10Okay, just what is the issue with two sisters falling in love with two half-brothers? I don’t get why this would not be allowed.
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…Why isn’t it allowed? I actually have a friend whose grandparents were in that sort of relationship with their spouses……and then had a wife-swap! XD So, idk, it doesn’t sound all that weird/taboo to me…
It doesn’t sound taboo to me either!
Where has it been an issue? I don’t get it either. It would make your extended family rather less extensive, but that’s hardly a big deal.
In a drama I’m watching. The parents found out their eldest daughter was in love with her brother-in-law and about had heart attacks. I was like, “What?”
In my RL family my two cousins who are female/sisters married two guys who are brothers. The one sister started dating the one brother and then something something and her sister started dating another brother. and then they each married the guys so two sisters married two guys who are brothers IDK if that is relevant to what you asked but both couples have been married for like twenty years or so and had kids and all.
See – thank you for that RL application. It really isn’t a problem!
Huh? Where?? What?? Normal fiction? As long as it’s one female to one male and they don’t switch off…. Now if it’s one female married to one of them and then the brother dies, I don’t think the Catholic church has amended that it would be incest, ex. Henry Vlll/Arthur & Catherine of Aragon. In real life two full sisters have separately married two full brothers with no problems. Context?
See above comment to evilgiraff. In a drama. Maybe they’re just being overly dramatic? Regardless, I don’t see why it should matter.
Hi (& sorry for randomly weighing in … I very much enjoyed your fic “If I Had To Keep You” & was poking around your fic journal) If you are talking (early) medieval times there could have been kinship group issues. Basically, marriages were contracted as a way of creating family alliances and to avoid blood feuds. Anglo-Saxons, for example, may have had an issue with allowing two sisters to marry two brothers as it, in effect, creates only one alliance. Much better to have the second sister and the second brother marry elsewhere and bind four families together. Until maybe the 11th/12th C (in Europe, anyway) there used to be very extensive rules in determining a spouse – most of which didn’t actually have to do with avoiding blood relatives (though that’s certainly a part of it), but finding people whose family you wanted to be allied with (or didn’t want to feud with). Anyway – sorry for the rambling, random & unsolicited opinion! I shall go back to reading your excellent fics! :-)
Wow, I didn’t think about the ‘allies’ perspective. You are completely awesome for pointing this out! Thank you! (And feel free to drop in. That’s why this journal is public!)