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[fanbeatsman]

Back from spending today at my cousin Adam's wedding. This has left me thoughtful and rambly and maybe a little melancholy, because, well.

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[fanbeatsman]

*nods* I hear you, definitely. You still care just as much about them - it's just not the same kind of...I guess almost adoring kind of love you have for them as a kid. I think the biggest revelation for me recently has been coming to realise that I don't actually have as much in common with a lot of them politically and ideologically any more - as I was growing up, I always thought of all my family as great role models in terms of progressive, leftist thinking, especially wrt feminism, and although they are still liberal thinkers now I'm old enough to actually have conversations about this kind of thing with them I'm seeing more and more that they do have a lot of prejudices that I'm not comfortable with. And that's sad, and frustrating, and at times actually makes conversation difficult for me.

I'm glad that you have a lovely extended family, you know - whatever else I may say about them, mine have been and continue to be such a huge and positive part of my life, and it always makes me happy when other people have that set-up too.

Adam and Lisa really are so freaking cute! It's even sweet to see them together, given that Adam's 6ft6 and Lisa's about 5ft, haha. Tbh, though, this current generation of newly formed families seems remarkably happy and well-adjusted in general - clearly we've all learned from the mistakes of our parents, heh.