My parents built our house so…2 generations? I’m just close to my grandma and my mom’s younger brother and his family. My dad’s sister’s family is okay too but the rest I don’t really care about.
My great grandparents built my house. They lived in it, so did my grandparents, my parents and now me. My great aunts also lived here, so did my grandfather’s cousin, and my great uncle. I had lunch with the extended family every Friday of my life and I know most of my third cousins really well.
I guess two. My parents and me and my siblings. My maternal grandparents live 30 minutes away. My paternal grandparents live 6 hours away. I’m closer to my maternal ones since I saw them more often growing up.
Myself, my parents, and my grandmother. My dad’s side of the family is very small- myself, mg dad, my aunt, and my grandma. I am very close with them, I speak to them daily. My mother’s side of the family I am not remotely close with and genuinely forget they exist.
Just my parents and sister with me as a kid. Today the parents are gone and my sister lives across the country. My only extended family is in Japan and I’ve never been close to them.
I don’t live there anymore, but my grandfather built his house somewhere in the 1940s. Somewhere during the war, he met my grandmother, one thing led to another and my mum was born in that house. I believe even my great grandmother had lived there for a while. After my grandmother went to live in an elderly care facility (grandpa was long dead by this point), my parents bought the home.
My parents watch telly on the very spot where my mum was born haha.
I am not really in touch with my extended family. They’re nice and all, and we see each other at family gatherings and funerals, but the age gaps between me and my cousins is quite large. My youngest cousin was twelve already when I was born.
Just parents thankfully. But we saw our relatives weekly.
Im not cllose to my parents nor extended family, my lifestyle went a different direction (not as conservative as them) so ive become somewhat of a hermit.
Idk how to rate closeness to extended family though, there are people I have a good relationship with and I’d say we’re pretty close even if we don’t see each other super often. Then there are relatives I haven’t seen in years, or ever. Those are mostly like, parents cousins and their kids, not people related more closely. My closely related family is small though, so there’s not that many people to keep up with in the first place.
2 at my mom’s and 3 at my dad’s for a period of time. Not very close with my extended family at all. My mom’s parents died when I was young and her siblings are very unconcerned with family life and my dad died when I was 13 and most of his family didn’t put much of an effort to keep in contact and lived far away. My grandma would call every once in a while and when me and my sister got into high school my uncle started sending us holiday cards.
Technically just our parents and us in our house, but our grandparents and great grandparents both lived within sight of our home and we spent a great deal of time at each other’s homes. Not really a commune or anything like that, but we were a large extended farm family who all lived on family land close together but had individual homes for each nuclear family.
Growing up, I was extremely close to my extended family due to proximity, expectations, obligations, and opportunity. I moved away as an adult, so I am no longer engaged in the day-to-day life of the family and wouldn’t describe my relationship with most of my extended family as close at this point. I’m very close to a few and fairly distant from the rest
My parents and myself. I’m close to my parents and my sister, but that’s it. I am no contact with my brother and aunt, and I don’t really speak to anyone else in my family at all.
I like it that way.
Growing up we lived with my maternal grandparents twice, both for extended time periods. It was okay… due to their personalities.. but we all have fun memories of being there nonetheless. We are all still very very close to them. All my other family besides them live either in the valley or panhandle of Texas.
Currently my husband 25 and I 24 are living with my parents (plus my younger brother 20 and sister 8) and we are expecting our first child. Our family is super close and we all very much enjoy our living arrangement. I was telling my parents that the longest we would stay is the baby being 1 year old. My parents got super emotional and were talking about maybe just buying a bigger house for all of us. I was like yall it’s two years away relax 🤣 if you are close with your family, multi generational living is amazing and I’m glad it’s becoming more normalized here in the US. Even tho I feel like the reason it’s becoming normalized is bc it’s affordable.
Three for the few years we lived with my grandparents, otherwise, just 2–my mom and I. I’m not super close to my family in general, but I typically get left out of a lot of stuff.
My mom, me, my grandma and my sister were all different generations. Older sister is millennial and I’m older gen Z (1999). We’re 6 years apart. We weren’t close at all and most of my family is strangers. We’ve never had the whole family bond thing… so now it’s just me, my mom and my grandma. Others are kinda close with other family members but not really. It’s hard to explain.
My grandparents, my parents, us, and now my niece. So, 4 generations. We have two houses right next to each other. I’m the only one that doesn’t live on the compound (lol). I visit as much as I can, tho
I’m fairly close to most of my “immediate extended” family; I grew up visiting my grandparents, their siblings, and my aunts, uncles, and great-grandparents regularly, and we had yearly family reunions. We’re pretty scattered at the moment due to life and the military, but we all come together for weddings and funerals, and we visit each other if we’re traveling in the area.
I’m less familiar with my parents’ cousins and their kids, but I have met a fair few of them.
None, it was always just myself and my parents. They were both career military so we moved around a lot. We saw extended family once or twice a year. I’m not close with them at all beyond following them on social media.
Three generations. My parents had moved into my grandparents house, and when I was born, my grandma, my parents and I lived there.
Now my husband, my father and I live there (again).
It was just my parents, sibings, & I at our house. We would bring my paternal Grandma out to stay for a weekend quite often though, so it was kinda like she lived with us. (She lived alone & didn’t drive.)
As for any other extended family, my Mom’s side is massive. I was closer with people when I was younger & that set of Grandparents were still around, but once they passed then things and people changed. I haven’t been to an extended family get together in YEARS now. I haven’t been invited to any cousins weddings & none of them were to mine. (Partially because we kept it really small & I have too many cousins. ha.)
Just parents, sister and me. My parents were the youngest of big families and by the time they came along, their parents and siblings had no interest in new babies. And then the grandchildren were born and they got sidelined even further. My sister and I were born after the first great grandchildren were born so my grandparents had little interest in us, then died when I was young. I have over twenty cousins and I could not tell you all their names because of how little we saw each other over the years. I’m closer to my husband’s second cousins than I am my own first cousins.
Four when I was really young: my grandma, mom and dad, me and my siblings, and my niece. No one is really close. My siblings rightfully went NC with my parents. My grandparents are dead. I lost contact with my cousins and siblings.
We were 3 generations until my grandpa died when I was 6. I’m not super close to my paternal family though. No bad blood at all, my dad just had us quite late and so there was a huge age difference between us and our cousins and my aunts and uncles were already starting to become grandparents themselves and had their own thing going.
My maternal family is much closer. They’re the ones who we spend all the holidays with and all that stuff.
2, And not at all. I talk to 1 sister semi regularly. The other one is not a nice person, and my brother is great, but neither of us needs to catch up often.
I lived with my great grandma growing up when she got older. My grandma lives with my cousins on my mom side and same with my dad’s side. & now my mom lives with me and my children. I honestly love multigenerational households. We are Italian
My bros and I, my parents, and occasionally my grandmother (her place of living would switch back and forth between my dad’s and his sister’s)
I’m not emotionally close at all to my extended family. I’m the creative black sheep… They’re all about corps and businesses 😭 I only see them whenever my parents or their parents host stuff and invite each other.
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My parents built our house so…2 generations? I’m just close to my grandma and my mom’s younger brother and his family. My dad’s sister’s family is okay too but the rest I don’t really care about.
My great grandparents built my house. They lived in it, so did my grandparents, my parents and now me. My great aunts also lived here, so did my grandfather’s cousin, and my great uncle. I had lunch with the extended family every Friday of my life and I know most of my third cousins really well.
I guess two. My parents and me and my siblings. My maternal grandparents live 30 minutes away. My paternal grandparents live 6 hours away. I’m closer to my maternal ones since I saw them more often growing up.
Just my parents and I. Not at all close.
I personally am not a fan of multi-generational homes and would do just about anything I could never to have to live in one, it’s just not for me.
Three. I was pretty close to my extended family when I still lived on the same continent.
My parents, me and my siblings lived under one roof.
I’m pretty close with some members of my dad’s side of the family. We don’t keep in contact with most of my mom’s side of the family.
Just my parents and sister with me as a kid. Today the parents are gone and my sister lives across the country. My only extended family is in Japan and I’ve never been close to them.
I don’t live there anymore, but my grandfather built his house somewhere in the 1940s. Somewhere during the war, he met my grandmother, one thing led to another and my mum was born in that house. I believe even my great grandmother had lived there for a while. After my grandmother went to live in an elderly care facility (grandpa was long dead by this point), my parents bought the home.
My parents watch telly on the very spot where my mum was born haha.
I am not really in touch with my extended family. They’re nice and all, and we see each other at family gatherings and funerals, but the age gaps between me and my cousins is quite large. My youngest cousin was twelve already when I was born.
Just parents thankfully. But we saw our relatives weekly.
Im not cllose to my parents nor extended family, my lifestyle went a different direction (not as conservative as them) so ive become somewhat of a hermit.
3 – my grandma, my parents, and my sister and I.
Idk how to rate closeness to extended family though, there are people I have a good relationship with and I’d say we’re pretty close even if we don’t see each other super often. Then there are relatives I haven’t seen in years, or ever. Those are mostly like, parents cousins and their kids, not people related more closely. My closely related family is small though, so there’s not that many people to keep up with in the first place.
2 at my mom’s and 3 at my dad’s for a period of time. Not very close with my extended family at all. My mom’s parents died when I was young and her siblings are very unconcerned with family life and my dad died when I was 13 and most of his family didn’t put much of an effort to keep in contact and lived far away. My grandma would call every once in a while and when me and my sister got into high school my uncle started sending us holiday cards.
Technically just our parents and us in our house, but our grandparents and great grandparents both lived within sight of our home and we spent a great deal of time at each other’s homes. Not really a commune or anything like that, but we were a large extended farm family who all lived on family land close together but had individual homes for each nuclear family.
Growing up, I was extremely close to my extended family due to proximity, expectations, obligations, and opportunity. I moved away as an adult, so I am no longer engaged in the day-to-day life of the family and wouldn’t describe my relationship with most of my extended family as close at this point. I’m very close to a few and fairly distant from the rest
We moved a few times a year for most of my childhood, and I’m not close.
My parents and myself. I’m close to my parents and my sister, but that’s it. I am no contact with my brother and aunt, and I don’t really speak to anyone else in my family at all.
I like it that way.
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Growing up we lived with my maternal grandparents twice, both for extended time periods. It was okay… due to their personalities.. but we all have fun memories of being there nonetheless. We are all still very very close to them. All my other family besides them live either in the valley or panhandle of Texas.
Currently my husband 25 and I 24 are living with my parents (plus my younger brother 20 and sister 8) and we are expecting our first child. Our family is super close and we all very much enjoy our living arrangement. I was telling my parents that the longest we would stay is the baby being 1 year old. My parents got super emotional and were talking about maybe just buying a bigger house for all of us. I was like yall it’s two years away relax 🤣 if you are close with your family, multi generational living is amazing and I’m glad it’s becoming more normalized here in the US. Even tho I feel like the reason it’s becoming normalized is bc it’s affordable.
Three for the few years we lived with my grandparents, otherwise, just 2–my mom and I. I’m not super close to my family in general, but I typically get left out of a lot of stuff.
My mom, me, my grandma and my sister were all different generations. Older sister is millennial and I’m older gen Z (1999). We’re 6 years apart. We weren’t close at all and most of my family is strangers. We’ve never had the whole family bond thing… so now it’s just me, my mom and my grandma. Others are kinda close with other family members but not really. It’s hard to explain.
My grandparents, my parents, us, and now my niece. So, 4 generations. We have two houses right next to each other. I’m the only one that doesn’t live on the compound (lol). I visit as much as I can, tho
2; Just my parents and their kids.
I’m fairly close to most of my “immediate extended” family; I grew up visiting my grandparents, their siblings, and my aunts, uncles, and great-grandparents regularly, and we had yearly family reunions. We’re pretty scattered at the moment due to life and the military, but we all come together for weddings and funerals, and we visit each other if we’re traveling in the area.
I’m less familiar with my parents’ cousins and their kids, but I have met a fair few of them.
Just tme and my husband live in my house.
I am not close to.my extended family. I ser them at gatherings but thas really it.
None, it was always just myself and my parents. They were both career military so we moved around a lot. We saw extended family once or twice a year. I’m not close with them at all beyond following them on social media.
Three generations. My parents had moved into my grandparents house, and when I was born, my grandma, my parents and I lived there.
Now my husband, my father and I live there (again).
Extended family: Not close.
It was just my parents, sibings, & I at our house. We would bring my paternal Grandma out to stay for a weekend quite often though, so it was kinda like she lived with us. (She lived alone & didn’t drive.)
As for any other extended family, my Mom’s side is massive. I was closer with people when I was younger & that set of Grandparents were still around, but once they passed then things and people changed. I haven’t been to an extended family get together in YEARS now. I haven’t been invited to any cousins weddings & none of them were to mine. (Partially because we kept it really small & I have too many cousins. ha.)
Just parents, sister and me. My parents were the youngest of big families and by the time they came along, their parents and siblings had no interest in new babies. And then the grandchildren were born and they got sidelined even further. My sister and I were born after the first great grandchildren were born so my grandparents had little interest in us, then died when I was young. I have over twenty cousins and I could not tell you all their names because of how little we saw each other over the years. I’m closer to my husband’s second cousins than I am my own first cousins.
Four when I was really young: my grandma, mom and dad, me and my siblings, and my niece. No one is really close. My siblings rightfully went NC with my parents. My grandparents are dead. I lost contact with my cousins and siblings.
Grandparents, uncle, mom, and us. I keep my distance from everyone. Once my grandma died, I quit going home as often.
Uh one ☝️ and hell no- also which house? I mean the answer is still the same but there many houses.
We were 3 generations until my grandpa died when I was 6. I’m not super close to my paternal family though. No bad blood at all, my dad just had us quite late and so there was a huge age difference between us and our cousins and my aunts and uncles were already starting to become grandparents themselves and had their own thing going.
My maternal family is much closer. They’re the ones who we spend all the holidays with and all that stuff.
Two, just my siblings, myself, and our parents. The only person I talk to from my family is one sibling.
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2, And not at all. I talk to 1 sister semi regularly. The other one is not a nice person, and my brother is great, but neither of us needs to catch up often.
I lived with my great grandma growing up when she got older. My grandma lives with my cousins on my mom side and same with my dad’s side. & now my mom lives with me and my children. I honestly love multigenerational households. We are Italian
My bros and I, my parents, and occasionally my grandmother (her place of living would switch back and forth between my dad’s and his sister’s)
I’m not emotionally close at all to my extended family. I’m the creative black sheep… They’re all about corps and businesses 😭 I only see them whenever my parents or their parents host stuff and invite each other.