How many people in your family do you feel close to, or actually talk to on any kind of regular basis?
I only really talk to one aunt, my mother and my brother... is that normal?
I haven't fallen out with anyone else, my mother fell out with my dads side of the family when he died so I don't really see them at all, but I wouldn't feel comfortable calling them up or the rest of my mothers family and speaking to them or anything. I live in another country though so maybe it's because I'd have to make an effort to contact them I'm not going to just bump into them in the street.

What's your experience, how much of your family have you kept close to now that you're grown up?

i'm not close with anyone in my family except my mum and one of my cousins. they're the only ones i actually talk to, anyway. we do go and visit my mum's sister on a semi-regular basis but i wouldn't say i'm close to them. the rest i pretty much hate. i don't really care whether it's normal or not because i reckon every family's fucked up in some way.

oh and this is exactly what happened in my family as well. except she was never on good terms with them, really.

I talk to my mothers side of the family a lot.
I'm not so sure I particularly like them .. and I definatly don't feel close to them.
I've not really talked to my father since he left or his side of the family.

Well, I live with my mum and brother.. I wouldn't say we were particularly close though. My mum likes to think that she's there for me and I can 'tell her anything' but I know for a fact I can't, and she isn't really there for me on an emotional level.. I find it next to impossible to have a deep conversation with her and when I do try to confide in her or whatever, she makes me feel like anything I need to talk about is like silly 'little girl' problems, perhaps they are sometimes..but your mum shouldn't make you feel like that.

My dad on the otherhand, I actually want to spend time with him and enjoy his company.. we can chat as if we're old friends or something

Cousins and grandparents and things I rarely see.. a few times a year, if that. We're all scattered about the country so it's a bit difficult. I guess I could make an effort but I was never really that close to them anyway. Also all my cousins and aunts and uncles on my dads side all live within about 10 minutes of eachother and are really close.. so I feel awkward and out of place whenever I visit them, so I tend not to. It doesn't really bother me though.

everyone. well, there's like 2 outcasts in our family due to problems in the past...they're really weirdass people. One of them is now back in the family though, but still a bit of an outcast.

My father has almost no family, except his mom. My mom has a lot of family and we are all very close. As a kid all my cousins and I spent a lot of time together, we really grew up together and so now that we're older we're still good friends and it's really fun when we all get together.
we have big family parties together, at least once a year.Or we'll go out to dinner with the whole family sometimes. I see my grandmas (I have no grandfathers any more ) at least every two weeks (usually every week though. My one grandmother is MY GOD. I love her so much).
There's a family company involved though, everyone works together so that is definitely a factor. I don't know any other family that is as close as ours so the company definitely plays a big part.
My family is really awesome. I love them.

i'm really close with my parents. i have lunch with my mom every day.

i'm closer to my one sister only because the other lives a couple hours away, but the three of us are all pretty close.

also very close with grandparents on my mom's side, and my aunt and uncle. my cousin is my best friend and we lived together for three and a half years.

my grandparents on my dad's side i could totally do without though. my grandma lives in georgia and i only speak to her once every few years. my step-grandmother is a wretched cunt. my grandfather is a horrible pervert who, not even kidding, tries to cop a feel whenever i see him. so yeah, those are really the only people in my family i dislike and don't like to be around.

I have a huge family and its generally quite close, we're all into each others' buisiness all the time

I'm closest to my parents obviously, my aunt and her children on my dads side, my nan and gran
Everytime I go to my grans though, half of the family is there and I can always sit and have a cuppa with them and chat. And its horrible to say but funerals on my dads side have the bonus effect of huge family get togethers.

On my mams side its difficult, I keep in touch with the family in Canada, my other aunt is dead but I keep in touch with her husband because hes amazing support through the uni thing, my other uncle is a paranoid schitzo so although we talk its not exactly pop round for a cuppa close. I'm not close to my cousins on this side.

My boyfriend is scared of my family, if they're not chavs they have a mental disorder, are gays married to women, and we all have the awful habit of recycling names to confuse things. For every male name in our family theres four generations that share it.

i'm very close with my mums side of the family, they are all wonderful. my cousin is more like a brother and one of my best friends.

my dad's side are a bunch of twats who i don't bother with.

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i just added my fifteen year old cousin (female) on myspace & facebook. BAD IDEA. i just have to keep reminding myself "you were probably even stupider eleven years ago, you just didn't have all this internetalia to post it on...... "

my mom
that's it

both my nieces are my friends on myspace. they are 14 and 15. they have never irritated me as bad as they do on the internet.

i talk to my mom, and i talk to my stepdad when i visit my mom... my brother sometimes but not really cuz he usually ends up aggravating me.

other than that, my mother's mother is the only one who bothers to call me, and usually it's to ask me why i haven't called her "HAVE YOU BEEN IN JAIL?" or to generally be mean "SO ARE YOU GETTING FAT?" lol.

i just have my dad
i wouldnt say we're close but i'm trying

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"the painkillers are better even than high fashion and good coffee." - barkstonwill

i added 2 of my distant cousin's and then was always "editing" what i put up there. it's a tricky situation as you don't want your family knowing all of your business.

i ended up deleting my facebook, i found it very invasive, especially with my ex and his friends and family.

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just my parents and my brother.

the majority of my extended family lives on another continent, so i don't know them so well. a lot of times the distance makes it feel like our family is split up.

i have an aunt and an uncle in this country, but they live on the opposite end. and i have a cousin here too, but she didn't move here until i was a lot older, so i am not that close to her at all.

it's kind of disappointing that i don't know the rest of my family members that well. it never used to bother me, until recently. my roommate always goes and visits her aunts, uncles, and grandparents during the holidays, so i sort of wish i could do that too.

my 14-year-old cousin added me as a friend on facebook too. she spams my wall with all these chain-letter type messages, so it gets really annoying at times. and i constantly find myself thinking 'would i want her to see this?' when i edit my profile or add pictures.

I'm not close with ANYONE in my family. I am an only child, and my parents are divorced and live in two different states. I am not close with either of my parents at all. I've always had a strained relationship with both of them for different reasons. I now live halfway across the country from both of them so I only see them maybe twice a year. I just came back from a trip where I was going to see them, but the main reason for my trip was to hang out with friends and go out to do fun things, not to see my parents. I really wasn't particularly excited about seeing my parents at all. I was totally indifferent to it.

i am insane close with my immediate family : mum, dad, sister. and very close with maternal grandmother, grandfather and aunt.

rest can go hang, really.

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