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Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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How do you get on with your sisters/brothers.
My sisters staying with me for a few days, (she's watching tv at the mo) and we get on reasonably well, tho we are very different.Don't see a great deal of her as she lives in Surrey and me in Kent. But would have like to have lived closer, so we could have been more supportive of eachother, and popped in for an occassional coffee and chat.
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Foxie
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12/08/2008 21:21
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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My sister and I are really close. We don't see each other as often as we would like as we live 50 miles about, but we text, email and phone regularly.
I have just spent today with her and it was wonderful.
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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Blatant is a strong word Perry!!!!!!!! I did ask first!  But YES I did have to get my fix! 
Am gonna go now, you've made me feel guilty. Will leave you to keep it going.....
Byeeeee xxx
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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I dont see my sis often enough, she lives in East Sussex and I live in Kent and we both have busy lives with working full time and juggling families, but when we do get togehter we have a hoot, last time we went to a spa in a hotel, had all the treatments but then went for lunch in the restaurant and stayed there for the rest of the day drinking wine and chatting, it was lovely !!!
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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Snowy,
I'm so sorry I offened you, I really didn't me to
I truely appologise
perry
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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My sis drives me potty, but I wouldnt be without her. See her almost every day and every day she says something I dont agree with, but she's lovely and would do anything for me, as I would for her.
Sisters, sisters, there were never more devoted sisters........
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miclor
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13/08/2008 08:43
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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I didn't see my sister for several years because of the complicated relationship we have with our mother (long story). These days we see each other more often and email every week. I enjoy her company and our time together, but I don't trust her as much as I would like to because she cannot keep a confidence.
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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Perry, I have PM'd you, you silly thing. You haven't offended me AT ALL, looking back at my reply I can see why you may have thought that now, it did come across a bit blunt. I was being Sarky I'm afraid, and was not upset with what you wrote one bit, I thought it was Hilarious!!
Love Snowy. xx
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issi
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13/08/2008 11:18
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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I have three sisters and one brother. My brother lives the furthest away and we rarely see him. My three sisters and I, though, are quite close and (because I have the most space) they come to see me quite often. In fact sister number two will be with me on Monday and Tuesday night. All four of us will be going to the Breast Cancer Charity Tea at the Grosvenor House Hotel on October 1st. This is organised by W&H every year and is just great. When we go I will have run full circle as my first post was last year when I announced we would all be going and described the four of us having shepherd's pie and champagne for dinner. The inevitable jokes (why bother with the shepherd's pie?) made us all laugh. We are all different but do have fun together. They live in Staffordshire and I live near London but I wish I lived nearer to them so that we would not have to do overnight stays but could go to each other's houses all the time.
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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There is only 18 months difference between me and my sister and we are as different as can be, always have been.
We don't really have much to do with each other although we don't not get on, if that makes sense.
We speak about what to get my mum for christmas and the like, and I'm even having a party at my house for my sisters birthday but there's not much else.
If we weren't sisters i doubt if we would have anything to do with each other really.
It's quite sad as I would love to be really close like a lot of my friends, going shopping together, having lunch, but it's just not to be.
Bluebella
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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No sisters, but one brother and all we have in common these days is our parents... I see him occasionally if we happen to be at Dad's at the same time but apart from that we're down to Christmas cards only these days. As Bluebella says it's a bit sad but it's the way things are.
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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Phew,
Thanks Snowy.....I can come out from behind mjm now 
perry
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Carey
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13/08/2008 13:47
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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My sister has lived in the USA for the last 25 years and I have only seen her 4 times in those years. She isn't really interested in writing or e-mails, so we speak on the phone about twice a year, so it feels like we are strangers. It doesn't usually bother me until I see friends going out with their brothers and sisters and then I feel sad. But I suppose thats just how it is and I will have to live with it.
Carey
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PatsyW
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13/08/2008 13:50
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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I have 3 sisters and a brother, we are all very different to each other. I have lots of contact with one sister because we go dancing together, another keeps in fairly regular email and text contact. The 3rd sister and my brother I rarely hear from not because we've fallen out, it's just the way it is at the moment. I know, as do they, that we are only ever a call away. If needed, we'd do anything for each other.
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LizzyF
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13/08/2008 14:54
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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I love my sister and couldn't imagine life without her. She lives in Melbourne and I'm currently in Edinburgh. We talk (or chat type) almost every day via skype. She came over for 2 months last summer and is coming back for 2 months from late September. She wants to spend her 50th birthday with me so we are going to Italy (with our OH's as well) for it.
We've always been very close but we are so very different in many ways which I think is a good thing.
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I have a sister who is 17 years older whom i do not have a relationship.....
My Brother is a decade older and our relationship is better since he has separated from his wife.
I always wished for a Brother or Sister my own age,i really felt like a only child hence why i wanted at least two choldren close in age which is what we had :-)
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Don't have a sister, only a brother who has been a trouble-maker all his life and I don't see him anymore, doubt I ever will. He has now left a wife and two children in the lurch and I see them occasionally.
OH has a brother exactly the same so not one decent sibling amongst us! I do have a female cousin who I have been very close to since the day she was born. We are seven years apart and have always looked out for one another. We don't get together as much as we would like due to busy lives etc, but see each other about once a month.
I don't agree with a lot of what she does and says and I expect she feels the same about me, but we have a very strong bond and will always be there for each other. However, I am struggling with some family dis-loyalty and betrayal that happened a few years ago which I don't think I can 'forgive and forget' I may need to forum-ise it soon to get it out of my system!!!!
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kate55
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29/08/2008 21:12
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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Only 18 months between myself and my sister and it is great We are very different and our lives have been different but we are very close i couldnt imagine life without her I have 2 girls and they are also very close I think it is a wonderful gift to have someone who is not just a friend but a sister so knows all about you but still loves you
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I have two sisters ,one in Holland and one in Ireland we see each other a few times a year speak often went on holiday together this year had a ball, slept and snored together ate and got drunk only once, had one row and that was about the kids !!!!!!
both them to bits but I am glad that we don`t all live next door to each other !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LINN
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30/08/2008 22:33
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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I don`t have a sister, but do have a sister-in-law, whom i have always got on well with, she now lives in Texas USA, but we still talk and email weekly, even more so since my O/H left me recently, eventually i will go and visit her. 
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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I have 1 sister, who is 3 yrs older than me, and up until 20 yrs ago, I didnt know she existed or my 2 brothers,(if you have read the post, birth mother update by barbarella, then you will understand why this happened)my sister and I are close, and I am so glad that I have met & got to know her. I love her to bits, we live about 100 miles from each other, but we txt/phone at least once a week.And see each other about twice a yr if not more often.
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Totally indifferent - she has lived in America for the past 40 years (although married to a Brit), but we didnt really get on even as children (a big age difference). Have visited often,but as she didnt see fit to come home for either our father or mother's funerals (inspite of being able to afford it), really only have limited email communication and Christmas now. I found it quite ironic that for someone who has such a little regard for "family" all she ever writes about is researching our ancestry... she is a bit of an academic weirdo though.
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BEL
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01/09/2008 13:02
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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Me an only child...always wanted a sister to have fun with!
not so sure now though!!
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Like you Bel, I always wanted a sister when I was little but not sure having one would be all I imagined it to be!
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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I can assure you all that having a sister is not all it's cracked up to be. It can be a pain in the *rs* at times and a bl**dy liability to boot!
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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Unfortunately, so is having a brother as I have found out to my cost!!! I could have done quite nicely as an only child!!!
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dawnyg
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04/09/2008 21:38
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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I have two brothers, who I get on well with, but am not especially close to...my oldest brother thinks I have a heart of stone cause I didn't cry at my dads funeral. It wasn't that I wasn't sad, I was as devastated as they were, but my mum was in bits and someone had to stay strong for her as she would never have got through it. My brother can cry at the drop of a hat...and frequently does!!..especially when he wants to butter my mum up!!LOL.
However, I do have 3 close girlfriends who are like sisters to me. Although they live quite away from me, we keep in touch by Facebook, email, text and phone...isn't technology wonderful!!!
Dawn x
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Foxie
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05/09/2008 04:46
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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Hi dawnyg
I did not cry at either of my parent's funerals either. I had to be strong for everyone else too. I knew that if I started crying I would not be able to stop.
Foxie x.
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issi
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05/09/2008 08:55
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Re: Sisterly love, or sisterly indifferent?
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I did not cry at my mother's funeral but I cried buckets at my father-in-law's funeral a few years later, couldn't stop. It was really embarrassing. Everyone thought I loved him but I didn't. I don't understand it myself.
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