Anyone else have a close relationship with their older sibling?

[Gunanddoglover]

Now my cousin is more like a little sister, we are very close.

 

[DADI03]

I'm the oldest. We all get a long very well but don't talk to each other near enough. It's always good to see each other though. No one has disowned anyone yet so we have that going for us. We all live in different states so it's hard to see each other regularly

 

[TMill]

no

 

[moosensquirrel]

Yeah, me either. And now as we’re both in our late 30’s with kids (feeling guilt that she never sees us) she wants to manipulate my wife into thinking Im the reason that she -as the older sister- had nothing to do with our family growing up and that I need to reconcile. How do you reconcile with someone who willingly broke off from the family tree? The only feeling I had prior to her trying to manipulate my wife was a feeling of indifference. Now Im officially pissed. Rant over. For now.

Go for indifference as it is worse than hate and only hurts her; anger only hurts you.

Was it Shakespeare?? "love me or hate me, it will always be to my advantage: if you love me, I will always be in your heart. If you hate me, I will always be in your mind"

 

[Bushwick100]

I'm the youngest of 5 Boys, my Mother past 2 years ago, but made me promise to stay in contact with my oldest Brother who is a Muslim. My other 3 brothers are ok, we speak sometimes, but I don't like there wives to Liberal for me, plus they are always trying to go on my vacation with me and my wife. I finally told them to go on there Own vacation, I told my middle brother that me and my wife are going to Puerto Rico soon, he asked can be come, I said sure but not your Wife, guess what she called my wife this morning swing could she come, just spoke to my Brother and told him , he and his wife can Kiss my Ass. They are not coming.

 

[dondon48]

Yeah, me either. And now as we’re both in our late 30’s with kids (feeling guilt that she never sees us) she wants to manipulate my wife into thinking Im the reason that she -as the older sister- had nothing to do with our family growing up and that I need to reconcile. How do you reconcile with someone who willingly broke off from the family tree? The only feeling I had prior to her trying to manipulate my wife was a feeling of indifference. Now Im officially pissed. Rant over. For now.

if your wife buys her bullsqueeze that is the real problem...

 

[Targetmaster]

I have three Grandsons, who are avowed Socialist Marxist who consider me an old warmonger and a threat to what they want to do to America and a Great Grand Daughter who joined the Air Force and hopefully adores her Grand Father. At least one out of the four has a pair, the other three, I have no relationship with and would gladly use them for pop-up targets in the event of a Civil War..Blood is not always thicker than Water and theirs appear to have been watered down

 

[harrycalahan]

if your wife buys her bullsqueeze that is the real problem...

She doesnt. Shes been around her twice I think and that was enough to pick up what she was laying down. Plus my wife has an older sister who is the queen of manipulation and her mother has it in her too. Shes seen it all. I told my wife when we got married that Im a no nonsense person and I hate nothing more than manipulative people. Her older sister is one strike from being banned from my home. That is a sick mentality and I wont have my kids around it.

 

[roydamnmercer]

I guess there’s too much bad blood with my brother. He’s five years older and my only memories as kids are of him beating the crap out of me or stealing money from me. He moved back home when he was 21 and came into my room to kick my ass and reestablish his dominance...it didn’t work out well for him. That was the last time he ever laid a hand on me. He did continue to steal and borrow from me. He still owes me money. He even pawned my mom’s family silver to fund his partying.

I don’t really mourn the loss of our relationship. We live a county apart but I only see him once every few years and we act cordial. I’m the black sheep of my family...because I’m not a democrat. Go figure.

 

[Glorfindel]

Talk to 4 of my 5 siblings on a damn near daily basis. The other, a brother, works to damn much to talk to anyone. But no animosity for any of them. We ain’t to much into that feelings **** tho.