A very unpopular opinion about relationships

By:  Anonymous

Love always comes in different ways and at the least expected moments. Most of the time you don’t even plan to fall in love with someone else, it’s just your heart and mind sending you mixed signals about your real feelings. And since we are typically known for not admitting that we like someone (probably because if that person doesn’t like us back then we’ll suffer a lot less, because we’ll trick our mind into thinking that we never really liked him/her/them), we tend to fall in love with the wrong person. Plus, society is always interfering and setting boundaries about who you can or can’t love, and personally I believe society shouldn’t be an impediment to fall in love. As I said earlier, you can't control who you have feelings for.

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Therefore, I will be talking about a topic that could be kind of controversial for some people, while for others it might be rare, but they don’t really have a problem with it. In my opinion, even though what I’m going to say might be weird or some might think it’s really strange to think about, I have been seeing this “type” of relationships a lot on tv series. All of this makes me wonder if this is the reality of a lot of people, or if by showing that on television directors and producers are trying to prove that it’s not as terrible as it seems. This “type” of love I'm talking about is relationships between step siblings. Some might say, what? Relationships between siblings? That’s incest! But if you sit down and really think about it, there is not a real familiar junction because they’re not half siblings. To clarify; step siblings mean that both of their parents are dating but they are not related by blood; meanwhile half siblings, signify that either mom or dad had both of the kids but with a different partner each time, causing them to be related by blood.

So now think for yourself, why would relationships between half siblings be odd if they aren’t blood related? It’s really just a tag they are given that makes society judge this type of relationship, while it should be completely normal. Because even if their parents hadn’t met each other, most likely those kids should have and probably they would date and love each other. To me it makes no sense at all the drama that these relationships bring. I believe that we must be a little more open minded and not judge everything, because there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Instead, poor children that have to pretend like they don’t like each other because that will bring others to look and judge them. We all have the right to love and be loved, so next time you hear that someone is dating their step sibling don’t judge them because being in a relationship is already hard enough.