Do you have Step Siblings?

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Are you close? if so why? or why not?

Am I the only one

Have half-siblings. Does that count?

Oh actually that is what i mweant wil start antoher thread¬!

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I have 3 step brothers. My Dad (whom I lived with) remarried when I was 14.
I am very close to them - to the extent that I told the doc at my very first ante-natal that I had a brother with diabetes - had to tell tham at the next appt that it was actually my step brother .....

I have a step brother and am closer to him than to my full brother. why? Cos he's not related to my mother

i have 4 step brothers and one half brother im not close to any of them really but we get on well.

i lived with my half bro from when he was born (i was 8) until i moved out when he was about 7 i love him and have looked after him a fair ammount but my sister has always lived with him and is older than me so i think they're closer and she looks after him more iyswim.

2 of my other brothers i get on with, we used to go on holidays as kids and i see them at family gatherings but i only go to one of their houses now and again.

the other 2 i rarely see, prob at xmas, they were a lot older than me and i only lived with one of them for a year and i was always out or he was so didnt see much of him.

just quickly read this thread, i have a whole step-family thing that i've not met properly cos my dad remarried about 3 years back but has since disowned all 3of his kids. i have a 10mth old that he doesn't even want to know, and now she coming up to 1yr old, it makes me feel a bit sad that she'll never know him. has anyone else ever gone through this? his new wife - not very nice person at all

My mum remarried when I was 6 and I've got 3 sisters from that marriage - don't like to put step/half sisters because I don't see them that way. There's 8 years between me and the next down - while we didn't not get on when we were younger the age gap made a difference. Now we are all really close and I have three sisters to ask to come and babysit!

My father remarried and new wife was also old witch - haven't seen him since I was 7. His loss!

I have a full brother who lives 70 miles away so we don't see each other much. He grew up with my nan, I grew up with my dad so we didn't see each other much as kids either. Not close now really.

Have a half brother who lived with my mum so never saw him so don't know him either.

Have another half brother who I did grow up with but he has turned into a total tosser so I don't have much time fior him.

Have yet another half brother who was born after I left home and as he is the same age or younger than my own kids, I don't see him as a brother iyswim.

Reading that back makes me realise what a fractured family I really have. Makes me all the more grateful I think to have a stable marriage and environment for my own kids to grow up in.

she even had some of my mom's stuff that mom would have wanted us to have! god knows what happened to the family photo albums, nasty nasty pasty

I have:

• one full brother
• one half-sister
• one step-sister
• two step-brothers.

Of them all, I am least close to my half-sister. She is quite a long younger than the rest of us and grew up with my dad. I see them all as my brothers and sisters, although I know my brother doesn't feel the same way. I guess he doesn't have so much contact with the steps as I do (basically because he can't use email!). My mum and step-dad have been married for 27 years, so essentially this has been most of my family life.

Oh, I once went out for lunch with my half-sister, my step-brother, his wife and her sister. The sister asked "who is ?" and my step-brother earnestly explained "right, she's my step-sister's half-sister". All far too much for normal people to cope with

I have a friend who has two half-brothers with the same name, one from her dad and one from her mum. I do think that is a little unsporting.