Do you get on Well with your Brothers and Sisters?

I used to have a great relationship with my brother but my nephew has been going through an antisocial phase and because I insist on being spoken to nicely unfortunately I am not welcome at the moment. I hope that eventually either the nephew will grow up or his parents will realise that he can not speak to people as if they are mentally subnormal inhabitants of another planet and that things will smooth over again and that they will appreciate the stand I have taken towards good manners. I still send birthday and Christmas cards etc and generally keep the contact open, but he is waging war on all their friends and they will become very isolated if they don't make a stand very soon. I don't want to change my brother though, he is a good Father if a little blinkered as to his son's behaviour, I am hoping that once the boy starts work he will realise that unpleasant words have unpleasant consequences.

I am the eldest of 3 and I have one younger sister and brother. My sister and I grew up fighting with each other. But after I graduated college, I went to work away from home for many years and during that time we got closer and I guess we got more mature. Nowadays, we get along well but sometimes we also have some disagreements but it never escalates into a fight or quarrel because we are now more mature and has the tendency to talk it out whatever issues we have. As for my brother, he is about 8 years younger than me and we just don't talk. We live in the same house but sometimes, days would pass that I don't get to see him. we are just too different and we don't share anything. we don't quarrel but we don't also talk.

I am the youngest of 4 with there being 3,8,and 10 years between my siblings and myself. My oldest sister moved out of the house when i was only 8 so i don't remember much of her at home or how we got along. As adults we have a good relationship. She lives about 2 hours away so we only see each other maybe 3-4 times a year. We do talk on the phone and chat on msn. My brother lives in the city with his wife and 4 kids we see each other a lot they come up just about every weekend in the summer. We get along fine now but as children i was the annoying little sister and with 8 years between us we did not have much in common. My other sister is almost 3 years older than me. As children we fought like cats and dogs but i have a lot of good memories too we were close. Not so much as adults she lives about 8-9 hours away and she doesn't like to talk on the phone and she says she has no time for the computer so we really have very little contact. I talk to her daughter on msn and such and get info to and about her with her.

I have one younger sister and a brother. In my childhood days we always fight with each other.But now we easily understand each other and talk lots of thing.We usually share a lot of thing which happened with us in our day today life.It is very good to feel that we are not fighting with each other in present days.There is nothing in them which I want to change.They are good what they are in my life.

Exactly. I guess sometimes are way more important when we're young LOL But just between you and me, when she starts talking fashion and stuff I do shut of a bit hehehe

I have always been close with my twin sister and three brothers, we are all a year apart except my younger brother was born 11 months after we were. Our ages are as follows: 38, 37, 36, 36, 35. He will be turning 36 in December. We have always been a tight knit family and even though we have the odd arguement or disagreement we always manage to sort it out. No matter where we live in the world, we are still close in a sense.

To some extent I get alongwith with my sisters very well. I have 2 sisters, both younger to me. With younger one I connect very well as both have common interest and views. With the elder one I normally have conflicts.

Yes we brother and sister have very good relation with us, as usual sometimes we fight and get angry but most of the time we love each other.

I think it must be something that happens with most siblings as we get older. My brother is 3 years older than me and as far back as I can remember we fought like cat and dog! We weren't satisfied until the other was bleeding lol. The thing that really made the difference was when we stopped living together. Strangely enough, that co-incided with the period where I grew 6 inches taller and 70lb heavier than him. Hmmmmm!! I found that I would go visit him (probably a lack of something better to do! lol) and since then we enjoy spending time together. He still drives me nuts sometimes, but we both know that the other one is there if we need him.

i have one brother (20) and a sister (17) and i'm 23 and we always fight from different reasons we don't borrow clothes one to another or other things .one is jealous when other receives something from parents or grandparents and he doesn't.things like these.we never had a good relation like brother and sister.now when my brother come home only on holiday we have no time to fight but we neither are the best friends.we don't discuus too much,and the principal subject we discuss is my daughter that they love .maybe someday when we'll see each other more rare our relation will be different

I have a sister who is a year older than me and a brother that is about 3 years younger than me and I am sad to say that I dont really get along with either of them, as kids we always got along but as an adult we all made very different choices in how our lives would turn out and I dont agree with alot of the choices that they made! I can honestly say that if they werent my brother and sister I wouldnt have anything to do with them!

I'm the youngest in the family and I only have one brother who is 13 years older than me. I can say I'm lucky to have him as my brother. Despite our age gap we get along so well. And I would not exchange him for any wealth in this world for he alone is wealth.

I have two sisters and one brother. I often talk to them because i have my own world but i love them so much. We don't argue much but one thing that made us conflict-the three of us, phone. We are phone addict and we don't allow anyone to touch other phones. :)

Hi,LightninStrike.My situation is very similar with yours.I have one brother,three years older than me.When we were young,we fought with each other everyday, and I cried at every time.To be frank,I thought he was very hateful at that time.However,we become friend when I entered the university.And we talk more and more after we participate in our work. I don't know why,maybe we really grow up now.

I have 2 brothers and we all get on great now that we have all grown up...Its a great relationship. They still pick on Sis thought its all in fun, I give mine back.

I have one brother that Ilove very much. He live in U.S with his wife and two girls about 8 years. The bad things are that he is not in contact with me I did not know his girls it's very hard to me. I tried phone, e-mail, letters but he is not replying.I hope one day he will.

Just when I started reading your topic subject makes me in tears when I suddenly think about my baby brother that it was recently we have misunderstandings and up to now we still never get any chance to talked to each other. But I believe it will come so soon, i'm still waiting for such right time for us to talk. When it comes to my sister, we just have that so much bond together and we're like two bestfriends in the house even before we're still both singles...it's the two of us always stick together despite from any hardships that we face in our lives even up to now we're still the same and our treatment from each other is still more becoming stronger specially now that she's going to have her 1st child, i'm very much excited for my niece or nephew's arrival, soon. :-) Thanks for the great topic Light.

yeah,i do get on well with my sister.I have the same case with your,sometimes we also did basically fighting,but sometimes i make she cry,but we all keep the best relationship.I was 22now,and i studying in the university,i leave my family,i can but meet her and my family in my holiday,i very missing they......sometimes i will remember our childhood,it was a nice memory.hehe....

Even i used to fight with my brother when we were very young now i am 20 & my bro is 24 we are best of friends now we talk a lot & have good time with eachother

Yeah, well i do get well sometimes, but ofcourse like everyone haves some fights once in a while. I have two sisters and i really like them as sisters, they care and they are very nice sometimes.. Alltho ofcourse i have been hating them because they sometimes pickup fights and do something i would not wanna them to do.. But thats normal isnt it?