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I didn't vote bc I don't know that "mediocre" captures it. I have one brother, 4 years younger and we have a very minimal relationship. We've never been close and still aren't. We get along fine now, though there was a lot of conflict growing up. Despite having a lot in common "on paper", we just...never connected. He's a very social person but doesn't really have any close friends and avoids romantic relationships. He says he doesn't really see the point. Our relationship is the same - fine, but not close. We see each other rarely, but live on opposite sides of the country so that factors in.

My brother is 2.5 years younger than me, and lives an hour away. We see each other at every holiday, including every family birthday- so it probably comes out to once every month-6 weeks or so. We occasionally text- funny stuff, cute kid pictures.
I have always wished we were closer, but he's kind of a socially awkward guy and so is his wife- they are homebodies and not great at relationships, to be honest. I try not to take it personally. If I needed something they'd help in a heartbeat, and the same is true for us.
I'm super close with my parents. I text with my mom and dad every day, facetime at least once a week, and rarely go longer than 3 weeks without seeing them in person (they live an hour away).

My husband has a sister 2 years younger than him and a sister about 5 years younger than him. He actively dislikes the middle sister and tries to avoid spending time with her (no real blowout, he just doesn't like her). He likes the youngest sister, but they rarely talk and rarely see each other (we see her maybe once a year- she lives 8 hours away). He also doesn't really enjoy spending time with his parents. The whole family dynamic is kind of a mess.

I voted twice.
Very close with my sister. She’s 20 months younger than me. In fact on Saturday she was like “hello are you alive?” Because it had been 24 hours since she heard from me. Haha. So we talk a lot. She lives a long drive/flight away so we also try to get together without kids once a year or so. Usually with my mom too.

My relationship with my younger brother (5 years) is mediocre. We are very different and disagree about a lot. I love him and mostly we get along but we don’t go out of our way to talk to see each other. He rarely texts or responds to me when I do. It’s not a priority to see me when I’m home. So I’ve sort of started following suit.
To be fair he’s a 33 year old single guy so there’s probably a lot about my life he just doesn’t relate to or find interesting. Maybe if/when he has a family he’ll change his attitude.

My brother is 16 months older and we're VERY close. We hang out every other weekend to play board games together and just hang out. And when we're not seeing each other, we're e-mailing each other about games, shows we watch, books, family drama, etc (he's not into texting or otherwise we'd do that instead of email). We're basically best friends.

When we were little, we were very close, but then as we got older, we grew apart as he was part of the "popular" crowd in high school and I wasn't. He'd pretend he didn't know me when we saw each other in school, haha. But then we both went to college, matured, and I think we both realized that we both were into the same things and we just have so much fun together!

I'm really hoping my boys will enjoy a close relationship with each other like I enjoy with my brother.

@cat620: I think most people I know personally are close with their siblings. Having said that, family relationships can be complicated and so many factors can play a role in it so there really is no typical adult sibling relationship. I am much closer to one of my siblings than I am to the other and I definitely did have friends that I see ans hang out with more than my siblings.