Family reunions!

Omicron

Omicron

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    Hey PC, how much do you enjoy family reunions?

    I have personally only known two types of reactions to family reunions. Either they love them and have a good time, or they hate them and spend all of the day in their phones, not talking to their family.

    I guess it depends a lot on the relation you have with your family.

    I enjoy them very much and love talking with aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. I also enjoy playing with the babies and little kids.
     
    I last went to one about 2 years ago? It was fun but I got bored of it really quickly. I didn't know most of the people there and just had a hard time enjoying myself after about an hour or so.
     
    I don't.

    I find it really awkward to see family I haven't seen in a long time, and I am not an open person with my family compared to how I am with friends. None of them really know the real me, and I put on a facade around them with uncomfortableness of being in their presence.

    I care about them a great deal, but I wouldn't be too bothered if I never saw the majority of them again.
     
    My grandparents are all dead, so I'm not required to do this shit anymore. Last one I went to was in 1996.
     
    Well, I guess it depends on the reunion. BBQs and week(end)s at Northey Island are amazing. The rest not so much.
     
    eh, they're alright. i have a ton of family so it's constant introductions and forced hugs and kisses. other than that they're pretty chill and enjoyable. the location and the festivities are my favorite.

    my mom's side hasn't had a reunion in prob 10 years but they've always been my favorite. we rent out maybe 20 two story cabins for a weekend and we live out in the bayou. it's good people, good food, and a good time. my dad's side has reunions every two years each held in different states. the people living in that state basically take control of hotels, catering, and the festivities.
     
    I experienced a family reunion of sorts just last week when several extended family members visited us to see our new house (four extended family members were visiting from out of state anyways while the rest were only a couple towns away). I tend to like them as a lot of them my cousins and I would discuss all sorts of topics and do some ridiculous activities you often would see happened in college parties, haha.
     
    I usually have fun with the family reunions that I went to. One was terrible, but only for one day (Because someone's daughter decided to play a chipmunked version of Justin Bieber's "Baby" over and over enough to drive a sane person insane.), other than that I had a lot of fun at my family reunions, especially when we all played dice and card games together. It has been years since I my family had a reunion and I hope there will be another one soon.
     
    Not only do I dislike large gatherings, there's a cultural and 40-year age gap between my relatives and me. They are always discussing how I'm doing, or kids my age are doing, sometimes openly questioning my choices. None of the relatives in my age group come over, so there's no one to play with or relate to. Consequently, I just want to be left alone with my normal routine.
     
    I've only been to one family reunion in my life, and I wasn't overly thrilled about it. My extended family isn't exactly close, so being around a bunch of people I don't even really know, not having anyone around my age, and just in general doing nothing but sitting there eating cookout food and listening to my parents talk to people didn't really appeal to me.
     
    We don't really have them, so I can't tell you. Since we live in Arizona, a majority of my extended family lives back in Maine. It costs too much for them to come out here or for us to go there. To be totally honest too, even as a child living there, we still never really had them. If we did, it was because someone passed away in the family or something.
     
    I haven't been to any since I moved to England eight years ago, and since my great-grandad died earlier this year I don't have much reason to want to again.

    But I did like them when I went to them.
     
    I don't really do family reunions. My family certainly doesn't, unless they're not inviting me along at all (I mean, it's entirely possible), not that I would usually go because a lot of them are so many hours away at the least and-- well, I guess I could just fly or something, but meh that costs money. I'm willing to fly to go see my parents and siblings but not for anybody else really...unless they want to pay.

    Now my husband's family, they like to get together for things like pool parties once a year or so. Always kind of awkward for me since I still don't know everybody and yeah. :T Not really a fan of those even with a pool involved. Especially not a fan when I'm dragged along for some ulterior motive - oh we're going to go visit and once we get there by the way you're now employed to move someone's furniture for whatever reason have fun.

    that actually did happen once I was so annoyed.
     
    We've never needed family reunions because many of the Jewish holidays are excuses to see the extended family, at least on my maternal side. Every few years one family member will host a huge meal for one of the big holidays, and I don't remember half the people there or I wind up getting their names confused. I've never had many family members my age and don't enjoy being interrogated by random great uncles, so they're not especially enjoyable.

    ~Psychic
     
    I really enjoy them!
    I have a quite good relationship with my family hehe and most of my family members are really fun to be with and love having a good laugh. Most of our family meet ups include good food and fun conversations or silly games - nothing to complain about! :>
     
    There's no desire from any of our extended family members to interact more than necessary - we only meet at Christmas and pretend as if we're more than merely related by blood and marriage. They fly out here as a show of good will, we eat & drink until we go up a shirt size and then we part ways for another year.

    They think of my family as the ones who rejected their money (and therefore, the 'family') and never really belonged in the first place.There's actually not that many relatives to speak of considering they're mostly in their later years and didn't have kids. I talk to my aunt and her youngest son on the phone fairly often and occasionally they fly out here, but they're the only ones that I'd count as family. The rest of the time, when the rest of the extended relatives fly out here, I think of it as a gathering of shareholders and a gathering of inheritances, so to speak.
     
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