Many, though certainly not all, siblings naturally find themselves in competitive relationships. The fact is that even if you’re raised under the same roof, people are different, and as such, they develop relationships differently too. In every family there are certain members who connect, and others who consistently find themselves having the same arguments. So what about in your family? Do your brothers or sisters have a different relationship with your parents than you? How so?
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I think my brothers are probably closer to my dad than me, because they have more in common with him (though we still have that father/daughter bond) and I'm closer to my mom because I grew up spending more time with her than they did (they went away to boarding school, I didn't) - and we're both women, obviously. Other than that my family is really close knit and we all have good relationships with eachother.
1Yes... my Mom & Sister are pretty much exactly alike and get along better.
I get along better with my Dad.
2well not get along, just more things in common I guess.
3I'm close to both my parents but my younger sister is closer to my father as in they speak everyday on the phone and my second sister is closer to my mother and share a lot in common.
4Nope, my parents have been very fair in treating us equally. We are both very close to our mother and less so with our father. Sometimes I feel my sis is a bit closer to my mom, but maybe that's just a bit of sibling rivalry/jealousy.
5yes...both of parents...
...they tell me stuff i sometimes really don't want to hear...sex
lives..they say its because i've been married for so long and i understand where they are coming from.....i'm not extremly close to either of my parents...we talk more like friends now. but
my sis has a diffent relationship with them then i do. since she still lives with my mom she handle my mom better then i do
6My relationship with my parents is...strange.
I relate well to my father, I am a lot like him in a lot of ways, but in the past few years, he is so overly controlling (Something I differ on him from, I am very submissive in personality) that I just can't anymore. I love my Mom and Dad - But I'm kinda...drifting from them. Maybe in 5 years when all this crap I've been through is past us fully, I can.
7My brothers have a better one than me anymore, but, they are 11 and 13 years older than me
8we all have our own differences but basically are all the same fundamentally
9our family gets along really well
my bro and my mom have that mother/son bond, and i have the daddy's girl thing...and my little sister has the baby of the family thing, but nothing too notable
I laughed when I read this post: I have five half sisters and a half brother combined of my mother and father and I can honestly say we all have the exact same relationship with either of them...ranging from disgust to non-existent. And I'm the oldest which confirms... it wasn't me. LOL
10I'm convinced that my father loves my little brother the most then my sister.
11Yeah I'm soooo MUCH closer to my Dad (Daddy's girl). And my brother is closer to my Mom. It really doesn't bother me anymore.
12I'm an only child so I wouldn't know but I fear that when I have children I may favor one more than the other. Especially since I'm so close with my mom and that is one of the reasons I want a little girl of my own so badly. I'm afraid I may favor her over a boy, if I were to also have a son.
13Yes... My older sister isn't really close to either of my parents cause she was always seen as a 3rd adult in the house.
My two brothers (middle children) are very academically and financially strong and have never really made my parents have to be...."parental". We always say they kind of came out of the womb and raised themselves.
I'm the baby of the family and have the strongest relationship with both my parents than the rest of my siblings.
14But in all fairness...we're a very close-knit family and get along really well with each other as a whole. We just have different relationships with the parental unit.
15My parents treated us pretty much the same. If anything my sister had alot handed to her and got away with more. My sister has personal issues in that she is a crazy unappreciative b$#@h that puts down my parents and uses them for cash when she can even though she is several years older than me. I get along with my parents very well and we are really close. I always have to remind them that they were awesome parents and that my sister is a selfish hag! She makes my mom cry all of the time and feel guilty for nothing because she is so miserable in her life.
16My sister likes my mom, cause they are both manipulative cows.
I like my Dad cause he is a good person and very loving, and always knows whats best
17I can't stand either of my parents. My brother and my mom get along better because he's younger and she knows she can still control him.
18We have all quite different relationships with our Mom. My oldest sister has good relationship with her - but only since she's moved across Europe and calls/visits maybe 5 times a year. Before that, they had constant conflicts...I think they just don't get each other. My other sister has the closest friend-type relationship with Mom, they talk about everything. I am the youngest and I'm kind of a "sweetheart" - we have very good Mother/daughter relationship, but I don't feel like I can talk about everything with her.
Now, my brother, that is a special category
19My brother is MUCH closer to my mom than I am. I don't have any real negative feelings towards my mom anymore, but we're not friendly. I can't imagine picking up the phone and calling to tell her anything important, much less just say hi. She found out about my engagement through my brother (but she is coming to the wedding, surprisingly). I vividly remember when she moved out, whereas my brother doesn't, which I think is a huge part of it. However, I would argue that I am probably closer to our dad than my brother is.
20Of course, all siblings have different relationships with their parents. I don't think that means that one sibling is closer to thier folks than another. But as each kid in a family has different interests and talents, so do the parents. My brother and I are both close with our parents, but what we enjoy doing with each of them is very different. I think a lot of this sprang from my parents each spending a lot of one-on-one time with us when we were kids. It was a nice balance to find things that I have in common with each of my parents, and knowing that my brother has his own fun with them. I feel pretty lucky to have had that.
21I am very close with my Dad. He and I are very much alike and we have the same sense of humor. My sister isn't that much like either of my parents and I definitely think she resents that. I get annoyed because since she withholds any attention from them, when she DOES come visit they just drop everything and pander to her. ugh.
22For sure. I mean, we're different people, so our relationships with our parents differ. Additionally, we all live in different areas, so we have different levels of interaction with our parents as well, which can definitely affect the relationship.
23Nope...we both have the same, loving, yet alienated relationships w/ our parents. That's where we come in handy to one another, to discuss them...
24i definitely have a different relationship with my parents than my siblings. first off, im the only girl so that kind of sets me up to have something different, but other than that - i'm just closer to my parents than my brothers are so i have a different communication with them, and i get different things from them.
25I wouldn't say I was close to my parents. We get along fine, but I don't tell them every little thing. My first brother on the other hand, tells them a lot. He is also the golden child. As for my youngest brother, I think he is like me but not as bad. So sad to think about...
26I wouldn't say I was close to my parents. We get along fine, but I don't tell them every little thing. My first brother on the other hand, tells them a lot. He is also the golden child. As for my youngest brother, I think he is like me but not as bad. So sad to think about...
27It is too early in the morning for this...
My sister stayed at home when I moved out at 16, she was 14. Since then she hasn't really matured much past the age of 14. They paid for her driving lessons, car, petrol, car insurance, car payments... and I can't drive. They let her live rent free, pay for all her food, let her boyfriend walk around with his shirt off... and I moved out 8 years ago. She's now 22 and still living rent-free off her parents whilst she's at University.
They give her financial handouts because she is in so much debt. She keeps signing up to stupid 29% credit agreements and is STILL paying off a PDA that cost £200 that she bought in 2006 because she kept missing the payments!!
She spends money like she has no reason to save it and has switched her degree twice since starting at University, on my recommendation, two years ago.
If you ask her for a lift somewhere then she'll make this big deal out of it like she is doing you a massive favour and all in all she's just really annoying.
So yes, whilst I am struggling by in a mountain of student loan debt she is getting everything paid for her. A totally different relationship.
28i could really get into this, but i wont
29im definitely closer to mom than my sis is
I'm definitely the black sheep. I got tired of playing their games and as a result don't talk to them very often.
30OMG Yes! Everything I do is scrutinized and judged to the NTH degree by my folks. I'M THIRTY SEVEN YEARS OLD. It's time to let that go. However my brother does whatever the heck he wants and there's not a word from them. LOL
This is the same man that lived with them RENT FREE until he was 29. (I moved out at 19). The same one that they bought 5 different (NICE) cars for by the time he was 19. (He totalled each one) I got their hand me down VW rabbit, which when I had the only accident I've EVER had had to pay for half of my second car.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining (Well I am a BIT but it's really OK) because them GIVING everything to him and making me actually WORK for what I had made me a stronger more self sufficient person, so now as an adult I appreciate it. As a kid though, it royally pi**ed me off! LMAO
I should add that my brother is 4 years OLDER than me, I am the baby. I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SPOILED ONE! LMAO
31My brother was the baby of the family who got more than the rest of us. He is naturally a little closer to my parents.
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