Would you find this marriage weird?

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So a colleague I don’t know that well announced her engagement today. I was chatting to her about it and asked how she met her fiancé. She sort of laughed and said ‘Well it’s a bit strange - he’s my stepsister’s half-brother!’

I was struggling to get my head around how it works at first, but basically her stepmother has a child from her first marriage whose father went on to have another child (the man she’s marrying) with someone else. There’s no direct family relationship between my colleague and her fiancé - they’re not even step-siblings - but it just seems such an odd dynamic! Would you find it weird?

No.

Not really, I wouldn't consider it my business either

No. Why, do you?

My grandparents are cousins by marriage - as in my granny's uncle married my grandma's aunt. So no weirder than that!

Hasten to add they are not blood relations so no, I'm not inbred.

Its just like what's her face off emmerdale engaged to her brothers brother 😂😂

No, they aren't biologically related, and didn't grow up together.

I find first cousin marriages far weirder, not least because of the health risks to the potential children.

I came across a couple whose siblings were married to the others.

I had to read it twice to get my head around it. To be honest, I've never heard of that combination before but hey ho if it's legal and love then good luck to them. Something tells me that in 6 months out of the family circle she'll just be shrugging 'online'.

Not really, I wouldn't consider it my business either

Things don’t have to be your business to have an opinion on them.

So couple one the wife's brother married the husband's sister.

No it’s only weird if they’ve been raised as family.

They are no biological relation to each other, so no.

Not weird.

Unusual yes because it's not exactly a frequent occurrence but not weird in the sense you're insinuating

What am I ‘insinuating’?

Not weird.

My cousins are two brothers married to two sisters. Surprised anyone is surprised by that - surely, it's obvious that you meet your siblings' friends and that's how it happens?

Same thing here - two non-related sets of adults met because of a social connection. Surprise.

Not at all. Not sure why you'd think it is or was any of your business to think it weird in the first place either.

My uncle married his stepsister - well legally she wasn't at the time as my grandmother and the man she left her husband for (father of the bride) hadn't yet got married themselves. It made for many awkward family gatherings. And my cousins' dad's mum was married to their mum's dad.

Yes it is slightly weird!! Especially at first when you haven’t quite wrapped your head round it

Things don’t have to be your business to have an opinion on them

Maybe not but it's a bit weird to actually start a thread about them on here. The OP barely knows the people in question. Now THAT is what's weird here IMO.

Not really. There’s no relation and therefore no issue.

I just found it an interesting situation Changer. If you want to read more into it than that, I can’t stop you - but I don’t really understand why.

No, not weird. It's not as if they grew up together as siblings - that would be weird imo even if not illegal.

People do often get together with members of extended family when they are grown up, of course when they have kids there might be some sort of confusion over who is cousin, who is aunt etc but in this particular lady's case it doesn't seem a big deal.

No, wouldn't find it weird at all. They're not blood relations but they have a lot of close links.

My friend and her sister are married to a man and his son. The uncle/auntie/grandpa/nanny dynamic has been a little tricky to navigate. The fact that the two men have the same name is more complex.