Sibling Rivalry

This is the issue that is on my mind lately...sibling rivalry and relationships...
I think the reason is because I am SO INCREDIBLY BLESSED in this arena.
It is amazing.
My boys are Close with a cap C.
It's so surprising and wonderful, and I am thankful, thankful, thankful.
I am doing gratitude mantra, and this is the theme of the day: happiness and pure joy over my boys' love for each other.
I know better karmically than to take much credit for this fact.
If I gloat now, it will Bite me later when the kids can't stand each other.
I just want to Celebrate this fact of our little family!
It is interesting how much of this Sibling Relations Issue is all about personalities and the luck of the draw.
My nieces also get along well, which is really cute and lucky. They are so sweet together and seem to truly be able to empathize and relate to each other. They also seem to just like each other.
Why is it that some siblings will drift apart, seeing each other once a year maybe...
And others will live in the same town or go to the same college?
I have a theory now that it is mostly personality blends. Brian says it this way: Would you be friends with your sibling if you WEREN'T related?
If the answer is no then the relationship will be about the fact of being siblings...based in mutual love and respect for the experience and memories that you both share, having had the same parents and family...And because you are siblings.
But it won't be like my kids, who can't wait to be together.
When Aidan wakes up, his first thought is to hug and kiss and cuddle Kellen.
This seems to be a good reason to have a party! It is more than I could ever hope for really...Their relationship goes beyond respect and spills into mutual adoration.
It is cute, cute, cute. I am thankful to the wind, the stars, the moon, the heavens, the powers that be...
Thankful for boys (the world needs better men) and for their energies...so buoyant and powerful...and for the fact that they love and express themselves freely and lovingly with each other.
It is amazing.

Ps--Be listening for more inklings from Brian who wants to write a book about the way that men are mistreated in our society. He has this whole theory about empowering men (based on his own experiences and perspectives) that is really freeing and great. He compares the work that society does to boys as "binding" their emotions the way that girl's feet are bound in China. This then gets passed on from man to boy ad naseum. Pretty interesting idea...He thinks when we take care of the deep and unexpressed hurt in men and boys then there will be more equality and less violence toward women. More on that later.