I met my cousin at a family reunion and it didn’t just happen once

A WOMAN who got physical with her cousin during a week-long family reunion has shared her story on a podcast, leaving listeners stunned.

She revealed the predicament on the Closet Confessions podcast, where hosts Sarel and Candice discuss listener confessions, some of which are riskier than others.

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In one episode of the podcast, the anonymously woman wrote to share her own taboo story, which put her in an awkward situation.

Despite knowing that a relationship with her cousin was “terrible,” the woman found herself messing around with him a few years ago.

It all started a few years ago at a family reunion, she explained.

She was 18 years old at the time and her cousin was 24.

Over the course of the week-long event, the couple found themselves sneaking off together to take naps in the same bed.

But the naps quickly turned into something else.

“After doing this a few times, we started to get handsy, and one thing led to another, and we ended up together, not all the way, but almost all the way,” she said, prompting hosts X and Y got lost. words.

The anonymous woman continued, “Flash forward, I was accepted to a college near where he and his brother live and they invited me to live with them. I said yes.

“The course lasts three years and I am nervous about how this will turn out as there is still some tension and we have not yet discussed the arrangements.”

Although usually always willing to give advice, Sarel and Candice struggled to come to grips with the confession.

“What I would do is I wouldn’t have had any contact with him in the first place, but we’re here now,” Sarel said.

The girls agreed that it would probably be a bad idea for the woman to live in the same house as her cousin after what happened.

“You need to find out why that happened, and you need to talk to him about it,” Sarel added.

Ultimately, however, their advice was to avoid the situation so that it would not evolve further.

“What’s said in the closet stays in the closet,” Candice chimed in.

Can I marry my cousin in Britain?

Around the world, more than 10 percent of marriages take place between cousins.

In Britain there is no legal barrier to a relationship between two cousins.

That means that if you fall in love with your aunts and uncles’ children, there’s nothing stopping you from eventually tying the knot.

If you are over 18 years old, you can do this without the consent of your legal guardian or parent.

Marriages between cousins ​​were once very common in Europe, especially among the elite.

But all this changed at the end of the 19th century.

As social mobility grew, so did the perception of the risks associated with cousin marriages.

Can having children with cousins ​​affect babies?

There have been countless studies on how a relationship between two cousins ​​will affect their children if they choose to have them.

According to Alan Bittles of the Center of Comparative Genetics in Australia, the risk of birth defects increases from about 2 percent to 4 percent for cousins.

Hereditary conditions and abnormalities can occur in different ways, but the one that could be related to cousins ​​is called autosomal recessive inheritance.

This means that the condition can only be passed on to a child if both parents have a copy of the defective gene. Both are ‘carriers’ of the condition and this is more likely if the parents are related.

Studies have shown that a child born to cousins ​​is more likely to have birth defects than two people who meet randomly because cousins ​​share 12.5 percent of their DNA, according to a 2002 study in the Journal of Genetic Counseling.

Due to the overlap, there is a 1.7 to 2.8 percent greater risk of intellectual disability and genetic disorders than the general population says Robin Bennettthe lead author of that study.

A variety of genetics will help prevent disease.

Which family members cannot get married?

Just because you can marry your cousin doesn’t mean you can marry every relative in your family tree.

There are relatives you cannot marry, no matter how much you love them:

• Siblings and half-siblings cannot marry each other.
• A parent cannot marry his or her son or daughter.
• You can’t marry one of your grandparents.
• You cannot marry your parents’ brothers and sisters, i.e. your aunts and uncles.
• You cannot marry your cousins, that is, the children of your brothers and sisters.
• Adopted children cannot marry their genetic parents, grandparents or their adoptive parents.

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