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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oldest of 5 and my siblings are super close. We had a very erratic/abusive upbringing with borderline personality disorder mother, which surviving that home life has bonded us more than siblings growing up with stable parents. I also have noticed that if you're from a big family and really overall loved, its probably because your sibling bond. Makes me sad if I ever had kids it will be 2 or 3 due to age and fertility issues, but recognize that the circumstances that brought my siblings and I closer also were incredibly damaging.

Sure there are many big families who didn't have unstable/abusive environment who also have closer siblings. Its probably that you can't really get away from each other when they're so many of you.[/quote]

Don’t flatter yourself. I am also from a family with extremely abusive and erratic parents, including a narcissistic personality disorder mother, and surviving that home life meant today I am estranged from my siblings due to their ultimately complicit adult roles in triangulation by our mom, who played us against each other as a means of control and manipulation. [/quote]

Same. Narc mother and enabler sister who continues to engage in toxic triangulation. I will remain the black sheep and rarely deal with them because they are awful people. I wish I had a close sibling relationship. My DH and his brother are incredibly close. My MIL worked really hard to foster a close bond between them, and it hurts sometimes to see how awful it was that my mother actively pitted my sister and I against one another and still does. [/quote]

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