NEWS: Haven't We Met Somewhere Before?

CULTURE: Haven't We Met Somewhere Before?

Some spend their entire lives searching in vain for that special someone with whom to share their life. But, sometimes, fate steps in and there they are ... your soulmate.

It's love at first sight. You find that you have similar interests, share a similar background - both of you having been adopted, and the attraction is undeniable. You feel as if you have known each other your entire lives.

You fall madly in love and decide to marry.
All is right with the world.

Then you discover, to your horror, that you have married your twin.

Wait ... what?
Sounds like the plot of a Lifetime movie of the week, doesn't it?

Some feel that this one-in-a-million occurrence could happen with greater regularity due in part to both the increasing frequency of births through in vitro fertilization, and a proposed law in Britain that would allow for the father's name to be omitted from the birth certificate.

I suppose love at first sight isn't always all it's cracked up to be.


crispy almost titled this piece "Who's Your Daddy?"
[Hat Tip: TheFuckOffKid]

Wasn't there an episode of HOUSE that dealt with this?

My boyfriend sent me this story at work today, and I almost cried. I can't even imagine the devastating confusion and heartbreak involved. How do you even go on?

Holy crap.

The poor kids!

And it's not a Lifetime movie, it's Star Wars.

You make sure you wear a condom so you don't have any mutant babies.

HEY-O!

Something to the tune of going on a six month bender, I'd imagine.

Just six months? I'd have to soak my lady bits in everclear for at least eight to feel some what close to clean.

How sad. I have no Idea what I would do.

Holy crap your right, Luke and Leila!!!

That sounds like some shit that would happen to me, I'de fucking jump of a cliff and die, honestly one searches so long for something, anything that makes one happy, and then to just give it up like that! maybe they'll meet in another life, when they're both cats, then incest wont matter all that much.

This kind of thought crosses my mind when I see someone similar to me and I think how hot she is.

That must have been absolutely heartbreaking. I can't even imagine how someone would cope with finding that out.

Or maybe Davey made it up to push a pet issue.

Hmm. That *is* sad, but as far as I can tell, what's worst about it is it's an unnecessary split. They love each other, no? Provided they don't reproduce, why should there be a problem (other than the cultural taboo, I mean)? It's not like the traditional incest scenario, where there's fucked-up power dynamics going on and quite possibly some sort of coercion...

(Edit: All of which providing that they were real - the almost total lack of information does kinda lend credence to Admiral_Pants' suggestion.)

Yeah, I feel bad that they ever had to find that out. It never would've made a difference.

i'd fuck my identical twin. i'd fuck my identical twin hard.

It's a cultural taboo and one that is quite anachronistic, I believe.

Let's disregard the cases where abuse is involved, because that's not really what this is about.

Kids who grow up together, whether they be siblings or not usually will not fall in love with each other. Siblings who meet later in life can. The taboo involved with this stems from the fact that children out of such pairings are more likely to have genetic defects. But the same can be said about non-related couples that have known genetic defects that they are likely to pass on to their children. Yet very few people would argue that these couples should be prohibited from having children. That would infringe on their basic human rights.

There is this story from Germany which has garnered quite some media attention:

If they are happy with each other, let them be. Should they have children together? Probably not. But I don't think that's for me or anybody else to say. Should their children be taken away from them? Fuck no.

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OK, maybe I'm just a cynical bastard but weren't there some kind of signs involved? I mean, I'll admit, I don't know the first thing about separated twins but shouldn't each have some major scars or stories, maybe when the laid together for the first time....hmmm, "it sure is weird that your scar and my scar match soooo perfectly together" kind of thing? This one is hard to get my head around! I could see the sperm donor kids, but this? Either way, I feel for them because its sad but damn.

There would be no reason for twins to have matching scars.

Or why two babies separated at birth would have similar life stories.

Or why fraternal twins would have any birthmarks or features in common.

In all fairness I'd be drinking until I saw red about every night for that entire six months. If I managed to survive that, I'd take a couple trips to the doctors and get a status check on my vitals and then start thinking about where to go from there. Get a house deep in the woods somewhere and punch a bear in the face.

You do realize that not all twins are conjoined, right?

aah, I see where my mistake came in...I briefly caught this yesterday and was mistaken by the sensationlist picture of conjourned twins...not just separated. This is where the "scar and stories" part comes in...(bows head in disgrace from trying to recall from memory) thanks for correcting.

I'd say screw society. Maybe don't have kids so as not to mess up the genepool, but I'm sure they'd be willing to adopt, having been adopted themselves.

The weirdness of incest, to me, comes more from having grown up together and lived most of your life together in a non-sexual relationship. That sort of family bond does not lend itself to sex, especially when one person is older and there's a sort of assumed dominance . But I don't think there's anything inherently wrong on a physiological level about having sex with someone you're biologically related to, as long as that non-sexual, familial bond doesn't already exist in your relationship. Granted, a case involving twins is pretty weird. But I don't think the state has any business stepping in here.

Oh my. It's like The Children of Húrin...