A man has been left feeling "sick to his stomach" after discovering he is related to his ex-girlfriend. He explained how he met her at college through the student radio station - and became close friends with her "almost instantly".
After a few months, she built up the courage to ask him out on a date and he happily agreed to meet up with her in a romantic setting. He said on Reddit: "When we started seriously talking and learning about each other, we kept finding more and more things we had in common.
"She was born in the same small town (~4k people) as my grandmother and her middle name is my grandmother’s name. 'Wow, cool coincidence!' We both have a family history of BPD and Raynaud’s. 'Hey, we’ll know how to take care of each other!' Laying our arms next to each other they looked nearly identical. 'It’s like we were made for each other!'"
As time went on, their relationship started to progress and she was soon inviting him over to her house to "cuddle and talk" while she did some schoolwork. "Things got heated and we were making out when we both had this moment of shared deja vu like this had happened before," he added. "We made out some more but didn’t do anything further before she had to leave to pick up her roommate.
"The next day she blew up on me over text, blocked me on everything, basically just gone from my life and I was so hurt and confused because I really liked her, but she’d been pretty inconsistent (BPD) and it ended up for the best." Then, before a Christmas dinner, his uncle sparked up a conversation about their ancestry, saying he has hundreds of years of their family history plotted out.
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He said: "He’s a big genealogy nerd. When I joined the conversation he was talking about a gravesite he visited from some relative in the 1700s. At this point, I’m not really paying attention and just sipping my drink while everyone else talks, but eventually he started talking about my grandmother and her siblings. I’m learning about my great-aunt and suddenly I feel sick because it all slides into place.
"My great-aunt is my ex’s grandmother. My ex is named after my grandmother, who is her grandmother’s sister. We have the same bone structure and our families have the same predisposed medical conditions because they’re the same family."
Vowing to take this to his grave, he added: "I haven’t contacted her to tell her, because how do you tell someone that kind of news? 'Hey, you know how we were dating and almost had sex? Well, I’m glad we didn’t because you’re my cousin haha!' And I’m absolutely never telling my family because it just feels like the kind of thing I should take to the grave; but hey, Reddit can know."
Commenting on his post, one user said: "Oh I thought she blocked you because she had found out you're relatives! But it was just her... erm... whim." Correcting the man, another user added: "Second cousins because their grandparents are sisters."
A third user said: "I actually had a college roommate who went through something very similar to this when he was a Grad Student... it can really f*** with your mind to find out that you were that close to banging a cousin you didn't realize was a cousin."
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