If you've had to share a bedroom with a brother or sister?

Question

What was the biggest difference in your ages? What were or are your biggest complaints? Did anything get better or worse as you got older? Was there something good about sharing a bedroom?

I'm an only child, but I've had several teenage friends who had to share their bedrooms with a 4 year old and I can't imagine what that's like. Any stories?

Answer 1

I shared a bedroom with my sister, who is seven years younger than me. The biggest problem I had was noises she made in the night, like snoring (I'm a light sleeper). I don't have really much good to say about it though, because we were so far apart in age (no bedtime giggling or anything). She was just there, as a baby and a little girl. It wasn't horrible though either.

Answer 2

I was 7 and my sister was 4 years old. We shared a room together until I was 14 and she was 12. She continued to share a room with my baby brother until we moved to a new house when I was 17. We got along alright until we got older and now we aren't as close as we were. I'm more closer to my 5 year old brother then my 17 year old sister and 7 year old sisters. I guess it's because my brother is the baby and the only boy in the family but we have a very close bond. I'm 20 so that's a 15 year age difference. The good thing I thought about sharing a bedroom was that we usually stayed up and talked all night even on school nights. But it was annoying because we didn't get any privacy since we both shared a room.

Answer 3

Well, my sister and I are 4 years apart and up until I turned 13, we shared a room at my dad's (but I lived with my mom, so we only shared during weekends). I think the biggest problem we had was the fact that she's a neat-freak and I was very messy (I'm more into cleanliness now...but back then I was pretty bad with the whole cleaning thing). Other than that we didn't have any problems...and I'm sure that's just because we didn't share rooms all the time.

Answer 4

i replaced into 7 and my sister replaced into 4 years previous. We shared a room together till i replaced into 14 and she or he replaced into 12. She persevered to share a room with my toddler brother till we moved to a sparkling residing house while i replaced into 17. We have been given alongside very properly till we've been given older and now we're not as close as we've been. i'm greater closer to my 5 year previous brother then my 17 year previous sister and seven year previous sisters. i assume it incredibly is because of the fact my brother is the toddler and the only boy in the family individuals yet we've an incredibly close bond. i'm 20 so because it incredibly is a fifteen year age distinction. the stable difficulty i presumed approximately sharing a mattress room replaced into that we many times stayed up and talked all night even on college nights. notwithstanding it replaced into annoying because of the fact we did not get any privateness considering the fact that we the two shared a room.

Answer 5

I shared a bedroom with my little sister when I was 17 and she was 3. We shared a room for 2 years. It was awful. I would be studying or on the phone and she would always pester me. Having no privacy was awful. The only solution was me moving out. We get along great now, but that was a rough time.

Answer 6

I have shared rooms with all my sisters at some point in my life. Me and my next sister are five years apart and we fought all the time until I got into college. I was living at home and we actually started getting along much better. We are best friends now. I have also shared a room with my baby sister, who is 15 years younger than me. She was just a baby at the time, and it wasn't too bad. Sometimes she would wake up in the night, but our room was right next to my parents, so my mom would usually come right in and get her. If not, I took her into my mom. I never had any big problems with it, and I plan on making all my children share rooms, if possible, it helps you learn to live with people better and to learn to get along no matter what the situation!

Answer 7

When I was 12 / 13 I had to share a tiny room with my sister who is 9 years younger than me. The room was so small we had bunk beds, a tiny wardrobe each and my sister had a tiny desk. It wasn't nice, my selfish mother and her husband had a nice big room while we had to suffer. The only good thing was that when my sister woke up in the night after a bad dream she could come and get on top bunk with me for a cuddle so we are really close now and more like mother and daughter than sisters.

Answer 8

My sister and I are 13 months apart. We shared a room until we were 15 & 16 years old. We had bunk beds. Somehow we didn't kill each other and now are adults and actually best friends...Helps when you don't live together in sardine style quarters...I have good memories from it, it helped me learn how to share and how to negotiate and compromise- all things that have made my marriage more sucessful because I don't always assume I should get my own way...(not that you do.)

Biggest complaint: Loud & cramped- you have to listen to your sister on the phone with her best friends...for hours and hours and hours....

Answer 9

ill be turning 16 soon and i still share a room with my 9 year old sister...i don't really mind it but im a total neat freak..i do not like mess or clutter. i hate it!! on the other hand my little sister is a pack rat and a total slob. she doesn't seem to mind living in the mess but i do. i don't know where she gets it from but she has so much garbage, im always cleaning out her stuff, under bed, and dresser tops but it keeps coming back. we have our sides and even though her mess is far away from me it really gets to me. you can tell who side is whose very easily and that we are total opposites. something else i don't like about sharing a room is that in the morning when she gets up and leaves the room before me she leaves the door open. i CAN NOT sleep with my bed room door open. once the door opens i wake up and can not go back to sleep. i cant stand it. what i do like about sharing a room is that at night before we go to sleep we talk. you know like tell funny stories of what happened that day or share secrets. we also watch tv together and hang out listening to music so that parts pretty fun. but if i could i would go back to having my own room. the joys of having a big family.. im one of 8, with a half brother, and 5 new step brothers. me and my sister are the only girls. shes getting better though. just takes a lot of nagging.

Answer 10

I did when I was younger, had to share a bedroom with my middle sister, the difference in age was 4 years. I tried to hog the room most of the time, and tried not to let her in unless it was time to go to bed. I don't believe, she complainted about it, I would have remember that, is she had I know my Mother would have said confronted me about it. Now, she is no longer around to share anything with she passed on and so did my Mother.

But, that is at least one of the many memories that I have to share with everyone about her. Thanks, for allowing me to share it with you. You don't know how happy you made me feel. Have a good evening.