• TruthAintEasy@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    My oldest did this for my younger boy a while back, when I figured it out they both got icecream for having solidarity and not a rivalry

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      7 months ago

      A tough lesson to learn. I grew up with 3 sisters and didn’t really get along until we were all out of high school.

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          7 months ago

          Now that my brother and I realize we were so awful to each other because of what we were both going through it changed things drastically.

          Removing the actual problem removed the issue.

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          7 months ago

          Eight for us … two sisters and six brothers … we didn’t have relationships, we had factions and members would routinely cross enemy lines to create new alliances.

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            7 months ago

            I bet that has prepaired you well for the workplace lol just used to the backstabbing, they cant get to you because of your sheer experience playing the game of houses. They adopted Machiavelli, you were born in it.

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    7 months ago

    Am in my mid 50s. Older sibling and younger siblings. As recently as this past holiday season: meme checks out