My siblings and I are pretty close. I’m not in the habit of antagonizing my housemates, so I can smooth things out in the rare cases there’s any friction.

We no longer talk to each other, he refused to test for covid and wear a mask to come see my newborn at the peak of covid infections, after receiving multiple audio messages of just verbal abuse I cut ties. I lost a lot of friends we had in common but I’m good now.

Not very.

My sister and I get along really well but are not close.

I haven’t had any real contact with my brother in the past 5 years. I see him for four hours each year so my parents can have the family together for Christmas dinner and that is it.

We get along okay. We don’t have a lot in common but we can occasionally hang out and have fun playing games or something.

Kinda meh really

We don’t talk much anymore, but I do speak with them more often than my parents.

I am happy to hear that both my siblings are doing pretty well for themselves (I even helped my sister move into a bigger apartment today)

My dad is… still around.

My Mom is starting to do better lately mental health wise, which is great to see. She’s had some recent health scares that have really put time into perspective for her.

It’s a long story for both groups why the relationships are what they are. But there’s really only 1 out of that group that’s unrecoverable IMO and that’s the relationship with my dad.

Not very. I have nothing against them, but we just have separate lives. I may contact them once a year or so, but that’s about it. One of my sisters acts as the main info exchange for the other four, but even she is only in routine weekly contact with one of my brothers.

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I had to cut my sister out of my life for her constant abuse and toxicity. It sadly cost me the relationship with my father who is now 80 and likely we won’t get the chance to reconnect before he is gone. It has been almost 4 years and I have no regrets about cutting her off. She has since shown up at my door multiple times unannounced (we live 350 miles away) and has tried to circumvent me and communicate directly with my kids by giving them toys.

2 sisters I have a good relationship with. I see them when I am back in my home country.

Third sister has been shunned by the whole family for leveling serious charges against our dad and refused to back down when the evidence was overwhelming in our fathers favour and her key piece of evidence came about from a lie under duress.

We talk briefly 2-3 times a year, see each other even less frequently, despite it being less than a two hour drive. Neither side is looking to change that despite us growing up together in a happy family and there being no reason for us to avoid each other. It could be that we all don’t value social interactions very highly in general.

I have 2 sisters… We talk and game almost daily. We’re super close.

These other responses are honestly quite shocking.

My Brother and I are extremely close. So close we joke we share one brain cell and that we were twins who were chronically seperated by 9 years at birth. He is genuinely my best friend and I love him very, very much.

So, a lot of my family is alcoholic - both paternally as well as maternally. Both parents are alcoholics, but it’s not taking their lives over completely: they’re still, more or less, functioning members of society with stable income and such. My older brother is an alcoholic, not really aware of what it’s doing to relationships to me, my younger brother, and our parents and completely shuts off whenever it’s brought up as a subject. He hasn’t achieved too much in his life, probably because of alcohol, and is the type of person of getting super close up in your personal space, super loud and obnoxious when he’s drunk. Not pleasant to be around.

Back when we all lived at our parents’, it was mostly fine when I started university - we gamed a lot, spent time together, went to university together, had mutual “friends” etc. He had problems with alcohol, but they were not as pronounced as they are now. Co-dependancy led to a lot of cope and ignoring of his issues from my side which changed drastically when I moved out and moved in with my girlfriend. We started seeing each other a lot less frequently - say, like 5-7 times a year for birthdays or other similar family gatherings - and whenever we see each other, he brings up that we don’t see each other at all. Yea, I guess when I just can’t stand you at all when you’re drunk, that influences my willingness to meet up.

Last year on my birthday, I requested beforehand that we spend the evening without my family drinking alcohol at all. They were quite shocked and at a loss for words, saying that they’re not sure if that’s possible, but were ultimately fine with it and didn’t drink anything. They also only served vegan food instead of the usual vegan food for my girlfriend and I plus their stuff too which felt awesome. Best birthday in years.

I have more contact with my little brother who still lives at my parents’ and has contact with my older brother, but it’s not terrificly much either. I know that he’s not doing well there in terms of his relationship with our brother, but he’s not seeing the issues. Co-dependancy is more pronounced with him still. It hurts me that we’re not spending much time together since he was constantly around before I moved out, spending time with me and my girlfriend a lot, going on trips, playing games etc., but I’m just not really “in the mood” these past few years.

I’ve thought of giving my older brother an ultimatum, letting him decide to choose the alcohol or the relationship with me, but I’m too scared of conflicts, so I end up ignoring my family for the most part. I’m happy living my life with my girlfriend and don’t mourn over it too much, figuring out our life living together. I’m just happy I’m not exposed to the constant bullshit anymore.

Closer than the princes Charles and Andrew, it would seem. But that’s because my brother doesn’t fuck kids.

Is the best and healthiest relationship I got in my family , I can’t imagine my life without her being a part of it which is funny because I really didn’t like her as a kid and use to be really mean to her ; I am the older one. I guess shares trauma and me realizing I was an ass wipe then asking for forgiveness goes a long way. She tells me that she remembers well the first time I hugged her , apparently I was about 7 or 8 and she picked up my toys for me and I was grateful so I hugged her ( I don’t remember this)

Currently we live half the world away from each other , and with some luck maybe not for much longer. She has completely aliened herself from the family including my parent I guess my mom is an expection because she occasionally calls her. I didn’t at least I haven’t completely not like her and we respect and love each other enough to still agree to disagree in a lot of things and still love and support each other to the best of our abilities. I hope you all got a person around like that , I got really flipping lucky it is my sister.