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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the only child between my mom and dad. All of my siblings are half siblings.

I'm closer with the siblings my mom gave birth too. Good relationship with the others.

I have friends with similar situations and we have talked about this - it's usually mama bear that works to keep her cubs together.

My half siblings with my dad and his wife we are not nearly as close. My half siblings with my mom and their father - she never allowed me to even think of them as a "half brother".

I hunk it goes back to what the mom emphasizes to the children. [/quote]

My "brother" is biologically my half brother, he's 7 years older than me. We share the same mother and were raised in the same home by our mother and my father. My brother also has another half brother (they have the same father).

My brother recently moved out of state but up until then we were very close, especially throughout our childhoods. However, he is not close at all with his brother. They very rarely saw each other as children and though I think they check in with each other every once in a while, it's definitely more like a distant cousin relationship than a sibling.

I think having the same mother, or father if that's who is raising the children full time, is what makes the difference. Also, because I have no other siblings, I don't really know what it's like to feel any differently. I can compare it to friends though and I feel pretty sure my brother and I have a pretty typical relationship, like "full" siblings would. [/quote]

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