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?

Get a bloody life.

So anyone showing interest in anything hasn’t got a life? What a pathetic comment.

It's an unusual circumstance but I wouldn't call it outright 'weird'.

You're coming across as overly defensive OP. That's what I find weird.

Let us look at the kinship marriages of the Royal family, the older ones. The op's colleague's engagement to someone within her kinship group is mild by comparison.