Tell me about your siblings.

[mollz007]

One sister, 2 years younger than me

Our relationship suffered for some reason when I married H (even though I made every effort for it not to suffer) and it has taken a turn for the worse in the last few months. She shows no sign of wanting a relationship with me (and she hates H, says he is rude and judgemental. )

[KaraOrNot]

I have two siblings, a half sister and a brother.

My sister is 10 years older than me. We did not live together growing up and have nothing in common. We only talk once a year, at Christmas.

My brother is a year and a half younger than me. We have a good relationship and are friendly, but we don't chat regularly.

[penguingrrl]

I'm the middle of 3. My sister is 17 months older and we're very close. We text or talk pretty much daily and see each other 2 or more times a month despite living over an hour apart. My brother is 5.5 years younger and we're close. We don't talk as frequently because he's a 25 year old bachelor, so sort of doing his own thing, but we'll text or comment on facebook or whatever pretty frequently.

[hereonceagain]

Oct 13, 2012 18:57:41 GMT -5 stingsharkruns said:

6 sisters. ages: 34, 32, 29, 27, 25 & 14 .... I'm close with my biological sister (25), the 14yr old is my half sister - we are not close at all.. And my relationship with my step sisters (34,32,29 &27) is okay. We go through spells of being really close & then not talking for weeks.

Whoa!! All girls!

[hereonceagain]

Oct 13, 2012 20:55:41 GMT -5 scribellesam said:

I have one sister, 2 yrs 4 mo older. She's super awesome, way cooler and more stylish than me, but moved really far away. Also, she's AmeliaPond, lol.

Haha!

[hereonceagain]

I just wonder what it will be like for my DD growing up. her siblings consist of:

9 biological half siblings (she hasn't met)
1 foster sister
1 adoptive brother
1 adoptive sister
....and counting

[chessie]

1 sibling on my side, has two kids and 2 siblings on DH's side, 2 kids on each side. Not close with either. It is what it is. only go up for bday bdays or mandatory holidays. Family is around 40 mins away, might as well be lifetimes apart.

[Willis Jackson]

3 brothers.

One sucks. The other two are cool.

[M]

I have a brother who is 25 (2 years younger than me). He thought he was smarter and more successful than me (he's an auditor at PwC) until recently since I started telling him about some of the income my business is bringing in. H and I keep it pretty quiet to ourselves to avoid the deadbeats in our families. But we have a very close relationship....I just wish we could live closer to each other.

I also have a 12 year old sister (15 years apart). She's spoiled rotten by 4 older siblings haha - Me, H, my brother, and brother's fiance.

ETA: My sister looks exactly like me. She's my mini me. People always ask if she's my daughter which is weird because they also think I'm 17 years old....go figure.

[justjen]

I have one brother (5 years younger) and one sister (14 years younger-- the oops ). Both live within 20 minutes of me. Sis still lives at home, and bro lives with his fiancee and her 2 kids a town or two over.

My brother and I are very different (I'm the bookish nerdy type, he's the drive-a-Harley and works-with-his-hands type). I wish we were closer, but he's not super chatty and I find him hard to talk to sometimes. But he's a cool guy.

But my sister is *the best*. I love her to pieces and she can basically do no wrong in my eyes. People can always tell we're sisters, but she's totally the much cooler and much hotter one. We've never fought, because she's so much younger than me. I mean, when I was 18, she was 4. Who can fight with a 4-year-old?

[mbcdefg]

Oct 13, 2012 16:42:20 GMT -5 hereonceagain said:

How many? What is your relationship like with them? What is your age differences? Any step or half siblings?

My brother is 6 years younger than me. My sister is 4 years younger than me.

My brother and I got closer once he hit high school age. My sister and I argued a lot growing up but got along better once i moved out. The three if us have been in closer contact since our dad died.

My brother is more reliable of the two. The two of them share a lot of mutual friends because they're closer in age.

[dapotato]

Oct 13, 2012 20:55:41 GMT -5 scribellesam said:

I have one sister, 2 yrs 4 mo older. She's super awesome, way cooler and more stylish than me, but moved really far away. Also, she's AmeliaPond, lol.

best.

one brother. he's cool. we don't talk that often, but we're cool.

ETA: we're 4.5 years apart. i'm older.

[rex]

2 younger sisters. One is close in age, the other is a a child (literally).

[UnderProtest]

One brother who is two years older. I just recently cut him it of my life after trying to have a real relationship for years.

[jene]

1 younger sister, she is 9 years younger than me. We are not close at all

[Deleted]

Oct 13, 2012 20:55:41 GMT -5 scribellesam said:

I have one sister, 2 yrs 4 mo older. She's super awesome, way cooler and more stylish than me, but moved really far away. Also, she's AmeliaPond, lol.

Lol. Just saw this thread. My sister is 2yrs 4mo younger than me. She is super awesome, funny and smarter than me. And refuses to move to the East Coast.

[Deleted]

I don't have any full siblings. I'm the oldest of 11 and my youngest sister is 7.

I have 2 half sisters (different dads; 3 yrs, 18 yrs) and 1 half brother (6 yrs). I have 5 step brothers (6 mo, 3 yrs, 3 yrs, 3 yrs, 6 yrs, 15 yrs), 3 step sisters (3 yrs, 6 yrs, 7 yrs). I'm close with 2 sisters and all but one my brothers. My 2nd to youngest sister and I are too much alike that we butt heads. A lot. I love her but she's 18 and thinks she knows it all. 3 of my brothers have moved away (military) but the rest are here.

I love my siblings. I'm glad (and lucky) to have so many.

ETA - My parents divorced over 10 yrs ago. And have since remarried.

[pbutter]

Lurker chiming in...

I'm an only child. I've always hated it and wished I had siblings. My husband's nickname for me is "only".

[Becca]

Oct 14, 2012 15:31:04 GMT -5 blissanity said:

I don't have any full siblings. I'm the oldest of 11 and my youngest sister is 7.

I have 2 half sisters (different dads; 3 yrs, 18 yrs) and 1 half brother (6 yrs). I have 5 step brothers (6 mo, 3 yrs, 3 yrs, 3 yrs, 6 yrs, 15 yrs), 3 step sisters (3 yrs, 6 yrs, 7 yrs). I'm close with 2 sisters and all but one my brothers. My 2nd to youngest sister and I are too much alike that we butt heads. A lot. I love her but she's 18 and thinks she knows it all. 3 of my brothers have moved away (military) but the rest are here.

That is a lot of three year olds...

[flygirl22]

I have 1 older brother, and 2 younger. We all grew up fairly close, but live far apart now and are at different points in our lives. I'm closest to my older brother (2 years older) we were always really good friends growing up, he lives out of the country now and I see him once a year. We try to Skype once a month, we don't always do that. If he lived near me I'm sure we would hang out pretty frequently. I'm pretty close to my younger brother (5years younger) but it's more of a role model role, he's still in college, we have very similar personalities. Younger brother I love to death but we are not close (7 years younger), he got into a lot of trouble after I moved out of the house and he was always so embarrassed by it, he thought me and oldest brother would be disappointed in him.

I would love to be closer with everyone, and location plays a big part in that.

[algal]

I have 3 siblings, all half, two brothers and one sister. My oldest brother is 42, sister is 40, youngest brother is 36. I was definitely an oops child. There is a 12 year age gap between myself and my youngest brother.
Eta: I'm not close with the two oldest, but I'm semi close to the younger brother. We use to be a lot closer, but not so much anymore. I'm starting to realize how childish and selfish he really is.

[Becca]

All the half siblings and large age gaps are reminding me of DH's siblings. DH is 30.

He has a full brother who is 2 years younger. A half sister and half brother who are near 50 (those three siblings he grew up with).

He has a half sister who he has met who is 50.

He also has a handful of other half siblings who are older than those mentioned above. He knows they exist but doesn't know their names, or how many there are. DH grew up with his father (who is the father of all whole/half siblings) and his father is in contact with all half siblings that are still alive. Some are just never discussed. So weird to me.

[mrshandy]

One identical twin sister. We have a pretty good relationship, but we do bicker a fare amount when were together.

[whitepicketfence]

I have 4 half brothers although one of them (the oldest) has passed away. There is a fairly large age gap between us; my oldest living brother is 42 and the youngest is 38.

I didn't really know them until I was a teenager. There are pictures of me playing with them as a baby/young toddler but my dad's divorce from their mom was very messy and there was a long period of time when there was no contact between them and my dad. Our relationship has grown as we've all gotten older, married, and had children. I'm really close with them now even though we all live in different states. We spend all major holidays together and, since 2 of them only live an hour away, I see those brothers quite often. One of my brothers and his family actually drove to visit us today, in fact.

[winnied]

One brother, two years older. We were close before middle school but since then we're not. We really have nothing in common but we enjoy each other's company. He lives 12 hrs away and even when I visit my home town he works odd hours so I don't see him much.

[everam01]

Sister, 2 years older - get along great, see a couple of times a year (lives several states away)

Sister, 6 years younger - get along well, she's still sort of a wild child, not a ton in common. See 4-5 times a year.

Brother, 13 years younger - very close when younger, now in college and I don't seem him much. Contact is primarily via facebook and text!

All of the above are my full siblings. My parents got married young and have been married 37 years.

[fbf2006]

2 sisters, 1 brother. I'm the 2nd, the boy is the last. We're 35, 31, 28 and 26. My younger sister and I live in NYC, the older sis in NoVA and younger bro in Boston. We don't see each other very often since we don't all live in the same city, but still consider ourselves pretty close. I don't know, living in different places doesn't make one not close to family/friends. We do thanksgiving at my sister's place in NoVA every year.

[h]

One brother, four step-sisters. My brother is 5.5 years younger than me. We are fairly close, though we don't live in the same city. He and my DH are close, too--DH is the best man in his wedding this weekend.

My parents both remarried my senior year of high school, so I didn't grow up with my step-sisters. I am reasonably close to my mom's step-daughters-- not to the point that we chat on the phone all the time, but we really like hanging out with each other at family events, and my kids adore my step-sister's kids. One of them is a couple years older than me, and the other is a couple years younger. I am not at all close to my dad's step-daughters, both of whom are much younger than I am.

[lurkergirl123]

I have two sisters and a brother. I'm the third of four.

I'm not very close to any of them, unfortunately.

[Awkward]

One sister, 2 and a half years younger. We're reasonably close, but she's moved south for college and has zero plans to ever come back. I HATED her through most of growing up, but it's a lot better since I started college.

She's pretty bright and all that, I just have a hard time "getting" her sometimes. She always dates older, wealthy men and doesn't have any friends to speak of in college because she spends all of her time off campus at her boyfriend's place. I do like her current bf, he's only my age and somewhat of a dork. He and SO get along really well.

I just can't shake the feeling that she thinks she's "better" than the rest of our family. It kind of stings.