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We call each other and catch up occasionally, text here and there, send Christmas and birthday gifts, meet up when I’m in town. My brother used to be my best friend when we were kiddos.
Odd.
I love my sibling - but they’re kind of an asshole. There isn’t any real malice behind it, or at least I’d like to think so, but they just do not consider the opinions, feelings or needs of others at all. A little bit of that is healthy. I’m talking to an unhealthy degree. It has repeatedly bit them in the ass, and was a major factor in torpedoing what could have been a good career before it could get going, so thoroughly that they’ll likely never work in the field they trained for.
In the last couple years, they’ve at least started to learn when it’s best to just keep their mouth shut, but it was a long time coming.
At their core, they are not a bad person, but I always find myself frustrated with something after spending time with them, which is upsetting. I really wish this wasn’t the case.
My sister is amazing and I love her. When we were kids we were close but fought like siblings so but now at 40 she’s practically my best friend.
Our parents gave us authority over each other and that almost ruined my relationship with them, but as I started to operate separately from them, I’ve begun to miss them.
I have 6 siblings, we’re all just about evenly spaced at about a year and a half. I get along with some better than others but none are excluded.
we get along fine but we’re not close
My sister and I are incredibly close. She’s my fave person ever. She was adopted the day before my 13th birthday. We say she’s the best birthday gift I’ve ever gotten lol. She and I may bicker at times, but we will fiercely defend one another from bullies and whatnot. Someone I know spoke badly about her having autism and intellectual disabilities in my presence and I went off on them. You don’t disrespect my sister. My sister once defended me in a similar situation when she mentioned my chronic pain condition.
She has been taking excellent care of me lately because I am laid up with a broken ankle/leg that needed surgery to fix. I did the same for her when she had spine surgery.
She and I share so much with each other. Probably more than anyone else but our mom. My sister constantly comes into the room I’m staying in to talk and show me her drawings. She talks about her friends and how they’re doing and if she has plans with them. She’ll read me the letters she’s going to send to her friend who is in the military.
She’s the best. I get frustrated with her when she throws fits or doesn’t listen to me when I try to help her handle the dogs, but that feeling is temporary.
From the moment I met her, she was my favorite person. We put her in the car, she was 3 at the time, and she said “Mommy, Sissy, where we goin?” My mom and I broke into happy tears when we heard that.
Gosh I love her so much.
Aww how sweet! You sound like such an awesome sibling!
Thank you! I try my best!
Not close and we don’t talk to each other much. We have abusive parents. Both physical and mental.
Brother 1 - good relationship but not very close, only see each other every couple of months
Brother 2 - ok relationship; we have a tendency to get into fights when he is being an asshole (common, he has asshole tendencies and anger issues), but thankfully that hasn’t happened in a good while; we maybe see each other once a month
Brother 3 - ok relationship; he did something incredibly pervy and inappropriate to me once which I will never forget and which ruined the relationship we used to have, but beyond that we get along nowadays; used to see each other roughly every other weekend, but now it’s less common
My brothers do not answer texts, so I only speak to them when I see them in person.
One sister hates me and we don’t talk. The other one doesn’t hate me but we don’t talk. My brother and I are on good terms, we don’t talk
Older brother: we get along well enough but haven’t talked in ages.
Younger brother: I haven’t spoken to him in about 12 years, since I had the epiphany that I don’t have to put up with constantly being treated as a lesser person because I’m a woman and have interests that don’t line up with his. The fact that he can’t beat the hell out of me now that I live 1200 miles from him is also a giant plus.
My brother and I have been best friends for most of our lives. He’s so much fun to hang out with, has a great degree of emotional intelligence, and I’m just so proud of him.
My sister went full blown right wing “Christian “ Trumper. We barely talk. Haven’t seen each other in years
Nearly my entire family went full-tilt Trump and it blew me away. He was everything I had always been taught not to be and here was my family, that I loved, all head-over-heels for this conman.
I withdrew from the family and stopped talking anything politics with them for years. It’s only been the last year or so that everyone in my family has woken up to what a pathetic girfter Trump is. Everyone except my brother who I don’t talk to anymore. I hope some day he grows up and realizes how many vulnerable people he has to hurt to feel like an “alpha”.
I miss him. He used to be a genuinely sweet person.
When people tell you who they are: believe them
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