Nice thread, hope you have a most beautiful week.

Thanks...the week would only be beautiful with you around
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Hummm...never had that problem grew up with a brother 4 years older and a sister 14 years younger. We have always been close and still are.

i really admire such sibling bond

Believe me it seems to amaze more then I ever thought. I have came across many that could not believe that we have never had a argument.. not even a little one..

I'm sure due to the way we were raised had a lot to do with the way we are towards each other.

But I'm happy to say that my daughter and son have that same bond..

There is six of us 5 girls and 1 boy we get on Ok now when we get together. As kids we had our fights but also had a lot of fun times.

Thats great Kristi you're blessed in many ways & i guess people could learn from it

Thats a lot of girls, did the girls ever gang up & bully him when you were kids?
I have a friend that has 6 sisters & he has a problem & no patience when it comes to women...& i think it could be from growing up with so many women & all the drama

Sibling rivalry does not fall off the map at any certain birthday. And money or even the whiff of it seems to draw sharks like blood in the water. Seen it personally and often in my work. Especially bad in Hospice situations where some don't even wait for the patient to expire before they start dragging stuff off. Or the corpse to be cold in the grave before they start crying how they were unjustly treated but never lifted a finger through what now days are often years of incapacity. What knocks me out is when they fight over stuff they really don't even want and usually sell or pitch out. More times than not they get the "Family home" they trash it and abandon it within a year.

My "family" is going to be highly disappointed because they have all gotten what they are getting; which was a heck of a lot more than I ever got to start in the world. The majority of them probably won't even know I am gone because I have taken care of my own business so nobody gets the bill.

This happens so often unfortunately, with people who cherish material possessions above relationships or friendships! The general rule of thumb for me is: if you value your friendships or familial relationships, never go into business with them, if you choose to protect that which is truly valuable!

I dont' think there was any of that in my family...I am the eldest, then two brothers, then 4 little girls.. Growing up it was more of pushing one another to be the best we each could be. I think the younger ones maybe more so than my brothers and I . I can remember them squabbling over some boy, two sisters might have had a crush on at the same time. Who had prettier hair or who was better looking but nothing that lasted out of the teen years.

Now we are all successful in our chosen careers and proud of each other. I also know at any given time I can call any one of my siblings and just say"I need you"... They would be there as I would be for them.

When we lost our youngest sister, the baby of the family it crippled us for years. We were almost over protective of something happening to one of us.

To this day if one of us is traveling we have to check in with at least one sibling each day and give locations. I know sounds weird with us all in our 50 and late 40's.

We have a close family and I am thankful for that.

I have always been accused of "favorite child" status by my siblings. Although I don't agree with them, and my parents were very supportive of all of us, they had it in their heads. I did, unlike them, engage in competitive activities with some success and was praised for accomplishment. Was this the catalyst of their ire? Who knows. They harbored a lot of resentment for me growing up. Some degree of it survives even today. To say it doesn't bother me would be a lie. The end result? A cool and distant relationship with them.

My sister and I were horrible to each other as kids! We fought so badly that our Dad threatened to buy us boxing gloves. I feel so bad putting my parents through that. My sister and I have since mended fences but there are days I don't like her. I will always love her but she can be judgemental, snarky and a witch at times but whenever I need her, she's always there for me.

I have many siblings either half or step, only have one full sibling. There's 2 age groups in my family-us adults 18 to 24 me being 24 and 10 and under. There isn't really rivalry on us older ones anymore, lots on the children side. I've always been sort of the 3rd parent in a way looking out for the younger ones

im the middle child in between a sister who is 2 years older and a half brother who is 5 years younger.
growing up my sister and I had a love/hate relationship. yes we beat on each other on a regular basis. actually she would throw punches I mostly just blocked or deflected. she's always had a smaller build than me and I was afraid of hurting her.
in spite of the fact that she picked on me all the time at home, she defenfed me like a bodyguard in school. nobody ever messed with me because they knew my sister would go after them.
I learned somewhere along the way much of our relationship is based on her insecurities.

as adults, even though she is beautiful, has her career and her kids, she still finds occasions for put downs. when I said I was going to go for my degree, she said good luck, I don't see you lasting more than 2 semesters.

when I started playing softball last year, she and the kids did go see me, but her comment was about my lack of skills. until I said, we can still use plsyers. I'll pay your registration fees.

I've learned to be me and enjoy life. I love her but let her be in my life as she chooses.

I see it with my neighbours kids the boy gets jealous when one of the other children are speaking with the mom, he punches her in the stomach to get her attention. he threw scissors at the tv once too,

6 children in my family: 2 older sisters 1 older brother - then my brother & I {we were 11 months apart and very tight growing up} and then the baby of the family our younger sister 2 yrs younger.

There was a serious split in how the 3 older siblings were raised and how we 3 younger ones were raised; we were 'FARM' kids until my 5th grade school year and then father got injured and we had to sell the farm and relocate to town and by then the were just 5 of us and 2 older ones preparing to graduate and leave home. My brother and I were very close and we ran with the same crowd of 4-H kids that weren't always up to GOOD DEEDS.
My younger sister rarely ever left the house/learned to do any barn work or even ride a bike/do any jobs outside/chores/kitchen duty - my brother and I called it being LAZY/spoiled and she knew it too.

My oldest sisters hated dirt work/animals/smelly fecal matter and going out to the barn - our older brother liked torturing us with threats of violence if we didn't do as he said - so my brother and I became the 'Worker B's' for the nasty jobs but that kept us out of the house and out in the barn where we enjoyed life to it's fullest!

I've just figured that it's that way with large families...the pecking order is what it is and it can get really bad when both parents work out of the home and you are 'Latch Key Kids'!

I can see quite a few of you have had similar experiences & it kinda sucks how sometimes your own siblings treat you like you're nothing to them...

My heart goes to your Mum all that maleness and not one female to help through that mess

2 true that; but it does toughen you up for what life dishes out - doesn't it?

I mean all that bickering and verbal tug-of-war makes us better equipped to handle that school-yard/peer pressure crap that is handed out so readily at public school. I raised an 'ONLY CHILD' {not because I chose too - that's what life intended for me to have} and he had a REAL ROUGH TIME dealing with pranksters and people just talk'n smack!

Sadly, I've lost my bestest bud - brother & one older sister; the 2 remaining ones I have {1 the oldest and the baby of the family} have chosen sides! Them against the remaining heathen family; to find fault with those that didn't go their direction in choosing a FAITH just like theirs ZION GERMAN LUTHERAN {little white beanie caps on their heads} and since we were all DOOMED TO A FAST LANE TO HELL...we shouldn't be included in their family functions and neither was our mother - not even in her last 15 yrs of life that I took care of her! Sweet Jesus --- who knew you could turn your back on your own mother because of your faith?

LIFE - it can really be one HUGE BITE IN THE ARSE - Huh