The Art of Manliness

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The Affectionate, Ambiguous, and Surprisingly Ambivalent Relationship Between Siblings

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Published December 19, 2022 9:34am

For most people, theirĀ siblingsĀ will be the longest-lasting relationships of their lives, potentially enduring all the way from birth until past the death of their parents.Ā 

Marked by both jealousy and conflict and love and loyalty,Ā siblingsĀ are also some of our most complicated relationships. While a little over half of people describe their relationships with theirĀ siblingsĀ as positive, about one-fifth classify them as negative, and a quarter say their feelings about theirĀ siblingsĀ are decidedly mixed.Ā 

Here to take us on a tour of the complex landscape ofĀ sibling-dom is Geoffrey Greif, a professor...

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