Do you have a good relationship with your siblings?
i have 2 sisters, one older, one younger. i am only a year and a half younger than the oldest and 8 years older than the youngest.
We get a long really good now that we are older..27 (almost), 25 (me), 18. i would say they are my best friends....but mainly my older sister...my little sis is still too young to hear about all i have done!
but as younger girls we were the hellatious Three!
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I am 24 and my brother is 22 and we don't even acknoweledge that eachother exist, I guess he likes it like that but we just pass eachother at faimly gatherings and say hello and make small talk but we are not close at all, we we're untill I was about 16 ever since then we just wen't our seperate ways, it's werid.
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do you regret that? do you want a better relationship with him?
Sometimes but I don't lose sleep over it, he is in a weird age right now and I think he is very depressed and shutting everyone out, I hope he gets over it soon. He only calls when he needs to barrow money so I have no respect for our relationship. Plus we are 2 different people and he has a hard time accepting people who are different to him so it's his loss not mine. But as a mother I would wan't my children to be very close.
My sister and I are so polar opposite that even the family jokes that we could not have come from the same parents.
Unfortunately, while I wish so much that I had a sister and best friend wrapped up in one, it is difficult for me to understand or cope with the complexities of BPD. My daughter has also been diagnosed with the same affliction. Don't know if anyone else is familiar with this disorder, but it makes it near impossible to get "too close" to those suffering from it.
I've purchased the book called Walking on Eggshells in an attempt to better educate myself on the subject. There is no cure…but perhaps if I work a little harder at acquiring some patience and a better understanding of it, there will still be hope for a better relationship between us in the future. It's just A LOT of work and quite frankly, I'm all tuckered out!
Dysfunction - the "gift" that keeps giving. That one's for Meanon!
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I have no brothers but I have one older sister I'm 24 and she is 32. We are eight years apart and when I was younger at first she took me under her wing, then once i got to my 5-8 she would pick on me. Then once she hit an "adult" age she would always look out for me.
She has been there for me through thick and thin, through my drug abuse problem, bad marriage, ect. I love my sis and would do anything for her as well. She's had a "normal" life, she's the "normal" one of the family but we are extremely close, we fight at times and argue as do any siblings but I wouldn't trade her for the world.
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Do you have a good relationship with your siblings?
SO yeap i have a close relationship with my sister.
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My sister and I are quite distant from each other - not just geographically, but emotionally as well. I can forgive her for the way she treated me 30+ years ago...but she is still "picking" on me. I do wish we had a close, healthy relationship, but every time one of us tried, something always happens to mess it up. It feels better to me just to keep a lot of distance there.
We're not enemies or at each other's throats - but let's just say, I talk more to my mailman and my dentist than I talk to my sister.
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Unfortunately, while I wish so much that I had a sister and best friend wrapped up in one, it is difficult for me to understand or cope with the complexities of BPD. My daughter has also been diagnosed with the same affliction.
I've purchased the book called Walking on Eggshells in an attempt to better educate myself on the subject.
Dysfunction - the "gift" that keeps giving. That one's for Meanon!
I have three brothers and three sisters (blended fam)
brother 15 - yeah, close, I take him to school every day.
brother 26 - sorta, he's always in trouble (jail, drugs) we talk at times, some more than others
brother 30-something - don't talk except for family gatherings
sister 29 (5 months older than me ) - talk about every two weeks, hang out and do stuff (with our kids)
sister 30- don't talk except for family gatherings
sister 30-something - don't talk except for family gatherings
I'm not missing much. No big deal to me.
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Gosh, most of you might now that I am super close to my sisters. I have my little sister (11) who is part of my heart, we share both parents, I would do anything for her. Then I have my big sister (24) who I love so much. She's not actually my sister, she's my cousin but my mom adopted her when she was a few months old because my aunt was not being responsible and she was real young. Anyways I see her as 100% my sister and if she were not around I think my life would be boring. Now she lives about 2 hours away but we talk every day!!!
Then on my dad's side He has a lot of daughters and one son. He had them before he got married with my mom. I only get along with one of the girls (42) and the only boy(40) he has. But it's not the same as my two sisters. My half sister once told my ex husband's mom that I was cheating on him, which was not true. I still talk to her but I hold resent for that!!!
am the youngest of six siblings (think Mexican Brady Bunch, and I'm Cindy, lol). They are 5-12 years older than me, so I pretty much was raised as an only child -- I'm closer to their kids than them. Safest thing to say is that I love them, but they drive me nuts in their own little ways.
the absolute worst part of it is that even though I'm going to be 39, they still act like I don't have a lick of sense and they've got to tell me what to do. I HATE THAT
thank God for my best friends, I don't know how I'd have survived without them!
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Lol. We don't see eachother that much.
I do love my brother, but he's at college. We used to hate eachother, but as we have matured over the years, we can talk like civil human beings with out worrying about whose side of the car who is on. ;-)
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I'm choosing to have no contact with the threads involving no contact. Is that healthy?
I am 25 and my sister is 21 (same parents) we are pretty close even though we live states away. My half sister 11 and brother 9 are close to me too. I live in AZ and they live in ID so we talk pretty often as we can.
My daughter who is 2 has the same birthday as my sister who is 21, so that's pretty special to us too.
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What did SHE just say (and she said it out loud)?!?
Love is an easy word to say.
Make him prove it with his actions.
He has a lot of daughters and one son. He had them before he got married with my mom. I only get along with one of the girls (42) and the only boy(40) he has. But it's not the same as my two sisters. My half sister once told my ex husband's mom that I was cheating on him, which was not true. I still talk to her but I hold resent for that!!!
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