The relationship between siblings can be complex and often confusing. Each person has their own vision of how siblings should interact and what their own should or should not do. To add to these ideals, are the examples given to us from fictional stories or television shows like the Brady Bunch or Married with Children.
Based solely on these two examples, we can determine that siblings should either be extremely loving and helpful or completely devious and destructive to each other.
When analyzing the relationship with my own siblings, I find myself wondering why we don’t fit into either of these two categories. Instead, we simply don’t communicate at all (or rarely). It is difficult to explain the relationship between individuals when those listening to the explanation have not experienced said relationship. Much like reading a story or watching a sitcom, it’s not ours to fully understand.
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