How many years are between you and your siblings? How well do you get along? Do you wish you were closer...?

Question

...or farther apart so that you would have not had to share as much, or are things just right?

Answer 1

Four years between me and my younger brother and 8 years between me and my youngest brother. I like how far apart we are, I just wish one of them was a girl instead. I'd kinda like to know what it's like to have a sister. Too late though!

Answer 2

Me and my sibs were 2 yrs apart and so are my kids. There were good and bad things to it I think. When we were younger it sucked. My sister and I were always competing, not so much for boys thankfully we had different tastes although it did happen once. But we were two yrs apart in age but only one yr apart in school and so I would get very frustrated when she got to do things a yr earlier than I got to. If our parents said I could wear makeup in 8th grade, I was 14 in eighth grade but when my sister was in 8th grade she was 13. I always hated when they would go off of grades instead of age. Now that we've gotten older it's been wonderful we are really close. And my brother although 4 yrs younger than me, we can talk easily as well he's gonna be 19 in Feb I can't believe it. when we were young he seemed so much younger than me but now it's as if we're all on the same page and working at adulthood. My sister and I both have kids although she has only 1 and I'm on my third, but that is something we can talk about. We had a difficult childhood and we didnt always see eye to eye then but we do now and it helps to have a close sister in age to talk to when your parents are still screwing up. In my experience 2 yrs is a good gap. As I said that is the gap between my kids. I hope my kids will be close. My first and my second are a girl and boy though so they should have less fights than me and mysister. Although my third is gonna be a boy so the two boys may fight over girls but here's hoping they don't. lol. I also have a 10 yr old brother who was born to my dad and step mom later. And that has been hard. I barely know my own brother. I think more than a 3-4 yr gap is way too much. And they tend to spoil the kid that is still at home after the others leave. Anywayz I guess that is just my outlook on it.

Answer 3

My sisters are 7 and 10 years older than me! And when I was growing up we had nothing in common and I hated both of them because I was always the "baby". But, now we are 26, 33 and 36 and it is no longer a big deal (since we are all grown up) and we get along just fine now.
I dont wish that we were born closer together but I do think if people are planning to have kids that is way too long between so they should have them closer together.

Answer 4

I was the last child in a blended family with my half-siblings being between 11 and 17 years older than me. I don't feel close to any of them, and only maintain relationships with them for the sake of my parents. This has more to do with their substance abuse and other personal issues than age though. My own kids are 14, 12, and 3, which is really strange. The two that are two years apart are fiercely competitive and always bickering, but I know that when it comes down to it they are very close. For the three year old, Sissy is like Momma Jr, and his older brother is his HERO! If I look into my crystal ball, I see the two older children drifting away from each other and each staying closer with the younger one, which is the opposite of what happened with me and my sibs. I think personality has more to do with it than age though, regardless.

Answer 5

My sister and I are/were 15 months apart, and we fought all our lives. The reason I don't know if it's "are" or "were" is that I do not even know if she is still alive. The last time I tried to contact her, the phone number was disconnected, and there was nothing in the phone book.

I sort of wish we could have been closer emotionally when we were growing up, but that would have required being further apart chronologically. She was the elder, but I was the smarter, and so I'd do her homework for her (she was two years ahead in school because of being across the dividing line) so we could go out and play. Later on a shrink told me I probably humiliated her doing that. I thought I was just saving time so we could get out of the house faster.

And yes, we wore one another's hand-me-downs. When we were younger, I wore her hand-me-downs. Then I got larger, and she wore mine.

Answer 6

There's 19 years between me and my oldest brother, 17 years between me and my other brother, 15 years between me and my oldest sister, and 13 years between me and my youngest sister. We get along really well because they're all in there twenties and don't live with me in my parent's house. And sometimes I do wish they did live with me in the same house because then we would be closer. The only time we all get to see each other at the same time is when it's Christmas or Thanksgiving or something like that.

Answer 7

My sister and I are 10 1/2 months apart. We are actually the same age every year for 6 weeks. As children we played together alot but we also fought alot. As teenagers we were completely opposite. We hung with different crowds and basically ignored eachother. Now that we are grown and married with children, we are the absolute best of friends. I bet it was hard on my mom when we were really small though!

Answer 8

There are 11 years between me and my older sister and 16 between me and my older brother. So for the most part growing up I felt like an only child. My sister and I have been incredibly close, and now that I'm in my 20's the age difference doesn't seem that large. We also have never fought because growing up.

Answer 9

we're 3 years apart. but we don't get along because we are two totally different people. we don't even look related. everything about us is opposite. I don't think that age difference had anything to do with it.
Are you doing a research paper or something because I just answered your other sibling related question?
For what it's worth, I do wish I had one more sibling. Probably a younger one because I like be the oldest.

Answer 10

From oldest down: sister, 59; sister, 55; brother, 51; sister, 48; me, 45; brother, 35. I guess between me and my next oldest sister, it was about the right difference, because we played together when younger -.
My older sisters have kids like 18 mo. apart and it's really cool how they have grown up together - both sets of kids are really close. I think that's a good age to have them apart - it means lots of work though.

Answer 11

my brother and sister are six and seven years older than me. i hated it because i felt like an only child my whole life. they're close and i felt left out being so much younger. plus i got picked on a lot for being the baby and my sister didn't like me too much since i replaced her spot of being the baby after six years. so if you're planning on having kids.. have them two years apart or three at the most. then they will most likely have something in common.. the one good advantage about being so far behind though was that i was spoiled and got mostly what i wanted since the other two were grown up.. but still it didnt give me company when i was bored..