Would you marry your cousin?

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Doctors also told me i should be dead a long time ago… now they tell me i’m a miracle… they havent a clue and nor have i :omg:

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lol Damn funny :omg:

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Nope, never ...
I mean think about it, it's almost your half sibling ... You have the same nana, nani, or dada, dadi, or his dada, dadi, are your nana nani ...
Yuckness!! No offence to those who are married to their cousins, I have quite a few cousins that are married to eachother .... Took me a while to accept it .. Lol ... But I would never do that, I see all cousins as my siblings ...

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U know in the 'olden days' goreys used to be OK with marrying their cousins...i dnt know y they've given it up...mayb to them its about the the how medical thing about the offsprings being 'abnormal' but i dnt buy that...If allah says its ok then its ok..he's god after all...plus its nt like ppl who marry som1 that they are nt related to are guaranteed to have normal children... its just naseeb...

My gorey friend was just so shocked that we muslims can marry our cousins...she was almost rude...but i tried to explain my point of view..she didnt get it...LOL

But yes I would consider marrying my cousins like I would consider any other marriage proposal...

Allah knows best...

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i fell in love wid my cousin n my whole family is so 'no-no' abt cousin relationships cuz they know abt the medical consequences..it took my mom a while to grasp tht im dating her sisters son but finally they grasped it well. My nani still dosnt know abt us so she sometimes refers to him as my bhai & it killsssssssss me :@

anyways point being..i have seen cousin-cousin thing failing miserably and being successful too..one thing is for sure that one should just not go into it, more consideration & thinking is required keeping in mind the pros/cons & the risks involved (medically & in other terms) before choosing this path!

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I don't see anything wrong with it.. I had a cousin marriage and Masallah am very happy with my husband.. it is awkward though at times when all our family is together but it's not to say that it shouldn't have happened.. I think it is important to have an understanding before getting married but like any marriage it does require work :)

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Breast augmentation is a taboo subject....but incest is okay. Wow.

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^lol.

No. For one, I grew up seeing them as brothers. Secondly, none of them would fit my highly picky criteria :p.

For the people who are saying that genetic/health problems emerge from cousin marriages, just a clarification that the chances increase considerably if its like 2nd or 3rd generation of cousin marriages. It is not so bad if both your parents aren't related and then you marry your cousin. Things would generally be fine, unless you have some genes that can get enhanced and bring about some disease/shortcoming.

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lol its not like dat i m weak or strong… the thing is dat i dnt wanna mess my life up or his cause i knw dat its not possiible… cause he likes sum1 else… and he wants to get married wid her.. soo i m not stupid and dont wanna make my life hell…

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^ Thats a wise and brave decision... May it be as Allah wills it.

Stay strong sister you have a strong and wise character.

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Nothing wrong with marrying cuzins at all - as long as they arent first cousins on both sides then its okay.

A good thing about cousin marraiges is that the families already know each other and trust one another so it gives a great support system for the couple themselves...plus its rare to see cuzin marraiges break up....

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I married my cousin and I think things are a lot easier with family as your in-laws...

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I also know many people who are married to cousins and I don’t see anything wrong with it either. It’s halal, so it’s something I could consider (hypothetically).

It’s simple. You don’t go before your time and it hasn’t come yet.

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So true brother :k:

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yupsss…im MA happily married to my first cousin… :wub:

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don't see anything wrong with it for others, but personally for me the cousins i know well I treat them like my brothers and that transition would be way too awkward.

for cousins who i barely know i might not care as much, because they'd be just like strangers to me i guess.

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It's not a taboo subject, am sure it's been discussed in the fashion + beauty forum in the past..

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Personally no I would never. My girl cousins are like my sisters and I find it disgusting :no: BUT my grandparents were cousins so for people who marry their cousins (i.e. aren’t forced by families) and like each other then good for them.

For people who don’t marry their cousins and have their reasons good for them too!

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^ well put forward :k:

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Allah said anything done in excess is bad (meat is halal but too much of it is obviously going to be bad for ur health, isn't it).. nothing wrong with cousin marriage in itself but as Curious Lady already mentioned marrying first cousins generation after generation can lead to an increased risk and this has been acknowledged by scholars (if anyone wants to look up the info it's on Sunnipath)..

A lot of desi families have taken cousin marriage to an unreasonable unhealthy extreme.

I wouldn't marry my cousin, that's just my personal preference but I have no problem with it going on now and again in a family if that's what the kids themselves want..