Oh sure, fine. Let them have two famous wanton monsters. Here I am, trying to give the good ol’ U.S.A. something we can be proud of, and you’ve gotta go stomp it all to hell. Why do you hate freedom? Why?
There was a point in time that I thought this was going to happen with me, and I even kind of hoped for it. My mom and my wife’s dad got to be friends, and even traveled together a couple of times without us. I wouldn’t have minded that hookup in the least.
Of course, now that my wife and I are going through a rather unpleasant divorce, I suppose I’m really glad that didn’t happen. Christmas would have been…awkward.
Doesn’t bother me in the slightest. Actually, I think that kind of situation would make for an interesting family story.
Their children would be half-siblings to each spouse.
No, they wouldn’t…they’d be step-siblings.
Wouldn’t they be half-siblings? They would share one parent with each spouse, right?
Not biological parents.
They’re not related to each other. That makes them step. Say the wife’s mother and the husband’s father married. The wife is related to the mother but not the father, and the husband is related to the father but not the mother.
Now, if MIL and FIL had a child, that child would be the half-sibling to the husband and the wife.
Oh, my bad – I wasn’t clear. I was referring to any new children that now-married parents would have – not to the young married couple themselves.
Well, that’s only oogy if its happening at the same time…
Then, yes, you are correct. Any new children would be half-siblings.
“The youngest one liked girls.”
Has the OP submitted this great premise for a sitcom to Fox yet?
This happened in my family. Margaret and Richard’s daughter, Carolyn, married Andy, whose mother, Fiona, was widowed. The only thing that made it oogy was that Richard and Fiona hooked up very soon after Margaret died.
Absent that, there’s nothing wrong with it.
It happened to a friend of mine - she and her husband like to call themsevles Greg and Marsha Brady!
It would make where to spend the holidays easier!
Another vote for neither illegal nor oogy.
It isn’t oogy if they wait until you go home to hook up.
It’s like that Simpsons episode where Homer’s Dad and Marge’s mom start dating and plan to wed. Homer is very much against the idea:
“Marge! They can’t get married! Then we’d be brother and sister! And our kids would be … freaks! With pink skin, no overbites, and five fingers on each hand!”
Homer then looks at his kids, who slowly morph (in his mind) into said creatures (ie pretty realistic looking kids), causing Homer to flee from the room in terror.
Is it just me, or did anyone else read this as the young married couple hooking up with one of the single inlaw parents?! O apostrophe, o mores!
Ray Stevens took the idea to extremes with I’m My Own Grandpaw.
Bah, you want weird? My step dad and my step mom used to be married to each other.