What are people’s relationships like with their siblings?
I’m the eldest and have always had a strong sense of responsibility for my siblings, I was like the second parent. We are all adults now but I still feel more maternal. We’ve all moved away to different places. The relationship with my brother is sad and painful because he has mental health problems and is walking the similar path to my dad who was self destructive and had unhealthy coping mechanisms with addiction. My husband mentions about how I like to spend a lot of time with my sisters and how if they have a big issue I’d put things on hold to help them, but I’d do that within reason for most people. We’ve always had a strong and close relationship with all us kids but my husband doesn’t have a really close family and I think he sees it as weird. I genuinely enjoy spending time with my sisters, a couple of us weren’t as close growing up but now we are all adults, our friendship has been the best it’s ever been. I want the best for them in life, most of us all have long term partners and are getting to the age of settling down and it’s weird thinking we grew up being each other’s rock through the s***show and now we are just adults with our partners and having our own families. Have people found rocky childhoods make them closer to their siblings? I know with some it can create more distance.