This Couple's Been Married For 38 Years, Then DNA Test Shows An Unwelcome Truth

Liane Carter couldn't believe her eyes when she opened her test results. She turned to her husband in complete shock and horror. Surely there must have been a mistake. Something like this didn't seem possible!

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[janetwunder]

Third cousins are distant cousins. They have great, great grandparents in common. Not incestuous at all. No big deal. This could have been revealed in one or two minutes.

[Pengo]

Dam! That long just to say they are third cousins

[sylvia]

Second cousins are allowed to marry in the US. So third cousins are no problem.

[georgedunn]

Well, that was strung out for nearly nine unnecessary minutes. I think that's a record.

[AgentAO]

Summary: Liane & Marc are 3rd cousins. Not siblings!

[juliemariebroxterman]

Save yourself from the agony, read the comments! Well after 3 long painful minutes I couldn’t stand any more and I quit Should have checked the length of the video before then especially since not even a minute into it I realized the poster had no intention of revealing the results until close to the end and it would be anti climactic at that point. Someone seriously thinks they are clever and is giggling while laying in wait in anticipation of the impending comments Childish juvenile mind games at play so annoying, Another 9 minutes to go? People must have spontaneously combusted talk about Click bait. Good Lord.

[lizlee]

As usual with these, I read the comments first. They tell me everything I need to know without watching. This is such nonsense! Third cousins share very, very little DNA. Third cousins have a shared great-great-grandparent. For example, third cousins Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip shared great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. Shock! Horror! Not!

[mayadub]

Fact: John and Abigail Adams were third cousins. They had 6 kids, 5 who survived birth. Out of the 6, 4 survived to be adults. One of them, John Quincy Adams, became president in 1825 and outlived all his siblings.

[kathe.o.]

Not so long ago this was the norm. In some parts of the world it still is, "as a way of keeping the wealth in the family." Like marrying within a clan or communial unit.

[Odo]

" What a cruel hand they had been dealt " ? That's a bit over dramatic

[itzcaseykc]

Nothing wrong with being 3rd cousins. It's 1st cousins that can be dangerous genetically. Even 2nd cousins can be alright, as long as the genetic markers do not interact badly. All-in-all, it's not a sin that they married and had children together. At least they weren't sibling spouses.

[andrewandlisa]

When I was studying my wife’s family history I discovered that her parents are 3rd cousins. It was no big deal. It is not problem to marry a 3rd cousin

[lauraroberts]

After being married for 50 years, found out my husband and I had a common ancestor that made us 5th cousins. Then found out my maternal grandparents were related and so were my paternal grandparents. Our children turned out quite well...all Beta Club and Natiinal Honor Society members. One National Merit Scholar, two Governor's Scholars, and all with great work ethics. We couldn't have been more blessed.

[bearcraig]

There's not a single person alive on this planet who doesn't have some cousin-marriages in their family tree. It's actually mathematically impossible not to.

[cathyakins]

It is not yall fault. Stay together and be family.

[DavyCR]

I was expecting siblings or something, but Third Cousins?? So they share one pair of Great Great Grandparents out of the 16 that they have- what's the big deal? Probably less than 1% of people could name all their 16 Great Great Grandparents anyway. No exaggeration I would say at least 15% of couples in Ireland are 3rd cousins but since our records only go back to early 1800's no one can know for sure. Think about it this way, say the Great Great Grandparents had 6 children (minus your ancestor) = Generation 4 (Great Grandparents Generation), then they each had 5, so 5x5 = 25 for Generation 3 (Grandparents Generation), then they each had 5, so 5 x 25 = 125 for Generation 2 (Parents Generation), and then each of those had 5, so 5 x 125 = 625 for Generation 1 (Your Generation) - so that's 625 people that are your third cousins simply descended from that 1 couple alone. Then consider the other 7 couples of Great Great Grandparents you are descended from had the same amount of family size then that's 625 x 8 = 5000 People alive today who would be your Third Cousin - so the chance of you marrying one of those 5000 is hardly huge if you stay in the same general area for 5 generations.

[HMGarth]

For crying out loud!! It took 8:54 minutes of me yelling, "what is so bad, are they siblings??!" to finally discover -- dun dun DUHHNN -- they're THIRD COUSINS! { . . . . crickets . . . . } 🤦‍♀️

Anybody who's researched their own family history knows, THIRD cousins connecting -- marrying, producing kids -- is fairly commonplace. Even second cousins, in earlier centuries when the working classes didn't travel far from their home villages, etc. There was a limited selection of possible partners, and as long as you knew that you weren't siblings or first cousins, not much stood in your way, not even parish records. Particularly if a woman had conceived OUT OF WEDLOCK! The priority then, was to get hitched asap, even if it wasn't the actual father 🤷‍♀️

[caffeineaddict]

Thanks for summing it up in the comments. Saved me 9 minutes of my precious life.

[rtoddpartridge]

What!?! Third cousins? Come on, that is not a big deal. Not even unique.

[jackdonovan]

About 250, 000 people, living in America have marital relationships with a 3rd cousin.
But can you imagine if the person you married was actually your twin, which you knew nothing about because you were separated at birth - and were married for 38 years, with kids?
I'm glad this wasn't what I thought it was.