Brotherly Love

This is not my story, but a friend’s.

P was fairly successful with women in High School and had been dating G for a while. It was well after their first date that the Worst Date happened. They had already sleeping together at this point.

P was lucky because his divorced father had recently been away quite often, so he and G were able to sleep together in the comfort of his home. His father wouldn’t have actually cared one way or another, but it made for more privacy.

One particular week his father was out of town and they spent most of that time in bed. They had a long date near the end and this, like all other days that week, ended in bed. P woke to hear the front door of the house open. He left G in bed and went to welcome his dad back.

Imagine his surprise to see his father and G’s mother. Assuming she had caught wind of their relationship and was upset P was ready to be yelled at, but then he saw that they were holding hands.

“Meet your new mother!” his father shouted.

G’s mother held out her hand to showcase a small wedding ring.

It turns out P’s father had been secretly seeing G’s mother even longer than P and G had been dating. At the same time their parents had no idea they were dating. When he went out of town, P’s father was going to Vegas with G’s mother, and they were married early that week. For at least a week P had been sleeping with someone that was now his (step)sister.

It’s not clear whether the relationship ended right away, or if it just wore out later, but any time any P is introduced to new people(new people he does not want to date) we eventually ask, “Did you hear about the time P had sex with his sister?”

It’s possible this wasn’t P’s VWD when it happened, but I’d bet that no other date since has caused him more embarrassment, and therefore became retroactively his Very Worst Date.

Comments (25)
TalJune 29th, 2012 at 4:21 am

These “it happened to a friend” stories rarely ring true. This one is no exception. :\

JackyMJune 29th, 2012 at 5:22 am

Yeah… This one sounds more than a little fake.

NattieJune 29th, 2012 at 6:10 am

Likely fake, but amusing nonetheless.

Bananas in PyjamasJune 29th, 2012 at 6:14 am

Funny story. One could doubt it but stranger things have happened.

I recall in the news siblings that’d been separated by birth and never knew they were related got married….and upon finding out their relation got swiftly divorced. Their identities were not made public but the story, clearly, was.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

Bananas in PyjamasJune 29th, 2012 at 6:16 am

Sorry, I meant siblings that were given up for adoption – not twins separate at birth as my previous post implies.

LeighJune 29th, 2012 at 6:49 am

Bananas, the act of two people who are related but not raised together as children, falling in love when they meet for the first time as adults, is called Genetic Sexual Attraction, and it happens a little more often than you might think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_sexual_attraction

(most interestingly, these people, like everyone else, are not attracted to the adoptive people they did grow up with, thanks to the Westermarck Effect, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect)

Bananas in PyjamasJune 29th, 2012 at 7:03 am

@Leigh: I never knew that – how v interesting! Thanks for the info :-)

SallyWordSlingerJune 29th, 2012 at 7:29 am

It does sound like an urban legend, but it is also incredibly possible.

ChristinaJune 29th, 2012 at 8:59 am

This has been the plot in a couple different movies, and I’m not entirely sure why this would be considered a “worst date” anyway. There’s no reason why they couldn’t date past their parents’ wedding anyway, they’re not blood related and they weren’t raised together. Yeah, it’s a little awkward, but it’s a poorly written story that shouldn’t be on this site.

NGJune 29th, 2012 at 9:13 am

@Christina: Clueless.

AudaxJune 29th, 2012 at 9:23 am

Didn’t this come out in theaters from Disney two summers ago?

reviewJune 29th, 2012 at 10:24 am

Meh, dick invading your sister isn’t any different from homosexuality. P and G weren’t trying to have kids either.

JayJune 29th, 2012 at 11:58 am

I went to school with a girl who had met this guy, “jeff” and brought him home to have sex. As she was passing through the kitchen, her father was sitting there, and says “Oh, hi Jeffrey”. She turned to her father and said “you…know him??” , to which her father replied, “yeah, that’s your cousin, Jeffrey.” She got lucky her father was in her path, cuz she was about to fuck her cousin.

JohnJune 29th, 2012 at 12:05 pm

Except, you know, that they’re not related in any way or form and it’s extremely immature/ignorant to refer to it as “having sex with your sister”.

People are so weird…

maoJune 29th, 2012 at 12:37 pm

I also don’t think there’s any reason they couldn’t continue to date. They are not related and they weren’t raised together. Just because their parents signed a piece of paper doesn’t automatically make P and G’s relationship taboo, it’s just semantics. Sure it’s awkward after all parties are informed of the full situation. But OP, YOU probably think that this is P’s most embarrassing date because YOU and your friends say things like “he had sex with his sister” when the situation isn’t remotely like it sounds, and made this his most embarrassing date. Nice friend you are.

whateverJune 29th, 2012 at 2:39 pm

NG: I think you are referencing the movie here…
Mao: I agree
And if looked at the issue from a genetic perspective they are not brother and sister. No doubt, this situation makes for an akward background but there is neither legal nor biological reasons for any opposition of them dating.

BettyJune 29th, 2012 at 4:22 pm

I know for a fact this can happen. My half-brother was dating a young lady a few years ago. When she became pregnant, they decided to get married. He invited her (divorced) mother over to meet our dad, and to make plans for the upcoming wedding. Her mom and our dad fell for each other, and within two months, got married. My half-brother is still with his girlfriend (they never got married for some reason,) and they have three kids now. Our dad has been married to both of the kids’ grandmas. Makes for a lot of weirdness at Thanksgiving.

friend of the brotherJune 30th, 2012 at 12:56 am

OP here. I recognize that this story is not the greatest tale ever woven, and yes it is a little immature, and no they are not technically brother and sister. However, I promise this is true. We might seem mean, but this is a part of what we do. We all enjoy just a touch of schadenfreude with each other. P does it too, so there are no hurt feelings had. As far as it being immature, if you only speak maturely with your friends I feel sad for you. You are missing out.

My friends(male and female) and I feel comfortable discussing intellectual and not intellectual things freely. Just yesterday we had a discussion that started with the ancient fighting rituals of the Maori in New Zealand, then turned to the literature of Terry Goodkind, and finally ended talking about balls(immature as hell, but everyone at the bar enjoyed watching us fall over laughing). Alcohol was involved.

For those who say this should not be on the site, I admitted that this was likely only his worst date in retrospect. As in, it was plenty of fun at the time, but no date for him has since has been so embarrassing to talk about. This also accounts for the fact that, no, I agree they are not actually siblings and they likely continued dating for a while after. The story is still better than the VWD where the OP’s prime concern was that her date held hands “like a girl”.

Finally, sorry if it seemed fake. Likely due to lack of details. I was trying to stick as close to the 300 word limit as I could and opted to gut the unimportant, drawn out details.

PS. Jay, that story should be on this site, it sounds way better than my own, and people would likely have fewer complaints about it.

JaneJune 30th, 2012 at 10:20 pm

I call BS.

DevJuly 1st, 2012 at 6:35 pm

No more proxy stories!

MaryJuly 2nd, 2012 at 3:30 pm

This isn’t a date!!!!!! Dammitttt

KatJuly 2nd, 2012 at 6:04 pm

You guys say that to every person you introduce him to that he’s not interested in dating? So if it was, say, your boss, or a professor, or your grandma, you’d still bust out your HILARIOUS line? I agree with Mao; you guys just sound like dicks. And why do I get the feeling that “everyone at the bar enjoyed watching us fall over laughing” really means “everyone at the bar was glaring at the drunk idiots who wouldn’t stop laughing excessively loudly to show the other bar-goers what a fantastic time they were having?”

hpmcJuly 5th, 2012 at 11:03 am

Would it kill the people who post these stories to JUST COME UP WITH FAKE NAMES?!?! Stop with the initials, please. Also, stop writing “we’ll call him …” or “let’s call her …” Do you really think that we are stupid enough to think that you’d use the person’s real name? It’s as moronic as writing LOL at the end of what you think is a witticism.

CJuly 5th, 2012 at 8:18 pm

The only women in high school are teachers and staff. The students are girls.

(Also, OP, you are trying WAY too hard. In both the story and your reply.)

JeffJuly 7th, 2012 at 10:27 pm

Sounds like real great parenting happening in both those families. Whatever happened to parents knowing the people their teenagers date? Never mind leaving them alone for a week to run off to Vegas.

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