How many siblings do you have ?

DebraMae said:
Losing my mother was hard. She was my first experience at losing someone close.

Losing my brother was sad. He was my only ally when we were young. 39 Was too young to die. I had thought he would be my "family" for a long time and it was hard to adjust to the fact that he was gone. I think his death was the hardest to accept.

I felt nothing when my father died, no sadness or gladness. I think it just depends on your relationship with each person.
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Sorry you lost your brother so young..:(. but my question was really a comparison to a parent. When my mother died, I was beside myself with grief..inconsolable.. Ive never really got over it.. yet she wasn't the greatest of mothers.. but is that grief the same as losing a sibling ?

I have 3 siblings , that if they died.. I'd just shrug it off, I@m sad to say.. but the world would be a better place without them in it.. they are the product of my father.. IYSWIM
 

I had two older brothers, both now deceased.
Neither were of much help with our marginally functional family and their deaths were not a cause for grief because in life they were basically absentees anyway.
My father's death? Good riddance! My mother's death? Relief from living with deteriorating health......I hope she's doing well on the Other Side.
 
How many siblings you have sounds like an easy question. My dad was married & divorced when he met my mom. So I have a stepbrother and stepsister. If my dad wanted to start a fight, all he had to do was mention his ex or his ex's family. My stepbrother came to live with us when I was born. But my stepsister, and her descendants are gone with the wind. I do have another brother who is ten years younger than me. His nickname is "Mistake".
 
fuzzybuddy said:
How many siblings you have sounds like an easy question. My dad was married & divorced when he met my mom. So I have a stepbrother and stepsister. If my dad wanted to start a fight, all he had to do was mention his ex or his ex's family. My stepbrother came to live with us when I was born. But my stepsister, and her descendants are gone with the wind. I do have another brother who is ten years younger than me. His nickname is "Mistake".
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if the children from your fathers' first marriage were his children.. then those children are your Half siblings.. that means connected by blood... it the children were not a product of him, and only of his previous wife, then they are your step siblings.. not connected by blood


My father also had a previous marriage which produced a son.. he's our half brother but we don't think of him like that.. just he is our elder brother
 
hollydolly said:
if the children from your fathers' first marriage were his children.. then those children are your Half siblings.. that means connected by blood... it the children were not a product of him, and only of his previous wife, then they are your step siblings.. not connected by blood


My father also had a previous marriage which produced a son.. he's our half brother but we don't think of him like that.. just he is our elder brother
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I've only seen my stepsister twice in my life. Once when I was 5 or 6, and for about 10 minutes at my dad's funeral. It's like having a stepsister on paper, but not having a real person to go along with that.
 
Generations of Catholic both maternal and paternal sides. Five brothers, one sister with 4 brothers still alive. My beloved sister passed away in 2020 during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic from pneumonia because of overwhelmed hospital oxygen iron lung limitations. She had two married daughters, one with a son. 1954 photo, nearest younger brother at right also is gone after a stroke.

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David777 said:
Generations of Catholic both maternal and paternal sides. Five brothers, one sister with 4 brothers still alive. My beloved sister passed away in 2020 during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic from pneumonia because of overwhelmed hospital oxygen iron lung limitations. She had two married daughters, one with a son. 1954 photo, nearest younger brother at right also is gone after a stroke.

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Goodness your sister looks like your twin ( as a grown up)... very pretty lady... so sad to die so young.. may she R.I.P
 
I only have one living sibling...my sister. We are actually half sisters but do not use that term. We quickly became very close. My oldest sister died before I met my other siblings in 1998, but my uncle told me about her shortly after she died. He also told me I had a brother during the conversation we had that night, when I went to tell him a dear cousin of ours had passed. That is what led me to look for my brother. My uncle never mentioned my other sister (also older than me).

A work friend who knew everything was the one who helped me find my sister via my cousin Mary who my sister and her husband happened to be good friends with. So I actually met my sister first. I had two brothers. One lived in my town and we became very close...he was also close with my husband and my DIL, since they worked together. The other lived a distance and we never really bonded, even after he moved to our town. He didn't live long after that. My sister said we have some other siblings somewhere, but she's only heard about them. Neither of us is trying to find them.
 

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