Do step siblings count? This can get messy, as I have 1 full sister, 2 step sisters who I was raised with and I count as my sisters, plus a step sister and step brother who I’m not close to. Who counts?
One younger sister. We’re 11 years apart. Same parents. They had us : Me when they were 19/ her when they were 30.
The folks are still married and don’t seem to hate each other, which is sweet.
I have five who I count as siblings: One brother above, one sister below, then an acquisition (stepsister) and two mergers (half brother and half sister). I also have two acquisitions who were so late acquired that they are more like cousins than siblings, one older stepsister and one younger stepbrother. And just to round things out I have a younger ex stepbrother but I don’t know where he went, which made me sad for many years. It was harder to lose him than to lose his mother \as she was something of a loon.
(For those following along at home, dad remarried twice, both times to women with kids, and is now a widower; mom remarried once and is still married)
So technically I have 8 but I only count 5 as siblings.
I’ve got an older stepbrother, a younger stepsister, (mom’s remarriage) a younger brother, and a newly acquired younger stepsister (dad’s remarriage). The youngest stepsister is the only one who doesn’t really feel like a sister yet; she’s 6 years younger than me, we’ve never lived in the same house, and she spent a couple of years (dad dated his now-wife for quite a while) living with her dad in another state. I like her and wouldn’t mind more of a sisterly bond, we just haven’t put in the years yet to get there. I also have a sister-in-law who feels more like a kid sister - she’s 12 years younger than my husband, 11 years younger than me, so I’ve known her for almost half her life at this point. I’m a big believer in family being what you make it, not just what you’re born with.
Two.
One hasn’t spoken to me in the past two years, and I am not particularly upset about that fact.
I speak with the other on a regular basis and he visits once or twice a year.
Two younger half-brothers, 5 and 8 years younger than me. I grew up apart from them, but now that we’re all adults, I really do think of them as “brothers”.
Two sisters (possibly three if you count the one that died shortly after birth), one half-brother via my mum, one half-sister via my dad*, three half-brothers via my dad*, two step-sisters, three step-brothers.