View Full Version : Did you get along with your siblings?


Culture Club Freak
4-04-03, 02:07 PM
Me and My sisters have always been at each others' throats.Not so much when we were younger but , now were at eachothers throats almost everyday.

Rhelawen
4-04-03, 02:17 PM
I only have one sibling, a younger brother. He was hell on wheels as a kid, and drove me absolutely crazy. We got into some amazing fights, and I'm surprised there were no broken bones, just a little bloodshed now and then. The phrase I hated most when I was younger was "You're the oldest, you should know better." Seemed my parents always took his side, so needless to say, there were many surruptitious beatings that took place out of my parents' range of sight/hearing. :mwaha:

Now that he lives in California, and we only see each other once or twice a year, we get along great! Good thing too, because he'd probably kick my ass now. :lol:

Tinajo
4-04-03, 02:42 PM
LOL!! My sister (6 years older than me) and I are MORTAL ENEMIES... We have been since childhood and it's worse now.. we can't stand the sight of each other and we avoid seeing each other for the holidays.. which sucks because I never get to see my nephew and neices anymore.. she's just the ultimate bitch and would do anything to make sure that her kids have no contact with me (I haven't seen them in 3 years)

Now that I am having a baby.. she hasn't called once to congratulate me on being pregnant... and when I send her cards for her or the kids birthdays, she tells my mother that I never sent them anything. My mother knows the truth of course.. she has watched me mail the kids birthday cards out to them and when she calls to wish them a happy birthday, she asks them if they got a card from their Aunt Tina and they always say NO... So my sister throws my cards away and lies to the kids.. its okay.. when they are old enough to leave her house.. she'll regret it.. they'll leave her as soon as they can..

When we were kids, she would beat me up constantly.. I was no stranger to black eyes and bruises.. my parents have always seen her as a disappointment.

djdaffy1227
4-04-03, 02:47 PM
I love my 2 sisters and 1 brother and we get along famously. :)

Mary
4-04-03, 02:56 PM
Clickin' the Only Child button :cry:

I was raised with my cousin for several years, after my mom & her mom got divorced and moved home, and we are like sisters. She is 3 1/2 years younger than me. We are still very close. (she is my beautiful nephews' mama! ;) )

We got along great most of the time, but we did fight, especially over normal sister stuff like "She messed up my stuff / colored in my coloring book / broke the head off my Stormtrooper action figure" etc. I pushed her down the stairs a lot when she was a toddler! :devil: :lol: Still, I loved her very much, and I wouldn't let anyone else beat on her ;)

Roemello
4-04-03, 03:14 PM
Sometimes, but it was rare back then. My sister had it in for me the moment I was born :laugh: Since the day she told me she was pregnant with her first kid though, we've been fairly close...that was about 13 years ago :)

DC Rebel
4-04-03, 03:32 PM
Well, do I get along with my younger brother? I would have to say sometimes. I can stand being around him for a bit, then I just have to get away from him. We are both very hot headed and have short fuses. He loses his temper more than I do, but mine are a bit more explosive than his.

My father's rule about fighting was very simple. If you are going to fight, then take it outside. No blood will be spilled inside the house. I do not think there was a fight between me and my brother in which blood was not spilled.

However, boys will be boys. Fight first, then ask questions later.

Poison PJ
4-04-03, 03:53 PM
Other Then When I Blew Up Most Of My Sister's Barbies, Her, My Brother & Myself Have Always Gotten Along Pretty Good

Dancingdoll1986
4-04-03, 04:55 PM
I have 2 bothers, Matt who's 32 and Mike who's 26. Matt and I did NOT get along at all when we were growing up. I pushed him off the rocks in the backyard and gashed his head open. (I did get him inside to mom, though.) He hit me over the head with a VERY large dictionary, and punched me in the stomach at dinner one night.

We were complete opposites and hated each other. Mikey I loved. I named him.

Now that we are older, we get along great. I may not have loved him when we were younger, but he's really turned out to be a great brother. Mikey, it goes without saying, is a great kid. I am VERY glad that I had brothers and no sisters to compete with. :)

Brand1974
4-04-03, 05:30 PM
I would have to say yes. I have a sister who is 4 years older than I, and a step-brother who is 6 years younger than I. So, being the middle child kind of sucked. Of course, that didn't really happen until my teen years.

My sister and I got along very well. With my parents divorced at such a young age, it was my sister that I looked up to growing up. I remember hanging out with her and her friends a lot as she was in her senior year in high school. I was only in 6th grade and 13. I hung out with her more than my own friends that I made. I remember the first time I got drunk was at one of her college parties when I was 17. Damn, I puked everywhere in her and her roomates apartment. The thing is, I never really had a father figure or older brother in my life, so I always took after her. Now that we are older, I feel we have drifted a bit since she is married, and expecting her first child any day now. But, we still get a long.

Recker
4-04-03, 05:44 PM
I voted sometimes. I had two sisters and my youngest one I was very close to, but the older of the two I didn't really get along with. All though we are on good terms these days, we are still not particularly close as we are just too different.

Caligula
4-04-03, 05:44 PM
I had one brother 6 years older than me who died (drowned in a snowmobile accident )when I was 10 and I have a sister who is a year and half younger than me.

I don't remember ever having serious fights with Robin he was alot older and always doing his thing. Of course I would have been a pain in his ass sometimes just being an annoying kid, but he get me into listening to all his 70's music and he played alot of sports with me. He was alot better althelete than me. If I made a school team I was average to mediocre, he was always the star player.

My sister and I are very different and fought alot (not physical) especially during high shcool. My parents split up when I was in grade 5, and I lived with my father and she lived with my mother. she ended up moving back in high school and we clashed . Vicki was one grade behind me, and we hung out in totally different circle, she enjoyed ratting me out to my father , and I would pick on her and her friends.

We are totally different even as kids, I played with everyone and acted as normal boy does , running, fighting, horsingaround. She was always pouting and never had more than one friend at a time, and if a third person tired to enter their circle she would hate them.

Today we along, but will have our arguments, and she alway complaining that i'm the favorite child. I think I am too ,but thats cause I'm honest and upfront with my parents , and IMHO she's phoney and sneaky and has pulled off some stupid stunts in the past


:)

Slayergrrl
4-04-03, 07:07 PM
Originally posted by Mary
Clickin' the Only Child button :cry:


Me too! I have an older cousin who treated me like a little sister. Still does!! I also have two step-Brothers. They are a lot older than me. We get along fine when we see each other. :)

Opheliarose
4-04-03, 07:30 PM
When My Brother and me were growing up, we fought all the time, but now we get along pretty well :)

Iluvthe80s
4-04-03, 07:57 PM
I have one younger sister and when we were kids we had our typical arguments as siblings will have. Now that we are older, we get along fine.

80sTrivia
4-04-03, 08:50 PM
I have an older sister and we have always been extremely close. I was a bit of a brat to her when I was young, as most little brothers are, but as we grew older, we became closer. I see my sister practically every day, as she doesn't live very far from me. We go out to eat at least once a week and plan activities to do on the weekend. We used to travel quite a bit together, going to Europe, Mexico, South America, etc., but there hasn't been much time for that lately. I've always been happy that I had an older sibling to look up to over the years. :)

RetroMan
4-04-03, 09:50 PM
I'm a few years younger than my bro and I got away with sheer murder believe me!! whenever there was a incident eg. broken windows, toys left all over the floor, something knocked off the shelf and broken etc. I would always hang the blame on my brother and my parents would always believe me (I had the 'innocent face' down to perfection) heh heh :lol: I bet he hasn't forgotten all those times too, I better keep watching my back!

Believe it or not, we rarely 'seriously' fought growing up together, in fact when we did fight it was just a matter of grappling and throwing your opponent to the ground and administering 'dead arms' and 'dead legs' (hitting hard with the middle knuckle extended) it was quite painful, but only temporary ;) nothing serious.

Tydestra
4-05-03, 08:37 PM
I'm the youngest of 5 kids. There's a 19 yr difference between myself and my sister. Boy was she ever pissed when I was born!
My brothers basically used me to lie for them. I also was the lab rat for stuff they made up in the kitchen. They never let me play with it, thou when they wanted my stash of candy, they were really nice to me.

But ah... then I grew up. :mwaha:
My 2nd elest brother ruined one of my dresses that I was going to wear for a school dance (not the prom) . I, in return, called all the girls he was juggling. Four, in total and let them know about eachother. I told them where my brother worked and they all ripped him to shreds. I showed up and video taped the whole thing. :mwaha:

All 3 read my diary out loud in the house, in front of my 'rents and I got grouned (I vented a lot, the usual kid stuff about my 'rents).
Well that week, my brother got married and left on his honeymoon... I gave my sister in law a video tape of my brother when he was a kid (running around naked, stupid pranks, him bragging about "conquest").

And the one closest to me, well we got into some awesome fights. I got my butt handed to me until I was 14, but then those M.A classes started to pay off.

My brothers are extremely nice to me now... I wonder why :mwaha:

sassy
4-05-03, 11:53 PM
I have a yonger brother and sister and I love them both to death. I even took a few punches for my sister to show her my love for her; but yet we all still disagree on some issues.

I voted for "sometimes".

angeleyes25
4-06-03, 12:06 AM
I only have one younger brother by 5 years and back then we definitly didn't get along.I think it was the age difference but now in the past 4 years or so we get along really well.I think it took him all this time to mature.lol.

LOSTNTHE80S
4-06-03, 09:57 AM
We are all about 2 1/2 years apart. I have an older sister who lives upstate New York. I've seen her twice since 1989 (the last time was in 1992) Then I have a younger brother who lives here in the same town as I, but we see each other only about 4 times a year. We never really got along.

Mika
4-07-03, 10:37 AM
the answer to that is HELL NO! sometimes i wish i were the only child. My brothers Kevin (17) and Joey (!4) are the most aggrivating pains to walk this planet. ( ok so i'm stretching the truth a bit) My brother kevin seems to think i'm his personal bank, servant, doer of hw all in one. and i can't kick his a$$ since my mom actually like my younger siblings weird. my brother joey thinks that his the oldest and that his has some sort fo rep. to which i laugh and say "Oh I better becareful or I might ruin the rep of a 14 yr with ten friends." does any single child want to adopt???

BlueMolly2001
4-07-03, 05:57 PM
I have an older sister, Lorraine (38) and older brother, Ian (37), and we get along very well. As many sibling relationships there are turbulant times, but I'm very close to them. I'm really close to my sister, because we shared a bedroom for about 12 years.

abcmcd
4-07-03, 08:37 PM
I'd have to say yes. I'm almost 14 years younger than my brother and 10 & 8 years younger than my sisters. Growing up they were always good about including me in things they did with their friends. They were very patient with me. I don't know if I would have wanted a little kid tagging along when I was a teen. I'm glad they didn't mind 'tho.:)

Since we've gotten older, we've had more disagreements than we'd ever had, but nothing too serious. We get over things pretty quick. My brother has kind of withdrawn from the whole family since my dad died, but we still get along when we do see him...mostly holiday dinners at Mom's.

PunkyPower
7-26-04, 01:12 AM
Reviving an old thread :)


I'm the youngest of 6, although I only grew up with my 2 brothers (the oldest three are way older than us and are our half siblings). My 2 brothers and I are pretty close in age. We'd go back and forth on getting along, but my brothers' main purpose in life was to torture me and see what would make me cry. The fact that I was their baby sister did not give me an advantage at all. Examples:

Once they ripped my beloved teddy bear from my arms, ran into the bathroom, slammed the door and flushed the toilet. Then they opened the door, laughing, and said they had just flushed poor Cuddly and I'd never see him again. They had really only hid him in the closet, but damned if I didn't try to take the door off the hinges while they were in there!

One would sit on my stomach and bounce up and down while the other held my jaw/mouth and nose shut to see how long I could go without breathing.

They knew I hated using the rope ladder on our treehouse, so they'd wait until I used the regular ladder to get up there, knock it down, and watch to see how I'd get down.

I have a box of Barbie body parts because of my brothers. Did you know you can put Barbie's head on Ken's body and vice versa? :lol:

My brother who is closest in age to me auctioned me off to the highest bidder when we were in high school (unbeknownst to me, of course). He and I fought the most, especially throughout high school. We were in band together, worked together, and when his friends started calling the house to talk to ME, I don't think he liked that too much. We get along pretty good now, but we had some pretty vicious fights when we were teens. He also used to make me steal candy for him when we were kids. My brothers also used to hide under my bed or in the closet so they could spy on my friends undressing when they spent the night. :tsk:

We used to really pound each other, and not in a rough-housing kind of way. My dad used to encourage me to get back at them too. I think he found it amusing that I could take them on. :lol:

There were a lot of times my brothers and I got along really great. I used to play with them and the other boys in the neighborhood because there weren't many other girls to play with, and the girls who did live around us weren't allowed to run around with the boys like I was. I'm glad I grew up with boys, but sometimes I wish I had a sister to grow up with.

bookmistres4ever
7-26-04, 01:40 AM
I have a little brother who is 4 years younger then me. We got along great as kids, he was the only person I had to play with (we always lived in a neighborhood with grandmas and grandpas. We were rarely allowed to have friends over or go to friends houses.

We are plenty different, I was more social as a kid. I belonged to every kind of club that I could think of. My bro never did.

I taught my brother how to ride a bike, and then later how to drive a car.
He listened to all of my 80's cassettes and later CDs and now has custody of most of them. We used to go out to eat all the time. We went on vacation together in 1998 and 1999.

It's kinda sad though, since I got married and moved away, we don't really see or talk much anymore. When I call home and he answers, we'll talk a little, but he usually just answers questions with one word answers. *sigh*
Of course I still love him, and want the best for him. I want him to be happy, so I guess if he is, then that's that. It's sad we don't have alot in common anymore.

galaga-girl
7-26-04, 04:31 AM
I have three younger sisters, but my youngest sister wasn't born until I was 11. My other two sisters are two and four years younger than myself, we used to get along sometimes, but we also fought very viciously as well :lol: Once my sister Jessica threw a brick on Danielle's head and once Danielle threw a big can of baked beans and it hit me in the eye. I can still remember how bad that hurt!! - I would have been 7 then so they would have been 5 and 3.

When we were in our teens we used to fight and chase each other with knives and scissors!!

We get along OK now, one of them is a addicted to pokie (slot) machines so we fight about that a lot and the other one does a lot of drugs, and we fight about that! But generally we get along OK. My youngest sister Racheal is like my daughter, we get along great but we do have our moments... :)

Lord Jay
7-26-04, 07:30 AM
Ive a younger brother by one year and a older sister of four years. My sister and I got alnog well, she was always doing her own thing and we used to love it when she would have one of her hot friends spend the night.hehe. However, my brother and I were very different, my mother would call us "night and day". He was lean a dark haired, everybody said he looked like Tom Cruise from Risky Business. He was also very hyper and aggressive and had qualms about lieing to my parents to save his own ass. I was the fat kid of teh class and quite. I was content just to stay in my room all day reading a good book and very docile. We would have some epic battles and eventhough he was a very dirty fighter and ALWAYS bringing it to my doorstep. I was bigger and much stronger.....we would rock the trailer we grew up in. Today we get along great..he has two kids and the youngest boy likes to sit in his room all day and read....LOL We work together in the family business and often joke and laugh about some of the fights we would get into. In fact, I still owe him a armwrestling match......he aint go tno chance!!...lol

Lord Jay :knight:

Princess
7-26-04, 08:16 AM
I have an older brother 45 & an older sister 43. They were both very good to me growing up & still are now. Being the big age gap between us they fussed over me alot. My mom says I was like a little doll to them :) We all live within an hour from one another & try to get togehter at least 1x per month. My sister & I are on the phone a few times per week. They each have 3 kids & I am always telling my nieces & nephews how great their parents are :)

TopCat
7-26-04, 09:02 AM
I have two brothers.( one older one younger) When we were younger, my older brother and I always fought. My younger brother and I got along. We played He-man! :lol: Now I rarely see my older brother and my younger brother lives 2 minutes away. I see him all the time. :)

HouTexGurl
7-26-04, 10:24 AM
I'm the oldest of four. My mother was fortunate to have 4 girls!!! When we were growing up my sis Jen learned the term of "Mommy Dearest" :mwaha: whenever it was time to clean our room. Since we shared one and I was the oldest I used to whip up on her a lot :fight: . Now that we are grown we all get along. Jen and I are very close and live only five blocks apart :D . My sis Mel and I get along well. Now the baby, is another story. I can't stand her and neither can my sisters but we do tolerate her when we have to. She's a selfish spoiled brat. End of story.

PG
7-26-04, 11:22 AM
I have a brother who is 7 years younger than me who I love dearly. I used to get so mad when I was a teenager because I always got stuck babysitting him :rolleyes: Plus, he always used to tell on me when I would sneak out of the house :mad: But as we grew older my love for him grew as well. :)

JS
7-26-04, 02:14 PM
I have one younger sister and when we were kids we had our typical arguments as siblings will have. Now that we are older, we get along fine.

I have a younger sister, too.

In the '80s (and '90s!), she and I often had arguments. But now that we're older, we get along fine.

My sister is 25 years old. She recently graduated from Ole Miss (University of Mississippi) (http://www.olemiss.edu). Even more recently, she moved to Atlanta.

Bogie
7-26-04, 02:45 PM
I am the eldest of 5 boys and upon reflection I would say we have always been extremely tight. We all gather regularly for drinks and often with our parents too. Growing up there was a pretty big spread in ages between us. The second oldest was born a year after me but then a 7 year gap before the little 'us came along. But now that we are all adults we all spend lots of time together.

SouthernImage
7-26-04, 02:51 PM
Me and my sister fought like cats and dogs.

DJ Midas
7-26-04, 02:52 PM
When my brother and sister & I were kids we had our typical arguments. My brother is 7 years younger than me, and he and I have been very close in the past 11 years. We're actually renting a house together now. :)

My sister is 2 years younger than me and she & I have had our disagreements. We actually had a falling out for about 3 years, but we've managed to work things out in the past year or so.

I also have a stepsister who's 14 years younger than me, and we get along great. Hard to believe she just graduated from high school this year. Fortunately my brother and sister and I were able to attend the event. :)