PBA: Will not think about that, thanks, for reasons I’ve already mentioned.
Yeah, they do, but it’s at most as popular as cousin marriage (read: not that popular at all).
WIY: But once you see someone as a kid (especially when they behave obnoxiously) it colors your view of him/her. I’m sure that he remembers me as being a whiny little scaredy-cat as well (though I bow to your and Popa’s privileged views into the male psyche so feel free to correct me). I’m not saying that that kind of thing is impossible (my cousin married her brother’s best friend), but I don’t think it makes romantic feelings MORE likely- I’d think that the contrary would be true.
For all I know you guys are right, because I don’t talk to my cousins at least partially because they don’t talk to me (another reason may be that we have nothing in common anymore besides grandparents).
Whatever. This doesn’t turn into a big deal for me in daily life, unless you count my playing Boggle with them and being polite to them as being complete pritzus and inappropriateness. (Though, as far as one of them is concerned, I actually stopped playing Boggle with him, though only because I got tired of losing.)
As I said, I admit naivete regarding the male mind for somewhat obvious reasons.