How important are your siblings to you?

[slackerinabox]

I had a falling out with my sister about 3 years ago and, while I made my apologies, we're still not in touch... while I do regret not getting to know my niece/nephew better, we never ever really got along growing up. She was 7 years older then me so we never really related to each other growing up...There's a ton more drama i don't want to get into but, to keep it simple, some of it was my fault (or my choice of words), some of it was that my sister never really got me.

My question is - are you particularly close to your siblings? If you have had a falling out, how did it get resolved? In the grand scheme of thing, did it even matter much at all?

 

[glenn beck]

pics of sister?

 

[eldorado99]

I am reasonably close to my sister. We have completely separate lives but still manage to keep in touch. We do manage to do things together once in a while, usually its because she organizes it.

 

[Brainonska511]

I'd say I'm pretty close with my 2 brothers and we all get along fairly well. One's ~3 years older, the other is 5 years younger.

 

[Alienwho]

I'm not close to my siblings at all. This is due to choices that were made by them and personality conflicts amongst other things. I don't see us growing closer as we age but I'm not totally against the idea either. I wish I was closer to my brothers but don't really care at this point in my life.

 

[vshah]

i live with my sister right now

 

[Tremulant]

I'm very close to one of my brothers (18) and my sister (26). My other brother (12) is still young, so it's hard to relate to him.

 

[DougK62]

Your story is sad. I'm very close to both of my brothers and can't imagine it any other way. And we were most definitely NOT close when we were younger.

Call your sister! Tell her that you just want the past to be in the past and arrange to meet up with her. Life is too short, man.

 

[Leros]

My half siblings don't seem that close to me. I didn't grow up with them.

My little sister is probably one of the more important people in my life.

 

[zinfamous]

Call your sister! Tell her that you just want the past to be in the past and arrange to meet up with her. Life is too short, man.

my first thought as well. You never what's around the corner, and the regrets that just might pile up if it's suddenly too late.

believe me.

 

[Lola]

I like to think I am close to my brother, though I don't really know how close we truly are.

 

[slackerinabox]

Your story is sad. I'm very close to both of my brothers and can't imagine it any other way. And we were most definitely NOT close when we were younger.

Call your sister! Tell her that you just want the past to be in the past and arrange to meet up with her. Life is too short, man.

Wellll, the argument was first between me and her, then she forwarded those emailed arguments to my then fiance, in a "see who you're marrying?!" sort of way. Even after that I apologized for my word choice and she never wrote back...

I'm still feeling guilt about not knowing my nephew at all (met him once)... I guess it does bother me more than I let on

 

[2Xtreme21]

I'm not close at all with my brother. He's 16 (almost 17) and a waste of life-- no desire to get a job, never learned to drive, plays WoW til 4am, doesn't do well in school, etc. He's about 4 inches taller than me but I still get the impression that he is somewhat scared of me.

When I go over to my parent's house it's just awkward silence between us. When we were younger it was better, and I really hope it gets better when he gets older, but now it just sucks.

 

[skim milk]

hey man, I'd try to patch things up with your sister
family will always be there for you
for me, my sibling is very important in my life

 

[DrawninwarD]

I'm close to my brother. Or at least I was. We don't talk that often, but I think we're cool.

Not very close to my sisters though. It's not that I don't like them..... Meh.

 

[Cyco]

I'd say I am reasonably close to my brother. With the both of us in the military, we've mostly been thousands of miles apart which makes it difficult to stay in touch. That aside, I know that if I ever really needed him he'd be here in a second, and vice versa.

 

[nanette1985]

I'm not at all close to my older brother. He was in the military and when he got thrown out, he joined up with a bunch of neo-Nazi fanatics and now he spends his time in odd parts of the country planning heaven knows what. I read about him every so often in the news. He was really creepy growing up.

My younger sister and I were never close. We're 10 years apart, she was born very ill and I had to go live with my grandmother for several years while sister was sick. I don't really know her. We send holiday/birthday cards and she sends me postcards from her many vacations. She's said some really nasty things about my autistic son (she won't go to a family gathering if he's there etc) so I don't have much motivation to get to know her better.

I'm quite close to most of my cousins - that's my family.

 

[D1gger]

I am not close to my sister at all. We see each other maybe 3-4 times per year, and then it is usually so she can pick up the key to my cabin so she can use it for a vacation. We simply have nothing in common to keep us together.

My brother, who I hardly knew, died a little over two years ago and I found out more about him when I had to administer his estate that I ever knew about him when he was alive.

I do not have a good relationship with my family, and to be truthful I simply don't give a shit.

 

[dguy6789]

Not close to any of my siblings.

 

[AreaCode707]

I'd die for any of my three sisters. The one nearest to me in age is my best female friend and I prefer her company to almost anyone else's. The younger two are as special to me as my own kids would be (they are 12 years younger) and it's amazing to watch them grow into themselves.

Edit: Sis who is similar in age to me and I have lots of areas NOT in common so we bicker fairly regularly, and when we were younger used to have more serious fights. But part of a good relationship is maintaining it through those periods and growing stronger through the perseverance. Who knows their worth to you more? Someone you never fight with or someone you fight with and later swallow your pride because making up is more important to you than being right?

 

[Bibble]

My younger brother and I aren't very big fans of one another (or, at least, I'm not a big fan of his). We have completely different personalities and he puts our mother through a lot of grief. He was always a spoiled brat growing up, though he has improved somewhat in the past year or so.

My girlfriend and his on-again-off-again girlfriend are close friends and they say my brother and I have a lot more in common than I realize. Nevertheless, he was rarely nice to me between the ages of 7 and 15 and, though I've forgiven him, I don't see a reason why I should make an effort to be friends with him.

 

[Kadarin]

I have two older brothers (I'm 41, they're 43 and 44), and none of us are really close to each other. It's not that we've ever had a falling out or anything, but just that we're not especially close.

 

[Homerboy]

I'm very close to all 4 of my siblings. Family is family.

 

[Bill Brasky]

pics of sister?

There's the atot I know and love.

I've never had a falling out with anyone in the family I was close too. Maybe some extended family, but that doesn't really count.
edit: I just saw your second post. That's kinda fucked up she forwarded that stuff to your fiance... It seems like she was being childish and manipulative unless you deserved it. So did you?

 

[JulesMaximus]

I have a younger sister in upstate NY and a younger brother in Florida. I am very close with both of them despite the geographical distance between us.