I fell in love with my second cousin about four years ago at a family reunion. (I hadn’t laid eyes on him since I was a kid!) I was 15 when we met, he was two years older, and we were in a ...

DEAR ABBY: I am a 57-year-old male. I have no children, and I was forced to move back in with my mother to start my life over again. I divorced my wife because she was cheating. I have a cousin from ...

My late uncle tried to make a go of keeping our family farm up and running, but he barely ended up breaking even. Most of his income came from mineral rights and renting out the land to a RV park. I ...

I lived in fear of my cousin Tarlie’s death for more than seven years. When the text arrived from my aunt, Tarlie’s mom, my husband and I had put our children to bed and were sitting outside on our ...

Today we’re sharing a deeply personal letter from one of our readers — a successful 40-year-old doctor who has found herself at the center of a painful family conflict. Her parents have made the ...

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Family is so important. I don't know about you, but my mom is my hero and my sister is my person — but they're not the only ones who I hold near and dear. I also love my cousins, and consider them to ...

They weren’t trying to keep it in the family, yet here they are. There’s no stronger bond than that between a blushing bride and her loving groom — unless, of course, they’re also cousins bound by ...

Kayleigh was determined to have a cousin — even if it meant doing it herself. “I’m pregnant with my cousin,” the mom of three from Alberta, Canada announced on social media, before sharing the unusual ...

DEAR ERIC: I have a cousin who recently told me that he is “in love” with a woman in a foreign country and plans to get married. He would have to fly over to her country and get married, leaving ...