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How frequently do you socialize with members of your extended family?

Extended family members include grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.  

As a kid I would visit members of my extended family frequently.  However, as an adult I've socialized with members of my extended family only at weddings, funerals or milestone birthdays of 70 or 80 years.  

Posted - June 13, 2021

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  • 44620
    Rarely, other than a nephew who comes over and does some work for us. Everyone but my brother and a sister have long since moved away, and that brother died. I have cousins I have never met.
      June 13, 2021 9:13 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    When we were kids, we had Sunday dinner at my paternal parents' home every week.  My aunts, uncles, cousins were all there.  When my nieces and nephews were young, we got together frequently, but once they got married and had children of their own and another side of the family had to be taken into consideration, I didn't see them nearly as often.  It also didn't help that some family moved out of New York.  
      June 13, 2021 9:51 AM MDT
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  • 7792
    I don't anymore. However, they did stop socializing with me first long ago.
      June 13, 2021 10:19 AM MDT
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  • 53509

     

      It’s been over a decade. There are both tangible and intangible distances between us; neither side has made an effort to ingratiate the other side, and I am completely comfortable with that.
    ~

      June 13, 2021 11:25 AM MDT
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  • A few times a year on average. A bit harder to socialize with members of my mom's family since they all live in Japan but I'd visit them once a year most years.
      June 13, 2021 11:55 AM MDT
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  • 581
    Never.  My family was never into it. 
      June 13, 2021 3:28 PM MDT
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  • 11012
    Everyone in my extended family is deceased except for a couple of eccentric cousins who thankfully live several states away.
      June 13, 2021 5:41 PM MDT
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  • 16794
    Grandchildren, several times a week - our house shares a fence with the kindergarten/daycare they attend.
      June 13, 2021 10:16 PM MDT
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  • 17599
    I don't have any extended family.
      June 14, 2021 5:18 AM MDT
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  • I email, text and facetime with them two or three times per week.  My brother and I went to our cousin's house at Christmas.  They were the only family we've visited since March 2020.
      June 14, 2021 3:19 PM MDT
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