🔥 Sibling Smackdown: The Family Cage Match No One Talks About (Until It’s Too Late)...
A WTF Article on the Comedy, Carnage, and Psychological Craters of Growing Up with a Certified Household Terrorist Who Shares Your DNA By: That Middle Child Who’s Still in Therapy Domestic Frontlines | May 2025 Act I: “It’s Just Sibling Rivalry!” (Says Every Clueless Adult in a Burning Living Room) You know the scene. One kid is crying. Another is smirking. A vase is broken. A controller has been flung. Mom walks in and sighs: “Ugh, stop fighting. You’re siblings. That’s normal.” And boom, case closed. Childhood resumes. Except sometimes, it’s not normal. Sometimes it’s the beginning of a long, slow psychological meltdown that turns bedtime into battle strategy and family dinners into interrogation scenes. Because there’s conflict, and then there’s warfare . Act II: When “Go to Your Room” Is a War Crime Let’s define terms. Sibling conflict is when two relatively equal forces disagree over toys, TV remotes, or who’s breathing too loudly. Sibling bullying , however, is a f...