Dopers, who were half siblings. Did you feel like this?

In My Humble Opinion
21

It’s almost reassuring for me to read this, thank you, it’s nice to know that this is a “thing”.

I don’t have a half sibling, but I do have a daughter that my husband has chosen to have no contact with since he moved on and installed the new woman in his life. He definitely seems to see that as a restart and almost[1] refuses to acknowledge me & the baby exist at all. I suspect my kid won’t be having any contact with her half sibling(s?) but not by my choice :frowning:

[1] Yeah, he sends cash at the moment, can’t fault him on that count. No birthday or christmas cards or presents, but a standing order for maintenance, so shrugs.

22

I’m 51 and in the position of being an only child to my father and the last of eight children to my mother (they’ve both passed on).
My next oldest sibling is 12years my senior and by oldest sibling is 26years my senior. I was born an uncle as some of my sibling already had children of their own.
Oddly, all of my brothers referred to me as their “half-brother”, but my sisters didn’t.
Regardless, I always get the vibe that I’m the “odd man out”.

23

If there ever was a thead for me, this is it.

I am one of five kids, my mother has had mental problems her whole life, so she’s not stable.

I have one older brother, one older sister, one younger sister and one younger brother.

So there’s five of us and we all have the same mother, and all have different fathers.

I have always felt like my half siblings and I are fully related, but there were times I was jealous. My father died, where their fathers are all alive, my mother just divorced them or just married without getting divorced so a couple of her marriages weren’t even valid, but that’s another story.

Oddly enough my siblings sometimes, get jealous of me as I got to spend all my time with my mother. My mother is a lot of fun to be with but when she’d get into one of her mental states, it was tough and my half siblings would go back to their fathers, while I had to stick it out as my father died.

So now that we’re all grown, they feel I was lucky to have gotten to spend time with my mother and their mother, but most of the time, I could’ve done without the instabiilty.