‘They throw things in my face if I say anything, even about the outside of their nasty place’: Older brother sharing duplex blames sister for problems he and his family create

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Mar 22, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and your family at a safe, non-walkable, preferably different-zip-code distance. But no, someone thought, Hey, let's buy a duplex and live next door to my brother! Because obviously, the person you couldn't share a pillow fort with as kids or agree on a TV remote is totally the right candidate for a semi-shared living arrangement featuring driveways, chores, and the occasional pile of passive-aggression.

Living next door to your sibling is less heartwarming family bonding and more a bad sitcom reboot. You're the exhausted honest character trying to keep things functional while your sibling and their family side-eye everything you do like it's a plot twist written to annoy them.

It's like turning the clock back to those childhood weekends when you and your sibling spent way too much time together. You're both mentally tired before lunch, and the whole afternoon becomes a series of 30 fights about absolutely anything: who gets to sit in the comfy chair, whose turn it is to pick the movie, and whether or not someone promised they'll hand over that action figure in ten minutes and how much of those minutes have passed.

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  • Except now, the arguments involve parking spots, shared garbage bins, and an 18-year-old nephew who’s somehow equally unhelpful and annoyingly tall.  

    Living side-by-side with family doesn’t bring you closer; it just recreates every petty childhood squabble on a larger, louder scale. If you wouldn’t vacation with them, why would you choose to live next door? Keep the family love strong, from a nice, safe distance.

  • "Entitled brother blames me for everything"

    "Their house is a mess"
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  • My family bought a duplex house in which my parents and I live in one house and my older brother lives in the other with his wife and kids. We thought this was going to bring the family together...
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  • boy was I wrong... I understand some of his family's reasoning as to why they can't really get along with my parents... but the form of disrespect that even I recieved from his family is outstanding. I
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  • try to communicate things that go on in the property because news flash we all live here... every time anything comes up that needs to be communicated
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  • between the families I get hit with "why are you bringing negativity to my house". His eldest son who graduated high school and does nothing but play video games all
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  • day has had the audacity to ignore small favors asked of him to do around the property and accuse us of not actually asking but "yelling at him" to do things... I'm loud but I don't yell. I try to
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  • say please and thank you. Maybe I'm direct when I say things rather than making it an actual question but he's 18 and like 6ft tall you'd think having someone speak to him in a direct serious tone
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  • wouldn't affect him so much? Anyways that's a different story to tell. their house is a mess but if you say anything not even about the inside of their nasty place but outside they throw things in your
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  • face acting as if simple chores that NEED to be done in the property by either family is breaking their back. "I picked up your dogs " well I mean if he pooped alongside your dog... why
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  • would you just pick up one and not the other? "You can just call us to move the cars" ok... but when I do either your son ignores my texts or you complain about
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  • whether or not it's "neccessary"... I'm a female in my mid 20's who sometimes has to park on the next street over at night because my brother and his family do not have the decency to park their
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  • cars inside the gate or even search for street parking so that I can use the driveway that can hold at least 3 cars but half the time is empty or has one of their cars mid-driveway or they end up
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  • blocking our drive way... mind you they're in like their early 30's and again they have an 18 year old who is incapable of following direction and spends all day
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  • doing nothing... but according to them I'm the problem because I asked him to take the laundry that's been sitting in the garage for the past 3 days out.
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  • glenmarshall Just move out as quickly as you can.
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  • Knitsanity Save save save and GTHO! They will never change.
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  • Ok Zookeepergame2900 Worry about yourself. The parking situation stinks, but everything else is none of your business and not your problem.
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  • Your parents can communicate property issues and anything inside his house is his to worry about.
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  • ComfortableSpell6600 Who actually put money into buying the duplex? (just the parents, parents and brothers family, brothers' family alone, OP?) This might have some influence on how people perceive this situation.
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  • Legal-Lingonberry577 Happiness = NEVER live with family as an adult. Fail to understand this, pay the price.
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  • Dazzling Note6245 It's your parents that should. be dealing with your brother if it's their duplex. Since your brother has no respect for you I would stop
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  • expecting anything from him and treat him like any other stranger living next door. Don't tell his kids what to do either and leave it up to your parents how they handle it. Personally I think they should kick him out but that's up to them.
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  • Don't have anything to do with their personal business. If you clean your dogs leave theirs or toss it to their side of the yard. If they leave laundry in your space out it in theirs. Etc.
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  • Gray rock them and don't let them know when they bother you or hurt your feelings. Give them very little if any info about yourself and always be calm.
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