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What is your relationship like with your 1st cousins?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tired out" data-source="post: 737501" data-attributes="member: 23103"><p>Wish, I have a friend that is treated the same way you are by her husband's sister and family. I think it is appalling.</p><p></p><p>As far as cousin's go... My dad had 1 sister and I grew up being close to her family (we only live 5 miles apart) 1 of my cousins is only a year younger than me and we hung together. Now I live in a different state and we stay in contact via FB. My mom's family lived may states away and we only visited every other year.</p><p></p><p>Fast forward to now-a-days. My sister's kids and my kids are very far apart in age so there wasn't any real camaraderie there. They are all friendly with each other but the age and distance is too much for any real relationships. They were all invited, including their kids too mydaughter's wedding. The ones she really cares about all came. So the bond did transcend distance and age for that. We also went to their celebrations both before and after her wedding and will continue to do so. </p><p>Writing this made me think...hmmm..2 of the 1st cousins on my husbands side are the same age as my daughter. They don't have any type of relationship with my daughter. My daughter has never given 2 hoots about her dad's side of the family. She says to me "they are just different from us". I agree but I am not quite sure what the difference is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tired out, post: 737501, member: 23103"] Wish, I have a friend that is treated the same way you are by her husband's sister and family. I think it is appalling. As far as cousin's go... My dad had 1 sister and I grew up being close to her family (we only live 5 miles apart) 1 of my cousins is only a year younger than me and we hung together. Now I live in a different state and we stay in contact via FB. My mom's family lived may states away and we only visited every other year. Fast forward to now-a-days. My sister's kids and my kids are very far apart in age so there wasn't any real camaraderie there. They are all friendly with each other but the age and distance is too much for any real relationships. They were all invited, including their kids too mydaughter's wedding. The ones she really cares about all came. So the bond did transcend distance and age for that. We also went to their celebrations both before and after her wedding and will continue to do so. Writing this made me think...hmmm..2 of the 1st cousins on my husbands side are the same age as my daughter. They don't have any type of relationship with my daughter. My daughter has never given 2 hoots about her dad's side of the family. She says to me "they are just different from us". I agree but I am not quite sure what the difference is. [/QUOTE]
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