"The Lifelong Gift of Sibling Friendship"
Whether you’ve always been close, or wish you got along better, here’s how to bolster your connection.
While there isn’t a lot of research on how well most adults get along with their siblings, data from the 2015 book “Adult Sibling Relationships,” co-written by Geoffrey Greif, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, offers some clues. In qualitative interviews with 262 adults, 64 percent said they considered themselves to be a “good friend” to at least one of their siblings, and 45 percent said they considered at least one of their siblings to be among their best friends.
“Sibling relationships, like all family relationships, have a certain amount of ambivalence and ambiguity,” Dr. Greif said — an obvious statement, perhaps, but one he believes is important for siblings to bear in mind, so they don’t set an “impossible standard” for what a solid relationship entails.
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