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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I adore them!  My cousins are some of my best friends.  Social media helps us stay in touch with what’s going on so when we see each other we’re all caught up.  I am very close to aunts and uncles, second and third cousins, etc.  We’ve weathered a lot through the years and they are a source of support and presence to me.

Love my big, Irish family![/quote]

Me too!

And it’s the Irish side too :) .  Everyone is very close and each generation has done a great job of keeping everyone together, attending milestone bdays, wedding, funerals, and lots of times just fun visits.

Family is everything.[/quote]

Hahaha it must be something about the Irish. :P My dad is from a big Irish Catholic family- my grandparents are deceased but I'd say maybe a third of the aunts/uncles/cousins still live in my hometown and the rest are spread out along the east coast.  They're awesome- full family reunions are rare tend to coincide with major life events like weddings now but it's always a good time.  I like my aunts/uncles on my mom's side too although they tend to be a bit snippy with each other so it's a bit different and she isn't always on great terms with her siblings.  My cousins on that side are much younger than me so I'm not as close to them.  It will be interesting to see if/how the dynamic changes once my grandmother passes away.

Totally different for DH- he's not close to his extended family at all.  Only one of his aunts came to our wedding and to this day she's the only one I've met.  I think he enjoys being around my extended family because he just never had that.[/quote]

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