# Ending a relationship with a crappy sibling?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-a-relationship-with-a-crappy-sibling/711148>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 28, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-a-relationship-with-a-crappy-sibling/711148 "2015-01-28T21:02:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-a-relationship-with-a-crappy-sibling/711148/41 "2015-02-05T21:33:06Z")

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I always knew I had a pretty decent family, but after reading this thread… man, we must have been the freaking Cleavers!!! We all still speak to each other! I never imagined that was so rare.

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**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-a-relationship-with-a-crappy-sibling/711148/42 "2015-02-05T22:58:16Z")

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It’s only rare in a thread about toxic siblings!

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**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-a-relationship-with-a-crappy-sibling/711148/43 "2015-02-06T00:57:13Z")

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I wouldn’t cut ties with my brother but I don’t see any being there much once our mother dies. He’s 11 years older, took a totally different path in life, and lives a thousand miles away. I guess one of us will be at the others funeral but as it is we’re basically a phone call a year and a lunch every 5 or 6 years.

(Don’t get me wrong – he’s a fine person and I like being around him. But we’re just too different and too far apart in too many ways.)

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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-a-relationship-with-a-crappy-sibling/711148/44 "2015-02-09T17:15:00Z")

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My youngest brother stopped talking to me after I asked my second youngest brother if I could go to his wedding, because I was embarrassed to ask him directly, we hadn’t spoken to each other for nearly 2 years, and I was mad at him banning his own mother from a wedding in which the brides mother had died. So I got banned from the wedding as well.

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