Does your family do family reunions?

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Lliam · Accepted Answer

When I was growing up, there were four sets of aunt and uncles and their kids who lived not far away from us. Sometimes we'd all get together for holidays. Including my maternal grandparents, that would have been 9 adults and, with my sister and me, 7 kids.

One time, my mom's side of the family all drove back to Madison, Wisconsin for a reunion with her brother and his family.

My wife has a huge family in the Cincinnati area. She has 10 siblings and most of them are married with children. Her parents had a house, but they also owned a farm with a pond and a shabby house. They would have annual reunions at the farm with all her mom and dad's relatives and their kids. 3 or 4 generations. I went a few times. There had to be close to 100 people. It was beyond my imagination.

I have shit tons of cousins and relatives who are farmers in western Wisconsin. They have very large annual reunions. I have a standing invitation but have never gone. I've been back there a couple of times many years ago and met second cousins (my parent's generation) and a few of their kids. That older generation is gone now and I don't know the kids aside from being Facebook friends.

I haven't seen any of my relatives for years. I haven't even been down to the Los Angeles area to visit my sister and niece for a long time.
Some of my wife's relatives have come to visit us in recent years. Two of her nieces visited just last year.

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silkjames · Accepted Answer

Yes my dad's and mom's family comes together lol it's funny because black and Asians some of my family members can't stand each other after they fight every one has a awesome time lol there all kinds of food we play football basketball and play this Asian sport it's called kick thoght u basically kick the ball over the net u only can use your feet knees or head that game gets out of control but everyone is having fun all our grand parents are the ones in charge we all really only listen to them on both sides of the family we all have fun tho even with fighting we all still love one or another because we family no matter how anyone looks at it and we have the reunion at this beautiful park it's huge down cape cod there hundreds of people there I love it I believe we do it every 7 to 10 years we actually got one coming up🥰!

jennifer_bloom · Accepted Answer

We don’t do full blown ones cause we are spread on two continents but we used to gather our North American group of cousins and aunts and uncles for joint gatherings each year or two, my family and cousins family are local and we had another cousin who flew over from America with her parents, I have not seen those three since my cousin’s divorce.

CrazyGirl2 · Accepted Answer

My mom’s family have had two, but I’ve always found them to be highly uncomfortable events! I mean, trust me few things in life are more disturbing than a 28yo man hitting on a girl who JUST turned 17, laughing off “Oh wow sweetheart”, lol “slow-yer-roll, I’d hardly call 2rd cousins “related” and especially not “family”, am I right?”

exitseven · Answer

I used to work for a company that sold uniforms and equipment to first responders. We also did screen printing. A guy came in and wanted to buy some t-shirts commemorating his family reunion. He wanted them to say "The Smith family Reunion" with the date. He probably ordered a couple of dozen.
So a few weeks later I am selling some equipment at a local police department. A bunch of the guys got called to the town campground because of a fight.
When they got back they had the whole Smith family under arrest. They were all wearing the t-shirts. I just had to laugh.

razelove · Answer

We did that once, too many people got drunk and started beating each other up, I was like 7-10 at the time, there were a lot of other kids there, and here are our aunts, uncles, parents, grand parents, going to the open bar, then basically going into a battle royale.

That was complete insanity, also the first and last family reunion. Turns out it's better to keep those issues buried, and getting everyone together and drunk leads to catastrophe lol

libsaretards · Answer

Yes and no. Never does our entire family get together at once. There are members of my family who are truly evil and manipulative people. They band together and have their own reunions. In my eyes my family is me, my mom, grandmother, aunt and my aunt's 4 children. To me the rest of my family is dead/does not exist. There are people in my family who have even killed out of boredom and got off on some technicality and I'm sure would kill their blood relatives just as quickly as their personal enemies.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

I'm pretty sure they do on dad's side but, they don't bother to invite me and, I really don't think I wanna go, anymore. That side of the family's loaded with assholes and bad memories. They also think they're something special and that their shit doesn't stink!
As far as I know, mom's side of the family has never had one except for the time we had the entire family here for grandma's 80th b-day.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Once my Great Uncle on my late mom's side, got some of the family together for a family reunion but some of us were left out and I never got invited so it hurts when there is favoritism my dad's side of the family invited us to a family reunion but we never went.

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

We used to in the past and now everything have changed sadly!
People are losing these beautiful traditions and family values...
Everyone is minding their own business and we're heading more and more into singularities...

I miss those days where everything had a meaning and when life was simple and beautiful...

TommyMountainFigure · Answer

Don't really need to BBB, My immediate Family live all within about 40 miles of each other.. We are always round each other's houses. How about you and yours, seeing as the question was on your mind?

MotherEarth2020 · Answer

Unfortunately yes, his side not so bad, my side my family is nuts and a bunch of drunks that love to fight I hate going to my side of the family. Someone usually ends up in jail

FinalFantasyBro · Answer

I only remember one family reunion my family and I done we traveled to Arizona because majority of my extended down there we each have a hotel room and I managed to give a great speech at our family reunion good times.

AndrewMG · Answer

No, I've 3 brothers spread across the UK, I randomly bumped into one at a football match... it was essentially the same liklihood of winning the lottery, just with less winnings and a larger bar bill.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

Not long back from seeing my Sister and ex wife, that is as far as I will push family reunions.

DonkeyDan · Answer

I have no idea as I don't get involved with my family. Years ago when I was a child they did have an annual gathering of family, maybe they still do.

purplepoppy · Answer

Only at funerals, when people you've never heard of seem to know everything about you and your too embarrassed to ask who the fuck are you

Th3ft · Answer

Yep every year. Only thing t is now down to local family which means that there is like one other person my age and the rest are all ancient… haha!

SignedAutographs · Answer

We do. I didn't go to last years though because I had already been planning on going to something else and had bought a ticket that was NON refundable. The reunion wasn't set as a date until later, or I didn't know what it was until my parents told me much later

Pogi-Paddy-2 · Answer

No, because my family is so large and spread out all over the world, it would be a logistical nightmare to do it, not to mention that there are family members that don't see eye to eye with others within our family.

peedy · Answer

We used to them all the time, but after the grandparents (which were the core of the family) pass away the reunions just seemed to fade away to as everyone got their own lives to deal with and drifted away

CourtneyJane2 · Answer

I'm sure mine do, but I never get asked nor will I ever attend because they disown me.

NathanDavis · Answer

yes, always has... always will, it is the Mexican side influence, lol

JoyGirl · Answer

Sometimes, but some of my family is in Nigeria, so we do reunions with the ones we have close by.

Vendela · Answer

No, not since 1970 something. Now we just do grill outs and Christmas gatherings.

TheAfrikan · Answer

Yeah always do it each and every single year, and love it when Meet all ma nieces and nephews all gathered up together in one single place.

Twalli · Answer

We have, I don't know if we will again, because my grandmother is over 95 and probably will die fairly soon, so there's probably not going to be a lot of large family get together after she dies, and that could be before the COVID-19 issues are gone.

humanearth · Answer

We used to, the last one was in 2005 and it was huge I think the family rented out the all of Jackson Park

TrueConfection · Answer

I think some of the relatives still do, but I don't participate.

cth96190 · Answer

No reunions for my family. Nearly all of them are dead. Reunions are not a thing in Australia anyway.

krin_m · Answer

Used to, not any more. Families grow apart after a couple of generations.

TacosRAwesome · Answer

Of sorts. Mums side, about twice a year. Dad's side, well used to before his parents died but his siblings are uncool so we don't bother with them.

AlwaysBelieving · Answer

No, I don't. There's probably one, but most of the family with my last name are located on the other side of the world.

Bubbles16 · Answer

We've only had a family reunion once because my family is huge

Anonymous · Answer

Yeah, we call it Christmas... About 50 of us consistently

dustybiker · Answer

lol Quite the opposite. And not ungrateful. 😜

Red_Arrow · Answer

I visit my family each year in the cemeteries.

rachel776 · Answer

we have huge ones like Amway conventions

BLP11520 · Answer

We did a long time ago, my Dad was the second youngest of 9. Everyone was old when I was around 12.

the_sinner · Answer

Very rarely, mostly during family marriages or funerals lol.

Massageman · Answer

One side of our in-laws does - - - -

douride2 · Answer

We used to but not in over 5 years now.

Smashingdoozy · Answer

Not that I'm invited to

moonpie89 · Answer

Hahs yes. It's so much fun

GlassTop · Answer

Family is large. Long distance. Somebody would have to pay for all the tickets.

Bricealan · Answer

We have, in the past. Now, not so much.

Anonymous · Answer

They don't, thank God.

Anonymous · Answer

not really something i've ever experienced

Jamie05rhs · Answer

We used to. Not as much lately.

KatherineJ · Answer

No, we don’t.

The_Shadow_Dweller · Answer

Nope...

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

Yes unfortunately

Slim57 · Answer

Used to

Andres77 · Answer

Used to.

Fuentes · Answer

Nah never in my life

TrillXHippy · Answer

Yeah sure

Tim-loves-it · Answer

Very rarely. :-(

flirtatiousgirl · Answer

Nope

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