KFI: While many parents approve of the person their child plans to marry, there are just as many who take issue with their future son-or-daughter-in-law. Whether it is a problem over religion, political beliefs, career or relationship history, there are many reasons mothers and fathers choose not to like the person their kid chose as a spouse.
Things looked good for one woman though – her mom not only seemed to like her husband-to-be, she even promised to pay for their wedding… that is until she did some research on their family tree. While putting together her ancestry, the mother realized that her daughter is actually related to her fiancé. It turned out that they are fifth cousins, something the mother said she doesn’t approve of, so now she is refusing to pay for the wedding. read more
SNIP: I come from a large European family on my mom’s side. I have met and know my 4th and 5th and I think I even met a 6th cousin. To me, 5th cousins is not enough distance. LOL! So I can see mom’s point.
[Also, don’t stop talking to your mom, and pay for your own wedding little miss missy!]
What say you?
Good for you, Mama Omar.
I thought that was a requirement in the southern states! That’s why Hallmark sells happy birthday Uncle Dad cards there. 😉
I’m thinking 5th cousin is more bass guitar than banjo.
It is not my cup of moonshine but…
5th cousins are so far removed that it is nothing even remotely close to the SEVERE INBREEDING IN PAKISTAN!
What they should do is consult with a medical gene specialist (genetic counseling) for a real risk assessment.
A 5th cousin is what you settle for when you can’t afford the full quart cousin…
When the ushers seat everybody according to related to bride or groom the church will tip over.
@ Willysgoat ^^^^ at least the 1.75 cousin.
This is RIDICULOUS. American history would be totally changed if you can’t marry relatives. Where would such august families as the Kennedy’s, Omar’s, Rockefeller’s and the Biden’s (or so I’ve heard) be with such draconian and prudish rules ?
Same Sex and First Cousin Marriage NOW. Right On.
obama/omar disease.
The Rothschild’s frown upon this mother.
My Mother actually encouraged Me…
What’s the big deal?
The mother is being ridiculous.
You can marry your FIRST cousin in: Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina.
Now, on to the more important question: when is Ilhan Omar going to be arrested for marriage and immigration fraud.
hey, if Adam & Eve’s kids couldn’t bop each other we’d never have gotten the human race started
… so, we’re a bunch of inbred anyhow!
Cousins:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin
There will be a quiz.
On the Norwegian side of my family tree there were cousins marrying cousins. Life in tiny fjord villages. I don’t think it’s caused any problems for me. 🤪
I would have told that to the French Habsborg line of Monarchs, if any of them had survived the Guillotine. Not that Tutors or the Romanovs were much better.
but seriously, do you know how far away a 5th cousin is?
a second cousin is a cousin’s child to your child … now extrapolate that 3 more times …. & Ancestrydotcom makes a fortune
Is it a 5th cousin or has she been married to her 1st cousins 4 other times?
Asking for no particular reason.
As they say in Alabama, “The closer the kin, the deeper in.”
🤪 – Is that what Norwegians look like?
I still think the girl should talk to her mama and needs to pay for her own wedding. It could be she’s more mad about losing the cash than losing her mom.
True story:
A friend of a friend- She is married to her step dad’s brother.
Also-
I had a co worker who married a guy, had kids, then divorced and married the dude’s brother, and had more kids.
So her kids have uncle daddies and they’re also their own cousins.
🤣
@MJA
That’s called double first cousins.
C’mon man, 5TH cousin. If I had a choice of marrying my 5th cousin from Norway, or a fuggin’ Swede, I’d be hittin’ Lady Norway twice a night.
Man O’ Man….. I missed the perfect pick up line all those years ago…something like this….”I’ve never been to Norway for like five generations”….
Fifth cousins share a set of great, great, great, great grandparents.
That is two out of 64 people who may have passed genetic material. The remaining 62 people are no relation at all. In other words fifth cousins are no more likely to be related than any two random strangers.
There are small towns and villages the world over where one can’t walk outside without tripping over a 4th or 5th cousin. What’s the big deal?
Momma’s baby daddy’s maybe. Maybe closer or more distantly related than she thinks.
Quiz scores:
Hambone: 100%
Frank Bass: 100%
Jethro: 100%
Aaron Burr: 110%
(The quizzer is Irish/Scottish with six fingers.)
Damn straight Jimmy. No one wants to sleep with a Swede. They all smell like stale licorice.
I’m a faggot on the down low. Does I count?
I guess I’m not so down low, anymore.
But, you know, whatever.
ALL of my cousins were either fat or ugly! So I married a pretty little blonde from West Virginia, so that provided my offspring with generations of Uncle=Cousins and “purified bloodline”…
Pay for your own damn wedding, my last one cost a Benjamin to the pastor, a Grant for the license and an $80 ring.
We are doing much better now, thanks.
1st cousins share the same grandparents. 2nd share the same great grandparents, and so on. These two share the same g-g-g-g grandparents, who were likely born in the early 1800’s and surely must have died before the turn of the 20th century. Either mama has latched onto a laughably lame excuse for not paying or she can’t stand the little bugger. Fess up, mama.