I know this may not be what you want to hear, but he’s at a really difficult age. I have a little sister who’s 16 and she is one of the very most difficult people in my life to the point where I don’t interact with her very often. I wish I had more patience but I don’t, except to remind myself that she’s only a kid and I was annoying when I was her age too.

It might be something that they grow out of and mature into a better person who will be a more loving sibling when they are older. I have 4 older step siblings and our relationship when we were all younger was a lot less close than it is now. Now that we are all older and out of our parents houses it feels like we’re able to connect better than the pressure of all the different things that go into being raised in mixed families like that. Hopefully it is just a temporary phase but definitely sounds exhausting to put up with so many years!

I have an older sister (19) and a younger brother (7 almost 8) and I feel like I have to be this perfect person, but I get foot zones and the person who does mine tells me that "it's [my] life and it doesn't matter what others say, it only matters what [I] think of [myself] and what [I] do."