What should be one of the happiest times of their lives has turned into a nightmare for an engaged couple awaiting the birth of their child next month.

They have discovered they are brother and sister.

The couple had dated for five years after meeting at university and wanted their parents to meet before getting married.

"But at the meeting it emerged they were brother and sister who had been separated as small children," Britain's Daily Mail has reported.

"The unnamed South African couple are still in shock after making the discovery last Saturday.

"The country's Sowetan newspaper reported that the siblings had been raised separately after their mother and father went through an acrimonious divorce."

The woman was eight months old and her fiance was two years old when their parents separated.

"The man's father said he dumped his wife in 1983 because she was cheating on him," the Sowetan newspaper reported.

"The girl was raised by her mother, while her brother was raised by his father.

"Neither of them knew they had a sibling."

The Sowetan newspaper reported that the two families did not meet throughout the five-year relationship, until it was time to discuss wedding arrangements.

The woman said it was love at first sight when she met her partner, but their parents' shock announcement had left them devastated and they had decided to separate.

"When I first saw him, we connected. We fell in love and since that day, we never looked back," she told Sowetan.

"All we wanted to do was just to have a family and many kids.

"So you can imagine how shocked we were when they broke the news. We are going to have a child together. We do not know what we will tell him when he grows up."

The Mail reported that research by the British Medical Journal showed that half of those people separated from relatives at a young age experienced strong sexual feelings when they reunited.

"Psychiatrists believe the natural repulsion brothers and sisters feel growing up together as children acts as an inhibitor to incest," The Mail said.
"But those who miss out on this time can develop powerful, obsessive feelings for their sibling in adulthood."

Goldieluks:

This is huge.

right!

The woman said it was love at first sight when she met her partner, but their parents' shock announcement had left them devastated and they had decided to separate.

Love? hmm. . .maybe of a different nature that she manifested through attraction

The Mail reported that research by the British Medical Journal showed that half of those people separated from relatives at a young age experienced strong intimate feelings when they reunited.

Based on many reports I've noticed that as well, it makes one to consider and evaluate the nature of love.


However siblings if necessary should really not be raised apart . . .well if they are they should be made aware of each other.

Such a frightful situation to be in but 5 years into a relationship and neither had introduced each other to their parent hmm. . .

I just hope their child doesn't have webbed feet

lool emofine @ webbed feet.

we are all related anyway if you look at it well. Its only the climatic conditions we live in that make us look different.

That is a critical one.

Well I think what usually happens in scenarios like these is that they send the 2 parties to far away countries never to see each other again. I think the family or parents take the baby or so. But the brother & sis goes far apart to heal, start a new life & avert the societal stigma.

sad , really sad

love hurts! really ,it does!

they should end the relationship and put the child up for adoption

F**k them all,am going ahead to marry her.