are you in touch with your cousins

fernliebee

I keep in contact with all my cousins but we are a fairly close family. Will see them all maybe 3-6 times a year, but we all live fairly far apart. I have 9 cousins and some second cousins too that i keep in touch with.

I love my family, and really try to make an effort to keep in a small amount of contact with them all.

jackieb

never_enough wrote: »

I know that feeling too, I always wanted to be like in Little House on the Prairie, but ended up more like Brideshead (without the stately gnome or piles of cash sadly!)

Ah, but in Little House, Laura and her sisters lived on the other side of the country from their cousins - and there was no internet or transport other than a horse and wagon to keep in contact with.

UKTigerlily

Two female Cousins on my Mum's side age 32 & 30, not seen them since our Grandad's funeral in June 1998. On my Dad's side I have 21 (Though 1 has died so 20) & also 5 step-cousins. One of my Uncle's also has more kids than he admits too, I think three more! Have one Cousin on my Dad's side on Facebook, but otherwise no contact.
Also have lots of step-cousins if my Stepdad's Nephews & Nieces are counted (13/14)
Plus of course almost all have kids!

MERFE

I have kept in touch with my cousins I grew up seeing every week at grandmas, we have all been getting married and having babies the last couple of years so I think this brought as all closer together. I also have some cousins I only saw occassionally growing up bacause they lived in ireland but now I'm able to keep in touch with facebook. My other cousins on my mums side are only a couple of years older than my kids so I tend to keep more in touch with my auntie so they can come round for the kids parties etc.

Since I only saw my dad a handfull of times from the age of 2-16 I dont know so much about how many cousins there are on that side I am friends with a couple I've never even met on facebook but also one I was very close to growing up as she didnt live far away and my mum had kept in touch with hers but we dont tend to meet up so much anymore.

minerva_windsong

To some extent I'm in touch with all of them (six on my mum's side, and six soon to be seven on my dad's side), but mostly via Facebook as we only ever really see each other on big family occasions - the last time I saw my cousins on my dad's side was at my sister's wedding in December. There's no bad blood or anything, I think it's just more the fact that for various reasons we don't really see a lot of them.

That said though I am very close to one of my cousins (my mum's sister's son) - we spent a lot of time together as children on family holidays and suchlike, and still see each other quite a lot. He's a bit like the little brother that I never had in a way.

carolan78

I have 25 cousins on one side of which I am close to about 10 and on my dads side there's about 20 but I am only close to 5 of them. As a child I was close to near enough all of them on both sides but as life moves on you lose touch, and then family feuds distance the relationship somewhat even when they are long forgotten. Funny thing is we would all be there for eachother like a shot if needed. Maybe it is time to make more of an effot with some!

geri1965_2

I've got about 15 cousins, haven't seen any of them for years -my mum is not especially close to her siblings as she has a different father to them and was bought up by her grandparents (her dad was killed in the war and her mum had a breakdown, when she recovered she married again and had more children but my mum was happier with her grandparents and didn't want to leave them). My dad is in touch with all but one if his siblings but they live a few hundred miles away. I managed to find 3 on Facebook and I keep in touch with them that way, although in reality they are like strangers to me. None of them are near my age either.

Alizarin

I have 5 cousins and am only in contact with one of them!

My dad's brother has three daughters, one of whom is I think 26 (a year older then me) and the other two are twins who are probably in their early 30s. I think the last time I saw them was about 10 years ago at my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary party.

My mum's sister has two children, a boy who is 14/15 and a girl who is 19. I regularly email the girl and we keep in contact via Facebook, although we only really met properly last year at my grandad's funeral. She is going to uni this month and will then be living quite close, so I will probably see her more.

I find it a bit sad that I don't know my cousins on my dad's side - but my dad really doesn't get on with his brother, so we have never been invited to any of the cousins' weddings and have never met their children

sarahs999

We are such a rubbish family at keeping in touch. I have four cousins and until a couple fo weekends ago I hadn't seen any of them for about 20 years. We met up at oneo f their weddings and vowed that, now we have children, we really ought to re-establish family ties. Hoping that will happen as I kind of miss having a big family.

pollypenny

I agree with Sarah. We all tend to be spread out now, but families are important.

I had a lovely neighbour, who had been widowed just after hr early retirement, who was left with no relations at all when her mum died.

We moan about family members, but that is so sad.