Your Siblings - Are You Friends

My brother and I were always pretty close. He is 2 and a half years older than me but everyone always thinks I am older than him. He lives about 20 miles from me. I talk to him on the phone or on fakebook. He still works so I don't see him as much as I would like. I haven't wanted to go see anyone really right now (due to my dental issues and needing different dentures) but as soon as I get that taken care of I expect Sonny and I will be over there to see him and his wife. He can be difficult (with others), but I have always been able to handle him.

But no matter what he does, I promised myself a long time ago, I would never let anything come between us. I saw it happen in my mother's family and it was not good. Now my brother's kids are estranged from him and me and it is like they don't even exist. Sad to say, but it made our lives much easier and peaceful.
 

I feel very blessed that my sister and brother and I all still get along. We are all over the country..sister, 5 years older, is in Cal, brother 9 years older is in Ohio, and I am in Florida. We stay in touch via zoom or phone or text or e-mail. I dread the day I will lose one of them..or perhaps they will lose me first...I am sure there are good reasons siblings stay apart but I think that rather sad.
 

It's helpful to see that you are not alone when it comes to sibling issues. I only have a brother and we got along well until about 5 years ago. I have seen a personality change in him that I know in part is from too much booze within those 5 years, and I fear drugs too. I think it might be that he is unhappy with the way his life turned out. I don't care to discuss details and sound whiny. I tend to just suck it up. It's unfortunate that at this point in our lives it has come down to this.
 
I was raised by my grandparents, was never taught to call aunts and uncles that. The one who was closest was their youngest 10 years between us. So they were all more like brothers and sisters. They are all dead now, I have 3 cousins left, 2 older than I. I am emotionally close to one of the older ones and wish the youngest was close to all of us. We all live far apart.
 

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