Distant cousins

[Rokaswappa]

Parents are cousins. Grew up in the same friendship groups and were friends growing up. Both had a series of long term relationships that haven’t worked and always leant on each other through everything. Considering a relationship. Is it wrong or taboo?

Not true re. genetics.

There's only a problem if there are repeated generations of cousina having children with each other, which is known as inbreeding.

A single second cousin pairing isn't a significant genetic risk.

I don’t think it’s particularly different to dating somebody who was a childhood friend at this point. Second cousins aren’t closely related and I don’t even consider mine family.

The “don’t breed because your DC might have defects” argument doesn’t really stack up. We don’t tell disabled people, people with genetically influenced issues such as autism, or health issues with a suspected genetic component not to breed in case they pass it on, so this isn’t any different.

I don’t know. It’s a bit weird. And when you do your family tree you’ll have the same ancestors on one side.. no I couldn’t sleep with my cousins 😬

It’s fine. The only problem is if you then split up it might be impossible to have a clean break from each other.

I think I would have some sort of genetic ‘thing’ done if I was contemplating children though, even though @ComtesseDeSpair makes really good points about that two posts up ⬆️. I would do it just to satisfy myself.