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Would you date your cousin?

Would you date your cousin?

  • Yes

    Votes: 16 8.0%

  • If they were a second cousin

    Votes: 7 3.5%

  • If they were a third cousin

    Votes: 10 5.0%

  • If they were a fourth cousin

    Votes: 8 4.0%

  • I've dated a cousin

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • No I would not

    Votes: 157 78.9%
  • Total voters
    199
I voted no because that was my first gut feeling. But when I think about it, a distant relative isn't really a relative much more than any of us.
 
EricNau said:
No.

Obvious reproductive issues aside (which aren't particularly relevant to me anyway), I wouldn't see the need. Dating is all about establishing new relationships... But with cousins you already have a relationship; yes, it's a familial relationship rather than an sexual/romantic relationship, but I wouldn't see the need to replace the familial relationship with something different... that person is already in your life, and so I think more often than not you wouldn't even develop feelings for your cousin, given the pre-existing relationship.
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Reading this, I am not entirely convinced you have ever fallen in love! Clearly you would not choose to fall in love with a cousin but if it happened, and it was real love, you would chose to get the snip rather than not be with them. IMHO

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kapolani said:
My cousin was an actual Miss Universe and I still wouldn't date her.
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Really? Even if she was a third or fourth cousin and the families weren't that close?
 
Abstract said:
What does she look like?
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My wife doesn't let me date other women. Other than that, it would depend on the cousin. If it's someone I have a "cousin-y" relationship with (which is none of them), I'd say probably not.
 
Sorry no, I do not live in Wolverhampton.

(which is a similar reply to above, but a more West Midlands version - and yes I did lol at the previous reply)
 
Confuzzzed said:
Reading this, I am not entirely convinced you have ever fallen in love! Clearly you would not choose to fall in love with a cousin but if it happened, and it was real love, you would chose to get the snip rather than not be with them. IMHO
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I can see how you might think that, but I have.

I just mean to say that a family reunion isn't a place I'd go looking for love.

I certainly appreciate that love can be found even without a conscious effort; however, if I was introduced to a second-cousin of mine for the first time, I would be entering into that relationship with different expectations. With this in mind, I strongly suspect I would be less likely to fall in love with that person.

Though I know what you mean; sometimes it just happens. ...But would it really "just happen" if you knew you were already related? I'm sure it does, but I suspect it's less likely .
 
25 people have an unnatural ability to rationalize unhealthy behavior, and I mean unhealthy in several definitions of the word.
 
I immediately thought of Albert Einstein when I saw this thread.
 
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