My brother and I did not have a good relationship.  I think because I wanted him to like me so much and I wanted to be like him that we fought all the time.  His attitude towards me changed about 6 months before he died.  He started being friendly towards me and I think it was because of his girlfriend at  the time.  He had never really liked me and I was a little apprehensive about his change of heart.  I felt that we had  come to a kind of  truce in our relationship.  That lasted about 5 months.