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re: How Often Do You Speak with Your Extended Family?
Posted on 11/7/24 at 11:43 am to Paul Allen
Posted on 11/7/24 at 11:43 am to Paul Allen
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I don’t think anyone keeps in touch with friends as often as they should once you reach 40 or so.
Maybe you should put in some more effort.
I met up with a friend last weekend. Am going to fly and visit some tomorrow. My close friends I interact with probably every day almost.
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Posted on 11/7/24 at 12:30 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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That seemed crazy to me. I love my family. I'm close to every single one of them.
How big is your family?
My dad is 1 of 9 and my mom is 1 of 7.
I don't ever really see/talk to my dad's side. We grew up seeing them, but that kinda ended once my grandmother died on that side (my grandfather on that side passed away before I was born).
I see my grandma on my mom's side probably twice a month (she lives next door to my parents). I also see one of my aunts on that side about twice a month (she also lives next door to my parents). I see some other aunts/uncles randomly when I'm visiting my parents.
I don't ever reach out to extended family via phone.
This post was edited on 11/7/24 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 11/7/24 at 12:34 pm to Paul Allen
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I don’t think anyone keeps in touch with friends as often as they should once you reach 40 or so.
I'm not quite 40 (turning 37 soon), but my wife and I both have very active friend groups. Hell, I'm going hang out with 3 of my friends at a cabin this weekend. I talk to my friends way more than I talk to anyone in my family.
Posted on 11/7/24 at 12:36 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Anywhere from two to fifteen years. Never was really close to any extended family, only consider them relatives and not family. Have some cousins I wouldn't recognize if I walked right past them.
Posted on 11/7/24 at 12:47 pm to Epic Cajun
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I'm not quite 40 (turning 37 soon), but my wife and I both have very active friend groups. Hell, I'm going hang out with 3 of my friends at a cabin this weekend. I talk to my friends way more than I talk to anyone in my family.
Same. I see my best two girlfriends every weekend, and we see our other close friends 1-2x a week depending what's going on work schedules wise. They're all around 40. I'm 34. These are typically casual easy things like a lunch or early happy hour. We all live close to each other and the bar.
This is likely a lot more dependent on whether you have kids than age. I think that also plays into seeing family. There's a lot less incentive to go sit at your parents' house or grandma's house for 4 hours when you don't have kids.
If my parents were closer and lived within the city like I do, I'd probably do lunch or weeknight dinners out with them some. They don't like to drive into BR often, so even at only 30 minutes away, neither party likes to leave our bubble.
Posted on 11/7/24 at 12:49 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Mom/dad — I text/call regularly
In-laws — husband sees them daily; I see them on family occasions/holdiays
Aunt/cousin and a Via fb once in a while.
Husband or I don’t talk to my husbands brothers/sisters regularly unless they call or at holidays/family get togethers.
Text my own brothers from time to time but they never text me.
In-laws — husband sees them daily; I see them on family occasions/holdiays
Aunt/cousin and a Via fb once in a while.
Husband or I don’t talk to my husbands brothers/sisters regularly unless they call or at holidays/family get togethers.
Text my own brothers from time to time but they never text me.
This post was edited on 11/7/24 at 12:52 pm
Posted on 11/7/24 at 12:55 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
There is always one cousin in every family who sucks the air out of the room and thinks the only reason the room is lit is because they are there.
Posted on 11/7/24 at 12:57 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
My side of the family is spread around the country and there's little communication. My brother isn't far so we stay in touch with each other.
My wife's side, not only close by but they are a very close family. And they welcome spouses as family members. With my family history, family reunions were an odd concept but I look forward to my wife's each year. Great folks, lots of fun.
My wife's side, not only close by but they are a very close family. And they welcome spouses as family members. With my family history, family reunions were an odd concept but I look forward to my wife's each year. Great folks, lots of fun.
Posted on 11/7/24 at 1:08 pm to REB BEER
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Only at funerals and weddings
This is why my family started having family reunions several years ago.
There was a gap in the generations, and weddings weren’t happing during that time, but the funerals continued. We decided to get together for something other than a funeral.
Posted on 11/7/24 at 1:52 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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How Often Do You Speak with Your Extended Family?
Bro - do you even Facebook?
Posted on 11/7/24 at 1:59 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Immediate family, fairly often.
Aunts, uncles, and cousins, sporadic. I have one cousin though who puts in the effort to keep everyone in touch. She keeps a cousin group text active and sends out a monthly email with birthdays. There are 19 first cousins and most of them have grown kids, so it’s a big group.
My mom and her 7 siblings are all in the 70 to 90 age range. The older they get, the more they constantly all text each other.
Aunts, uncles, and cousins, sporadic. I have one cousin though who puts in the effort to keep everyone in touch. She keeps a cousin group text active and sends out a monthly email with birthdays. There are 19 first cousins and most of them have grown kids, so it’s a big group.
My mom and her 7 siblings are all in the 70 to 90 age range. The older they get, the more they constantly all text each other.
Posted on 11/7/24 at 2:52 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
My siblings and I are in a group message where we send texts and photos and occasionally call one another. We call and talk less because of the info in texts. So, a handful of times a year for phone calls is my guess. I hardly ever speak to nephews and nieces unless I happen to visit the areas where they live.
Posted on 11/7/24 at 3:23 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
I see my brother and my parents daily.
on my mom's side, her parents are gone. I talk to one aunt and uncle on FB and see them once a month, I don't talk to my cousins on that side unless I see them out and about, but my mom's cousins I see a few times a month and have good relationships with.
on my dad's side, I talk to my cousins, aunts, and uncles daily and see them weekly at least. we are all super close and it always feels strange to me that it's not like that for other people and I feel bad for people who don't have the same tight-knit support system, it comes in very handy for most of life's situations.
on my mom's side, her parents are gone. I talk to one aunt and uncle on FB and see them once a month, I don't talk to my cousins on that side unless I see them out and about, but my mom's cousins I see a few times a month and have good relationships with.
on my dad's side, I talk to my cousins, aunts, and uncles daily and see them weekly at least. we are all super close and it always feels strange to me that it's not like that for other people and I feel bad for people who don't have the same tight-knit support system, it comes in very handy for most of life's situations.
Posted on 11/7/24 at 3:25 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
In terms of aunts/uncles/cousins - very rarely. On a group text now and then.
No major rifts, we're just pretty different in lifestyles. They haven't met any of my kids that I can recall, so working to correct that over the holidays hopefully.
No major rifts, we're just pretty different in lifestyles. They haven't met any of my kids that I can recall, so working to correct that over the holidays hopefully.
Posted on 11/7/24 at 3:45 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
I see them a lot more than I did during the 30 years I lived in Dallas. See a couple of 1st cousins at least every other month since I'm back in God's Country. If I have a Monroe doctor's appointment or need to go to Sam's, we get together for lunch, or I'll drop by their work and visit. They've been trying to talk me into going to a ULM Football game for 10 years.
Posted on 11/7/24 at 4:44 pm to Thracken13
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sadly i talk to my Wife's family more than I talk to my own. i talk to my mom and dad all the time, helping mom with my dad and his dementia - but outside of them, I do not think anyone in my family has actually contacted me and my wife to say hi, ask how we are doing, tell us to go frick ourselves in probly 5 years (although the silence from them is probly the latter i typed).
This sounds like me but the 5 years is less because we all in the same town and bump into each other. Or they call and for money or something else.
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