Women: if you have a brother, how often do you talk, assuming you have a good relationship?

[Anonymous]

Either by text or phone?

[Anonymous]

Text maybe 1-2 days a week, depending. May be more if one of us see something that reminds us of a tv show or something like that.

Phone? Almost never except he will call me occasionally for advice- cooking or household repairs related usually. He’s five years younger than me.

I think we are close but not exceptionally so.

[Anonymous]

I have two brothers. I live on the east coast, one brother on the west coast, and the other lives in the middle of the country. We all text (a 3 person group text) several times a week, mostly due to my mother's failing health. My parents live on the west coast within a few miles of the sibling there.

Before my mom's health deteriorated, we would go weeks or even months without communicating.

[Anonymous]

Maybe once a month we text. Our relationship is "good" insofar as there has been no incident or estrangement, but we don't communicate much or have much in common. We also live on opposite coasts.

[Anonymous]

We live in the same city. I’d say if we go four or five days without contract it’s unusual for us. We see each other every week or two.

We have one of the same doctors and we’ve arranged back to back appointments and then gone to lunch afterwards a few times.

[Anonymous]

We text multiple times a month.. sometimes more, depending on the situation. We also send each other videos through what’s app. He’s in Europe so that’s the main way he stays connected to my kids- sending silly videos back and forth.

[Anonymous]

I’d say a few times a month on average but that’s going way up bc my mom was diagnosed with cancer. Love my brother but he works long hours and I don’t want to bug him.

[Anonymous]

We talk about twice a month and text about twice a month. No issues but we need to do better. He's coming to stay with me tomorrow so that's a start.

[Anonymous]

I have a wonderful brother. We were extremely close ever since our parents were gone a lot (affairs) and divorced when we were teens.

My brother’s marital counselor, a somewhat famous pastor, told them that his wife is his “key” and that we had to go through her to get to him. So I have to text her and hope she shows him. All visits are arranged through her and last time she scheduled my visit when he was out of town. They say they don’t have time off to visit us, but travel with SIL’s extended family.

I’ve given up on having a relationship.

[Anonymous]

We text like once a month. He’s a nice guy but being honest on an anonymous forum, I think having a sister would be so great.

[Anonymous]

Two brothers - Almost never talk by phone unless it is about some really big news. I text with the younger one a few times a week. He has two young kids and is in a very busy time of life. The middle brother is only 15 months younger than I am and our kids are older elementary/middle school. We text at least once per day. Usually just a funny meme one of us saw or an interesting news story. We frequently talk about our kids since they are the same ages.

I would consider myself equally close with both of them, but I have more in common right now with the older brother, so we talk more.

[Anonymous]

Text once a week
Phone once every other month.

More when there’s trouble with our mom or our sisters mom.

Doubt my brother and sister ever talk on the phone but they live closer so see each other 2-3 times a year.

[Anonymous]

Text a few times a week, probably call once a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We text like once a month. He’s a nice guy but being honest on an anonymous forum, I think having a sister would be so great.

It just depends. I have a sister and we talk on the phone maybe twice a year, text 4-5 times a year.

[Anonymous]

Texting about every couple weeks (unless we need to coordinate something related to our super difficult parents, then it can be every day); talking about every 1-2 months.