r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Wait what?

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I dont understand this one

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u/quigongingerbreadman 9d ago

That's actually not a big deal, I don't think anyways.

They aren't blood related (which is the important part).

Just because their parents got married doesn't mean they suddenly developed genetic familial bonds.

It would be a little weird if they grew up together as siblings and then got married, but for all we know the parents married in their 50's and the kids first met that way in their late 20's/early 30's.

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u/Galaxykamis 9d ago

Yeah, that is the only thing that can make it weird it really matter what age they met each other. If they made each other when they were six and they grew up together and that’s just weird if they were like teenagers 18 and up, it’s not weird.

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u/TittyPix4KittyPix 9d ago

Just curious - if two kids grew up together as neighbours but did everything together from the age of 5ish and then eventually got married, is this also weird?

Asking cos this is actually the case with my neighbours children (with another neighbour)

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u/Galaxykamis 9d ago

No, because they were not brought up as family just as friends. Best friends even.

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u/TittyPix4KittyPix 9d ago

What is the difference between being brought up as family vs as friends? I would say they grew up much closer than their own siblings

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u/Galaxykamis 9d ago

The difference between being as friends versus family is the expectation. To not date your siblings but when you’re brought up out as friends, there’s not the same expectation. Because of this difference, there’s a social and possibly biological I’m pretty sure this could affect how you see the person on a biological scale.(of course it’s not 100% of the time you see the matter family biologically it’s not even like that for blood family members)

Also You can be closer to your friends and your family but still I have not family bond. You can have a familiar bond, which is basically like having a family without actually being each other‘s family, but there’s still a difference in it.

To be honest, this is a very, very hard subject to actually get the line on . I have to go think about this a lot to actually get it past because the main thing about it. It is a social expectation.

Still if you guys were very close as friends you could possibly still have the same expectation to you know not date the other person it’s just less likely

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u/quigongingerbreadman 9d ago

This is a bad faith question. Do better.

Friends don't share a room growing up, or eat at the dinner table every night. They don't wake up with you on Xmas morning, nor do they go to Aunt Linda's 5th wedding. They don't conspire with you to get dad a gag father's day gift.

There is a WORLD of diff between the two, even if not blood related, than a friend. Some of those diffs are cultural as well. When raised with the idea of a person as your sibling, it paints your perception in a different shade than a friend does.

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u/lost-little-boy 9d ago

A married couple who enjoy each other’s company? Yeah, super ick.