How close were you to your cousins growing up?

[Spinneret]

not very

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Not close to my first cousins on my mom’s side. They were much older than me. I was closer in age to my second cousins but didn’t see them very often. I have lots of cousins on my dad’s side. He was 1 of 7. We were close as kids cause we would visit them all the time. We all lived pretty close to each other. Once I got married that died down a lot. I don’t see them anymore at all except at funerals.

 

[Meriweather]

Very on mother's side
Not at all on father's

 

[goofyernmost]

Out of 18 total I was close to only 2 of them. I was friendly with most of them, just not close (most were way younger than myself) and 5 that I never even met all of varying ages. As an adult I met one cousin that none of us even knew existed. He just turned up one day and introduced himself as the out of wedlock son of my Mothers, sister. They kept those things quiet in those days. He was a legit cousin, just not ever mentioned.

 

[ronandannette]

Scale of 1-to-10? Anywhere between 0 and 8, depending on the cousin (I had 24 first cousins).

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

I had contact with ALL my cousins......until I didn't.
Death has a way of changing things, drastically , especially for a young child.

My maternal grandma died when I was 12 and my mom's father and siblings just never really connected as a group again and some moved away.
On my dad's side, I had an aunt ( dad's sister) who committed suicide and we basically never saw my 4 cousins again. Sad!!!

 

[TippyThomas]

I didn't have any actual cousins but all the kids in our community were so close that I wasn't missing a thing. We were all very close and spent a lot of time together both good and bad.

 

[mamamary]

Some very close and some I have never met. I’m from a pretty big family. I did have one cousin a year older and at one point we were super close. I haven’t seen her in so many years now. Other cousins we vacation with every year although that stopped when covid started.

 

[goofyernmost]

I had contact with ALL my cousins......until I didn't.
Death has a way of changing things, drastically , especially for a young child.

My maternal grandma died when I was 12 and my mom's father and siblings just never really connected as a group again and some moved away.
On my dad's side, I had an aunt ( dad's sister) who committed suicide and we basically never saw my 4 cousins again. Sad!!!

Yes, there was a lot of that in my family as well. Once my Grandmother died the whole family seemed to just go in different directions. None of them were very close to my grandfather. Not necessarily physically moving but mentally decided that it was all over, family wise. In fact my Father had 5 siblings and 3 of those lived next door to my grandparents and each other. Just a line of 4 houses along a dirt road. Two eventually (like, 10 years later) moved elsewhere. We hardly ever saw any of them after that and when we did see them there was always a feud going on between one and the other. It was kind of hard to get used too.

 

[sasywtch]

We were very close to my dad's side. There was about 30 (9 kids growing up on a dairy farm). We use to go to my grandpas every Sunday for dinner and up until the pandemic, we went to my cousin's for swimming and a bbq on the 4th of July. Even the 4 that moved to Oregon when my uncle got a logging job up there, we remained close as they came down twice a year and stayed with one of us. My mom's side was in England. I saw my cousins about 3 times when they visited and stayed with my mom.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

How close were you to your cousins growing up?​

Hardly at all. One side of family lived 1600 miles away and other side was 2900 miles away.