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my brother and i fight all the time to the point he try to hurt me and we through things at eachother and it gets so old and i am ready to just stop the fighting and move on but it seems that very time that i look at him we disagree on everything by the way i am 11 and my brother is 9 so there is not a big age diffidence so i don't see why we cant agree on anything it gets very very annoying

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it's just sibling rival-ree.
it is worse because you are at the age where you are starting to like boys and want to be with your friends at school and he wants to put frogs in your soup and soap on your toothbrush. right now its just not an easy time. I would give him a year or 2. once he finds the stuff he wants to do (like go down to the park with a bunch of friends) he will be out of your hair which is what i assume you want?

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