Brothers, for Better or Worse

Brothers, for Better or Worse

There was a proverb I came across once that’s stuck with me: “If brothers were such a good idea, God would have given himself one.” Harsh, but not untrue. At least as far back as Cain and Abel, the relationship between brothers has proved to be a complicated one, full of petty resentments, jealousies, and competition—but also the unique understanding that only brothers can have, like magnets with the same charge: alike, and therefore repulsed by…