Do you feel your parents favored one child over another?
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Posted by deadpan46 Aug 15th, 2012 at 10:31PM
definitely not
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Posted by ChevyVan Aug 15th, 2012 at 10:16PM
Not only feel it KNOW it ... even as adults the one child is still favored ... the never do anything wrong kid
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Posted by ob1kenobe Aug 15th, 2012 at 10:10PM
I had 6 siblings. One of my brothers was so obviously their favourite. He always got brand new clothes, got to go on every school trip irrespective of cost. Anything he wanted became essential.
The rest of us never got a look in.
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Reply by Snapple10 Aug 15th, 2012 at 10:11PM
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Reply by ob1kenobe Aug 15th, 2012 at 10:20PM
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Posted by ikattarri Aug 15th, 2012 at 10:00PM
I guess... my Mom favors me :) and has admitted it.. But, I give her good reason to. I treat her the best :)
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Posted by Cutezombiedoll Aug 15th, 2012 at 10:00PM
I used to think they favored my sister because she got in trouble less. As we grew older, I ended up settling down quite a bit and she got in more trouble. Now my mom keeps mentioning that while she's paying my sister's car insurance and phone bills, I have a couple of hundred I saved up myself in a savings account.
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Posted by inthebelljar Aug 15th, 2012 at 9:59PM
no.. but they did and do treat the two of us differently..
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Posted by AaronSousuke Aug 15th, 2012 at 9:58PM
Yes, but they made a terrible mistake.
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Posted by imaginaryfriend88 Aug 15th, 2012 at 9:56PM
nah - but then again, I was the younger spoiled one - lol
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Posted by Apsenniel Aug 15th, 2012 at 9:55PM
yes and they still do!
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Reply by Snapple10 Aug 15th, 2012 at 9:57PM
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Reply by Apsenniel Aug 15th, 2012 at 9:59PM
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Posted by AngelJackson Aug 15th, 2012 at 10:52PM
My brother had been telling my mother that he's "the good child." Now, my mother is calling him that. Where do you think that leave me as his only sibling?
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Posted by solowing Aug 15th, 2012 at 10:35PM
Yes, though it varied. Favor was one of our (abusive) mother's favorite weapons (kept us divided and hating each other as children), and it vacillated depending on the situation. In general, I (the older by 16 months, and the only son) was the favorite she adored but never really trusted, while my she had nothing nice to say about my sister, but generally trusted her.
I don't know what my sister did to earn her disfavor, or what it was she liked about me (we don't really have a "warm" relationship, per se, and I left home at 15). I never asked for her favor and don't want it (Truth be told, it didn't do me all that much good as a child, as the penalty for mother's mistrust was most severe.); ironically enough, not wanting it seems to make me more "deserving" of it. My sister asks for her help, has wanted nothing more than mother's love (after getting burned enough times, I just wanted to be left alone, preferably to go live with our father) and approval all her life, and has been met with cruel rejection for it. I feel like I have blood on my hands.
Our father favored my sister. She was obviously daddy's little girl, but it wasn't the same as with my mother and I. Father wasn't malicious about it, and still treated me well; it was harmless and I never felt the need to resent it.
Ironically enough, our mother destroyed my sister's relationship with our dad (parental alienation), so I'm the only one who visits him (and it destroyed him, and part of her too, I think). I made myself as independent as I could as fast as I could when I left.
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Posted by Pumpkinseeds Aug 15th, 2012 at 10:34PM
Yes. It was always my brother he had everything bought for him. Laptop, driving lessons. He was even allowed to have house parties and my mother bought all of the alcohol he could drink even though he was under age. Not me.
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Posted by Emolia Aug 15th, 2012 at 10:34PM
Yes, she always liked big sister more than me...but I like big sister more than me, so I guess it's ok.
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Posted by aquaman95 Aug 15th, 2012 at 10:25PM
I know they like my sister more she stayed in school...At least i do not have a kid.
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