What would you do if you found out your wife was a distant relative(2nd cousin or something along those lines) after being married for a while?
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miGhty85
ANSWERS: 12
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I'd consider it an amusing coincidence and move on.
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I would have a good chuckle. It really would not matter.
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Somewhat disturbing... maybe have second thoughts on having kids if not already, but if we had had children, and they were ok, have more!
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A little worried, especially about having kids. Because kids out of close marriages tend to have higher instances of genetic disorders. But I will keep the marriage.
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It would be quite surprising, but we'd get over it. Most people don't realize that even first cousins have only a slightly greater risk of having children with genetic disorders as compared to non-cousins.
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i think we are all related somehow.so the thought of being related is irrelevant. in todays'world love comes before marriage and to learn later that we are cousins will definitely make me love my partner even more.some would disagree with us continuing this relationship but i wouldn't discontinue it for such a frivolous matter.cousins or no cousins,people still complain.this is your life and no one can live it for you.so be happy. now if you get married to a brother or sister by mistake,then that is devastating.your only recourse is to disolve the union but continue to love the person non the less.
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This is quite a fear of mine as I have over 200 second cousins that I do not know. But if they where more distant then a second cousin say second cousin once removed or third cousin then I would be like "oh thats interesting" and I wouldn't really care. Statistically speaking third cousins deliver children with birth defects at the same rate as the general population. Second cousins have like 1/9000 birth defects while the general population is like 10,000. Edit: If they where a second cousin I would move to a different state. In the state of Indiana unless children are produced a marriage to my second cousin when discovered would be rendered null and void.
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I wouldn't really worry about it. It isn't as if we could produce children that were biologically both of ours.
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Well, I wouldn't have a wife. If I got married and found out my husband was my 2nd cousin, I wouldn't care. I'd probably find it funny. Marrying a second cousin is not illegal where I live and it's not forbidden in one of the greatest religious books (The Bible), so I don't see a problem with it.
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It wouldn't bother me. And I think the risk of birth defects is negligible with 2nd cousins. So fugghedaboudit...
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I'd be a bit surprised..I didn't know I was a lesbian!
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I really wouldn't care too much. Really. The "distant" part would mean more to me than the "relative" part.
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