Does it matter if you date someone your sibling has?

[PassingStranger]

Not happened to me, but would it bother you if say you dated the same person as a brother or sister of yours did?
It seems the 2 Beckham brothers Dorklyn and Romeo aren't speaking because Romeo is dating an ex of Dorklyns?

Ew yes I could never, imagine having sex with someone a sibling has. I honestly can't believe that out of everyone in the world it's necessary to date someone a sibling has.

Keeping it in the family. Bryan Ferry married his sons ex girlfriend (later divorced her)

yes thats a horrid thing to do

If it was acceptable for the ladies Spencer, it surely should be fine for the Beckham plebs.

There's a serious ick factor here - does the first Beckham think women he has dated are somehow his property?

Unrelated but Dorklyn is the stupidest name ever. DORKLYN.

I don’t see the problem

What a weird thing for anyone to do. Yuck.

I wouldn't date someone who had dated a friend. Dating someone your sibling has is even worse than that.

I think it depends on various factors. But in this case the previous relationship must have been years ago as he's been married to someone else for several years, so it's a bit ridiculous to object.

I suppose it shouldn’t matter , but in reality 🤢

I think it’s meant to be a joke, it’s Brooklyn..

There are billions of other women he can date. It’s wrong to date a siblings ex

Yeah, it caused a bit of stir in a neighbour's family when one sister "pinched" her younger sister's boyfriend. She went on to marry him so it worked out in the long run and the rift between sisters eventually resolved, but it was pretty awful.

It's a bit grim, isn't it? Aren't there other men in the world?

I knew someone whose ran off with her partners brother, it caused so much upset in the family.

Yeah, it's so weird

I think it's grim and a bit seedy. It's like they can't be bothered to go out and find their own partner. And even if it does work it, it creates a weird vibe within the family. Just no.

Dorklyn????

Me and my brother both slept with the same woman (mutual friend) and didn't realise until years later. Now we are both the butt of that joke every friendship gathering lol

It’s pretty gross but I think that there’s exceptions to this like ONS, breakup being amicable, many years in between…
Brooklyn is married so I wonder what Nicola (his wife) thinks

I would never go there. Its just wrong.

I think it's weird and crosses a line

Ewww, no, just no.

I’m going back many decades ago but one of my great aunts had an affair with her sisters boyfriend and married him. The sister who’d been treated so badly then went on to get engaged to a top class footballer of the day who’s sister (and husband) died in an accident leaving two children without parents. The footballer decided he wanted to bring the children up and my great aunt said no way, it’s them or me, so he chose the children and my great aunt died alone many years later with no one around her though I was in her life albeit from thousands of miles away. I’d taken over my mums role in her life when my mum died and it was all just horrible. I often wonder if what happened to her made her the woman who wouldn't take the children on. Meanwhile my other great aunt married the man she had the affair with and they were together for about 60 years. I don’t know how anyone can have sex with someone who had sex with their sibling.

And I’ve realised I had acquaintances through my husbands job and the bloke was married to his ex daughter in law and there were children from the father and son.

Then a neighbour who’s young wife died married her sister and brought the children up together.

Perhaps it’s more common than we think.

I married my sisters ex (they were only together 6 months) but according to mumsnet I should be catapulted over the battlements into crocodile infested waters