Siblings....

Wow I don't think I have gone more then 5 hours with out talking to my older sister. She is 10 years older then me and we get along great! We didn't get along untill she moved out of the house (I was 8 she was 18), but sense then she is like my best friend. We look alot alike and some people think we are twins It makes her happy, but I don't like to think that I look 30!!! I could not immange not talking to my sister! When I don't talk to her for a full day I miss her alot. I she has alot of great advice for me and being 21, unmarried and pregnant I need all the help I can get. I know that if I didn't have her I would not have been able to surive telling my parents I am pregant.

My best friend has a twin sister and they just don't get along at all. I am firends with both of them and sometimes I feel like I am cought in the middle of there fights. They often call me and ask how the other is and ask me to pass things on to the other. I am just like can't you just talk to each other?? I understand WHY they don't get along, but IMO your family will always be there for you and love you. I just don't understand because my sister and I are so close. We both come to the relization that Mom and Dad are not going to be there forever and we only have each other. I know that no matter what problem I have I can call her and she will do everything in her power to help me out and same goes to her.

I have a sister who is 11 years older then me. When I was younger she obviously wasn't home a lot but I do remember when she WAS home, it was not pretty. Now that we are older(I'm 23 and she's 34) we talk every single day-or every other-and I cannot imagine my life without her. She is my rock

Originally Posted by clixpix

It always amazes me when I hear people say they haven't seen or talked to a sibling in X-amount of years. I'm the middle of 5, and we all get along great (fought as kids of course). We all crack each other up because we're all a bunch of smart mouths, and the nieces and nephews are learning the trade!

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I'm very close with my 2 brothers, one is 4 years younger than me and the other is 8 years younger and I adore them both. I couldn't imagine not speaking with them regularly and being so close with them

I'm 29 and my youngest sister is 5, we don't have a lot in common

One of my other sisters is 12 and we're doing more things together, like shopping or movies as she gets older.

Have siblings, no one got along until we moved out of the home. I am glad I have siblings and have a family. Life would not be as rich and wonderful without my siblings. Even in times when I am really mad at them, I am thankful I have them.

I have a younger sister, 6 years younger, and we are about as different as people can get. I'm a quiet, reserved, loner and she is a drama queen social butterfly I believe she has a lot of resentment towards me, she thinks I am "the chosen one" and she was always getting compared to me, which isn't true I get tired of litstening to her whining all the time, and she doesn't understand my, uh, cat thing She lives at home and we are both still very close to our parents so we're around each other fairly often, but we never really call each other just to talk. I'm 30 and she's 24 so I hope maybe as we get older we'll have more in common and become friends as well as sisters

I remember when I was young I wanted a sibling. Then when Mom got remarried and I gained 4 step siblings (besides the 2 I saw every other weekend at my Dad's) I went back and forth about it. I wished I had someone so it wasn't 4 against 1 all the time, and then I didn't want someone who would do to me what my step-siblings did to each other from time to time! They could be so MEAN to each other! I'm not talking petty teasing, I'm talking emotionally scarring stuff. I'd share an example, but I'd rather not share what is really their business.

Now I'm just glad to have DH's sisters. I get along great with one of them in particular and it's just taken some of the place of not having siblings of my own. I have cousin's that I'm close to too.

I'm an only child and both my parents have passed, and there are times I wished I had a brother or sister...then, there are times I'm really glad I didn't! You can chose your friends, but you can't chose your family. I can understand people who have to distance themselves from family because the relationship is harmful, but I've seen people cut themselves off completely for years because of a stupid arguement.

My mother's family was very close. She had 2 sisters and a brother who all lived in separate parts of the US, but they all tried to get home at least once a year to see my grandparents (my family lived in the same town so we saw them also). After my grandfather passed 4 years ago and my grandmother was put into a nursing home, my uncle stopped speaking to my aunts because of the way they handled the estate. He was supposed to get the house in the will, but Grandma being in the nursing home the state made them put the house on the market and all proceeds went into paying for her care. They also sold all the furniture without asking any of the family if there was anything they wanted, which I agree wasn't right, but I wasn't handling it. Anyway, he stopped speaking to them right then and there. I know it was probably more misdirected grief than anything but he is so stubborn he refuses to accept any effort (email, phone call, anything) from them. I told him he was being stupid, so now he hasn't spoken to me in almost 2 years and he gave me away at my wedding 3 years ago.

Then, DH and his brother haven't spoken for 1 1/2 years because of an "argument" DH got into with his SIL (who nobody really likes anyway, except his brother). It wasn't even an argument. She likes to critcize and bust on my MIL and she was doing it in our house, so DH stood up for his mom and told her to basically shut her mouth and not say lies about his mom in his house. My BIL wasn't even there for this. But, he took her side and has cut ties with DH and his mom. Because of that, we haven't been invited to any of my neice/nephew b-day parties, not invited for any holidays. It was always a tradition that we go over to their house Christmas morning and watch them open presents. Everyone else in the family gets invited, just not us. I just think it's sad.

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack this thread, but as someone without siblings, I would try to get closer to your sister. Don't answer the questions you don't want to answer but try to find some common ground and develope some kind of relationship. Family isn't always great, but sometimes they are all we have.

I have 3 older brothers and I younger sister; oldest brother is 10 years older than me, sister is 10 years younger than me. Could I be any more in the middle!? Don't have much in common with oldest brother; he lives 200 miles away and & I only see him a couple of times a year. My 2 other brothers live with 2 miles of me and while we're not extremely close, I know I can count on them. My sister moved 9 hours away and I only see her a couple of times a year.
I was the only girl for (and the youngest ) for 10 years, so I was a bit jealous of my sister. She's a whiner and spoiled; there wasn't much money when we were growing up but somehow my folks managed to find the funds to do just about anything she wanted. Would you believe they rented a room in a Holiday Inn 20 miles from home just so she could swim in their indoor pool?! Apparently, she didn't like the public pool that was less than a mile from our house. She was only 8 when I got married; one day years later she got ticked at me for some imagined slight and yelled at me because I'd gotten married and left her home with those old people! (our Mom was 43 and Dad was 49 when she was born).
I was actually relieved when she moved so far away. My life is a lot more peaceful now.

im the oldest out of 3 of us, my two lil bros are 17 and 19 and im 23, we get on great dont know what i would do with out them we all fight like cat and dog when we are together but thats what makes us well us haha

I come from a family of 5 and none of us are close really.

My brother is 8 years older than me (I think) and when I was real young I never saw him. When I was around age 11-12 and 13 I saw a lot of him. Then he just kinda dropped from sight and made appearances 1 or 2 times a year at my mom's.

My oldest sister is about 7 years older than me. And we never got along much. I never saw her much as a child. Got in a fist fight with her when I was 13 or so. Just never really been close.

My next older sister is 5 or 6 years older than me. Really have been indifferent to each other. Only time we really talked is when I went to church but when that stopped she stopped talking to me.

My younger sister is 6 years younger than me. We never got along. Still to this day don't really. We talk on occassion but thats just about boring everyday stuff.

Me and my dad barely talk anymore. We had a falling out 12 years ago and the rip has not been repaired since then. I have tried but we are not like occassional friends now more than anything. My dad is alos not close to his mom, dad or sister.

Me and my mom are close kinda but thats it. She is kinda close to her mom and dad and sisters but not much.

My husband has not seen his mom or dad in over 20 years. He has not seen his sister in that long or longer. And up until 10 years ago barely had any phone contact. Now its like a few times a year but he has to call. They never call here to talk to him.