middle child

[kpete]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/middle-child-syndrome_n_3333873.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

[spanone]

1. been there, lived that....bwahahahahahaaa

[kpete]

2. mr. pete & i are both middle children

peace, kp

[Skittles]

3. I am center-left (second of six) !!!

alas, the only girl

[spanone]

4. in all honesty, i was a middle kid for 11 years till my sister came along, then another sister

then i was second of five....3 boys, then 2 girls

[laundry_queen]

5. LMFAO

That looks EXACTLY like my second daughter when my third daughter was born. She wouldn't even come see the baby or hug me in the hospital, LOL. She was just mad. Thankfully #3 didn't act like that at all when #4 was born, but #2 STILL has her issues with #3, LOL. She's never forgiven me for her younger sister.

[csziggy]

6. I still haven't forgiven my little sister for coming along when I was five

I'd been baby girl for five years - almost six - then she took that away from me.

It didn't help that I am an introvert and she is one of the most blatant extroverts I have ever met.

ETA - I'm 60, so I've held this grudge for a long time!

[laundry_queen]

8. LOL

No need to hide behind the couch. I felt the same way about my little brother. My parents were SO thrilled to have a BOY I was dropped like a hot potato. Honestly it affects my life to this day - they heavily favored him - and that's not some biased view of a bitter child...even my brother's friends were shocked at how blatant and my brother himself acknowledges it. I'm 37 and I'm pretty sure I won't get over it by the time I'm 60 (As the favoring continues still...)

Which is why it was so hard for me when dd #2 hated dd#3 - I tried SO hard to make everything if not equal, then fair. It broke my heart to see her so upset and I didn't want her to live life like I did, hating my brother. But alas, that seems to be the route she's taken. #2 and #3 are just like oil and water. As they get older it's getting better (and my efforts are paying off) but I'm not sure they'll ever be 'close' like #1 and #2 are. I read something recently that some siblings have a built in 'hate' factor and that it's a biological defense mechanism for each child to fight for attention (and in our ancestor's days, that meant survival) so I feel a tad less guilty. A tad.

[csziggy]

9. Some dislike is definitely built in

There were four in our family - the two oldest were two years apart. The nearly five years before I came along, then nearly six before the youngest. # 1 & 2 always were inseparable. I was the classic "Wednesday's child" - odd, introverted and never fit in. #4 was a party child, never happy without an entourage. At least we didn't have the gender problem - we were all girls.

Oil & water - more like gas & a flame. When we were old enough and the two oldest were off at college, Mom & Dad would go away for the weekend. #4 would spend the weekend at a friends. I'd be a home, happy to have the peace to read, ride my horse, and have the quiet of an empty house. M & D knew that if they left us at home together, we'd fight all weekend and they'd come home to World War III!

[laundry_queen]

14. LOL gas & a flame

That was my brother and I. We're lucky we didn't kill each other by the time we reached adulthood.

We still don't get along, but at least we are civil now.

[alphafemale]

12. MARSHA! MARSHA! MARSHA! nt

[laundry_queen]

13. I always felt for Jan. nt

[Skittles]

10. you want I should kick some blatanly-extroverted sibling ass, csziggy?

LEMME AT HER!!!

[csziggy]

11. Thanks for the offer, Skittles, but she's made her own life a mess

Without any help from me. Her life over the last six years would make a good soap opera subplot - I'll leave it at that.

[shraby]

7. Looks to me like he wanted to hold the baby and couldn't yet.

[a la izquierda]

15. That is an image of my sister...

34 years and counting. I'm the oldest. I was pissed youngest wasn't a boy. I'm a girl, middle is a girl...I hoped for a brother.