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I Lack a Sense of Family With My Family

Must be nice to know your extended family and stuff. 🙃 I had no clue for the longest time that you were supposed to know your cousins and aunts and stuff, I thought they were just supposed to exist like...over there. And reunions are a thing? That's weird.

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Doomflower · 36-40, M

Reunions were the only times I saw most of my extended family and so I associate them with uncomfortable weekends in the houses of strangers who had sex to create your parents or who had the same parents as your parents did and that means you have to say you love them even though you barely know them.

That's the biggest thing I hated about family reunions. I don't know these people! Ok so we have some of the same genes... and!?

GlitterBug · 22-25, F

Exactly. Last few years or so I've met a lot of family I never knew existed. Drama, oh so much drama. If I don't tell them I love them they will post about it on Facebook, whine to my mom, call me rude. It gets worse, I just don't understand what they're expecting. I'm 20 and never had a thing to do with these people.

"Hello stranger, we just met but I love you because we share similar DNA and that's cool. I'll call you grandma and you can make inappropriate and personal statements and questions about me if you want in front of anyone you want. Because we share DNA, it's perfectly fine."
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