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What's the worse thing a sibling has done to you?

76 replies

heartbroken22 · 04/12/2023 06:37

And do you still talk to them?

OP posts:
Fraaahnces · 04/12/2023 12:56

Held me up against a wall with a knife to my throat whilst I was trying to protect my 96 year old grandmother.

Stresa22 · 04/12/2023 13:06

Rubbed his dirty socks in my face and played dead until our grandmother told him to get up off the floor. We text most days. Love him to bits.

Terfosaurus · 04/12/2023 13:10

ILoveMyCaravan · 04/12/2023 11:40

All my 3 male siblings sexually abused me for years.

Flowers

Same. Although it was only 1 brother.

ConstitutionHill · 04/12/2023 13:12

Stole money from our sick father while we both had power of attorney over his account.

I would never have expected that so I was not keeping too close a look on his bank statements. Then when I thought I would just do a yearly check, I found out I could not log in, his details had been changed. I asked my sister for the new passcode and she stalled a bit but eventually gave it.

I saw loads of escalating transactions out of his account, going into hers, marked "care" so they were kind of hidden amongst his legitimate transactions. I had to confront.

It wasn't pleasant but at least she paid it back.

gamerchick · 04/12/2023 13:14

Why are you asking OP?

fishfingersandtoes · 04/12/2023 13:15

Sat on my head and farted. We still speak, but obviously things are tense.

Comedycook · 04/12/2023 13:17

Threw something across the room at me when we were kids...I needed stitches! I still mention it sometimes 😂

TerfTalking · 04/12/2023 13:19

Mum had major surgery, dad had advanced Alzheimer's, he left me to deal with mum post op, deal with social services to get respite care for dad, then after dad's death in the care home arrange the funeral myself, sort out his estate and arrange POA for mum.

His contribution was to call once a week and say how sorry he was that he couldn't come and share the load.

I talk to him but I am bitter.

SuicideIsPainless · 04/12/2023 13:23

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bookworm14 · 04/12/2023 13:25

Please stop responding to this thread - it’s such an obvious fishing attempt by a journalist.

IncognitoIsMyFavouriteWord · 04/12/2023 13:26

Sis smoked cannabis in front of my son but the main thing is she enabled my mother's narcissism. My brother and I were physically and mentally abused by our mother while we were children, there is quite the age gap between us and our younger sister, and she was never treated to the same behaviour. So, when the narcissistic behaviour showed while we were adults my sister would use it to her advantage. She would make sure she could get away with things (hard drug taking, my mother paying for everything for her) but my mother would still treat my brother and me deplorably. I have had no contact with her and my mother since 2006.

Due to the above, my brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2008. He has been violent in the past but I do forgive him. I would still speak to him but his mental health issue means he hermits himself into his home. He thinks a lot of things are conspiracies. I pray one day he just texts me.

SOBplus · 04/12/2023 13:31

As a previous poster, tried to murder me, no we don't talk (last 30 years), but not because of that, due to other abuse and crimes demonstrating a continuing behavior making a relationship untenable.

glassyhag · 04/12/2023 13:35

When I was 13-14 I had my very first boyfriend coming over and he was THE most gorgeous boy in our school and I was a stupid geeky weirdo and wants so badly to impress him. I banned my 10yo sister from my bedroom ( much to her rage) and she got the worst revenge possible for a teenager.

The few months before we had some work done in our house by our dad, he was the king of never finishing anything and I'd been complaining about there not being a lock on the new bathroom door. He refused to do anything so when he was in the shower and the door blew open I took a photo of his arse cheeks pressed against the shower cubicle doors. He got me back the following night taking a photo of me getting into the bath. I was naked but for some stupid unknown reason I was wearing a Bobble hat and sun glasses. I'm going to say the heating wasn't on yet and there was no light shade. You could only see my bum cheeks and back and It wasn't pervy as we were always doing stupid stuff like that and had a very relaxed attitude to nudity. But anyway.

I'm sat with my boyfriend on the bedroom floor as we weren't allowed to sit in the bed together and my mum called me so I went down stairs. She'd picked up the photos from Max Speilman. My shit bag of a little sister had gone through the photos and took the one of me out and gone to the kitchen. Mum calls me down and she darts up stairs like a rat up a drain pipe to show my boy friend. Thankfully he took it off her and then gave it to me but damn.

I could have murdered her. He just smiled and styled it out while I was having some sort of fit and doing an impression of a kangaroo trying to crawl into its own pouch.

DisquietintheRanks · 04/12/2023 13:42

Forcing me into a position where I had to have him prosecuted for abusing our elderly, demented father, resulting in him (brother) being put out on the street. He's a drug addict with severe mh issues and quite possibly a personality disorder. He's been insecurely housed ever since and the guilt is awful.

He's almost most impossible to help but yes I do talk to him and try. But I dread his calls and feel guilty about that too.

Mariposista · 04/12/2023 13:49

Not me but by mum.

I dropped my aunt in town on the way to the pharmacy to get morphine for my dying gran (going to town because it was boring at home). She said ‘if this is going to go on much longer you will have to put her in a hospice - we can only do so much as we have things that we do and don’t want to give up’. (Like I don’t- I was running a business at her bedside!)

Gran has died now but I will never forget how her care was left all to means my mum. We have both suffered majorly health wise.

Ahwhatthehell · 04/12/2023 13:49

Terfosaurus · 04/12/2023 13:10

Flowers

Same. Although it was only 1 brother.

Oh god that’s just so awful - I’m so sorry you both had that happen to you.

housethatbuiltme · 04/12/2023 13:58

Got violent and accused me of stealing when I didn't. It has since been clarified by other family members that they know they where wrong because they had misread something... no we aren't talking.

They know where I am when they are ready to swallow their pride and apologize. They are painfully stubborn (their inability to ever admit they where wrong despite often jumping to conclusions is a famed trait of theres) so I doubt it will come any time soon though.

ILoveMyCaravan · 04/12/2023 14:02

I’m so sorry to hear that. Unfortunately it happens a lot more than society would have us believe x

ILoveMyCaravan · 04/12/2023 14:08

ILoveMyCaravan · 04/12/2023 14:02

I’m so sorry to hear that. Unfortunately it happens a lot more than society would have us believe x

@Terfosaurus x

GenerousGardener · 04/12/2023 14:12

She died. I miss her.

2catsandhappy · 04/12/2023 14:14

When my mum had 3 heart attacks and was rushed to hospital, staff did what they could. Dad phoned dsis, she phoned db. As mum lay dying in hospital, neither of my siblings phoned me. I had the phone call after she died.

Shewaswanton · 04/12/2023 14:19

Slept with my fiancé

SOBplus · 04/12/2023 14:22

Shewaswanton · 04/12/2023 14:19

Slept with my fiancé

not 'ex-fiance'?

Shewaswanton · 04/12/2023 14:23

Yes we broke up when I found out but I didn’t date again for seven years

BucketofTeaMassiveCake · 04/12/2023 14:24

Pinched my boyfriend and married him, but I got the last laugh as he turned out to be a loser who began to knock her about a bit. Karma.