Hello @Green_Ghost
It unfortunate to see that you have a rough patch with your cousin at the moment.
Personally I really like your therapist advice on, “let her know that change is possible” because I feel like that is such an important thing to have to keep the ball started and hopefully rolling for sometime.
In regards to your disconnection with your cousin, I feel that as well (albeit I was the younger cousin and they were the older ones), and we were generally awkward together because we generally did not talk much with one another.
But for me, even though we were not close initially, she offered up a lot of help when I was going off to Uni, and we started bonding from there, having mundane conversations on how my little sister is going, and what future career I would like to head off to.
But to sum it up, I feel like following your Therapist advice on seeing what your cousin would like might be a good start ( and if you don’t know what might be, it could be a good idea to just chat around with your cousin on your hangout and see if your cousin reveals anything that you guys can do on that day or in the future to build up your relationship again).
In any case, I hope this was helpful and feel free to reach out again if you need any more advice 😁
