Sibling rivalry

[BlitzCo]

I'm sure that many of us have siblings that we argue/battle with.
Since sibling rivalry is fairly frequent among brothers and sisters, I wonder if any of you had any humorous experiences with your siblings.


I am the oldest of 3 boys and 1 girl. (My little brothers are 13 and 10, the girl is 5). Me and my 13 year old little brother are very different from each other. You could probably name anything and we'll have different opinions on what you mentioned. So yes, we tend to argue a lot.


I remember back in the summer of 2013, we had a pretty heated feud over something that I can't remember. It led to him calling me "queer" and other LGBT slurs on a daily basis. I got tired of his name-calling so on the 4th of July, while he handling some water balloons, I got my airsoft AK, and shot him in the arm while his back was turned. He started crying. My dad thought the welt came from a water balloon at first.


He did get me back a year later. I was about to take a shower, then he stole my wallet (with $200 in it) and my iPhone, and made a run for it. I chased him down, but I was naked. He ran outside, I did manage to wrestle my stuff back and I ran back inside. I was lucky that we live in a isolated rural area with lots of trees around, so anybody else outside couldn't see our scuffle.

 

[Mr. Sparta]

My brother and I are pretty close. We hang out still on the weekends to get coffee or whatnot. I enjoy him when he's home in the summer, but get annoyed quickly, since he likes to barge in on me while I do stuff.

We do well together.

 

[Teckolf]

My brother and I have a strength rivalry. Basically, I am a big farm boy, strong but slow and not particularly fit. He is adopted and is very fit and quick, but small with a lot less brute strength. But we all know I am the stronger one...

 

[Volkodav]

I have no positive experiences with my brother
Any fights between my sister and I always lead to an overwhelming sense of regret because I can't stand to see her cry

 

[Ieono]

I used to be really close to my little sister. I was always really protective of her, but we'd fight because she was a tomboy and felt the need to act tough in front of my male friends. She'd hang out with me and them sometimes, and felt like she needed to be "one of the boys". When we were put into foster care when I was around 12, I lost contact with her. I don't really miss people, so I wouldn't say I miss her. I just wonder how she's living sometimes.

He did get me back a year later. I was about to take a shower, then he stole my wallet (with $200 in it) and my iPhone, and made a run for it. I chased him down, but I was naked. He ran outside, I did manage to wrestle my stuff back and I ran back inside. I was lucky that we live in a isolated rural area with lots of trees around, so anybody else outside couldn't see our scuffle.

I wish I could've seen....*giggity*

 

[BlitzCo]

.I wish I could've seen....*giggity*

I have a black bush down there, and my balls are extremely hairy

 

[Luki]

I have a black bush down there, and my balls are extremely hairy

You know you're telling that to a furry, right?

Chances are...you've made yourself more of a target!



On topic, the age difference between my siblings and I is too great for there to be any trouble between us.

 

[Vitaly]

When I visit my parents my brother and I are constantly at war for TV. I'm looking for Adventure time, SpongeBob or something like that, he loves military and auto channels... I'm 22, he is 12.

 

[Ieono]

I have a black bush down there, and my balls are extremely hairy

Oh how you tease~

 

[X_Joshi_X]

I have an older sister and that shounds probably silly, but she is just childish. There are to many situations in where she is and I dont like to tell them all, but it is like it is.

 

[jtrekkie]

I lived with one brother, we didn't get along well, usually. Lot's of fighting, lot's of meanness. He's done stuff to me... then one day I find out he was nice to me behind my back. Now that he's away we get along really well. My other brother lived with different people, I hardly know him.

 

[Blackberry Polecat]

I don't understand sibling rivalry. Especially when it turns into bullying (it's actually one of the least challenged forms of bullying and can be just as damaging as in school.)

They're your direct family growing up! They should be your friend or mentor/student. If someone can't turn to a sibling for help because that sibling will mock them or punch them... wtf. Seriously, try to be a decent person to your brothers and sisters...

 

[SkyboundTerror]

Two older brothers, two older step-sisters, two younger sisters, two younger step-brothers, one younger brother, and one half-brother.
I hate all of them.

I don't have beef with the steps and younger siblings. I mess with them and tease them enough, though I am the ghost in the family. My existence comes and goes, so we're disconnected.

One of my younger sisters, however, is like the devil to me. She's 3 years younger than I am, and because of the close age, different gender, and HER STEALING MY SPOTLIGHT AS THE YOUNGEST ONE at the time, we often get into verbal fights. When we were kids, we'd sick our parents on each other. She'd put funky chemicals in my soup and I'd throw things at her. I love and hate her to bits.

As for the two older brothers, they treated me like shit when I was growing up. There wasn't a rivalry there. It was a beatdown, and I was the sandbag. We're cool with each other now, though. Forgive and forget.

 

[Ieono]

I don't understand sibling rivalry. Especially when it turns into bullying (it's actually one of the least challenged forms of bullying and can be just as damaging as in school.)

They're your direct family growing up! They should be your friend or mentor/student. If someone can't turn to a sibling for help because that sibling will mock them or punch them... wtf. Seriously, try to be a decent person to your brothers and sisters...

Such an idealist...where is the pragmatism?

Sibling rivalry serves a very useful purpose in preparing people for the social dynamics they'll face not only outside of the home, but as an adult. That is why it is so common across eras and cultures; because it serves a purpose.

 

[Bonobosoph]

I have a younger brother who's 15 in a few days and 7 years my junior, my sister is 9 years my junior but not 13 for a few months yet.
That distance in age meant there's a lot of maternal feeling as well as the usual sibling stuff, yet when I wasn't looking after them we did fight or pick on each other.
We are all quite physical in that sense and slapped eachother and stuff when we were younger, once when my brother was about 8 or 9 he was angry with me and dug a fork into my hand really hard (only made skin dents though, no cuts). He's a weedy fucker but he isn't half strong. When he was a toddler he bit me and it bled.
When I matured a bit I stopped being so physical, because I was racked with guilt about it and would remember times when I'd lash out and whack them and really hate myself for it. Or when I'd tease and bait them to make then angry. But apparently to them it was no big deal which was a relief.
I get on well with them and the older they become the more like equals they become. They are both huge nerds too so we have plenty to talk about.

With each other however, my siblings are constantly fighting. They are going through a phase of practically hating eachother more than half the time. And they still physically fight loads.

 

[Kinharia]

I have a little sister. As much as I love her we can't help but fight with each other. We used to be very voilent towards each other but that has gone.

 

[DrDingo]

I've got a brother who is only 13 months older than me and super damn smart. We don't fight, and he gives me help whenever I have an issue with the maths work I'm doing.
I'm gonna miss him when he's off to university next year. Though I won't miss the sound of him yelling at his practise exam papers, shouting things like "Why won't you WORK?"

Seriously, just this morning the guy was shouting like hell because his tie wasn't straight and his hair was messy.

 

[Wax]

My brother and I are pretty close. We hang out still on the weekends to get coffee or whatnot. I enjoy him when he's home in the summer, but get annoyed quickly, since he likes to barge in on me while I do stuff. We do well together.

That's basically mine and my brother's relationship. We are pretty close, except we live together but we get on so it's okay.

 

[Naesaki]

My brothers are both 10 and 11 years older than me, so never really had any rivalry, though those two did when they were growing up my oldest brother did love to use me to practice his wrestling moves on though -___-

 

[Distorted]

My brother is a year and a half younger than me and we get along well enough. I always tried to be the older brother with him, but he's always been very defiant, doing his own thing all the time. I yell at him a lot because he tends to take considerable risks, but they always pay off for him. We call him the lucky one in the family. I get a little jealous really at how things tend to work out for him. He's a lot more adjusted than I am too so he does well in life while I tend to struggle a lot. But he's told me he's jealous of how smart I am, so I guess that makes us even. He comes to me whenever he doesn't understand things. But then he's the one with all the friends and stuff so...I don't know.

 

[Sarcastic Coffeecup]

There'll always be brotherly rivalry with me and my brother, but it's more of a competing sort than the argumentative kind. Although, we call eachother fatasses and jerkoffs, but what most fail to realize, is that it's just in good fun and nothing hostile, even if the context might give it a different picture.
People say we argue, when we don't.

Anyone with a twin will know what I mean.

 

[Alexxx-Returns]

I have one brother who is a year and a half older than me. We did not get along. We aren't even friends now even though we get along.

I don't really think I'm able to forgive him for how he treated me when we were younger. If would have been okay if I was in on it, and was being an ass in a playful way back to him, but I just wanted him to leave me alone. I didn't want to be in the same room as him.

We used to get along really well when we were really young despite how he still treated me terribly, but when he was 10 or so he became well and truly evil. I hated him for a lot of stuff he did like calling me a retard over and over again until I cried (he denies this to this day), and provoking our dad into yelling and going apeshit on us (which is like waving a red flag at a bull) and constantly setting our parents on each other. How they are still together after everything is amazing. I personally reckon he was hoping he could split out parents up so he could be mama's boy all the time. Since I always thought quite black and white, I used to take my dad's side, and I'm a miserable bastard clone of him now.

I agree with what Blackberry said. My parents like to blame a lot of my anxiety and self esteem problems on how I was treated by other kids at school, but refuses to even consider that how my brother bullied me had anything to do with it, if not being entirely the problem. Kids are meant to be able to come home to a safe place where they can get AWAY from whatever is stressing them out at school and a lot of them come home to siblings who are even worse. How is this okay? How can this be justified as "sibling rivalry" when one of your kids can't stand to be in the same ROOM as the other? No one wants to be shot down and criticised every single time they open their mouth to say anything. That bastard would play on each and every thing I hated about myself and not stop about it. He went through a phase once where if I walked past him, he would punch me for no discernible reason.

The thing I find funny is that he never could understand why I hated him growing up. We get along now entirely, as long as I just bury all the negative feelings I have about how he used to be and forget everything that happened. We aren't friends though, for the same reason I'm friends with almost nobody - because I don't want to inflict/force my company on him. We are totally different people and we have nothing in common. I'm not gonna force him to be subject to my company when I know we would have nothing to talk about.

 

[Zop]

I have no siblings suck it. Although I was also born in a test tube. Explains a lot. Too bad I did not receive any super powers via genetic modification

 

[CuriousFox]

I have a younger sister, and our fights are mainly just bickering and name calling back and forth. Although I do remember a time when I was probably 3 or 4, she had made me extremely angry so I hit her over the head with a "Kentucky Long Rifle" Cap Gun. Gotta love young boy logic, don't like it? Hit it.

Other than petty arguments here and there we get along rather well. I drive her to work and to the mall, as she doesn't have a car yet (she's a year younger than I am)

 

[Blackberry Polecat]

Such an idealist...where is the pragmatism?

Sibling rivalry serves a very useful purpose in preparing people for the social dynamics they'll face not only outside of the home, but as an adult. That is why it is so common across eras and cultures; because it serves a purpose.

I guess domestic abuse is so common because it serves a purpose too?

My brother and I work together and are best friends. There's enough competition in life (school/work/sports) without trying to justify treating close family like enemies to better and dominate.