We don't talk about this much but....

[Linda]

Do you have siblings? Do you get along?

I have 3 sisters and 1 brother. We all get along fine with the exception of 1 sister!!!

I love her dearly but she is the type of person who has to be RIGHT ALL OF THE TIME. It took me many years to just walk away from her instead of arguing

[catseye]

I have one brother, he is sooooo much older then me though that we really have never had a "sibling" relationship... By the time I was old enough to know he was my brother, living in our house, he was moving out... LOL He is 12 years older then me, me thinks I was an OOOOPS!! LOL

Our relationship is ok, but he is really really irresponcible!! To the point that even though I am the youngest (usually oldest get this privelage) I am the magistrate of my dad's will... AND my brother this last year has been borrowing from my dad against his future inheritance... He is 10 grand behind RIGHT NOW, and dad is VERY healthy!!

cat

[kstquilter]

i have one brother who is 18 mos younger than i am. which he is quick to remind me of every time i see him!!
we fought all the time as kids but once i left home, we became friends are still are. i'm truly lucky to have such a great guy for a brother. of course i try to never tell him that!!! no i really do tell him! we pick on each other alot but it's all in fun now.
my hair has been gray for a long time now and he does't have much gray. he had brain surgery several years ago, (he's fine, thank God) and the side they had to shave has more gray hair!!! so i always point that out when i see him! tell him he's catching up with me! now the rest of his hair is catching up with that spot! yippee!!!
he's also still in the same town that my mom is in so he looks after her and does little things she needs done. i was his best man at his wedding too!
in fact he's coming sometime next week to help do things around our house. he owns his own business and is a carpenter. so when his jobs slow down, we hire him for a few days at a time!
not sure what i did to deserve him but awful glad i have him!
karen

[Blue Oreo]

she is the type of person who has to be RIGHT ALL OF THE TIME. It took me many years to just walk away from her instead of arguing

I HAVE 3 SISTERS AND 1 BROTHER..


OMG you have my sister Suzanne at your house.. ;D when she gets pissy, she says we cant see my neices anymore. But that only lasts a few days, cause she ALWAYS wants something, like a BABYSITTER.. and comes crawling back, but never says "I'm sorry I was wrong" that would worls shattering if she did.

My other sisters I get along fine with, one is an airhead and I swear our milkman had fun with mom while my dad was away, cause Jan's "Happy Meal" is missing some french fries.. ;D Regan is the best sister, she and I are really close, in fact I am driving the 13 hours on the ALCAN highway to go see her and collect Cassie from Bible Camp from her.

My Brother I havent heard from since 93 , no one knows where he is in Oregon. He was angry we all moved back up here to Alaska. He was asked to come with us, I have tried over the years to get his phone number, but no luck . My cousins down there havent seen him in years also. I traveled down there to find him at his last home, but it was empty and he had moved. Maybe one day I can find him again, we got along great, growing up we always went to movies :Dafter work on the weekends, I miss him alot. . He looks like Mr. SPock on Star Trek...

[Blue Oreo]

\[glow=red,2,300]she is the type of person who has to be RIGHT ALL OF THE TIME. It took me many years to just walk away from her instead of arguing [/glow]
I HAVE 3 SISTERS AND 1 BROTHER..


OMG you have my sister Suzanne at your house.. ;D when she gets pissy, she says we cant see my neices anymore. But that only lasts a few days, cause she ALWAYS wants something, like a BABYSITTER.. and comes crawling back, but never says ;I'm sorry I was wrong her little world would shatter if she did.

My other sisters I get along fine with, one is an airhead and I swear our milkman had fun with mom while my dad was away, cause Jan's "Happy Meal" is missing some french fries.. ;D Regan is the best sister, she and I are really close, in fact I am driving the 13 hours on the ALCAN highway to go see her and collect Cassie from Bible Camp from her.

My Brother I havent heard from since 93 , no one knows where he is in Oregon. He was angry we all moved back up here to Alaska. He was asked to come with us, I have tried over the years to get his phone number, but no luck . My cousins down there havent seen him in years also. I traveled down there to find him at his last home, but it was empty and he had moved. Maybe one day I can find him again, we got along great, growing up we always went to movies :Dafter work on the weekends, I miss him alot. . He looks like Mr. SPock on Star Trek... [/quote]

[tridlette]

Brother 12 yrs. older than me... he will 52 in a few weeks!!! ;D ;D ;D Roger was the brother I always felt the closest to, could talk to him about most anything serious. He was paralyzed in an accident (rock climbing) in 1992 and he lives in New Mexico. So, I have only seen him 2 times in the last 13 yrs. But, he is still the one I feel most emotionally close to.

Sister 10 yrs older than me... she got married when I was in 2nd grade... I was really hurt by her when she didn't let me be in her wedding. We had done everything together until that point. It was like losing the most important person in my life at the age of 8. Her DH (that is " Drunk hubby") beat her on a regular basis and then dragged her off to Florida where the family couldn't "poison her mind" against him. I didn't even recognize her the day she came home 7 yrs. later and knocked on my parents front door. She asked to see "Mom" and I told her MY mom was napping, she could stop by some other time! She was the one hurt then! We finally mended fences, and we are friendly now. But she lives in Utah and I only see her at funerals. She "kindly" called the hotel for my Aunt's funeral, and changed my reservation from a queen size room to a 2 double room, so that we could "share" the experience. We did have a nice visit, but I wanted my privacy.

Sister 7 yrs older... she took up the reins when A. got married. We did a lot of fun stuff together as kids. She took me to work with her, on dates, to movies, drinking, bar hopping, everywhere. We then got to be really close. I idolized her. Did everything in an effort to be just like Linda. Then... suddenly... when I was pregnant with Michael, she decided to sign herself into detox. Left me with no "friend" and the responsibility to keep her job for her for two months. She ran a township department and didn't want the town fathers to know she was "absent". So I did the book keeping, billing, scheduling, EVERYTHING for her including running her ambulance calls too. All while pregnant. No "thank you" or anything. And after that the relationship was strained. When she finally had her baby a yr. later, we were friendly again, but never the same. I felt very betrayed when she started drinking again. And she continues to do things that are contridictory to who she used to be. I was really furious at her 5 yrs ago when Mom and Dad were celebrating 50 yrs together, and she wouldn't even speak to Roger! She was RUDE to me when I cried after he left. I have tried to be polite since then, but...

Then dear old Dennis... he is the ADHD with a capital HHe has no concept of time, family, responsibility. He is the person that Connor used to define the Connor scale! Impulsive, scatterbrained, disruptive, can't sit still, nothing ever finished, call to say, "I am sitting in your driveway, can I come in to use your bathroom?" and then never show up at the door! This is the brother I cherish. He will give you the shirt off his back (if he remembered to put one on this morning). He will spend his last dollar to buy you a soda pop. He will miss his own job interview to give you a ride home in a rain storm. BUT DON'T WAIT for him to get around to doing something he promised! He told me he would plow my driveway when we got 37 inches of snow in 1996. It still isn't plowed!

I would talk to him plenty, but he can't remember his cell phone # and he forgot to pay his home phone bill, so that was disconnected years ago. The last time I visited him, I called his boss and asked him to give Dennis mandatory overtime and keep him in the office for me! Of course he was there! I then had him change the oil and anti freeze in my car to "earn" the overtime pay! (he is a mechanic).

Dennis is a great person to be with, he is full of life, knows everyone, is the life of the party. Just isn't predictable or reliable. He has been hurt badly over the years because of relationship troubles with my parents and with "ladies" in his life. My dad is very flat. He has never said "I love you" to anyone. And Dennis has suffered from that. Roger followed in Dad's foot steps as an engineer. He was the "chosen" son. Dennis always felt second class. We all spent many years trying to give him the love he felt he was missing out on.

But Dennis, I told you he would give you the shirt... his X girl friend was badly beaten when she was 8 months pregnant with her husband's baby. Her DH was in jail when the baby was born with severe injuries. Dennis was there for the delivery, he was there around the clock holding the Mom, comforting her. He stayed with them for months after she brought her sick little girl home. He combed lice out of the girl's hair when she brought them home from day care. He paid for the mom to get a car, paid for her college education (he has never been to college himself) and he fed that baby, nursed her when she was sick. And he hung pictures in her house of her derelict father who is in jail for attempted murder and child abuse, so she would know her daddy.

Yeah, he is a profound ADHD guy, but he is the best!

Sorry so long, but I have a big family! Just be glad I didn't go on about DH's 7 siblings! ;D

[camismom]

OMG Linda... remember, you asked! This takes me having to revive the soap opera past of my life for those that don't remember:

My mom and dad divorced before I was born. They had my older bro before that.... so I have one full sibling. I hate him....we never got along growing up... we don't now. He was alwas a freak. Went from being a sick pervert exposing himself to me, to a bible toting nut that preached all the time to me telling me everything I did I'd go to hell for....back to a tattoed, ear-pierced, lived with his now wife that is 12 years his senior for a year before marriage, thingyy jerk. He treats our grandmother with more love and respect than he does our mom.

Mom and dad both remarried after their divorce and both had another daughter with the new spouses. So, two half sisters. The youngest I grew up with so I never viewed her as a "half" sister. We get along, but she is six years younger than me and has always been extremely babied by my mother. EXTREMELY. I do not agree with alot of things she does and don't think she is doing the best job with raising my twin nieces (they are almost four and you can't understand a word they say when they talk.... and can we say wild and spoiled? GEEZ!), but ultimately we get along.

My oldest half-sis thru dad I didn't meet until 14. She is one year younger than me. She didn't know I existed until we met. We are VERY close now. She's the one in NC that used to live in Myrtle Beach. I am the godmother to her two beautiful little girls.

Then last, there is my step-brother from my dad's current wife. I was 18 and he was 15 when our parents married. This is my brother Tim that is in Iraq. Though he is really a step, we are very close too and I don't think of him or refer to him in that way.

So, there you have it. Ain't families grand? Good thing we can pick our friends! ;D ;D ;D

[Linda]

My younger sister Dawn is 8 years younger than myself. We are extremely close We both laugh at the same things and we don't care who is looking despite the despair of my HAVE TO BE RIGHT SISTER ;D ;D ;D

[mothercat]

I have 2 sisters and one brother.

Sister 1 ....is one year older than me....she is classified nutcase and we get along sometimes..she always has to be right and knows everything yet she doesn't work...mooches all their food and money off my folks, always has my folks car except when they bring it home for dad to gas up, dumps her mentally slow adhd daughter on my folks daily and has done so since the girl could walk(she is 17), smokes weed on top of her 5 psychological diagnosis's , and is into wicken stuff. (need I say more)

Brother ...is one year younger and we get along good
even though we dont get to see much of each other...he just moved to Texas. (met a nice lady on line and they plan to marry soon)

Sister 2....is somewhat younger..I think 4 yrs younger but we are not and never have been real close..she is kinda mean hearted and spoilt. She wants gramma put in a nursing home (and her inheritence) and mom and dad divorced so she can have mom all to herself. She lives in NC and is on her third husband...cant seem to keep one. She irons her families underwear...how could I get along with someone who is that obsessive. ;D

[kurs10b]

I have a sister who is 6 years older than me. She didnt really associate with me when we were kids. I was just a little pain in the butt. When I was 20 or so, we lived in a duplex together for about a year. We got along fine. We can both be witches with a capital B, but we werent usually like that to each other. She moved out of the country for several years and is now back in the area. We talk on the phone at least once a week if not more and email each other.

My brother is 1 1/2 years older than me. He used to beat me up sometimes, and play with me at other times. He looked out for me in highschool, but rarely would drive me to school. I knew everyone because he knew everyone, and his friends all liked me. He also lives in the general area, but is always on the move doing this or that. I dont talk to him that much, but do see him and his family on holidays and some birthdays.

[finnmom]

I´am sorry my family sound´s pretty laim after all these prescription´s, but I LOVE THEM

I´am a country girl, been raised and lived my 20 first year´s in a farm. I have 1 sister, she´s year and half younger than I am. She´s still singel, she has had fiance´(not sure how to spell that one ) for 10 year´s, but I can´t see them getting married at all, their relationship is more practical than romantic: it´s nice to have someone "on hold" if you need avec or someone to change tire´s or.... you get the pic She´s...... I love her but she has her mood´s ;D She lives an hour drive away, but we see each other´s really much.

Then there is my brother, 6 year´s younger than I am, " a boy" ;D He was total image of my son almost 20 year´s ago, had the very same problem´s that ds is having, so you can tell he´s adhd all right. He is married to this really lovely women, they live in the country´s capital, we dont actualy see so much of them but every time it´s possible we get together. He share´s my ds´s interest to history, world war´s etc. and love´s to talk with him about those thing´s. He is doing o´kay dispate all the difficultie´s so there is light in the end of the tunnel....

Growing up with them was fun; we fought and played together, being the oldest of them I did grow up a bit tomb boy-way but it sure was fun

I think we get along the better the older they get

[Linda]

I was a tom boy for awhile too Marga but that all changed when I was about 13. ;DMy brother is 3 years older than me and I was a real pain to him at that age. He would bring his buddies home and I would tease them because they were cute ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Allanque]

I have one brother 3 years older than I am. We tend to get along fairly well and we both have the same kind of personality. This kind of conversation was quite common for us (and still is):

Him: You're not gonna tell Mom about this, are you?
Me: Tell Mom about what?
Him: 'zactly!

[finnmom]

linda said:

I was a tom boy for awhile too Marga but that all changed when I was about 13. ;DMy brother is 3 years older than me and I was a real pain to him at that age. He would bring his buddies home and I would tease them because they were cute ;D ;D ;D ;D

My cousin lifed in our neighbour farm and i did that same to him, I thought his friend´s were cute too

[Linda]

Oh ;D and did I mention my brother's nickname for me was "Little LuLu"....I hated it ;D ;D ;D ;D