Are your adult DC close to their cousins?

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I have two adult DS's who are in their early 20's, neither of them are close to their cousins, their youngest cousin is 19 and their oldest is in their 30's. There's no bad blood between the cousins' it's juts that they are not close.

Are your adult DC close to their cousins and how much contact do they have?

With my own cousins - I am the baby of the family, siblings and cousins are all much older than me. We only see cousins at funerals now but FB has meant we all know more about each other, and message more often.
With my dc's cousins - they all know each other and played together as primary aged children. Once a few house moves had take. Place, and teenagerdom set in they drifted apart. I hope (as with my own cousins) they will gravitate back towards each other as they get older and more confident in their own life choices. I feel that exams, unichoices, career choices ha e had a big impact here.

I have 6 cousins, am really good friends with one them. We’re similar in age and our kids are the same age.

I was close to all 6 of them when we were younger but now don’t see the others all that much. Still get on when I do see them though

My DS doesn't have any first cousins. He doesn't really know any of the children of my cousins as there's a bit of an age gap. I don't really see any of my first cousins - maybe once a year at a BBQ but I refuse to go if my sister is there!

I have six cousins, all quite close in age (I'm early 30, they range in age from 26 to 37). I'm good friends with one of them (who's a similar age but is not geographically close) and we share what's going on in our lives every few days. The others, I would talk to and do like but we've just not shared much of life with each other since our teens.

I have 3 adult children. 1 girl and 2 boys. My dd is very close with her female cousin who is 9 weeks younger than her. They were bridesmaid for each other. They shared maternity wardrobe and baby equipment. They live about 70 miles apart the their 2 families meet up 3 or 4 times a year. My son's friendly enough with cousins but not close with any of them.

I don’t have DC, but I have three cousins on my maternal side. One lives five minutes up the road and we generally pretend we haven’t seen each other and try not to make eye contact. No big falling out or anything, we just have no interest in being friends. We didn’t meet until we were in our late teens. The other two live about 80 miles away and I’ve only met them once. I have quite a few on my paternal side and I wouldn’t know them if I bumped into them.

DH has dozens of them. He’s friendly but not close to his paternal cousins and very close to all but one set of his maternal cousins. They grew up together and have stayed close. They stay in regular contact and choose to spend time together.

Me and my cousins are aged 22-34.

We are close with the cousins we grew up with and saw often (2 girls). We aren't close with the ones who live abroad- not enough times pent with them to make meaningful connections.

I'm not close with others because they're (in my extremely humble opinion) absolute fucking dicks.

I purposely don't speak to my cousin's because they're stereotypical adult chavs. My DH speaks to one of his cousins, she's lovely.

I have 14 first cousins. 1 is like a sister, and 2 others I would say I am close to (text and call regularly) the others I like but only see at family gatherings.

I like my cousins but we have absolutely nothing in common despite being the same age, so we’re not close.

DH’s cousins are a bit odd, we get on with them at family gatherings but I have no desire to spend any 1-to-1 time with them!

I'm very close to some of my cousins the ones that are my age mostly . My adult daughter is close with all of her cousins even though they are a few years younger

No adult kids yet but I'm in my late 30's and have 7 cousins, all younger than me ranging from 35 to 22.

Was close with the 5 on my Mums side growing up, not so much the other 2. Very close to 3 of them, lived close for first 10 years of my life, so saw a lot of each other and lots of visits when we moved away.

As an adult I barely see any of them, weddings, funerals, the occasional "Big" birthday celebration etc. We still get on great when we see each other, enjoy each others company etc, but we don't make time to see each other, we all live away from each other, got too much going on in our lives.

We don't tend to phone each other either, we're kept abreast of each others lives through communication between our parents. More recently, my Mum died so I've started phoning her sisters (my aunts) every few months.