Is your family high-effort, where you go out of your way to stay in touch ?

Afternoons with Relebogile Mabotja · 30 June 2026 · 27m

Speaker 1: I learned about it quite recently, because I also had to figure out what do Speaker 1: you mean by a high effort family? So high effort families of families that make Speaker 1: an effort to spend time together, to love up on each other, to hang out Speaker 1: together, right, And then you get low effort families, which are the ones that I Speaker 1: I think I do. But let me give the caveat of this high effort family. Speaker 1: It is the type of family where mothers and daughters will speak every day. It Speaker 1: is abnormal. If a day is skipped, it will be like something is wrong right. Speaker 1: One person might be like, how how pony? What happened? Wagoula? On birthdays, there are Speaker 1: do it as much now as we used to. And I'm going to blame it Speaker 1: on parenting and the economy. But we as cousins, particularly on my mother's side of Speaker 1: the family, we would meet monthly and just bry on a Friday, the Friday of Speaker 1: the payday and hang out. Like grid BRIDI told me, we catch up with one Speaker 1: the ones where you might not even really have a relationship with your siblings. You Speaker 1: will only see each other at funerals, maybe even see each other at a wedding. Speaker 1: And I'm not yet at a point where I can say a high if it Speaker 1: family is positive or not, a low if it family is positive or not, because Speaker 1: I'm curious about is if you enjoy being a part of a high if it Speaker 1: family, and if you or if you enjoy being…

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