do you still have a close relationsship with yoru sibblings?
@easymoney75503 (1702)
United States
April 3, 2007 8:04am CST
growing up i wasnt around most of my brothers and sisters. there was only one that i was around half the time we were very close. we stayed together till i was about 11 years old then she got to come back when i was 16 years old. my mom was like a kid herself so i was more of the mom to my sister that i was close to. we were very close and now we have grown up had kids and we talk on the phone about 1 time every 2 weeks. she has made choices that i dont agree with but still she is my sister and i love her. she is a call girl and i dont let my kids go to her house etc cause of it but my kids still see her etc. a kid raising a kid is never good lol. i have other brothers and sisters that i havent seen or spoken to in 7 years. i dont even know where they are. i would like to see them but they are just now out of highschool and i have no way of finding them without calling my step mom and dad and they cant be apart of my life for my kids sake. i think it is sad. how close are you with yours did you find that you grew apart or do you still see them holidays etc?
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@moumitamazumder (817)
• India
3 Apr 07
O yes, I am quite close to my sister. She is 3 years junior to me. But we are good friends, and share each other's secret. We talk a lot, and can't live one day also without seeing each other. She is my cutest, closest and loveliest friend.
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@KissThis (3003)
• United States
3 Apr 07
I am one of nine kids. Being the last child I wasn't around my three older siblings that much. I was never really close to them.
Of the younger six of us we had a pretty good relationships.
I am still close to my brother that was born just before me.We go out to lunch together weekly.Let our kids spend the weekends together.
As a whole we all try to get togther when we can.
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@sabsta2006 (241)
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3 Apr 07
My brother and I always used to fight when we were younger, and I dont mean argue, I mean fists and everything but now we are really quite close.
I used to hate my sister, she used to pinch all of my stuff but now we get on so well that she's moving in my house this month.
But then I have another sister which I haven't seen in over three years.
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@rajsivaz (16)
• Australia
4 Apr 07
i have a brother and sister living with my parents and i was out of my country with my hubby.we use to talk over phone two or more times a week but we can see only once or twice a year.i really love them and i miss them as they did.we were together for more than 16 years and now it is very hard to be apart from them.
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@makingpots (11915)
• United States
3 Apr 07
Not very close to my siblings at all. I am 5 years younger than my closest sibling. There were 4 of us, all girls. We have all ended up in different places around the country and are busy raising our families. No one makes the effort to try and stay in touch. Email is our only form of communication. A year or so ago we all got together to celebrate our parents 50th wedding anniversary by spending a week in a cabin in the mountains. It was so obvious how different we all are and there was no real bonding that took place that week. It is sad but I guess everyone has to try to maintain relationships and if all people don't participate it just can't really happen.
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@onlyourbunny (94)
• United States
3 Apr 07
AM 20 and i left home when i was 15 cause things wrent the besti have two brothers and a sister who is 3 years younger than me.they are all younger we talk but we have two differnt lives and are very busy i wish we wwere closere but its by fult we are not
@magikrose (5429)
• United States
3 Apr 07
I grew up most of my childhood as a single child untill my mother decided to re-marry and her new husband had a child a bit younger than me. We got along at first untill we started living to gether then we acted like typical siblings. When I was the first one to graduate highschool and get my liscense and even get a job.
I was also the first one to move out and start a family. The only thing she did diffrently is go to college and start a familt after college.
Now that we both have our own families we dont see eachother very much at all. Only on holidays and there are even times that we dont even see eathother then either.
I do love my sister and I miss my neice and nephew but she is choosing to not visit the family.
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@subha12 (18441)
• India
4 Apr 07
yaa i have. My elder brother is 7 yeras older to me. from last year he stays in diferent city. But I have regular connection with him.we are actually very close from childhood.
@cefaz_21 (2596)
• Philippines
4 Apr 07
I am blessed to have a closed relationship with my siblings and I think my parents did a good job in bringing us up. Even now that we have our own families,we still manage to see each other often, I do come to visit my eldest sister and brother once a week because she lives near my place. I loved thier kids so much. We never forget to be there during special occasions and we always look forward to spending time together with our parents.
@NatureBoy (493)
• Singapore
4 Apr 07
I am very close to my siblings. Maybe because of the fact that we are still staying under one roof. But things are going to change soon, as my 2 elder brothers are getting married and moving out. But I do hope that the family and extended families will be as closely knitted as it is now.
I wish you and you family well, and hope you all get together more often.
@austere (2812)
• Philippines
4 Apr 07
i am very close to my siblings. actually to the whole family. Am a Filipina and in our culture, we have a very close family ties. I talk to my siblings about problems and relationships and we exchange gifts during christmas. We also help each other when there are problems in the family!:) hope everything in your situation will work out alright. i pray that the relationship will get better and you'll have time to see them too. Surely, they must be missing you too. Wherever you guys maybe, how far you maybe form each other, you will still be siblings no matter what!:)
@nageswari75 (675)
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3 Apr 07
Hey,I feel sad that you have to keep your kids out and away fron your parents and siblings.ofcourse,everyone of us has to make choices and we have too decide what we want for our kids.I don;t know how I would be if I were in your place.Simply because I have such a loving family.My parents are the best ever.I cannot imagine not having them as my parents.I have a very clsoe relationship with my two sisters.We are all married now and have kids of our own, but we still get together atleast once a year for a family vacation of about 2 weeks.I do agree with you though,when we are very close to our sisters/brothers,their choices do create rifts love evercomes them all.:)
me and my sisters ahve grown apart over the years since we all got married and set up our own families.But we still have the same love for each other.Infact,we all look forward to seeing each other very eagerly.I call my sisters once a week.we keep in regular touch.My family is my rock.I cannot imagine breaking myself away from them.A good family is a blessing indeed!:)
@Luciea (80)
• Canada
4 Apr 07
My brother and I use to be close when we were younger. However, the age difference is nearly 10 years. Eventually we drifted apart and now we rarely even talk. We're like strangers. I envy those who have a close friendship with their siblings, it's worth treasuring.
@Lauraleigh99 (4718)
• United States
3 Apr 07
Yes I do My brothers are 33 and 29 and I am 26 and I talk to them a few times a week or we at least go out to lunch or get together at each others houses to hang out! They are very good brothers to have They are still protective of me though. I think that is cute
@lingli_78 (12822)
• Australia
4 Apr 07
yeah..., i can say i am quite close with my siblings even though not very close... my elder brother stays in the same country like me... so we still call each other once in a while and go out for dinner or shopping... my younger brother is in singapore... so it is harder to keep in touch with him and i haven't seen him for 2 years now...
@retardedrugrat (4791)
• Canada
3 Apr 07
My sister and I HATED each other as kids. We would hit kick punch each other for no good reason lol.
To see us now you'd never believe it. Living overseas has changed a lot of things for me in terms of my relationship with my entire family and those close to me.
My sister and I are extremely close nowadays. We talk on the phone a lot and send regular text messages. We email each other two or three times a week too.
There have been times where I haven't been able to understand her reasoning for doing things, but I have sympathized with her.
She hasn't had an easy time of things and she suffered from quite bad post partum depression. Just being there for her through that has helped our relationship a lot.
I wouldn't change what we have now for the world.
@kurtbiewald (2625)
• United States
3 Apr 07
yeah
I see em at holidays
I am very close to my little sis
still fairly close to my older sibs, some kinda economic divide though, and educational divide also, and they are kind of snooty, thinking they are better than regular folks or something
I don't really understand it, some kind a divide though, maybe they care what people think more than what is actually real, maybe thats it
anyway, I still see them and I still like them, some distance there though, not entirely sure why, I have listed some guesses
@graciela (147)
• Canada
3 Apr 07
Up to now I've maintained a close realtionship with my siblings. Though we seldom see each other now,we try to keep in touch every now and then.
