I will be your sister Steve, and you can be my brother.

Let me know a good time for a face-to-face interview/meeting with you and your husband I want to keep him in the loop!

(yes I'm joking)

I'd be more worried about what he'll tell you.

One year she gave me a doll for Christmas and said it was my sister! I kept it and passed it on to my first sister-in-law with a note claiming her as my sister. I am lucky to have two brothers. But yes, I understand. Nice to have both. Ech of my brothers had both a brother and a sister, smile.

Now I only have 3 brothers left and only one of them is my favorite now.....the other two are really just acquaintances but by blood. I miss my sister soooooooo much. She died May 21st, 2010. My original favorite brother died December 23, 1980.

Kind of depressing really, but talk of sisters and brothers always makes me sad.

and an even younger half-brother and one stepbrother.

I'd trade them all today for a sister.

Especially an older one. I wonder still how much shit I would have figured out much earlier if I had had a close older sister to explain stuff to me. At the very least she might have taught me to not be such an asshole to my younger brothers.

I was not around boys much, and was always a bit shy/awkward in high school...I could have met my brother's cute friends then, too.

to have a big sister.

I am big sister to four guys

my younger sister and i are great friends now, but i wanted an older brother when i was growing up.

little brother, who's irreplaceable. But I lucked out really, all of us did though there's some natural dislike, fighting, etc. Comes with the turf. Parents and time have passed so we're not as close, that happens sometimes, unfortunately. Often I'd like another sister cuz these 2 can be a pain.
(Dad was married to 2 redheads. But not at the same time).

I got a sister when I was TWELVE....too late for sisterly bonding!

I have two grown daughters now, 19 and 23....

They are very close.

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The sweetest sound in the world to me is still the sound of the two of them laughing together.

Oh, I missed moments like those.

My oldest (in the backseat) moved to New Hampshire in November.

We miss her terribly!

I would have loved to have a brother.

always wanted a sibling...

I've always wondered what she would've been like, and I kind of missed her.

she's a handful (you can't have my youngest sister, she's awesome). I'm the oldest of three girls. I have a half-brother and a half-sister, both considerably younger. They're more like a nephew and niece.

My middle sister can be a bit nuts. Like as in certifiable.

you can have the fucked up one.

They are much older than me and conservative republicans. It is like having some extra dads. It would have been nice to have a sister.

Then I lopsided it so they had another boy after me. I have one sister I cant stand. They rest are the best.

My oldest sister is 8+ years older than I am. She and my mother would fight constantly -- really fight. I remember being "trapped" at the dinner table while they were screaming and hitting, and she tried to run out and my mother grabbing and dragging her. She told me once she remembered as a toddler being picked up by her hair and bounced off walls (we were all abused). She's a tea-partier now, and total headcase. I can't stand to be around her -- she would unexpectedly just start screaming abuse at me. We were estranged for a couple decades, then I heard she had cancer w/poor prognosis and wanted to speak to me. So I called her -- the first thing she said to me was to snarl, "get rid of that horse." But I forgave her even as she said it, and we maintained a phone relationship for a couple years (the cancer went into remission). But as soon as she recovered from the chemo and radiation, she started going back to her old self, calling me up randomly and shrieking abuse at me. So I had to end the "relationship." I work too hard, am alone w/my critters as family, and really can't afford to have nutcases randomly abusing me. Actually, not even random. She has that radar that knows the worst possible moments to call and start kicking when you're most vulnerable, so to speak. Like the day I had to put my pony down.

Growing up, I worshipped the ground my middle sister walked on. I thought she was the bravest, coolest, smartest, funniest person in the world. I literally would have given her the shirt off my back -- offered her every cent I had when she ran into $$ trouble. And then in my early 30s, shortly after she finished law school, totally out of the blue she announced that she hated me, had always hated me and would always hate me. Don't say anything, don't do anything, there's "nothing you can do." after years of therapy, she knew it was her, not me, her "sibling rivalry." But she was sick of dealing with it.

So I stopped calling her. After a while, I realized she had never called me ever unless she was in trouble anyway. A couple years later, our mother got into a car accident and father was melting down. She called me and I repeated to her something she had said to me...that I was "tired of dealing with their bad marriage. my life was hard enough without taking on their problems" or something to that effect. It was just a statement in the middle of the conversation about the accident and their drama... the *exact* words she had once said to me. She started screaming abuse at me and I told her "I've had enough out of you" and hung up. That was the end of that.

So, yeah, I wish I had the sort of sisters that you hang out with, go shopping or to the movies or out to lunch or the beach with. That have your back, versus stabbing you in the back. But in a lot of ways I'm lucky. I don't spend a fortune on Christmas and b-day presents. When my time comes to leave this planet, I'll be able to leave clean. It's my last incarnation anyway...

Despite the lack of a sister, I had and have a really awesome family. We had our problems to be sure, but we were all pretty nice people. I just cannot fathom why blood sisters and brothers can't just kiss and make up (not blaming you here, honest). A BROTHER AND SISTER ARE FAMILY, damnit. Family is so extraordinarily important. To me anyway.

God bless you, and I hope your sisters reconsider how important you are and treat you infinitely better!

My father had a mantra, "MT ruined it. MT ruined everything." They heard that pretty much all my life, and so they learned to believe it. They were abused by my bully-mother. The shit falls down, so I was abused by her and them.

My middle sister also told me that my mother had arranged a hysterectomy, but her aunt found out and intervened. Otherwise there "wouldn't be 3 of us."

I suspect that's how nice middle class white women got abortions in the 50s. If they had been legal back then, I wouldn't be here.

She was out of the house by the time I was 5 years old. She died 21 years ago last January. I miss her terribly. Sigh...

Thankfully, her daughter and son are both doing well. (My nephew was orphaned when he was just ten years old.)

...get along. I had a younger brother, my only sibling. He died when I was 26 and he was 23. We were very close. I would have given anything for there to have been one more sibling of either gender.

I will be 64 next month. My brother has been gone so long that it sometimes feels as if I imagined him. The early loss of the person with whom you shared your childhood almost seems to negate it in a way - no one to share those memories with.

...and authoritarian person. Maybe a narcissist. I'm not on very good terms with her now. Life would be much nicer with a good sister.

sorry .

...a "full sister," eight years my senior; a "half-sister," fourteen years younger than me; and a "step-sister," four years older than me.

I worship all forms of Sisterhood! From whomever they came from!!

most were pretty nice, but there were a couple that were into knuckle rapping.

we never got along. Fought constantly growing up. I used to BEG my parents to have another child because I wanted a sister so bad (to which my mom said, "what if you get another little brother?" hmm. Never thought about that lol.)

I now have 4 daughters. When my second was born I was thrilled my older daughter now had a sister. All my girls are close. It makes me sad I never did get that. My brother and I still don't get along, but at least I have a pretty cool SIL so that helps.

yes indeed

come to terms with it. She calls or texts me about 20-30 times a day. I have 3 brothers. I speak to my middle brother a couple of times a year. My eldest brother I haven't spoken to in a couple of years. He just isn't a social person and I get the impression his wife doesn't feel comfortable around our family. My youngest brother is a semi-medicated paranoid schizophrenic I haven't seen or heard from him in about three years.

Only boy here, but always wanted a sis. (I grew up to be a feminist. ) Darlene from Roseanne would have been swell. Sure, she would've beaten me up every week or so, but I suspect I might actually have enjoyed that.