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What is your relationship like with your 1st cousins?
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<blockquote data-quote="Pink Elephant" data-source="post: 737479" data-attributes="member: 21572"><p>When I was a kid, me, my siblings, and all of our cousins (first) were always together. My mom would round us up, and my aunts would round up my cousins, and we'd head off the beach, or have picnics, or just get-together at one another's places.</p><p></p><p>Around the time my youngest two baby siblings were little, I started babysitting for an aunt (first cousins), so I was still actively involved with cousins regularly.</p><p></p><p>Fast-forward to my later teen years... early 20's as well. Not a lot in the way of association between any of us, and now that we all have families of our own, we never touch base anymore. We've all ground apart. Also, many don't even live in the same town anymore.</p><p></p><p>I sort of blame today's times for such, because being that jobs are so scarce, people have to follow work, and that tears relationships and families apart, unlike back in the 50's, 60's, and even 70's, where one generation was born in a town, raised their families in the same town, and their children even went on to raise their children in the same town. Those days for the most part are over.</p><p></p><p>I would have personally liked to grow even closer with a few of my cousins, but I also understand how dynamics behind friendships and relationships change through the years, so I'm not surprised that almost none of us associate with each other anymore.</p><p></p><p>I think this sort of thing is harder on those like myself who were born at the start of the 60's, because close and loving relationships were the heart of most families. That's what life was about, getting together with friends, family and loved ones, being there for one another, supporting each other, and growing together as one, but that's all been lost to today's day and age where family seemingly doesn't seem to mean much a lot anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pink Elephant, post: 737479, member: 21572"] When I was a kid, me, my siblings, and all of our cousins (first) were always together. My mom would round us up, and my aunts would round up my cousins, and we'd head off the beach, or have picnics, or just get-together at one another's places. Around the time my youngest two baby siblings were little, I started babysitting for an aunt (first cousins), so I was still actively involved with cousins regularly. Fast-forward to my later teen years... early 20's as well. Not a lot in the way of association between any of us, and now that we all have families of our own, we never touch base anymore. We've all ground apart. Also, many don't even live in the same town anymore. I sort of blame today's times for such, because being that jobs are so scarce, people have to follow work, and that tears relationships and families apart, unlike back in the 50's, 60's, and even 70's, where one generation was born in a town, raised their families in the same town, and their children even went on to raise their children in the same town. Those days for the most part are over. I would have personally liked to grow even closer with a few of my cousins, but I also understand how dynamics behind friendships and relationships change through the years, so I'm not surprised that almost none of us associate with each other anymore. I think this sort of thing is harder on those like myself who were born at the start of the 60's, because close and loving relationships were the heart of most families. That's what life was about, getting together with friends, family and loved ones, being there for one another, supporting each other, and growing together as one, but that's all been lost to today's day and age where family seemingly doesn't seem to mean much a lot anymore. [/QUOTE]
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