How Close are you with your Family?

I’m close to all family members especially since I just moved in with my daughter and son in law and two oldest grandsons in September. It does take adjusting though to living with people even those you love after living alone for 17 years. Also, my son in law is my least favorite person :)

The rest of my family is spread out in the states but I visit when I can and talk or text daily with son and siblings.
 

CeeCee said:
I’m close to all family members especially since I just moved in with my daughter and son in law and two oldest grandsons in September. It does take adjusting though to living with people even those you love after living alone for 17 years. Also, my son in law is my least favorite person :)

The rest of my family is spread out in the states but I visit when I can and talk or text daily with son and siblings.
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Nice to hear from you @CeeCee ... wish you all the best in your new move.
It's good to have some family close, especially during these trying times.
 
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How Close are you with your Family?


Everbody's dead
I really have no desire to be close to them just yet

Wait
My little fat brother is still above the dirt
We chat ever now and then

Had a cousin contact me in regard to family tree stuff
I shared some childhood stories with her
She said she laughed her hind end off
(heh, ain't nothin' that funny)
Anyway, she began to dredge up old family crap
Tried to lay summa that stuff on me
Told her I'd left long before any of that happened
Ended up wishing her luck

My sons and daughter take up some time
Grandkids rock
Greatgrans.....whoa.....I'm gettin' too old
 
When we lived in So California, we were very close with my wife's family. After we moved to Colorado, in 2003, we'd meet them in Las Vegas once a year during a major rodeo there. During the 10 1/2 years we lived in northeastern Florida, we seen my wife's oldest sister and her brother a couple of times. Since we've been back to Colorado, from Florida, my wife's oldest sister came to see us a few weeks ago. A very nice visit for part of a day, but couldn't do much due to the virus.

We prefer to live states away from her family, but do talk on phone and Zoom at times.

As for my family, what's left of them, basically nothing and that's ok with wife and I.
 
Parents passed when I was in my teens with a younger brother,there was a soap opera that went on for a few years.
Kids and I are very close, their Dad passed in 06, we live about 20 minutes apart.
Was very close to aforementioned younger brother for years until an event changed that.
Keep in touch with hubby’s nieces and nephews scattered all over the country.
There’s an older brother...enough said
 
My son and I were estranged, when he reached out to me, it took about 18 months before I would talk to him. Things improved, but I remained wary. Sure enough, his lack of compassion reared it’s head, and I folded my tent again and slipped away. Again. He is all the family I have, but love without compassion is not love at all, but cruelty and heartbreak. No thanks
 
Shalimar said:
My son and I were estranged, when he reached out to me, it took about 18 months before I would talk to him. Things improved, but I remained wary. Sure enough, his lack of compassion reared it’s head, and I folded my tent again and slipped away. Again. He is all the family I have, but love without compassion is not love at all, but cruelty and heartbreak. No thanks
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I agree with you.
 
We have a nice relationship with our daughters and granddaughters, and their families. We communicate regularly via phone, email, etc., and visit perhaps every 4 to 6 weeks. A couple of them are fairly nearby....15 and 30 miles, and the others are waiting to retire so they, too, can move to this rural environment. We don't "impose" on each other, but stay supportive. This virus has limited our visits, and we look forward to the time when we can all get together more often.
 
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I am very fortunate that I am very close to all my cousins on my Mom's side of the family. I am also very close to my daughter and my 3 grandchildren. Sadly for a reason my Son hasn't been close to me and the rest of the family for the last few months and he will never say why. I am also very close to my husbands family and all his nieces and nephews. Most of them call us almost every week. My closest relationship with family is my older sister and her children and grandchildren.My brother is gone now but we were never close. He was 13yrs older than me but I am still close to his children.
 
Shalimar said:
My son and I were estranged, when he reached out to me, it took about 18 months before I would talk to him. Things improved, but I remained wary. Sure enough, his lack of compassion reared it’s head, and I folded my tent again and slipped away. Again. He is all the family I have, but love without compassion is not love at all, but cruelty and heartbreak. No thanks
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My husband is also completely estranged from his children. When they treat him badly they are no friends of mine. They are disinvited from contacting us in any way at all until they make complete sincere apologies.
 
Though both my husband and I are from HUGE families, we are not very close with them. We are the just about the youngest in our families. Aunts and uncles are all dead. Cousins are now starting to fall off the twig too. I used to go to their funerals but everyone now has gotten so distant, I don't even know half of them that die. Not to mention weddings.

Of my three living siblings, I talk to my youngest brother. He is the only one who seems to care what I'm doing day to day. Husband is just about in the same boat.

Am fairly close to my daughter. Not as close as I once was, and I would like to get back to that again.
 
Sneaky Pete said:
I also have never been married, which seems to bother my mother.
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Maybe she wanted grand kids. Some women seem to thrive on that.
Uptosnuff said:
Though both my husband and I are from HUGE families, we are not very close with them. We are the just about the youngest in our families. Aunts and uncles are all dead. Cousins are now starting to fall off the twig too. I used to go to their funerals but everyone now has gotten so distant, I don't even know half of them that die. Not to mention weddings.

Of my three living siblings, I talk to my youngest brother. He is the only one who seems to care what I'm doing day to day. Husband is just about in the same boat.

Am fairly close to my daughter. Not as close as I once was, and I would like to get back to that again.
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I can totally relate. Except all my siblings are gone too. Only one aunt-in-law remains. She's 93. I once had a huge extended family. A lot of my cousins have passed.
 
@Phoenix Yeah, it felt really weird when my siblings and cousins all started to pass on. Since I am almost the youngest in my family, I am afraid I might be the last one standing. Then that will really feel weird. Not really looking forward to that :(
 
Uptosnuff said:
@Phoenix Yeah, it felt really weird when my siblings and cousins all started to pass on. Since I am almost the youngest in my family, I am afraid I might be the last one standing. Then that will really feel weird. Not really looking forward to that :(
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It is an odd feeling. I've lost so many in the last few years. On my dad's side a bunch of my first cousins were old enough to be my parents. They died some time ago. There are only two remaining, and they are 8 and 11 years older than me. My siblings are gone. On my mom's side my cousins are of varying ages, but a bunch of them have died too. I take better care of myself than the rest of them do, so who knows. I will say it feels like having grown up in a forest thick with trees, and now most of the trees have been knocked down due to disease, and soon I will be standing alone. That's one of the issues I've been working to overcome.
 
Sliverfox said:
Hubby was reading over my shoulder this morning when I opened this thread.

He said no, I'm not close to my brothers or sister.

We all live in the same road.
His brother is about 1/4 mile from us.
We can see their house & BIL's daughter lives across the road from us.:sick:
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Sometimes just because we share genetics and memories it doesn't mean that we have much in common. That's the way it's been for me. When I needed them they weren't there.
 
My brother is 7 yrs. younger than me, and lives 3,000 miles away, but we are close, even though I moved when he was 12 .. we are much closer than I am with my eldest half-sister who lives an hour away.
 

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