Cousins are your first friends and usually your longest ones. Don’t let old family drama cost you forty years of them.

Arguments between adults get inherited by people who were never in the room. Two siblings stop speaking over money or a funeral, and twenty years on their kids, who had no problem with each other, are strangers sharing half a childhood. Nobody decided that, it happened by default, because reaching out felt like taking a side. The bill arrives in decades, which is why it is easy to miss.

You do not have to resolve the original thing, and some situations genuinely should stay as they are. If yours is only drift, message one cousin about something small and start from now.