Triangle man, triangle man
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What if I marry a woman who already has a son, and her son hits it off with my mom? Is it oogy yet?
Is anyone else finding the use of the word “oogy” to be, well…oogy?
So when I was a kid the 64 year old guy across the street married an 18 year girl. A few months later his adult son (in his 40s) started dating the bride’s mother (also in her 40s)
they didn’t get married but just think of who would have been related to who if they had.
Happened in my family as well. Mom’s mom was divorced, step dad’s dad was widowed, they hit it off and got married. Yep, that makes my mom and stepdad step brother and sister. Cue redneck jokes.
(I also dated my sister’s husband’s sister for a while. The less said about that the better.)
My mother’s father’s mother (a widow) married my mother’s mother’s father (a widower). They met when her parents got married. Never seemed particularly oogy to me.
No, no. The wonton monster is in Beijing.
Why on earth would you think it was illegal? Did you mean immoral?
It would make for a great slapstick movie if it was illegal though. Imagine two enemies whose parents are set to marry. They hate the idea of being related so much that they rush to marry each other first. Then they find true love.
Two of my classmates had identical full names: two-word firstname, first lastname and second lastname. They had different hair colors, so we used that to tell them apart.
Apparently the two sisters who’d married two brothers from their same village and gotten pregnant with boys within 24h of each other just had to go and give the two boys the same firstname…
I think it’s oogy. If my parents were not together and my SO’s parents were not together, then a mixture of our parents got together I would find it very awkward and creepy. I guess I think there should only be one relationship consisting of people from 2 nuclear families. To me, if you show up at the same family function because of who you are related to, then you should not fuck (obviously marriages excluded). Luckily my parents and my boyfriend’s parents are both still married and would make the WORST couples ever they are so completely different. I haven’t even made an effort for them to meet yet because I am pretty sure they will not like each other.
Oh, I forgot to mention the fact that my paternal grandmother and her sister married my paternal grandfather and his brother.
So my paternal grandmother (the only grandmother I ever knew) was first married to her own brother-in-law. Then widowed, and remarried to the father of her daughter-in-law (my mother). Then widowed again . . . and had the good sense to remarry a total stranger this time.
It wasn’t illegal in Bronze Age Israel/Judea, if you’re referring to the Old Testament.
Not even there. Leviticus allows for FIRST cousins, even!
Something like this almost happened with my parents. Mom and Dad split up. Mom married Stepfather. For a while, it looked like Dad was going to marry Stepfather’s Ex.
It didn’t happen, but if it had, I would have referred to it as ‘the knot in the family tree’.
And another thing… I have two friends M and D. Buddies, known each other for years, worked together, etc, etc. M marries C. D marries C’s daughter B. So these two friends are also son-in-law/father-in-law. I think.
At my school we have 6 kids that are all double cousins to each other: 2 brothers married 2 sisters and each had a kid a year for three years in a row, so now there are 2 freshmen, 2 sophomores, and 2 juniors, all with the same last name and a strong family resemblance.
I think my father had two sets of double cousins. Two of his mother’s siblings married two of his father’s siblings. I don’t know if the cousins resembled each other, or not, because I never met them that I know of. It was a long time ago.
A girl in my younger brother’s grade married her stepbrother (who was one grade above my brother) Not oogy in principle, but there’s more. They got married about three months after graduation, and she had a baby about three months after that… do the math. That’s kind of oogy. He got her knocked up while they were both living together, under their parent’s roof, as “brother and sister”-ish. Ick.
I don’t think this has been mentioned yet, but Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones has had an interesting relationship. According to this site:
This is a bit oogy to me, but apparently not illegal (I’m not sure about the age of consent in the U.K. but I don’t think he was ever arrested.).
I apologize for the drive-by posting, but you’ve just described a reality in my family. My mother’s mother married my stepfather’s adopted father – though the older couple married first, so it was more like my mother met her stepbrother and then they got married.
Now that my step-father and my mother are divorced, well, it’s kind of an issue. When a social worker disclosed to my family the fact that my step-father had abused me, my mother’s mother would not hear it and still hasn’t taken it in nearly a decade later. Why would she? She’s married to his Dad! She has my stepfather over for dinner regularly. He is a member of my family forever. And I will probably have to see him at my grandfather’s funeral, which really sucks because I would be happy never to have to see him or hear about him for the rest of my life.
I realize my family had no way of knowing how complex and messed up this issue would get, but I’m generally opposed to these kind of pairings for basically that reason.
It’s not illegal.
I have friends who did this. Husband and wife got married; her mother and his father (both widowed) started dating and later married.
I used to work with a woman in this situation. Her daughter got married, and my co-worker started dating her new son-in-law’s brother. They ended up getting married. She liked to joke about her daughter also being her sister-in-law.