Have you ever lost contact with relations then got back in touch with them?

honestly, besides my mom and my sister, I don't find I have much in common with my family and don't care if I don't talk to them. Oh, I'm glad to see them when I do, but really, I'd much rather be around my sf friends than my family

My 2nd son had lost contact with his 2 kids (thier mothers fault for she would taks phone out send letters back and all that ) Well he found them both on facebook now we are all friends on there and I have only seen thses kids once in thier life. Now my grandson is a MArine and he is now in Haiti

I recently re-established contact with my cousin. She's about 9 years older than me and by the time I was a teen she was married, divorced and re-married having more children (2nd marriage lasted, he's a sweetheart). I moved across the country in my late 20's and finally made it back home 3 years ago. It was wonderful to see her again, meet her children and great grandchildren, learn more about our family, ancestors, our history. We get together about 4-5 times a year. Same with my widowed sister-in-law, she also lives close. I love being near my family once again.

hi jugsjugs, no such experience to me,but what about mylot friends,all mylot friends are not known to us,but all are friendly and i do not know some will meet directly in person and may do some help and they might invite me/us to their home may in town or faraway places or in other countries,i wish only this experience with mylot friends,have a nice day

Yup. I have two cousins on my mom's side that kept in touch while I was growing up. Then we lost contact with them for a while. One of my cousins got back in touch with my mom and she talks with her once a week. The other cousin found my little brother and me on facebook and keeps in touch on there.

Hi Jugs, Once they're our friend or family friend...no matter what and wherever they maybe--there will always come a time when we re-connect or re-kindle the friendship even after decades of having no communication. that's the essence of establishing a good friendship. it will remain truly in our hearts and will long to be together again even for a brief time!

No it hasn't but I am glad that you all got in touch again and it is great that you all get on to

The internet is wonderful for that. Although I have never actually lost contact with my East Coast relatives, having the internet makes it so much easier to stay in touch!

Hi, jugsjugs. It has not quite happened with Facebook. But it has happened in my personal life. I ran into a few of my great friends that went to school with me. I have seen them on the street and I would touch basis with them by getting their new phone number and what not. We are usually glad to see each other. While I was in school we communicated but once we graduated the friendship still stayed. But, we did not talk as much as we used to do while we was in school. So, I will get phone numbers and email addresses so that I can keep in touch with them.

I lost tract of my cousins because they moved back east. Then we got in contact and now we don't even speak. It is because of the way they treated my mother. Long story. It is sad how selfish and uncaring family members chose to be sometimes. Money grubbers basically. Love them just don't like them right now.

Not for me, but, I'm so happy to hear that you've gotten back in touch with relatives. That must feel sooooo good! Are you planning on going go Ireland to visit them anytime soon? Purrs, Catwoman=^..^= & Mija

Aside from my husband’s family I only have my sister and my parents here, the rest of my relations live in Italy and I see them very rarely which I don’t mind so much when it comes to my old aunts and uncles but my cousins I really miss and I wish we had the chance to grow up together because several are around my age. A while ago I came across a book on the Net and discovered that, lo and behold, the author was one of my cousins! I was excited to see that the passion for writing runs in the family and I decided to try to contact him which was easy because I found his profile on Facebook quite quickly. I had not seen or spoken to him for around twenty years so you can imagine how pleased I was when he replied and was happy to catch up! We keep in regular contact now and I’ve since decide to track down my other cousins, so far I found an aunt who lives in Rome but I will keep searching...

I haven't had that experience with any relatives. The only time anything similar happened to me was someone I went to school with and I hadn't seen for a long time. I started dating a guy that went to a lot of car shows and things like that. It turned out her husband was a friend of his, so we made contact again after 30 years or so.

I had a classmate in grade 1. He was a close friend then. And after 36 years of no communication, we met again in Facebook.

my dad just never kept in touch with his family an moved us away from mymoms so we didn't know to many of our relations so I started working on my family tree an now I am fining family everywhere an we also now keep in touch thou facebook

Wow, that's pretty amazing. I've had a similar case happen with me as well. My sister and I lost contact for a few years due to personal reasons. I didn't actually expect to see her or speak to her ever again for that matter. However, we reconnected after 5 years of our little feud. I took the initiative to call her one day because I had thought about her one day. I mean after all we are family, and if anything, we should be able to rely on one another. So now we are talking once again, we text and talk on the phone and keep in touch via facebook as well. We plan on seeing one another soon, which excites me because I haven't seen her in over 5 years.

Hello Jugs No, I have not had this particular kind of experience. Many of my closest realatives live nearby, and the rest at least in the same country. There are cousins, though, with whom I've not spoken for many years, as almost all of my aunts and uncles have now passed away. These are cousins that live all over the country. Karen

First off, it is great to hear that your husband has been able to get back in touch with his family after all this time again. We have never had to do that because after my father passed away in 1995, my mother stayed in touch with all my aunts and uncles and my grandmother. In fact, we are just as much a part of their family now as we were when my father was alive. I love the fact that we have never lost touch with them.

Hi. I lost contact with most of my relatives when I moved to a new place miles away from our hometown. Also, I have relatives in other countries and provinces. I was able to re-connect with them via social networking sites. Just recently, my family met the family of my father's sister whom we have not seen for more than 20 years. I think this is one of the good reasons for being online.

no.not actually......never anything like this happened in my life so far..........am only a college student now i when i was in school i had a few very good friends....we always used to hang out together but now that after school all of us are scatterd to different places,,.thay have changed their phone numbers and we are not in contact...i am in contact with a few of them though through orkut but lost contact with most of my best best friends