If your grandparents are dead, how often do you see your first cousins?
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Anonymous
| I have two on my mother’s side. Not only the grandparent but my mother and my ucle are dead as well. I see them once every few years but we aren’t anything alike, so. |
Anonymous
I have 17 and haven’t seen any since my grandmother’s funeral in 1998 |
Anonymous
Never. All of us live in different countries. |
Anonymous
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My parents both came from large families and I have a lot of cousins. I see about half of them 2-3 times per year - they live relatively close by and are around the same age as me. I rarely see the others - usually at weddings and funerals only.
One set of my grandparents died before I was born. The others passed 15-20 years ago. |
Anonymous
| Only at large milestone events. Our fathers (siblings) were never close so it seems like reuniting is out of obligation more than desire. |
Anonymous
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I have only two first cousins. A girl 8 years younger than me and her brother who is 12 years younger.
I'm emotionally sympatico with the girl cousin. We text every once in a while. I see her in person about every four years or so. So I've seen her kids as babies, toddlers, elementary schoolers. The boy cousin, only a few times a decade for an evening at a time. I did take my parents to his wedding two years ago. And I was the only first cousin there from both sides of his family. He was happy I came. Glad of that. |
Anonymous
| Depends where they live. My parents are immigrants. When my grandparents were alive I tried to visit every other year or so, and I would see cousins who lived in that country as well. Now I see US-based cousins roughly annually, but I haven't yet been able to visit my parents' home country since my last grandpaernt died pre-COVID. |
Anonymous
| I haven't seen my cousins in years. They all moved away. I used to see them regularly growing up. Now their family grew and I'm no longer a part of it. |
Anonymous
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Most of my grandparents were deceased before I was born.
My mother has one sister, they are very close emotionally and we grew up geographically close. I see those cousins often. My father has one sister, they are not close emotionally nor geographically, and I see those cousins rarely. So I’d say my closeness or not with my cousins stems from my parents’ respective relationships with their siblings, not from my grandparents (except to the extent they influenced my parents’ relationships with their siblings, of course). |
Anonymous
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My mother is quite close to her sibling. We live far away, but about once a year when I visit my parents we try to bring the extended families together. Once my parents die, I doubt we will see them much at all.
On my father’s side, I don’t think I have seen my cousins since my grandfather’s funeral in 1992. |
Anonymous
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On my mom’s side I just saw two of them (out of four) a couple of months ago but it had been years before that. Three are on the west coast and the other is in Europe.
On my dad’s side their parents are still local (mine have passed) so I see them at Christmas, funerals and maybe one other time per year. One is here, one is in the Deep South, and one is on the west coast. |
Anonymous
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On my mom’s side, never. She wasn’t close to her siblings.
On my Dad’s side, I text with them every so often and we follow each other on FB. We were close as kids so I try to keep the relationship up! |