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writes:Ok so, I'm 22 years old and living in Canada. My dad's uncle George (my great uncle) has lived in the US for like 20 years. When he moved to the US he married an American woman named Kate (my great-aunt by marriage I guess?). Kate has a sister, who has a son named Eric.Eric is Kate's biological nephew, and I guess my great uncle george's nephew by marriage.Eric recently moved to Canada and he is HOT. I'm kind of interested in him but I feel like this might be incest?? Eric and I never met before a month ago so we didn't grow up together or anything and technically I'm not related to him or his mother (Kate's sister) , not even related Kate. And my great uncle is technically my great uncle by blood, but since he lived in the US so long i've only met him like 10 times. But I feel weird about this.... help! Are we related? can me and eric date?
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reader, The Realist +, writes (2 March 2011):
 C. Grant put it perfectly.
You two technically are not related in any manor biological matter but the family still may frown upon it which could cause stress if you two do get together.
You could always bring it up to your family as more of a joke saying he's cute, I would totally date him and see what there reaction is. This way you can shrug it off if they do over react, I guess some families might.
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reader, C. Grant +, writes (2 March 2011):
 Your grandfather's brother married a woman who had a sister who had a son. Getting a little distant here, aren't we?The concern with incest is that too-close a blood relationship can result in reinforcement of bad genes which can have unfortunate consequences for a resulting child. You and Eric share no blood line at all. Scientifically there is no issue. I suppose it's possible that some cultures might have an issue -- check with your parents to see. My extended family isn't close enough that we'd ever even figure out there was a link.Good luck.
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reader, Nime  +, writes (2 March 2011):
 No, this is definitely not incest. You two are so far removed from each other that statistically your genetic profiles would likely not be much more similar than to any of your neighbors'. Plus, it's believed to be healthy for a child's immune system to have parents who are second cousins (or around that far removed) from each other, so I'd say you're good.
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