Re: Marrying your cousin
Very true.
I grew up in London and when my bhaijaan was 18, he went to Pakistan and took me with him. I was 17 and we got to know my khala’s kids who were in Karachi. At that time, his wife was only 7 years old and she was always playing with him, fooling around and teasing him and generally being annoying lol.
Fast forward fifteen years or so and they are now happily married and he still calls her mum khala, not ammi lol. They never had that close ‘cousin’ relationship but even so, my mamoo’s kids are marries to my khalas kids and they were brought up together in the same vicinity.