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[quote=Anonymous]When I was growing up I had cousins I barely saw because our parents hated eachother. When we saw eachother we had to pose with big smiles on all these photos and everyone would say "the cousins!" We look at old photos years later and mom makes a big deal "the cousins!" We're not close.at.all.

My brother and I are close and our kids get along. We occasionally take photos and they are genuinely happy together. We don't make a hugw deal out it and we don't force poses and we find it funny when kids just be themselves and pout or whatever. My sister is always pissed at us and doing something obnoxious, but when she visits she takes a million photos, poses our kids with hers, re-takes until she gets the smiles and glee she wants and she makes a huge deal about "the cousins!" It's so fake. Her kids won't even talk to ours. We prepare our kids to be snubbed, but to still try to engage and nada. It's all so phony.

I see other people post photos on IG with "the cousins!" and I wonder are these kids being forced to pretend like we were and our kids are or are the cousins really close. If I drank at a family event every time a fake posed photo was created and someone yelled "the cousins" I'd pass out.[/quote]

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