How many cousins have you got and do you see them/keep in touch?

[NiceDayatlast]

I have seven cousins. I see one occasionally via another family member. Other than that, I seem to have lost touch with them apart from a Facebook happy birthday message! I used to enjoy big family get togethers but there haven’t been any in recent years. Do you see your cousins regularly?

I can’t remember the last time I saw any of my eight cousins. We live in a completely different part of the country which doesn’t help.
I barely see my sibling either, who only lives up the road. It worries me that I won’t have any family once my mum is no longer with us, but I have friends who I treat as chosen family.

5 cousins

One died
Two are abroad and I don't see. Follow on Facebook though.
Two in this country. One in touch with and see once or twice a year. The other I don't but no animosity though.

Five. Three I have never really met, one older one I've seen a few times One only seen once in 40 years

Two of them are DV perpetrators so I am not interested at all

Nine cousins. They live in New Zealand so I don't see them at all.

But I'm okay with that. Growing up my mother's side of the family were absolutely obsessed with family being above all and would have absolutely huge family meetups every couple of months. I found it tortuous as a severely shy introvert who was definitely an outsider because they disapproved of my father (different religions which was horrifying) and by extension my sister and I.

I have 3 on my dad's side. One lives overseas but we keep in touch by email. Last saw them 4 years ago. The other 2 have zero contact. There was a huge family fall out about 25 years ago and no-one in the wider family has contact with them and their parents. I have 2 on my mum's side. Lost contact as children as my aunt and uncle divorced; she remarried and my uncle died young.

I can't remember how many cousins I have- 50ish?!? The oldest is 60 and the youngest is 16. Some still live locally and would see others at family occasions etc.

Dozens. Don’t see any of them. Don’t have any of them on social media.

I’m in my 30s and the handful I’ve met I’ve seen on average once every 10 years, if that.

No drama or anything, we’re just not close.

12 living. I see one sporadically but not the rest. Funnily enough I was talking about this with a friend today. Neither of us see cousins. Mine don't keep in touch at all but I'm just as lax

I have 7, all on my dad's side and older than me, but I don't know them very well and hardly ever see them as they all live in another country.

I saw some of mine at a funeral a couple of years ago. I met up with one 10 years before that. The rest I haven't seen since I was a child. I have 9, I'm younger by 35 years than the youngest, and younger than most of their children. I have never received or sent birthday wishes to any of them! Have more contact with more distantly related cousins.

2 in regularish contact, 2 occasional, and 2 xmas cards only.

I had 18 cousins, one of them has died.

Of the four who live abroad, one I’ve never met, two I last saw 25+ years ago and the other I saw 40+ years ago.

Of the 13 living in this country, 4 I have never met and would struggle to tell you the names of. I am FB friends with 2 of them but have not seen them for 8+ years. The rest of them I know the names of, haven’t seen for 20+ years and couldn’t tell you if they are married or have children, but I could probably guess at what part of the country they live in.

we’re not a close family!

Six, yes but not regularly, sometimes txt and WhatsApp with two, emails with one. See them all occasionally throughout the year as four don't live anywhere close to me.

7 on dads side, 5 on mums.

the ones on my mums side I never see and don’t have any contact information for.

the ones on my dads side I see every couple of years for a family get together. We used to spend 2 weeks together every summer and I know if I ever needed anything they would be there. Closest ones live at least a 3 hour drive away.

I have 6 cousins. 3 live in the UK I have never met 2 of them because of my abusive father. 3 live overseas, I haven’t seen them for years because my mums relationship with her siblings is toxic.

On a happier note my DC get on very well with their 9 cousins although they generally only meet at big family events (most of them are overseas) but they do have a cousins What’s App group and keep in touch.

I have 7 on my dads side keep in touch via facebook
I have 6 on my mums side 1 lives in America but comes over regularly to visit my aunty
I see 1 a few times a month and keep in touch with the others again via facebook as they live all over the country but we do have family get togethers a few times a year

I have 16 cousins, I am in touch with about 6 on social media. Last saw most of the ones on my dad's side at a funeral in 2022. Most of the ones on my mum's side at a family event at around the same time. Last ones I saw in the flesh were the 2 youngest at my uncle's 70th birthday meal last year.

I don't live physically near any of them and they live all over the place, France, Italy, Northern Ireland, Scotland and the rest in England.

I have 6. Two of them (on my mum's side of the family) are FB friends, but we don't communicate beyond liking the occasional photo or saying happy birthday. The other four (dad's side) I haven't seen or communicated with for decades. We rarely saw any of them even when we were children tbh. No family rifts or anything we just weren't close. The only family we saw much were my maternal grandparents.

On mums side there are 11 of us. I am close to 3 of them and they are like siblings, 2 are my siblings. 1 I am FB friends with, 1 every few years we might message each other, 3 I haven't seen in years and have no desire to see.

Dad's side there are 11 of us too. Facebook friends with 2 of them, 3 I have only met once when they were kids and I was a young adult. The rest I have no contact with and no desire too.

19 first cousins, all married with DC and GDC, 3 have died. As their families grew mine didn’t so I’m not included much in events, as with their own DC’s families the number quickly get large, too large to then add cousins into the mix. Plus nearest lives circa 200 miles away, others overseas.

I'm in touch with a few, probs 5, so get updates on the others and aunt/uncles via them.

I have 5 , 3 I keep in contact on WhatsApp/messenger and go to family parties where I meet them, the other 2 are much younger and neither side make much effort,

I'v got about 20 cousins. I have about 5 of them on FB but very little contact. One does message me periodically but that's because she's a 'boss babe' and tries to get me to join her MLM team every now and again.

Seven. They all live overseas and we never really speak, though if they visit (or we visit) then we always have a catch up.

I've got 11 cousins but am only in contact with one of them. Wouldn't know the majority of the others if I fell over them!

about ten I think I’m sure I’m forgetting some, I don’t keep in contact with any, one side of the family all lived far away when I grew up so only met them occasionally and the other side were a lot older than me, they were grownups with jobs etc when I was a child so just nothing in common with any of them.