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    17-year-old couple refuses to break up after his dad gets in a relationship with her mom: 'Her mom called us sick and disgusting'

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    Emmy Pratt • Writer and Editor
    Oct 11, 2025 8:00 PM EDT

    They are not siblings in any sense of the word.

    There is a lot of stigma about dating family members for a good reason. There are real, horribly negative biological consequences if you have a child with a member of your immediate family, and the stigma is probably a good thing for the continuation of our existence as a species. While almost everyone believes that biological siblings should not date, everyone has a line for what they think is unacceptable and not. If you found out that you and your partner of five years were third cousins, would that necessitate you break up? What if a couple who have been together for 10 years found out they were half-siblings? If someone dates a cousin they are not biologically related to (for step-grandparent reasons) but grew up with, would that be worse than dating a biological cousin they didn't grow up with? These are fun questions to ponder hypothetically, but when they're your real life, it gets a lot less fun. 

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    • It's not unheard of for step-siblings or foster siblings who did not grow up together to date. The young couple in this story are just two regular teenagers who are in a typical teenage relationship. When they found out their parents started dating around the same time they began dating, they didn't think it would necessitate their breakup. Their parents feel differently and are doing everything in their power to break the young couple up.

    • Am I the bad guy for refusing to break up with my girlfriend because my dad got engaged to her mom?

      I (17m) started dating my girlfriend Noa (17f) 18 months ago. A few months after we started dating we found out my dad and her mom were dating. We hadn't done the meet the parent/kid stuff yet and when we did it's how we found out. My
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    • dad and Noa's mom were angry when they realized Noa and me were dating. They told us we needed to end it because the two of them were serious about it. We told them we weren't breaking up for them. I told dad I loved Noa and wouldn't break up with her for any dumb reason.
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    • My dad and Noa's mom tried to make things awkward for us. They started calling us siblings and introducing us to others as stepsiblings. They even talked about trying IVF to have a baby together. But me and Noa kept dating. We made them
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    • uncomfortable every time we kissed or held hands. Then the awkwardness for my dad and Noa's mom went up when they found out we were each other's first time.
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    • They didn't move in together as soon as they wanted because they didn't want us living together. But then they decided the societal pressure to break up would increase if we "lived as siblings". It didn't. So then they got engaged but we're still together.
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    • My dad and her mom are more persistent now because they don't want us to be dating at their wedding and they want to get married before summer next year. They try to make us feel weird about being together but I don't. She's not my sister, she's not my sibling and even if my dad marries her mom she won't be my family like they think.
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    • To get back at them Noa pretended we were going to elope once we're both 18 which is a few months away since we share a birthday month. My dad didn't freak out but her mom did and she called us sick and disgusting and she told us their relationship should take priority over ours. AITA?
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    • Secret_Double_9239 NTA but I think you and your girlfriend should post online for family to see something about your 1.5 year anniversary. Post a lot about how long you've been dating, always reference the timeline so when friends and family see this they will begin to do the maths that your relationship is older than your parents relationships. That way, your parents will be considered the weird ones for dating their children's respective parents.
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    • RasilBathbone Which couple has been together longer is not on the chalkboard yet. Both couples learned about the other when they "met" for the first time.
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    • hobbes543 The timeline is still that each couple started dating before they were aware that their parent/child was daring their partners parent/child. Honestly, if the parents weren't being so weird about it, this could actually be a really funny/cute story.
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    • Radio Tunnel Yeah but it sounds like the parents met before the kids did, they just kept their relationship a secret from them until they were comfortable
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    • minimesmum Surely they knew each others kids names and their kid had mentioned the name of the person they were dating before this meeting. Huge coincidence both kids were dating someone with the other kids name..
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    • Radio Tunnel People dont always have the same relationships with their parents, I never told my dad about the girls I was dating until the day id introduce them and I never asked about the women he'd date until he introduced them
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    • iknowsomethings2 NTA. They're the ones making it weird FFS. And I bet they will be shocked when you both turn 18, go to college or whatever and go LC/NC with them. When they wake up one day and neither of their children speak to each other, it will be there own fault
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    • loose_translation I once worked at a place with Randy, his wife Sue, and another couple, Cody and Sara. They kept everything professional, but one day Sara called Sue mom. I start asking questions, and Randy is Cody's dad, Sue is Sara's mom. Randy and Sue started dating, their children met, fell in love, and now they have this lovely but odd family.
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    • Impossible_Nebula_33 They are the sickos you're not related and you didn't grow up together. You met when you're 17 not 7. They rot brains and selfishness out of should keep their your relationship.
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    • Adelucas Step siblings aren't siblings in any legal sense. It's a term created to describe a relationship in a blended family. There are no bars to relationships or marriage, and there have been many cases where parents get together with their kids partners parent. Most times it's just a fun fact, but sometimes the parents try to make it weird as they are doing here. All they are doing is pushing you two closer together. There is nothing like "us against the world" to keep people together.
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    • Harrllyns OP Funniest part is they make it weirder for themselves than for us. The more they've pushed the more unhappy they become that we're still together and we're over here loving each other, not feeling uncomfortable by our relationship. The only discomfort comes from the adults.
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    • Adelucas You carry on with what you are doing and enjoy your relationship. Just a word of advise from an old person. Don't let them split you up if it's working, but don't stay together if it's not. Don't stay together just because "they'll win". It's your lives and it's too important for your future. Stay. together by all means, but people change and grow and mature. Sometimes your paths diverge and that's OK. There are many relationships that start in high school that last the distance, but th
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    • Between UsWithSaranna Tell them to grow up. Your happiness is no less important than theirs. How selfish can you be ☺ Shame on them.
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