Siblings

[Anonymous]

Do you feel obliged to stay connected with your siblings or enjoy talking to them?

[Anonymous]

I enjoy my siblings and happily stay connected with them.

[Anonymous]

I stay in contact with my brother because we have a real relationship. It's not an obligation. It's a genuine desire. I like his wife a lot too. I have zero desire to stay in contact with my sister. My mother feels it's an obligation. My sister back stabs, is manipulative and just all around not a good-natured person, but she's mom's favorites and there is a lot of drama over the fact I distanced myself. For some reason my brother gets a pass. He barely talks to my mother though.

[Anonymous]

I feel obligated. I am the black sheep of my family and have little in common with my siblings. I only keep in touch with them out of obligation not because I enjoy them. Can't stand either of their spouses to the point where I am no longer even facebook friends with my SIL.

[Anonymous]

No. No.

[Anonymous]

No obligation. I stay in close contact with both my sisters because we get on and ate all good friends.

[Anonymous]

I just chatted with my older brother for an hour and 15 minutes last night while he was on a long drive. We talk about all kinds of random crap. It's lovely.

[Anonymous]

I love my siblings! We have so much fun together. It helps our spouses all get along too, even though they are admittedly all pretty different.

I do feel lucky it’s always easy with them.

[Anonymous]

No obligation. I wish she did talk to me or my parents, but she's just not interested. Nothing tragic happened either, she's just busy with her own life. I visit her city once a year and every few years she'll meet up to meet my kids. She will answer my parents' texts.

[Anonymous]

Obligation. It's one of the biggest sore points of my life. Wish the relationships were different but they aren't.

[Anonymous]

Once a week to one, the others not so much. I wish it was more but my older sister is in Guam.

[Anonymous]

I talk to my sister nearly every day. She is my best friend.

[Anonymous]

I rarely speak to my sibling. We just aren’t close. We will see each other when I come to our hometown, but otherwise we text a couple times a year about gifts for kids. We live a distance, I left home when he was 12, we just aren’t close.

[Anonymous]

I like talking to my siblings though not keen on talking to their spouses or my spouse’s siblings and their spouses. We have 22 people altogether. Everyone lives in a different town and I just can’t talk to everybody on regular basis or it will take away a big chunk of my short life.

[Anonymous]

I contacted my sister this week after over a year of us not being in contact at all. I think if something terrible happened to her and I didn't know or couldn't help, I would feel awful and that I'd let her down. But otherwise I really would prefer not to be involved with her as I can't stand her personality. And I'm sure it's all those traits that I share with her that drive me the most crazy!