The Rules of Love, 3rd Edition

RULE 86

There’s always stuff with siblings

I’m lucky enough to have met countless wonderful people over the years, but even the loveliest, most generous, non-judgemental people I’ve known have all had sibling stuff going on. It might be big trouble, it might just be little niggles. But for all their ability to take their friends as they come, they have always found it so much harder with siblings.

Fight it as you might, there’s always that little bit of your subconscious mind that still remembers how they were always your mother’s favourite, or how they used to bully you when the grown-ups weren’t looking, or how they would never let you play with that Action Man you so coveted. You think you’ve dealt with it – you’ve all but forgotten it – ...