speak at all. Probably won't ever talk again either if we can help it.

I have three sisters.
I see in person or video call (for hours!) to at least one of them every day. I love them to death, they are my best friends in the world.

Nope. I detest him. And he hates me. I know because he tells me so frequently when we are forced into each other's company (weddings, funerals).

We get on much better now we only meet every few years and surrounded by other people.

I put this entirely down to our parents. We were constantly set against one another, always found wanting but never heard the positives ourselves. The biggest row ever was over who was favourite - we were both convinced our parents only liked the other one. (Given it was 15 years ago and I'm STILL being told by DM that it was my fault I think I won).

I parent my children very carefully in this regard.