Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Three half-siblings (not referred to as such except when the obnoxious stranger says "oh, you're HALF-siblings"). All three are adolescents and I'm thirty with a family - obviously life circumstances are quite different but I love them all. I think because we're closest in age and are our mother's only kids, I'm closest with my eldest half-brother, but really appreciate spending time with and learning from my dad's two younger teens, too.
Why is that obnoxious for a stranger to say? Is it because you feel it is trying to diminish your relationship? I have half siblings that I'm not terribly close to, we are more like friendly but distant cousins, and the only time I don't use the half to refer to them is in front of my Dad. We didn't grow up in the same household, so if we were sitting around talking about our childhoods it would be confusing to someone.
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