I have/had lots of aunts and uncles, but most of them were stuck up as hell. I really only talked to two of them (married couple). They were absolutely lovely and the rest of the family hated them.

I haven’t talked to any of my cousins in probably a decade in most cases. Same with all of my various aunts and uncles with the exception of one.

No. I havent seen any of my cousins in over 10 years. I doubt I’ll see any of them until either my dad dies or one of their parents does.

Its a shame but we were never close. They have always lived a few hours away so its not like we have any real bond beyond family connection.

According to my dad I have a whole bucket load of second cousins, but I’ve not seen them in over 30 years

I’m an extrovert, but my extended family is weird.

Most of them have problems, so I prefer to avoid them.

The one family unit that does that have those problems is very nice, but they are strange. I recently talked to my brother about it and he gets the same vibe from them.

But my immediate family is awesome! I talk to my mom, dad, brother, and sister weekly and I’m approaching my 40s.

My mom has a scheduled video conference call with my siblings and I every few weeks, so we stay in pretty good contact that way. We also all get along pretty well. Family is spread out halfway across the States, so getting together in person is a bit tricky.

I see my sister who lives nearby every few months (generally when our parents come through), and one brother roughly once a year; other brother is farther away and harder to get together with.

Cousins, aunts, and uncles are rarer, even though they’re closer. Think the last time I saw any of them was at a funeral.

My parents immigrated here so we have no extended family in the country. I don’t really speak to any of them online except occasionally my 1st/2nd cousins. My family only travels to see our relatives once every 5 years, on average. It doesn’t help that there is a language barrier problem because I don’t have fluency past an elementary school level, and they have the same problem with English.

Learning to correct my writing is probably the one thing I think I appreciate LLMs for.

No. I moved around a lot as a kid, and we’re all scattered around the country at this point.

Not a ton, but I do talk to one great uncle occasionally. And a great aunt (her late husband was the great uncle’s older brother). Come to think of it, several second cousins, too. We don’t talk a ton, but we do voluntarily see each other beyond the “family weddings and funerals” rotation.

Some, not all. And who I stay in touch with changes over time. I have many aunts, uncles, cousins and the next 2 generations so it isn’t possible to keep meaningfully in touch with everyone. We have a pretty good grapevine so information eventually filters through.

I attended a funeral this week and all I can say is I have some regrets, imperfect though they were

things are hard, it’s not always possible, amd people are complex, but it’s good to still try

Yeah we see them every year or so, more my dad’s side, they came over last year as a surprise birthday visit for my dad. My mum’s brothers don’t usually come down to our area cause she moved away in the first place. And we don’t go up there as often since Grandma died.

Cousins in my age group once every few months maybe, aunts and uncles hardly ever. Not even my own all that frequently, but we have a whatsapp group with those and my parents where we chat somewhat frequently.

I have tried. They seem to think it’s weird. Oh well, family gatherings happen often enough, and there’s other legit excuses sometimes.

Honestly I barely talk to my immediate family, about 60/40 because we live under one roof, and most of our communication is just sharing memes anyway.

The only relatives I care about are three democrats that realize capitalism is a problem and the rich are the true enemies of the people. The rest are all corpo-throating republicans.

And even when I was younger and dumber/more “conservative” , I still didn’t care to keep in touch with them. Just never really cared to.

I have some contact with my siblings but pretty much only see most people once a year for holidays. I could do without the holidays, honestly.