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The TNCR sibling thread
Topic Started: Dec 12 2011, 01:00 PM (603 Views)
jon-nyc
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So, how many siblings do you have? Older or younger?

What are they up to now?


How close are you to them? Have you told them about TNCR? Would you ever consider inviting them here, or is that too close for comfort?




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Mikhailoh
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Two older brothers. The difference between me and the oldest is less than four years. My poor mother.

They are both doing fine. One is in California, the other up near Cleveland. We're quite close, although I upset the apple cart a bit when some bad behavior occurred around a death in the family a few years ago and I called relatives on it rather forcefully. Executor can be a very fine bully pulpit. All the dust from that has settled and I do not believe any will occur again.

No, this is part of my private life. I'd prefer to keep it that way.
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KlavierBauer
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Two siblings, both older.
One lives here with their family, the other in Nashville with theirs.

We're close in the way I think most siblings are close: we love each other a lot, keep in touch, know what's going on with each other (to some extent), and all get along very well.
I wouldn't say we're really "close" though - as I don't think they really know me in the way the closest people to me do. I still keep most of me under wraps around family, fearing judgement from those I respect/look up to most.

I've told family members about the forum frequently, though have never invited anyone to partake.
I think they think such activity is weird - lol.

When Mark and I rode this last summer though, it was public to everyone I knew that I had put together a team of riders from strangers I'd met on the Internet.
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kenny
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I had two bros and one sis.
Oldest bro was murdered in prison in the 1970s.
Other bro has been homeless/vanished 15 or so years ago, may be dead or alive.
Sis, floated away and doesn't want any contact.
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Not to bring everyone down, but you asked,
Had one older sister and four older brothers. All gone now.
All had pretty good lives and families, except for that
WWll thing.
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Two sisters, two brothers, all younger. One brother works in management at an oil refinery in Chyenne. The other brother runs an Olive Garden in Casper. Both sisters in nursing. All doing well. My brother in Cheyenne just came back from Africa where he climbed Mount Kilamanjaro (sp?).
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Cathys
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I have a brother and a sister both younger. They both are raising kids and have grown kids. They all work/live in the Denver area. I was the first one to make the California to Colorado move, then my brother followed, my sister and finally my parents. Then I up and moved to Virginia. My brother is 4 years younger and we are somewhat close, did a lot of bickering as kids. There is a 10 year gap between my sister and I. I was almost moved out by the time she was in elementary school so growing up we weren't very close but as adults we are really close. She is the one person I miss most from Denver. I talk about this place with her and my parents but never really invited them. I wouldn't have any problem if they joined though.
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One older sister. I've mentioned the forum but nothing in detail. I'd invite her if I thought she'd be interested but I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be.

We're close; best friends, in fact. She's the reason I moved to Texas. We live 3 blocks from each other. I think my BIL is glad I'm not any closer. :D

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John D'Oh
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One brother. 2.5 years younger to the day - he works with mass spectrometers in Manchester, UK - some clever science stuff.

I did mention this place, but not by name (I'm not that stupid) - he now thinks I'm an angry bloke on the webs. I wouldn't invite him here to meet my alter-ego in a million years. I'd never hear the last of it.
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oldest to youngest

Mary (apple) Magdalen, John Gabriel, Peter Raphael, Annabelle Marie, Joseph Michael, Philip Daniel, Angela Marie, George Matthew and Emily Marie. In this pic I am in the back with a red jumper.. Emily the youngest is sitting on my dad's lap. this pic was taken in 73.. I was junior in HS. This is the look to the right pic. John is on my left with his goofy smile. He can't just smile like a normal person. .. it's not him to pose, altho he certainly can laugh.

My two youngest sisters live in Omaha and Raleigh Durham.. Everyone else is close, but we do have a sister (Annabelle, now Eva) who is the bipolar from hell. She is ALWAYS furious with us and causes a scene every fliggin time. She is hosting Christmas dinner this year.. If she does ever host, it usually goes well... so here's hoping. We are all pretty close. I adore my brother John who is brain damaged.. we are super close mentally - we just have a close relationship. I see my youngest brother George weekly and the others quite often. We get together for events and birthdays. There are 17 grandkids that we've sprung. Our parents dies rather recently, our mom just this last year. My dad was quite the Alzheimer's patient.. heh.

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Chris Aher
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One Brother, three sisters.

One sister is retired and is now a stay at home grandma.

My brother has had a tough life with MS disabling him for the last 20 years. He's very serious about writing poetry.
W. Jude Aher

One sister is a book illustrator (retired)

My youngest sister is raising a 14 YO daughter alone, having lost her husband to cancer last year.

We all get along quite well.
Regards,
Chris
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Larry
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Three half brothers, all younger than me. One half brother on my mother's side, two on my father's side. I grew up with the half brother on my mother's side, never met the two on my father's side until I was in my mid 20s. Met them both once, one of them twice. Have nothing in common with the one I grew up with. He's got a "professor complex" - used to wear tweed jackets with suede elbow patches, a beard, and carry a pipe because he thought it made him look like a professor. Very well educated, he has a master's degree in psychology and a doctorate in psychopharmueticals (and I can't even spell it.. :D) but he's as socially stunted as a 12 year old, odd beyond description, and as you can imagine, being educated beyond his intelligence, is a screaming liberal.


When I was a kid, and before I found out about the other two, I used to tell my mother that if I had one more half brother I'd glue them together and maybe end up with a whole one....
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Dan
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One bro' (older) one sis' (younger). Get along great with my sis. And good with my brother.
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Friday
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Four brothers. I'm # 2 and the only girl.

Get along with all of them in different ways, but am closest to my baby brother, who's 11 years younger.
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Optimistic
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Younger sister (of five years) and younger brother (of 12 years). My sister is 24, my brother 17.

I was a horrible, horrible brat with my sister all growing up, not really sure why. We´re not close now, but we don´t fight, either. I wish we were closer, but it´s especially hard now that she is married and I cannot stand her husband (who was an on-again-off-again boyfriend for a few years, until she got pregnant). They still live in my parents´ house, with their 2 yr old and a baby on the way. She did 3 years of elementary education undergrad studies, and recently randomly got a job as a dental assistant.

I was my brother´s babysitter for years, and being so far apart in age we never bickered. He´s really quiet and a good kid, but lazy as hell. We´re all hoping he really does go on to study to be a roller coaster engineer, like he´s always said he will. He´s become a bit of a geek. He also, I recently realized, actually uses great grammar in texts and emails -- both of which made me think he might be a good, new TNCR youth :biggrin:

My brother did create a screenname years ago and I think might have posted one comment, but I guess we didn´t interest him enough.
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This pretty much sums up my attitude towards my sister up through high school.
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And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
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1 older brother. 7 years, 2 weeks between us. We're close, but don't hear from him often. I think I mentioned this place to him a few years ago, but just as "an online forum" that I belong to.
And how are you today?
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Jane D'Oh
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I've a sister, almost exactly 2 years younger than me.

We've had periods in our lives where we have been very close - most especially when we had 'matching' kids but she had 2 more recently and I have no desire to spend much time hanging out with babies any longer (I can do a short while, just not days on end :whome: ) so it's a little harder to find activities for us all to do together. Walking in the forest near mums house worked well but other things - well the older kids can cope with museums etc, the younger ones can't. Also getting a card game out or anything like that becomes very tricky.

But we do spend quality time together each summer, and phone calls in between, I'm hoping that we'll be able to hang out more easily again in a couple of years.
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brenda
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One older brother, not very close, but he's not close with any of the relatives, not even our mom. He's doing fine, married, got stepkids who are adults, and even a grandchild. He married rather late in life, never had kids of his own, but now he's a grandpa! Pretty slick trick there!
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Horace
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jon-nyc
Dec 12 2011, 01:00 PM
So, how many siblings do you have? Older or younger?

What are they up to now?


How close are you to them? Have you told them about TNCR? Would you ever consider inviting them here, or is that too close for comfort?




Are you going to answer your own question Jon?

Two older siblings. My brother is the oldest, he's a professor of a subject I respect and does some really cool work. Definitely the smartest guy in the family.

My sister is a full time mom, just went back to school and is getting her 2 year degree in radiology.

We all get along pretty well, better as we've gotten older.
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jon-nyc
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Dec 12 2011, 05:50 PM
Are you going to answer your own question Jon?
I'll answer - in fact I was going to in the first post but I had to run.


I have 2 sisters, 2 and 4 years older than me respectively.

Oldest sister lives in Florida, and manages a 911 response center for a police department. She's married, no kids.

Middle sis lives in Arlington, VA. She has an MBA and works in clinical resource management in a hospital, and hates it. She wants to leave healthcare. She has an adult child in grad school and a husband who works as a programmer. Its odd she's an empty nester, as she's only 6 weeks older than Rachel and 2 years older than me.

We've all gotten a lot closer over the last 3 years as we lost both our parents, but we're not 'good friends' close by any means. It remains to be seen how often we'll see each other without sick parents to bring us together.


I would never invite them to TNCR, that would be weird. Having said that, my oldest sister met a WTF forumite in RL before I did (they live in the same town in FL). Small world. Now when I go down there I'll often bring my sis to see said forumite.
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Riley
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One younger sister. She's at Queen's University in Kingston, ON. (3-4 hours away)

We talk once a week or so.

I've never mentioned TNCR, and don't think she'd be interested.
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My Mom had two boys, Gary and Jim (she was pregnant with one when her high school sweetheart husband was killed in a logging accident). She remarried my Dad, and had three more boys, with me as the youngest. That was Kenneth (Kip), Rob and me - Chris. Kip has a gap of a year on either side of him, but all five of us were born in seven year's time. All of our birthdays are in January or March. My folks were married 16 years and then divorced. About six years later my Mom remarried a great guy with two boys, Kevin and Earnie. When I was a Junior in high school, Kevin was in seventh grade. Ernie was, I think, about four years younger, but he still lived with his mother.

I always felt fiercely loyal to the family and my older brothers. I think they might have looked at me as more of an annoyance. As a youngster I was closest with Rob, as he was just one year older. Even still, we didn't hang out or run around much together - I had close friends for that as did he. Then in college, I followed in Kip's example and went to Oregon State, so that deepened that bond, even though he was off campus. Then my last year there my oldest brother, Gary, fresh out of the Navy, came to OSU, so that relationship flourished a bit. The oldest three are all engineers, all with kids and all doing well. Rob is the only one that didn't get a college degree, preferring to drop out after one term (or two?) and get married against everyone's better judgment. He divorced, remarried to a really great older woman for several years before she died of a stroke during treatment for cancer. Several years after that he is remarried again. No kids. Kip also divorced and has now remarried, just last summer.

I feel like we can get together and pick up where we left off, but we are not in close contact. I feel a bit on the outside lately, not sure exactly why but I figure it is either because I've missed a couple of get togethers in Utah and California, or because I am at my core a self-centered youngest child and care much more about myself then I do about them.

Gary lives in Idaho, working for Westinghouse or somebody on nuclear stuff. Jim is a city planner type/traffic engineer in the Bay Area. Kip was doing energy stuff for the Oregon Dept of Energy and splits time in Salem, OR (where the kids are) and Portland (where his new wife works). Rob is self-employed with rich clients in a resort community in Northern California, half way between Redding and Reno. He does construction work for them, remodeling, and gets their toys ready when they come to town and puts them away when they leave.

The oldest two are staunch Mormons, as are my parents. The middle is an avowed atheist. Rob is the only Christian like me. Which made some of his recent contact more bothersome to me. About two years ago I saw on Facebook that he and his wife were passing thru my city on their way to a condo they have in Victoria, BC. I said I hoped they had time to stop and say hi. No response. Then this spring they were passing thru again, and called Kip to see what he was up to. I didn't get a call. That did prompt a big get together in Portland of my Dad and the three youngest of us. Then this summer when Kip got married I RSVP'd and when I got there, was shocked to see Rob and his wife there. I had no idea. Anyway, the two oldest also have been in town a couple times and never reached out. Seems strange to me, but I need to remind myself that you reap what you sow.

This last summer I made a side trip on the way home from Montana, and stayed with my Mom and Stepdad in Logan, UT for a few days. Got to see Kevin for the first time in years. A nice, but short visit. He has had a tougher life, struggling with a courier company before going out of business. Currently he buys stuff at auctions and resells on eBay. He was married and had a daughter, then got divorced a few years ago. I understand Ernie is doing well in one of the Dakotas working in oil fields.

I have not invited any of them to be on here, but I may have posted a few links to stuff here - I can't remember. It would not bother me if they were here.
Edited by Kincaid, Dec 12 2011, 10:53 PM.
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Dec 12 2011, 01:07 PM
Not to bring everyone down, but you asked,
Had one older sister and four older brothers. All gone now.
All had pretty good lives and families, except for that
WWll thing.
Vince, did all 4 of your older brothers die in the war?
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I'm the 2nd oldest of 5. Well, 6 if you count one brother who died about a minute after being born. None know about TNCR.

Brother 1 - Older by a year. Didn't go to college, is tremendous on the guitar and currently lives in Hawaii leading worship at a church. He did the same in Kansas City before that, and Colorado before that. Very smart guy.

Me - Went to college, now lives in the DC area and is employed as a moderator for some coffee website.

Brother 2 - Younger by a year. Lives in Richmond. Civil engineer. I'm closest with this one.

Sister - Younger by 5 years. Special needs. Lives at home with parents.

Brother - Younger by 8 years. Passed away minutes after being born. Never felt comfortable one way or another, regarding listing him as a brother when people ask how many siblings I have. Thoughts?

Brother - Younger by 11 years. Also known as "the accident". Just kidding. Just graduated high school.

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