Nink
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 4,947
Location: North Idaho
Jul 1, 2014 23:30:44 GMT
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Post by Nink on Nov 15, 2018 13:24:35 GMT
I have two sisters and four brothers. My oldest sister and youngest brother have passed away. We’re all very close and always have been. Other than the normal squabbling as kids, we’ve never had a fight or a cross word. There is no drama. I love my family.
I have one son who I’m also very close with. He just got married two weeks ago, though they’ve been together for five years. I adore her and fortunately she likes me a lot too.
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Post by lbp on Nov 15, 2018 13:26:51 GMT
I have one sister and we get along great. I talk to her daily. We only have one child and I wish he had siblings but it wasn't meant to be. DH has one brother and they haven't spoken in years.
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Post by canadianscrappergirl on Nov 15, 2018 14:18:18 GMT
I am one of 7 which is 4 girls and 3 boys. My dad was married and had the 3 boys and a girl she was just a baby when her mom died of a brain aneurysm.
His in-laws took the baby to help him out was supposed to be a temporary thing. He married my mom I think it wasn't a yr later but I'm not sure as my parents never really talked about it. She was 16 yrs younger then my dad and not much older then my oldest half brother.
From what I gathered over the yrs it was quite the gossip in our small town. I think he married her to get the baby back and help with the younger boys but they weren't that little.
The in-laws didn't give her back and when they got too old the aunt and her husband took the girl.
It wasn't even done in court as far as i know, I'm not even sure how it was done.
My dad and mom went on to have myself and my 2 sisters I'm the oldest of us 3.
My half sister would come over for an hr on Christmas day I hated it and her it would cause a huge fight between my mom and dad and my dad would start drinking after they left. I think he blamed us all in a strange way for not getting her back but it was really because his in-laws thought he was an asshole.
My mom's dad and 5 of her 6 brothers disowned her when she married my dad. Her mom died when she was a young girl and she had to take over the household duties. When her dad died he was very rich he left my mom a dollar so she couldn't contest the will.
My dad had 6 siblings but only was close to 2 of them.
Growing up I never got to know my half sister I hated her because as a kid I felt she was this perfect pretty girl who I could never be as good as.
My half brothers were teenagers by the time I was born the oldest was gone and in the army. I never met him until I was 10 or 11.
I wouldn't say as kids my 2 sisters and I were close. The baby sister had a heart condition and my parents doted on her and my 2nd sister well she was the one who was perfect pretty, smart and popular. My parents would go to her school activities but never mine. She was able to go to a friend's house but not me. They got to go to school dances but I couldn't.
I've always felt like the outsider and the one who could never impress my mom or dad growing up. I was always a good kid, did my chores got good grades never drank or even had a bf but it never mattered in their eyes. For many years I really felt I was either adopted or my mom had an affair because I never felt like I belonged.
My dad died when I was 17. He had battled cancer for 1.5 yrs before he never once told me I love you.
I have no relationship with any of my siblings or my mom.
I tried keeping in touch with my brothers thru the yrs my family would make an effort while on vacation to see my one brother going out of our way to see him. It always felt like I had to make the effort with them all.
With my 2 sisters the youngest she has mental health issues and I felt she wasn't fit to be around my kids. My other one I really tried to have a relationship but just like when we were kidding was like she tolerated me and it was conditional.
My mom loved to pit us against each other and make the others feel insignificant and I got tired of trying to compete.i couldn't stand the toxic nature.
It's been at least 9 yrs since I've spoken to any of them. A few yrs ago my SIL called to tell me my mom was having a quadruple bypass and was moving to a seniors home. She asked if I wanted anything from the house I thought it was a weird thing. I said no and that I wouldn't be going to see her either.
My sister has made some shitty comments about my parenting on FB on my oldest FB when he and I were having some issues that really hurt.
When Spencer was so sick none of my family reached out to me not that I would have wanted them to but I felt a bit surprised weirdly.
I've realized that the day will come when my mom passes and I won't be attending her funeral and I'm ok with it.
I have 4 boys and there were some rough patches with the older 2 but things are so much better as they put it they got their heads out of their asses LOL.
We're struggling with our youngest he's 20. He does drugs and we were forced to make him move out. It's been tough but our oldest 2 said it was time to make him grow up.
The 4 boys are close and always have been and for that I'm so grateful
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Post by mimi3566 on Nov 15, 2018 14:31:20 GMT
I'm one of 6 children...I'm the only girl and the 2nd oldest.
My DH is one of 5 and they only had one sister also.
DH has 2 children...a son with his first wife and a daughter with me....she is my only child.
Stepson has 4 children.
DD has 4 and is pregnant with her fifth child...4 boys with #5 being unknown at this point. She thinks she's going to wait and be surprised this time to avoid the negative, pity comments she gets from people/strangers that she has 4 boys.
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Anita
Drama Llama
Posts: 5,646
Location: Kansas City -ish
Jun 27, 2014 2:38:58 GMT
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Post by Anita on Nov 15, 2018 15:18:20 GMT
I have a brother, two half sisters (one I didn't know about until I was a teenager), two surviving stepsisters, and one relative who is my sister, cousin, and niece.
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rickmer
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 4,123
Jul 1, 2014 20:20:18 GMT
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Post by rickmer on Nov 15, 2018 15:40:24 GMT
my mom has one sibling and my dad has five. my mom is close to her brother and they speak frequently but he lives out of province, my dad doesn't bother much with his family at all.
i have one brother and i was always jealous of friends with big families and lots of cousins. we get along well but he thinks i am a bleeding heart liberal who is too p.c. and i think he is an entitled white man with little compassion on certain issues. so we tend to just avoid speaking about things we know are "hot button" topics.
i have three kids who all get along. eldest is a girl who scraps with MS and they push each others buttons. if either one of them is down, all transgressions are forgotten and they step up for each other. youngest DS is switzerland - he gets along with everyone!
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Post by originalvanillabean on Nov 15, 2018 15:59:16 GMT
I have one sister. We are 4 years apart and I wouldn't suggest it. We are either getting along fine or not talking.
DH is 1 of 6 and they all get along pretty well.
We have no children.
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