When I was younger, I was always jealous of my mom because she is one of six children. There are three brothers and three sisters. I only have my younger brother. When they all got together it seemed like they had so much fun, there was so much going on, and they got along so well, it seemed like my one brother was incredibly boring. In recent years however, my brother and I have gotten over that automatic dislike and constant bickering, and I realized that because it's just me and my brother, it just makes us more tightly bonded.
So I was wondering who has one sibling, or more, or none at all. Do you get along? Fight all the time? (Any ridiculous sibling rivalry stories?!) Do you know each other? Or are you complete strangers? If you don't have any siblings, do you feel like you are missing out? Do you like being an only child? Does that make you closer with your parents? Or are you more independant? Do your friends act as your siblings? Let's talk about feelings! Haha o.O (sorry, that was awkward, but I couldn't think of how to end the post...) Now stop laughing at my awkwardness and go post!
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Well I have one older brother who is 9 years older than me. We're not super close but we get along pretty well. I think that when we were younger we were a little closer because he really liked to try and "torture" me, what he liked to refer to as his brotherly duty. His biggest form of amusement was to take my stuffed animals and put them in the freezer, on the blades of the ceiling fan, or any other convenient place he could find that was out of reach for little me. When I was little it drove me crazy and I do believe it made me cry a few times too. Now that I'm older he can't do this anymore because one, I'm taller and two, I don't have many stuffed animals for him to take anymore and no good alternatives. He used to try to drive me crazy, but I always knew he was there for me too. I remember one time when he was being a butt and he took my stuffed panda bear and I tried to grab it back. In our scuffle my bears leg ripped off and I started crying. My brother had no idea how to sew, but he got my mom's sewing basket and sewed my bears leg back on...This may have mostly been so I wouldn't tell on him, but I still knew I could count on him. He has also come to my rescue before when I got a flat tire for the first time and didnt know what to do. My brother and I arn't super close, which I guess is partly because of the big age gap and that I don't see him that often, but I know if I needed him he'd still be there.
As I've said before on this blog, I have a twin sister, and that's it. We get along very well, and are extremely close, but we also bicker a lot. Sometimes it drives me nuts, but I think it's just part of our relationship.
When I say incredibly close, I mean it. We're finishing-each-other's-sentences close. We've never developed a secret language, like you hear of some twins doing, but the complex system of in-jokes, references, and codenames that we've developed can function as one, if we need it to.
I suppose having Claire makes me less reliant on Mom and Dad. If I have a problem, she's often the first one I tell about it. But I also think that my relationship with her also brings me closer to Mom and Dad. (Not sure how that works yet.)
I'm the youngest of four girls in my family and yes I know "my poor dad" as many people have commented before. Anyways all four of us are close with each other for the most part. My oldest sister lives in AZ so I guess you could say that us younger three are closer to each other than to her. We've never really been strangers to each other, but I can definitely say that we've gotten closer as we've gotten older. I'm thirteen years apart from my oldest sister so I never really was close to her until high school because we never had much in common. I mean when she was graduating from high school, I was graduating from pre-school!
I never really fought with my two oldest sisters because we never in the same age group I guess. As for my least oldest we have definitely had our share of fights. Mostly just over stupid things when we were kids like calling each other names and taking each other's toys. In high school our biggest fights were caused because we took the other's clothes without asking or one of us was in the shower too long so the other couldn't get in. We usually never stayed mad for too long or we'd just end up laughing in the middle of the fight.
I still sometimes get into arguments with my two sisters that live here, but they never last long.
I have one little brother, and I think having him in my life has made my life a lot more interesting. We get along really well, but since he is so much younger than me, he seems to often finds ways to annoy me, which leads to plenty of bickering. He'd always want to do the things I get to do, and so he constantly nags me to let him do certain things. Also, he loves to tattle on me and report everything I've done to my parents. However, I guess that comes with the territory of being an elementary shool aged kid. Besides pestering me, he is such a great little brother. He is really considerate and always cheers me up when I'm feeling down. It is so relaxing sometimes just to play with him and not worry about all the "adult-ish" things I have to do. It's also kind of nice having him look up to me all the time :).
I really enjoy having a sibling, but I don't really know if I'd like having a big family with lots of siblings. Just bickering with my brother sometimes is already more than I want to handle.
I have an older sister who is seven years older than me and an older brother who is five years older than me. As we grew up, they were the people I wanted to be just like. They were annoyed by me, but also loved picking on me. I think that's just the older sibling's justification for the younger sibling's being so obnoxious.
Now I want to be just like my sister. I have good reasons, and it's also not that I don't want to be like my brother. I just relate ridiculously well to my sister. I'm close to my sister emotionally, but we don't talk often. My brother and I aren't close like we used to be, because he has his own family. I certainly miss the days when we were growing up.
My brother picked on me the most when we were young. Mostly I remember the headlocks and me begging him to stop, however he was "torturing" me at the time. My sister was older, but sometimes decided to join him in picking on me. It toughened me up, maybe, but I often forgave them immediately because I idolized them.
I love them more than anything, and I am so thankful I have them as siblings.
I have a younger brother named Dominic, and he just turned thirteen, so yah he's cranky and secretive. We go through our stages, but I would say that we generally get along very well. I think we have grown apart recently because we're at such different junctions in our life, plus I'm not at home that often. When we are together though it's pretty easy to relax and talk, although like I said he doesn't really disclose that much information. We don't really have that many sibling rivalry contests anymore because we don't have the same interests. He's better than me at video games and drawing, but I got him in school and running. We just kind of know and accept both of our individual talents. I think that maybe I need to try and reestablish a better bond with him, but it's kind of hard when we don't have that much in common. All I know is that I love my brother and would do anything within my power to help him.
I've got two older siblings, one brother and one sister. My sister and I are pretty close. She's 5 years older than me, and, though we fight and bicker sometimes, I can always count on her. When I was younger, I thought my sister was so cool and would always hang around when she brought her friends over, which I now realize probably drove her crazy. She is more assertive (sometimes aggressive) than I am. A quality that once allowed her to pick on me when I was younger, but that she now uses to stick up for me.
My brother and I are not as close. He is 10 years older than me and is my half-brother, so he was raised by his mom. I don't know if it's the age difference, the fact we grew up in different houses, or a combination of the two, but we were never extremely close. Despite that, I love both of my siblings and can count on both of them for almost anything.
I have one sister who is 3 years older than me. Growing up we did everything together. We played imaginary games, we learned together, and yes, we did fight sometimes but we also talked about everything. She is someone who really understands me. We had a very close sisterly bond and I always really looked up to her.
I'd have to say that since we were the only two siblings in the family, it made us really close. I love my sister, but I've always actually wanted more siblings. I remember when I was younger, I loved watching the old Walton's re-runs. (haha, okay I like old tv shows... don't laugh) I fell in love with the Walton family. They had seven children and it was so awesome how close all of them were. They were always there for each other to play or talk or support each other and I just find that really intriguing. I wonder what it would be like to be part of a big family like that.
So, all in all, I love my sister to death. And I'm very thankful for the connection I have with my family mostly due to our size. (But maybe I still wish I had had the chance to grow up with more siblings. :)
I have an older sister and a younger brother. Depending on the day, we will all get along wonderfully or we won't. Whether we like it or not, there is a lot of competition between us. We all play sports and went to the same schools. My sister is only a year older so it has always been hard to get along with her. As much as I love her there is always that rivalry among us which I believe had made us grow further apart when we were younger. We'd always fight and bicker and never really knew how to get along with one another. Recently, it has gotten better thought which is nice.
I only have one older brother and his name is Brendon. We get along very well. As we were growing up, he was more of my protector because he was the person that was always with me since my parents were divorced. As we've grown older, we have become very very close friends as well. I tell my brother everything (almost) :) and he is my voice of reason.
We know each other like the back of our hands (cliche, i know). We discuss everything, so there is not much left to wonder about. We do not fight at all and if we do it lasts a total of five minutes maybe until one of us appologizes. My brother has a huge influence in my life because I trust his judgement so much! I'm so happy that he is my brother and that I only have one sibling. It has given us the oppurtunity to always have a very close relationship.
I have a brother and a sister. I am the oldest, my brother is 2 years younger than me, and my sister is 8 years younger than me. I get along great with my brother, with the exceptions of the times that one of us is joking about wanting to fight for some stupid reason, and the other really does want to fight. My sister and I also get along great, she takes after me in a lot of ways, and likes the activities I participate in, and I encourage her in those same activities.
The funny thing is, that despite liking both my siblings and both my siblings liking me, they cannot stand to be in the same room with one another without fighting in someway. I am a peacemaker. Well that's not entirely true, I don't come up with a good compromise, what I do is I choose the side of the person I agree with. The best part is that my sister lives in this constant state of everything being my brother's fault, so I'm not blamed ever, and my brother realizes my father is on my sister's side always (daddy's little girl) and he can't blame we without somehow getting in trouble.
My siblings are hilarious, I love them both very much. The situation is just a cool bonus.
I have two younger brothers, who are twins, and an older sister. Let me start by saying, my brothers are 15, hormonal, and most definitely the average teenage boy. They think its fun to chase eachother around and punch one another. Needless to say, thats pretty embarrassing because they don't even behave around strangers most of the time.
My sister and I however used to have worse fights then punching, we would use words, which for family can be worse. The reason I say that is because you know exactly what pushes the other persons buttons and therefore can piss them off more easily. However, now that she lives in another country we do not fight at all. I know that sounds funny, but for the few months before she left we never bickered and actually hung out as friends. The best thing about family is you love them no matter what, thats all i have to say!
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