Siblings

[Shiny]

Do you think having siblings influenced the way you are in relationships?

For instance, if you were a boy with sisters, do you think it's helped or harmed the way you treat women in relationships and vice versa. Or do you not think it makes a difference and depends on something else like the parents for instance?

[Loony BoB]

Not really. Although keep in mind I've had siblings all my life so I'm unsure what it's like to NOT have them. It's hard to compare. But off the top of my head, I never really think about my siblings when I think about how I treat my girlfriend.

[Breine]

I suppose it does in some way. Having siblings teaches you how to share and compromise, since it's not about you all the time. There's someone else to take into account other than yourself. Having siblings is, in my opinion, very helpful and beneficial when it comes to how you act socially, so why shouldn't that also include relationships?

I guess it's not something conscious, but rather subconscious since having siblings just help shape your personality, just like being an only child shapes your personality in a different way.

[blackmage_nuke]

According to number 1 and 5 of this cracked article, yes.

But i cant help thinking cracked makes things up and we would never know

[NorthernChaosGod]

According to number 1 and 5 of this cracked article, yes.

But i cant help thinking cracked makes things up and we would never know

I was just going to mention that article.

So +1 to blackmage.

[Shorty]

Having younger siblings helped shape me into the tyrranical, bossy woman before you today.

[Pike]

I have honestly never thought about it.

I'm the oldest of six. I have four sisters and one brother (poor guy). We have all always gotten along really well together and all have pretty much the same interests, which are geeky ones. Not even exaggerating, all we EVER do when we're together is talk about video games and other assorted geekery. We all get along nicely.

So, hopefully that means I get along nicely with other people as well? Who knows!

[Shiny]

Interesting, which brings on another question. Do you think birth order effects the way you are?

[Shorty]

100% yes.

[Rye]

It's hard to say for me, because my brother and I don't have a close relationship. Being the oldest makes me domineering in some ways, and while I've been in relationships where I have been more domineering in the past, this is not the case right now.

[fire_of_avalon]

Interesting, which brings on another question. Do you think birth order effects the way you are?

I definitely think it does. I have always taken a very dominant, protective role over my sister which she hates. And I'm very protective of other people I get close to.

I'm also much more independently-minded than my sister, but I think she's more stubborn.

[Pike]

Honestly I think your parents and they way they act toward each other might influence your relationships more than your siblings would. Just a thought though...

(SPOILER)I hope that is not the case, because I grew up with parents who hated each other and were constantly fighting and finally had an ugly divorce last year. I don't know what it's like to have parents who love and are affectionate with each other.

[DMKA]

I don't think so.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

I know that a big part of the way I am in a relationship is because I have seen how my sisters boyfriends have been in their relationships and have witnessed the good and bad resulting feelings from my sisters. I am the youngest of four with three older sisters. We were all very close, even if they did constantly harass me. But I always saw how being a dick boyfriend affected my sisters and told myself I would never be like that.

Being the youngest definitely help me see it all clearer, because I got to see it all happen three times before I was even thinking about relationships.

[Chris]

I have quite a few half-siblings from my dad's former marriages and relationships, but they were already adults when me and my sister came into this world. My dad is more than twenty years older than my mother, and two my my half-siblings are older than my mother. That being said, they have been nothing but good to me. I can't say if they have had a direct influence on me, but they might have. It's difficult to say, really.