{"id":39046,"date":"2025-04-17T15:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/growing-up-surrounded-by-boys-im-fascinated-and-a-bit-scared-by-the-dynamic-between-sisters-rebecca-shaw\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:55:23","slug":"growing-up-surrounded-by-boys-im-fascinated-and-a-bit-scared-by-the-dynamic-between-sisters-rebecca-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/growing-up-surrounded-by-boys-im-fascinated-and-a-bit-scared-by-the-dynamic-between-sisters-rebecca-shaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing up surrounded by boys, I\u2019m fascinated \u2013 and a bit scared \u2013 by the dynamic between sisters | Rebecca Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the sister relationships I have witnessed balance extreme loyalty and care with a unique ability to press each other\u2019s buttons<\/p>\n<p>One thing about living this crazy little thing we call life is that even though you might be a haggard lesbian in her 40s, you can still learn things about yourself. I was recently having a conversation with friends about the family dynamics of people we\u2019ve dated, and all of a sudden a very clear pattern emerged that I\u2019d never noticed before. Every single person I have ever dated, casually or seriously, has had one sister and no other siblings.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I\u2019m aware this could sound like some strange special interest of mine, it\u2019s not deliberate. I\u2019ve actually never narrowed down prospective romantic interests based on siblings, but I did find this sister realisation notable. Is there something about me that queer people with sisters are attracted to? Is there something about having one sister that informs the kind of personalities I am drawn to? Did our separate placements in our families become part of our identity, as some people claim can happen, causing us to be compatible?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/18\/growing-up-surrounded-by-boys-im-fascinated-and-a-bit-scared-by-the-dynamic-between-sisters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the sister relationships I have witnessed balance extreme loyalty and care with a unique ability to press each other\u2019s buttons One thing about living this crazy little thing we call life is that even though you might be a haggard lesbian in her 40s, you can still learn things about yourself. I was &#8230; <a title=\"Growing up surrounded by boys, I\u2019m fascinated \u2013 and a bit scared \u2013 by the dynamic between sisters | Rebecca Shaw\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/growing-up-surrounded-by-boys-im-fascinated-and-a-bit-scared-by-the-dynamic-between-sisters-rebecca-shaw\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Growing up surrounded by boys, I\u2019m fascinated \u2013 and a bit scared \u2013 by the dynamic between sisters | Rebecca Shaw\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}