Just now thought of this thread. I'm interested in knowing what your family lives are like.
I grew up with my mother, father, and brother, and I'm still in the same house as all three of them. My brother and I are in our twenties now, I'm 26 and he's 23. Neither of us are in relationships at the moment, but we occasionally discuss marriage and children with hypothetical Conservative and Christian white women... LOL (my family is Caucasian).
On my paternal side, I have a living blood related aunt, a living grandmother, and a deceased grandfather. On my maternal side, I have a living blood related uncle married to his second wife, my living aunt in law, a deceased blood related uncle, a living grandmother, and a deceased grandfather.
One of my uncles is gay, my other uncle's first wife was infertile after she already had two children, his step children, who I never met since he and his first wife divorced when I was just a toddler, and my aunt was in bad relationships and just never found someone to marry, so I have no first cousins. As a teenager that bothered me, but now that I'm in my twenties it doesn't bother me as much. It's more of a younger thing to think about, and my parents had my brother and I in their thirties instead of their twenties, so my aunt's potential children and my heterosexual uncle's potential children would have been much older than me and my brother. There are also actually families out there who have no first cousins because their parents were only children and so they had no aunts or uncles... LOL.
My paternal grandfather died of cancer as an 86 year old in 2016 (forgot what kind), my gay uncle died of overall bad health as well as smoking as a 64 year old in 2018 (my other uncle also smokes, but he's in much better health, and his second wife also smokes) and my maternal grandfather died of old age as a 93 year old in 2018 (He used to smoke too, most likely where my two uncles picked up the habit, but he quit early in his life). My uncle also got married to his current wife in 2019. Everyone in my family is in good health now, thankfully, so things won't be changing again for a long, long time... Unless my brother and I get married and have children soon. LOL.
I could probably go more in detail about my distant relatives too, but I feel like I want to save that for a later post. Anyway, what about you guys? What are your families like?
I grew up with my mother, father, and brother, and I'm still in the same house as all three of them. My brother and I are in our twenties now, I'm 26 and he's 23. Neither of us are in relationships at the moment, but we occasionally discuss marriage and children with hypothetical Conservative and Christian white women... LOL (my family is Caucasian).
On my paternal side, I have a living blood related aunt, a living grandmother, and a deceased grandfather. On my maternal side, I have a living blood related uncle married to his second wife, my living aunt in law, a deceased blood related uncle, a living grandmother, and a deceased grandfather.
One of my uncles is gay, my other uncle's first wife was infertile after she already had two children, his step children, who I never met since he and his first wife divorced when I was just a toddler, and my aunt was in bad relationships and just never found someone to marry, so I have no first cousins. As a teenager that bothered me, but now that I'm in my twenties it doesn't bother me as much. It's more of a younger thing to think about, and my parents had my brother and I in their thirties instead of their twenties, so my aunt's potential children and my heterosexual uncle's potential children would have been much older than me and my brother. There are also actually families out there who have no first cousins because their parents were only children and so they had no aunts or uncles... LOL.
My paternal grandfather died of cancer as an 86 year old in 2016 (forgot what kind), my gay uncle died of overall bad health as well as smoking as a 64 year old in 2018 (my other uncle also smokes, but he's in much better health, and his second wife also smokes) and my maternal grandfather died of old age as a 93 year old in 2018 (He used to smoke too, most likely where my two uncles picked up the habit, but he quit early in his life). My uncle also got married to his current wife in 2019. Everyone in my family is in good health now, thankfully, so things won't be changing again for a long, long time... Unless my brother and I get married and have children soon. LOL.
I could probably go more in detail about my distant relatives too, but I feel like I want to save that for a later post. Anyway, what about you guys? What are your families like?
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