<p>I'd like to think my brother and I are close. He's one year older than I am and just moved off to college this fall. I already feel like our relationship is a little different and idk, it's weird. How do you guys maintain your sibling relationship(s)? How much will our relationship change?</p>
<p>hey yeah. my sibling relationship with my sister has changed me alot. i really miss her even though she’s only 5 hours away. she’s my best friend practically!</p>
<p>I call my sister all the time. She’s pretty much my best friend. It’s really hard since I’ve never lived without her before, but we’re doing okay.</p>
<p>my twin sister and i are going to the same college. she wants to be independent and whatnot. barely see her 
and when i do its not the same like when we were younger. so i get ur drift, good luck!</p>
<p>I have a brother who is 2 years younger than me (22 and 20yr old). I am going to graduate school at New York University and my brother is going to college at Clemson University in SC. It changed our relationship a lot… not that we were incredibly close before but we would talk on facebook or the phone. Now we pretty much never talk. I guess thats just the way it goes. I would recommend branching out and trying to make some friends at your college so you dont miss your sibling as much but continue to keep contact because nobody can replace a sibling.</p>
<p>i remember when my big bro went to college, i could feel our relationship maturing. i became more mature as i moved up the ranks in high school and recognized that he’s an adult now in college, away from the fam. it was good. he’s 5.5 years older than me so it’s actually nice to have a friendly mature relationship with him even when our ages are so different.</p>
<p>My brother and I are still close. He texted almost everyday about some random stuff. But we only been separated for a month now and he is only five hours away. So I hope we might still be this close as months go by.</p>
<p>My brother and I were very, very close growing up. He joined the army my sophomore year of high school and since then I would definitely say we’re not as close as we used to be. You can’t be, really, unless you talk every single day (which is impossible, since he’s deployed, and even if he weren’t it would be weird) the way you would at home. We talk on the phone every couple of months, whether he’s overseas or not – neither of us are really phone people. I would email/FB him but he basically refuses to use the internet. But for what it’s worth, our relationship has not matured AT ALL. Whenever we’re home at the same time, we drive our parents crazy with all our dumb “sibling stuff” – just the random inside jokes and ongoing bickering that most close siblings seem to have with each other. So I would say we’re still close, just in a different way.</p>
<p>But I empathize, OP. When my brother first left it was the beginning of summer and our house was insanely quiet once my parents went to bed. I would turn on the TV at night even if I wasn’t watching it just to have some noise in the background. You get used to it, I promise! Now I kind of hate it when we’re home at the same time because we have to battle over the remote, the shower, etc. Being an “only child” has its perks.</p>
<p>My brothers (12 and 10 yrs older) have grown closer since I got to college. My sisters became closer when they went off to college because they didn’t have to see each other everyday, but you seem to have a different relationship all together than they did. I have accounting with my 10 yr older brother and now we’re getting a lot closer.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m hoping we don’t grow apart. I am sort of liking being an only child right now like silversaline said lol. But next year I’m pretty sure I’m going to the same college as my brother, so then it’d probably be easier to keep in touch</p>