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If he's so far related to me I didnt know he was, he's far enough related to me for it not to matter.
Anything down to a second cousin can be perfectly safe. First cousins can be safe as well, assuming no dangerous and dominant genetic diseases.
Half siblings would need a genetic test to see the degree of relatedness. Not a biologist by career, but well educated in the Sciences 4th yr BSc.
So I just found out that I'm related to my girlfriend. what - the girl of my dreams that I find there and date for 2 years is my second cousin. Medically speaking only 1st cousins are close enough to have a If they're so distant I'm not bumping into them at family holidays it's not a big.
I went beyond first-year biology, if that matters. I'm really white and my boyfriend is really black so Hypothetically though if I found out we were related by blood, then I'd be done. Yes, I'm aware at the root of it all everyone shares some relation.
In a hypothetical scenario I'm speaking more in recent generations. Not the start of humanity. Descended from your Grandmother is much different than related by way of your Great-Great-Grandmother. I don't think much about the possibility of dating family because the reality is my boyfriend and I are completely different races. Then you completely missed the point of the question, because it was hypothetical.
As in, if you hypothetically weren't dating a dude who definitely was not related to you, how would you feel? You keep talking about your current boyfriend as if he matters to this question. If you don't think much about it, and don't care to really answer the question, why did you even try to answer? I did answer the question. In my first post. I've said that twice now. You bring up a technicality so I said it can't be recent generations.
By that I mean few hundred years at least. You ask more specific and there's no way I can answer that. I'm not a geneticist. I don't know at what point inbreeding is no longer an issue. You're still discluding a lot of people. I'm black and my girlfriend is really white I don't think I'd really care; the gene pool is different enough. All of us are related.
So long as we weren't closely related enough to cause us to have a reasonable belief that our kids would be born with flippers, I don't see the big deal. Well me and my girlfriend are not the same race, so I'm assuming the relation is way, way far back. However, if I found out we were, I might be a little horrified at first, but we've already had a child and are happy, so really I don't think I would care at all. As a side note, one of my aunts is married to a man that is technically a cousin of hers far down the line, like 8th or 9th cousins or something like that , and they have three daughters together, each one is beautiful and incredibly intelligent.
Really, unless you turn out to be first or second cousins, I don't think it matters. I've been married long enough now I don't give a shit.
She could be my sister, would just give us something to laugh about at dinner. Best thing about interracial dating. I had this happen kind of. I dated a girl in high school for a bit and after we broke up we continued a semi on and off relationship.
No text is allowed in the textbox. I would not want children with problem. Thank God for my Mom and Grandparents who always were close and we had family reunions to get to no our cousins, Way down, to cousins. Didn't read far enough to find out he was out and the twoof you are doing great. My Sister's Awesome Dating Tip A Cup of Jo All our lives, school has taught us to think deeply, to over-analyze and to prepare a game plan for failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
Slept together from time to time and would just hook up mostly. At one point I decided I wanted to get back together with her and we were kind of working toward that when I told my grandma about her. My grandma recognized the last name and told me that she is somewhat distantly related.
She wasn't a first cousin or anything like that and her family was married into ours. I was still weirded out by it none the less.
However, she was hot as hell so I never told her and I continue to sleep with her we didn't get back together. I used to hang out with a guy who was my cousins second cousin. I crushed on him for a while, but decided it would be too weird for me. For me it wouldn't matter even if she was a long lost sister since I'm never having kids, and for me to be dating her unawares, there would be no familial closeness.
It would only be acceptable to end a relationship with somone you love if youre directly related to them. Brother sister is the limit. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy.
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