Siblings

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Cumberdanes
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PostRe: Siblings
by Cumberdanes » Fri Jan 26, 2018 5:03 pm

Preezy wrote:
IAmTheSaladMan wrote:he has a tendency to get obsessed with things that he's into and never shuts up about them.

Is he on the spectrum? Sounds like a classic indicator.


Yeah, he is.

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Nibble
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PostRe: Siblings
by Nibble » Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:54 pm

Older brother: No contact for ~30 years.
Younger sister: No contact for ~25 years.
Younger brother: No contact for ~25 years.

Reason: All banana splits.

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PostRe: Siblings
by Death's Head » Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:07 am

Just one sister who is 4 years older than me. We've always got on OK. Probably see her about twice per year and speak to her about every 2 weeks (normally when she calls me as I'll always have some excuse for not calling her :oops: )

My wife does not get on with most of her siblings at all. 3 of her sisters she has no contact with at all and basically hates them, the 4th sister she tolerates and has a good relationship with her brother. This does sort of make me sad because I'm sure that when they or she dies, they will all regret the lost years.

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PostRe: Siblings
by darksideby182 » Sat Jan 27, 2018 3:22 pm

5 older brothers and 1 older sister i get on with all of the them and we all live pretty local which is nice.
One of my brothers i work with so speak with him all the time.

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PostRe: Siblings
by Saint of Killers » Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:31 pm

Lotus wrote:I've just been chatting with a colleague when, mid-conversation, her phone went. She answered and it was her sister, who she apparently doesn't get on with. She promptly told her to strawberry float off and then blocked her number. None of us knew she had a sister, and she just said they don't get along. Fair enough, and I didn't ask any more than that, but I can't imagine having a sibling and not being in touch with them.

Do you guys have siblings? If so, do you get on with them? What's the age gap? How often do you see them, etc? If you don't get along, why not?


I can. With nary an effort, in fact.

I don't talk to one of my brothers. We hate each other. It stemmed from my siblings having it in for me because I got things they didn't (I'm the youngest), and no doubt because I could be a bit of a gooseberry fool at times. But so can they yet I can relate to and talk to the others (my sister I hate almost as much but I still talk to her), to the second youngest of the family though... nope. Don't wanna know. He'll always be a inconsiderate pos.

edit: I don't wish him ill or anything like that. I just don't want him in my life.

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PostRe: Siblings
by Bunni » Sat Jan 27, 2018 7:03 pm

You ever really miss what you don't have. I've never been close to my sister, or my mother for that. It would be incredibly awkward trying to build that relationship for the sake of looking like those folk on the telly. And I don't feel I'm missing out or that ill necessarily regret it when they're not around because I'll not be pining for the long phone calls and lunches and days out because they simply don't happen. We have nothing in common and if we weren't related I certainly wouldn't bother becoming friends.

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PostRe: Siblings
by Clarkman » Sun Jan 28, 2018 8:30 pm

As an only child (one half-sister, crack head, met her twice), this thread is very reassuring to me.

Lots of people in my life have very close knit families, and it's refreshing to hear that people can cope fine at a distance or can cut people out who deserve to be cut out.

'Family is everything' seems such a popular narrative, but I guess it's all just advertising.


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