Relationships with your siblings

i have 2 big brothers and a sister. we're close to each other though we have a huge age gap. we don't live close to each other but when we get together, it's like we've been seeing each other every day of our lives. i'm closer to my sister since we're both closer than to my brothers. i'm 9 years younger than my sister but we get along each other just fine. she knows me very well and we get to do whatever together.

Hi, Karen! I have 2 sisters and a brother. Age gap between me and my sisters only between 1 to 1,5 years, so we were close when we were kids. However, as we grow up, thing were bit different. We didn't really share much about personal things as we started to have different hobbies, music or fashion preference, boyfriends preference, etc. When our brother was born (he was 10 years younger than my biggest sister), everybody paid full attention to him, so we kinda got together again for some time. Now that some of us married, we didn't see each other much, but we try to keep in touch by phone, and since we still live in the same city sometimes we dine out together or shopping together. I think it's really nice to keep good family relationships between siblings :)

hello there... i only have one sibling and i am ten years older than him! but despite the age gap, we are still very close to each other...i feel his respect and love for me...and i appreciate him for being so nice to me...even if sometimes i become like a mother to him, advising him, he never took that against me and im glad that he listens to me and take my advises! as an older sister, i want only the best for him...that's why i am helping my parents bring him to school...and when he is younger i take care of him even now that we are no longer living together, i still see to it that i checked on him... we are very close and i can say that we have a great happy relationship! i love him very very much! i think you have a nice big family...i also wish to have a big family before...like many siblings... i am happy for you that you also have a good relation to your siblings...and sorry to hear that you already lost one of them...

I am the only child. However, we have many relatives in close proximity. All the cousins (7 in all) are really close. We spend weeks at a time together. We have a lot of fun and help each other. We are a very close knit family and we get together quite often.

We are four siblings in all, all of us girls and we do have a very closely knit relationship between us, we often meet with our parents and have a nice time, we also arranged a get to gather for the 50th wedding anniversary of our parents,recently and made it a point to visit although we had our respective workloads. We do have difference of opinion which is quite common, but overcome it within a while. We have close contacts and make calls and send mails often as we reside in four different parts of the country.

I have a brother that I'm not very close to. Honestly, I can't really see myself talking to him much outside of family events in the future. He's generally a nasty, mean person who I don't like at all!

I have one brother. When we were kids we argued and fought just like other kids. But as adults we get along well. We live in the same town but don't really see much of each other because we both have hectic schedules. However we both know the other will always be there for us if we need them.

Hi Karen! I have one younger brother only as a sibling. I have no sister. We both are settled and happily married and stay at different places, yet we remain tied to invisible bond and we have healthy relations. He has two sweet sons and his wife is a teacher.

hi karen! i have 7 siblings too, four sisters and three brothers. i'm the seventh and sandwiched by two brothers. our family is pretty close-knit. even if 6 of my siblings got a family of their own and living elsewhere, we still find time to get together on occasional weekends, birthdays and holidays. we're all using one network service for our mobile phones and it's under unlimited call and text plan. so everyone can communicate with each other everyday. even with the parents and my nephews and nieces. communication is very open. not one day will pass without a call from one of my siblings. there were times that there would be occasional disagreements, but we just leave it at that. we had no fights or misunderstandings whatsoever. we want to create a good atmosphere for the kids to grow up in and we maintain closeness so that the kids can do the same with their first cousins. we're quite a happy bunch especially when we're all together. most of us were taught to play poker so that we can play with my brothers, and in turn we cheer the men when we are doing videoke. holidays are quite fun too. it's like we have a restaurant at home because we have a large family. the dining area is quite full during mealtimes. and the cook, whoever happens to be in the kitchen, has a full-time job ahead of him/her in feeding the little army. i feel for the dishwasher, coz the sink is always full. -lol- ---myles

I have two brothers and no sisters. My older brother and I never got along growing up and we still don't now. We have conflicting personalities I believe that make it hard for us to be close. We do act civilized towards each other and we have a more formal type of relationship. My younger brother is six years younger than I am and we also do not have a close relationship though we did when we were growing up. We can talk more openly with each other but we don't talk often. I always wished that one of them were a girl so that I could have a sister when I was growing up. Now that I am an adult I have a great friend who I consider to be like my own sister, so I guess that makes up for it. I wonder if its less common for sisters and brothers to keep close than it is for same sexed siblings to be close. But then again my younger brother and older brother often are mad at each other and have even more conflicting personalities. I also believe that my older brother's wife has a lot to do with the way he behaves. He used to be more of a happy go lucky sweatshirt wearing type of guy. Now he wears Dockers and rarely laughs. I guess love can change people. Unfortunately for us this makes it harder for us to relate to him.

I am also the only child. Lost my mother early. My cousins were not really fond of me, but they loved the moneys that my surviving parent was shelling down. Their mothers never bothered to do a single thing for me when I was merely five and a half. Later when my father stopped giving due to our own financial problems, I was blamed as "controlling" my father. Now they want to re-enter my life because the situation has again slightly improved here. They are trying all sorts of tricks, using friends to influence me, trying to convey how much they regret the past. I am not relenting. I find I cannot bring myself to trust them.

I am adopted, but I have one brother after I became adopted. I think I actually have quite a few biological siblings, but Im not for sure about that lol. Anyways my brother is 16 years older than me, and even though he lives about 2 minutes away, not even, we don't have that much in common and we rarely ever see each other except for holidays. I know we both love each other with all our heart, and we express it when we talk and see each other, but we are both so busy with our own lives, we take advantage of our relationship. I think the biggest thing is that he was away most of my life, working and traveling on the road, and didn't really come back until I was about in high school, so.

I am sorry for your lost, I have 2 sisters and 1 brother me and my older sister do not get along we never did, we use to fight a lot growing up, never knew why at first I never hit her back all I was thinking is why is she doing this to me, then after a while when I realized she was truly trying to hurt me, I started fighting her back, I told my mom when I got older that if she would have told my sister how wrong she was things may have been different I hated to do that but it was true, I said you are our mom all she would have done was get mad, then get over it, but instead my mom blamed us both, I said it was not like you were not there to see what was going on, I just don't understand but hey, after we grew up we still don't get along whenever she feels like talking to me she do, at this point in my life I could care less really, I don't have the sister love I should have for her, but that is her lost not mine. me and my brother get a long really well and my other sister well she has issues but I do love her like a sister just dislike some of the things she do, did I say dislike I mean hate.I have 1 child now I wish I had another, I see this a lot where parents treat there kids different I would love to know how I would have been with two or three children I believe I would treat them equally and they would all get along, I would make sure of it.

We are five siblings, I was the eldest one but my grandmother raised me. I have meet them after 17 years and I know that we are not that close. I don't have any problems with them but I feel closer to my cousins whom I grew up with.

I do have one brother. he is older than me by one year. For a while we used to fight to no end and barely called each other. But recently we started hanging out more and spending one day a month just the two of us. It has brought us closer and he just called me today asking if I would help him pick out a haircut that would look good on him. Im sure we will still fight, we are siblings of course, but more often than not we will just sit and talk.

Hi Karen! How are you today? I have 2 siblings and all three of us have been very close since childhood. The fights, reasonings, the punches were there but then those hardly strain relationships. In many cases they strengthen the bond. Now, that we all are grown up and my two siblings have families we are mature apparently. However, you should see us together. we still are just the same, shouting, cribbing, fighting and hugging. We are three sisters and have been blessed with the most wonderful parents. I am awaiting my visit to Dubai this Sunday. It would be atrip to remember forever. Will tell you all about it.

Hello Karen, I got 5 siblings, 3 sister's and 2 brothers, we grew up really close althugh when we were younger we used to have catfights and sibling rivalry etc which I guess is typical in all big families. One of my sisters grew up with our grandma but still when she came to stay with us when she was in high school we get to get close to her too.Until now that we have our own families we still get in close contact with each other call each other all the time chat online and send text messages to each other almost everyday. Our parent's raise us up t love each other and help each other in times of needs no matter what. I guess that's what being brothers and sisters areall about. By the way my baby sister's name is also Karen that reminds me I should give her a call soon .

Thank you PeacefulWmn9 for your kind words. I appreciate them. I would say more but I'm just not feeling well tonight. Thanks again.

I have an elder sister. We are very close.She is much older than I am and so when I was growing up she took care of me.It was an awesome bond which has changed and grown over the years.Yet it remains beautiful. When I was younger, we had our share of fights, but then there were times when she was like a second mum to me. Now as two adults, we can talk about grown up stuff and she has a daughter now. So I see my sis in my niece. Its amazing

I have a close relationship with my siblings..I have 2 eldest brothers and 1 eldest sis. I am the youngest in my family. Although we are not staying at the same place,but we do always keep in touch thru SMS or phone.