How does your sibling relationship look like?

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I have two sisters and two brothers. We're close on the sense that when we get together we get along great. We don't see each other often or speak everyday as much as I would like to. But they are not like that.

Text about twice a year .
other one no contact at all.

so not great .

I was very close to my older brother growing up. There was a rift (his doing) in the family and I haven't seen him or spoken to him in 20 or so years.

My older sister and I didn't get along at all as kids. Now she's my best friend and it's rare for us to go one day without at least texting.

No contact at all. She was the golden child and joined in with our parents scapegoating me.

No contact

No contact with my sister. She was hell on legs when our Dad was terminally ill, and it was so bad that I cannot forgive or forget. She's always been Mum's golden child so Mum can deal with her.

We have a long phone call every 3-4 months (and sometimes if one of us is going though something it might be quite a lot more, like a couple of times a week) and a weekend away twice a year-ish. Text every now and then, maybe every couple of weeks-ish?
We get on really well, we don't really demand anything of each other though.

No contact at all. She was the golden child and joined in with our parents scapegoating me.
Same here

3 brothers, 1 (younger) sister. I'd say I'm closest with my sister even though we fought like cats and dogs as children, but generally speaking all five of us are very close. I spend maybe one or two Saturdays a month with either one or both of my eldest brothers - bowling, fly fishing, frisbee golf, you name it. Sister lives about 3hrs away so I don't see her often, but we text/message daily.

I probably interact the least with my third brother, as his wife is a bit... hard to engage with. For me, personally. But he and I share very similar interests and a common sense of humor, so we connect by sending funny videos to one another.

Eldest two brothers are in their mid-to-late 40's, third is 33, I'm 30 and my sister is in her late 20's.

Strained. See each other at birthdays/christmas not overly close. If it wasnt for me texting/arranging i doubt we would see each other

I have one sister. We are very different, but close. Probably speak once a week on average and might text back and forth a few times a week too.

See each other once every 3 months due to distance. We are very different people, but get along well. I do think she sometimes gets frustrated with me because of our differences, but on the whole we have a good relationship.

Don't really speak. Very different but after a lot of soul searching and olive branches, I'm content with it.

Can't choose your family.

I have a pleasant and co-operative relationship with my sisters and see them (usually individually rather than all together) several times a year when the opportunity arises. The youngest is a Cool Auntie and close to my daughters. I suspect we'll see more of one another when we all reach retirement age.

Bit shit.

One older brother, we’ve grown apart as we settled down with partners, but I have to say we connect and talk about certain things like current affairs in a way that I can’t with anyone else. This stems from a young age. He’s also a nice person and very placid so put up with my bossiness when I was younger which helped.

It's broken my heart to recently block and go NC with one brother after a series of sickeningly cruel, abusive and threatening texts from him. With hindsight they should have been reported to the police. I'm heartbroken that he thinks such awful things about me and DH and is wanting to destroy me. We used to be close but it makes me sad that we likely never will be again, especially after his cruel words.

Distant but respectful and friendly relationship with other brother.

Very close to my younger sister, get on fine with my younger brother when we see each other but very little in common.

DSis & I didn’t really start getting on until I left for university, I think the space helped. Although I have a strong suspicion that if we’d had to share a room as kids our relationship would never have recovered.

I am a woman, 36 years old.
I have one sibling, an older brother.
My brother is one of my best friends. We are very close. We text each other everyday, we e-mail each other several times a week, and we call each other at least once a week.
We live 350 miles apart nowadays, but we try to meet up at least three times a year. We have exactly the same humour. We always have so much fun when we meet! We can also talk about serious things. I really trust him.

Similar. We live 200 miles apart and have busy lives. Don't speak or message very often, but are close when we meet up and would both be there when the chips are down.

One (slightly) younger brother. We text a lot, every week for sure, and have a wider family group chat too where I share photos of the kids etc. Due to distance we probably only meet up 3-4 times a year but that can be up to a week or more in each other's houses or we have taken holidays together too. We get on really well and enjoy each other's company.

As teenagers we fought constantly but I think my parents were partly to blame for constantly comparing us. Once out of that environment we came to really appreciate each other.

I have two older brothers, twins and a twin sister. I speak to my brothers, both in the US, twice a week at the very least and my sister who lives in Monaco every single day without fail. Currently in Monaco with DH and 4DCs visiting her for a long weekend. I could not imagine a life without my siblings. As my sister is closer geographical, I see her every 5 weeks and brothers every 3 months.

I'm very lucky - I love my little sister to bits.

We're terrible at keeping in touch, but when we do see each other, we natter away like a pair of hens. We never run out of things to talk about. We could bitch about our mum for literally hours.

We used to fight like crazy as children. She once did a HERE'S JOHNNY move and smashed her way through a door with a bat just to annoy me. I once locked her in a cupboard for a few hours and gave her permanent claustrophobia. But we grew up to be best friends.

How long have you got?!

Older adoptive brother, golden child. He engineered a falling out between us over 20 year ago and subsequently persuaded parents he should be the sole beneficiary of their estate. It took far more effort than I could be bothered to counter.

Half brother and sister to my birth mother's children. Brother lives in Oz so limited to happy birthdays, sister in Europe and I am very fond/weirdly protective of her but there's a language barrier so I guess when our mother passes there won't be much contact.

Two half sisters and half brother to my birth father, who I only met a year ago and who died a couple of months later. All very different personalities and don't seem to be particularly close. All in California so there won't be many opportunities to meet regularly but it was nice to complete the circle.

So I started as the youngest to one and am now the oldest of six!!

My sister is my best friend. I'm actually more like her mother to be honest, but we speak every day and see eachother most weekends

I have a sister and two brothers. ( we're aged from 57 to 73)Until 10 years ago we were so very close and got together at least once a month to eat, drink, reminisce, sing and howl with laughter. No way could we have forseen we would have falling outs x grow to dislike each others company. We're fractured yet we live only half hour hour from each other and it weighs on me heavily. I speak to one frequently still, one every 6 months and my sister is hurt and won't speak to any of us although I've tried so hard to mend things.

Speak daily often more than once daily, family chat on WhatsApp with sister, her husband, my husband and me.
See each other as often as we can, nothing set in rules but at the moment lots as she is due to have a baby so I'm helping her out lots.
My best friend.