How often do you see your parents/family?

[Loppan Torkel]

Fairly straight forward topic.

I heard this -

Link to video.
- by a coincidence for the first time in a very long time, after declining supper with my folks this weekend. Now I feel a bit guilty for it.

 

[warpus]

My parents live a 10 minute car ride or a 50 minute walk away, and one of my sisters and her family (2 nieces now ) live about a 3 minute car ride away or a 25 walk - basically lives halfway between me and my parents. My other sister alternates between Ottawa and South Carolina, so I don't see her as often, but the 5 of us (my parents, me, my sisters) are I would say maybe not very close, but.. close. I think due to what happened to us (the whole escape from communism ordeal) has brought us closer together. So now that we're finally in paradise, it's important for each one of us that the others are doing well in life as well. Plus we don't really have any other family in Canada other than my mom's sister's family - they live in Toronto and we don't see them often enough tbh. My grandma (mom's mom) also lives in the Toronto area.

Everybody else was left behind in Poland. I have relatives all over the world though, some in Germany, some in England, some in Belarus, some .. well, who knows where. I don't really remember a lot of them and in some cases have never even met them. So for me - those of us who I have listed above are my family.. everybody else is too distant. Facebook has helped me rekindle some lost relationships (after we left), but it's not the same.

edit: I see I didn't really answer the question. I see my parents about 2-3 times a month on average and my sister and her family a slightly less amount.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

About every 2 years I see my parents and sister. I see my brother less than that, maybe every 3 years.

I see my in-laws all the time because they live 2 hours away.

 

[The_J]

Christmas, mother's birthday, father's birthday, not more (unless they come to visit me, which is max. 1 per year). But it's also takes 5-6 hours by train (+half hour bus, +half hour car, + delays, etc), so not necessarily something which you do spontaneously.

 

[Esperr]

Parents live 2k away. Im army so it makes it a little harder to go see them. However I have been to there state twice in the last six months, but I was in southern and then central, so I was still a good eight hour drive from them.

 

[luiz]

About twice a year. They live in another continent so it's hard.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Parents live 2k away. Im army so it makes it a little harder to go see them. However I have been to there state twice in the last six months, but I was in southern and then central, so I was still a good eight hour drive from them.

Are your parents in Texas or Alaska? California?

 

[Esperr]

Are your parents in Texas or Alaska? California?

California. I was visiting Orange county and then alter on I was visiting the central valley. They live up north in the Sac/San Fran area.

 

[Phrossack]

Too often.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Ditto.

 

[tetley]

Does Skype count? I mean technically you do "see" them.

Not sure what weight to give "50-minute walk away" in Canada in the dead of winter. How many minutes cross country skiing is that? About 40?

 

[Akka]

I see my mother and sister about once every two to four monthes I'd say ?

 

[Antilogic]

2-3 times per year, mostly weeks around Thanksgiving and Christmas, plus a random couple of days in the spring/summer.

I plan to increase this once I have more income and a more reasonable job. Maybe up my trips to 4-5 per year.

 

[Traitorfish]

Maybe three times a year? Once around Christmas or New Year, and once or twice throughout the year. It's a four hour trip- about two hours to Glasgow, and a further two to where they live- which I understand is basically nothing to Americans, Australians or anybody from a country not designed to fit inside a Kinder Egg, but it's a lot to Britons, and there's rarely a sufficient overlap in uncluttered time to make it worthwhile, especially given the price of British public transports.

I see a sister who lives in Glasgow a bit more often, maybe five or six times a year. There's another sister who lives in Glasgow, but she's quite frankly a pain in the arse, so I don't go out of my way for her company. Both sisters seem to see my parents quite a lot, if only because neither will pass up an opportunity to mooch.

Hopefully I'll be moving through to Glasgow after I finish with my degree later this year, so presumably I'll see them more often after that (which hopefully doesn't just put me in the position of co-moochee).

 

[Smellincoffee]

I see my folks virtually every day, I see my sister and her kids once a week, I run into aunts and uncles and such at least once a week, and I visit my grandmother -- well, that varies on the month. I usually try to see her at least a couple of times a month, but sometimes it's more if there are holidays and birthdays together.

Most of my paternal family lives in my same county, and many on the same county road. There's one oddball in Georgia.

As for my maternal family -- I see my aunts and saw my uncles maybe once a decade, the odd cousin once every five years or so. My mom's brothers moved to Texas and her sisters to California, but after the brothers died (both of lung cancer!) the cousins moved to California, too. The California people are technically my relations, but as I never see them I don't really think of them as 'family'. My aunts are just the women my mom argues with on the phone every other day.


I used to consider moving to Oregon, but with my niece and nephew growing up, and my grandparents getting on years, I decided against it. I'm glad, too, considering how rarely people seem to see their kin!

 

[Antilogic]

Maybe three times a year? Once around Christmas or New Year, and once or twice throughout the year. It's a four hour trip- about two hours to Glasgow, and a further two to where they live- which I understand is basically nothing to Americans, Australians or anybody from a country not designed to fit inside a Kinder Egg, but it's a lot to Britons, and there's rarely a sufficient overlap in uncluttered time to make it worthwhile, especially given the price of British public transports.

Heh.

For comparison, it takes roughly 16.5 hours, without traffic, to drive to my parents' house. It's definitely an air trip when I visit.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I cuddled my older cat less than 2 minutes ago.

 

[Arwon]

My parents live at the the edge of the city so I visit them pretty frequently, probably see them about once a week. My sister also lives in that part of the city so we've got the whole immediate family here, which is nice.

 

[sophie]

Every day

 

[cybrxkhan]

I live with 'em.