For the last couple of years I visit some family for about a week, while there things are pretty nice and we seem to have a good time, I mostly spend the time hanging with my cousins since we're roughly the same ages, we share a lot of hobbies like gaming, and the like. The thing is though outside of that visit my cousins don't seem to want anything to do with me, I don't message them often but when I do it usually takes days for them to reply even though I know for a fact they see it since they are chronically online types, and they never want to do anything like play games online, which is fine, I don't feel entitled to their time, but then it makes me wonder are my visits just a chore/obligation to them? Am I a burden they just deal with once a year and want to keep it to a minimum? They do play games online with each other, it's become pretty clear they just don't want to do it with me. I am considering making up some excuse not to go anymore for a few years until it just sort of fades and go on my own way but I'm not sure if I'm overthinking it or what.
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>>34769893Also no I wouldn't take it personally. I am that type of cousin who doesn't message cousins back or socialize with them. It's not because my cousins are bad people, they're great and I respect them a lot. It's because to hang out with a cousin means hanging out with family. And my personal family branch from my mom and dad was hell. I prefer hanging out with people who don't share my blood. Hanging out with cousins would make me feel "too close to home" and home for me was hell so thats how it is. Not saying that's what your cousins are doing but could easily be similar reasons just diff severity of it. Sometimes people don't want to have friendships within family circles for whatever reason
>>34769972Unless of course your cousins are hanging out with other cousins but not you for some reason. Then it means they are excluding you Make sure to explicitly ask to join in to be sure
>>34769893You know, that picture would have been hilarious if an uncle or something was black.
i never even seen any of my cousins, im already with my life overwhelmed, dont need some autistic, artificial family drama
>>34771187Family can be a nice and fulfilling thing to have, a big problem in the modern day is how detached people are from their family
