How do you generally feel about your extended family members?
Shakazulu asked:
Im talking aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.
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Im talking aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.
Some people could care less about extended family and others are close to theirs. It seems to me that (most people) people start their own family and forget about other relatives.
Blake
May 3rd, 2011 at 6:13 am
Parker
we all party together… they cool
May 5th, 2011 at 11:45 pm
Sarah
I love the extended and I love the family I made some of my family drives me nuts and others are way cool.
May 8th, 2011 at 3:20 am
Katherine
I love all my cousins to death! My aunts and uncles…. I get along with some of them. There’s something going on with them and my parents; some sort of fight. I try not to get involved but there were some pretty nasty emails to my parents that they showed me and I was not happy about that. I wish we were closer though.
May 8th, 2011 at 10:46 am
James
Some are odd but only one or two. By-in-large I have found them to be some of the most accepting people on earth who have always made me feel welcome. Really nice folk who I feel I have know forever even after just meeting them.
May 11th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Alexis
my mothers side is super-duper close.
superduper. really tight knit, southern, had roots in the same small town for 60 years.
but my dads? more… what is it, proper? or strict? or classy? expensive? idk. i have one cousin out of four aunts and uncles from that side. ive never seen my great aunts/uncles. maybe once, actually.
we all live an hour from each other at most and i havent seen one of my uncles in 5 years.
May 14th, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Justin
My family is pretty close, but it is true that we have grown apart since we all started our own families. Fortunately, most of my family live in the same metroplex so we get together for holidays, birthdays, and special events.
I have to say though, I miss the times when my cousins and I were younger and it was guaranteed that the entire family would be together for any gathering. Nowadays, there’s usually at least one person who isn’t present because they’re with their spouse’s relatives.
May 17th, 2011 at 7:33 am
Ethan
Live far from any family except my own daughters and their families whom I love dearly and am very involved in their lives and with grandchildren. My growing up was very dysfunctional at best, only close with my younger sis out of 3 sibs. Haven’t seen mother in 18 years, she didn’t protect me the way a child deserves to be protected. We talk on the phone, I have tried to see her on two occasions and she made up excuses for me not to come which I later found out were lies, but that’s another story. My mother and her sis don’t speak, so I have no relationship with them. My dad died when I was 4 so no relationship with side either. Not looking for pity, just answering your question. There are many, many reasons that people don’t stay in touch: the past, job/career, geography.
May 20th, 2011 at 9:00 am
Joshua
When I was younger I used to like them alot, then as I grew older I started to feel like an outcast, partly because of my own personal emotional issues. Im now pretty much estranged from all extended family.
May 22nd, 2011 at 5:15 am
Aiden
If I had it to do all over again, I would visit and remain close to my relatives. My family is not a large family and miles would not have separated us. In being honest with myself now, I see where I withdrew from them.
May 25th, 2011 at 1:13 am
Nicholas
My relationship with extended kin is very unhealthy. I do not feel loved when im around them, therefore I have cut myself off from them.