How well do you know your distant relatives?

I maintain a healthy distance so I can still debate internally whether they’re hott or not.

It's the grandparents that hold it all together. When they go, everybody drifts apart. No more reunions, holiday gatherings, etc.

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It's the grandparents that hold it all together.

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You got that right. I only see my first cousins, that I was close growing up with, at weddings and funerals.

But to answer the question, I am close with one of my great aunts which is my paternal grandmother's sister. I am only close with one second cousin and that's because we worked together. I couldn't even count how many second cousins I have. One of my paternal great grandparents had 14 kids with each of those kids having 5+. One of my great uncles had 18 kids, three others had 9 each and the rest are 5 and below. On my mom's side, my great grandparents had 12 kids and they all had multiple as well.

I went to school with a girl since kindergarten that was a third cousin. My dad would always tell me when I got to junior high that I couldn't date her because we were related. I also worked with a guy for a few years that was a third cousin. I found out that his great grandfather and my great grandmother were siblings when I researched my family tree.

Not well! I met a nice, attractive lady at a funeral Wed, just to find out that she’s like my 3rd or 4th cousin. Oh well, just my luck.

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Didn’t meat them until my 40s

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It's the grandparents that hold it all together.

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And that was particularly true when the women were pretty much stay at home housewives. I can remember big meals every Sunday at my grandma's house where there would be 10 or more sitting around tables eating. Once grandma got old and dementia took over, all that died out with nobody to take on the chore.

More modern women, often working outside the home, don't have time for all that on a regular basis---------if at all.

As a kid I was always around a lot of my extended family and back then most families had several kids each. Not so much in today's families.

At my age (72) a lot of my extended family is long gone, either dead or located elsewhere---------mostly dead.

Not well because they are Distant.

I hardly knew any of my aunts and uncles and cousins. I saw them a few times every year and that’s it. We lived six hours away by car.

Rather distantly.

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Didn’t meat them until my 40s and their late 30s.

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