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EE: Peter/Ben/Lola/Lexi Mitchell/Beale
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Regardless of whether you think cousins breeding with cousins is okay or not, I feel like Eastenders are trying to disguise the fact that Lola and Ben are cousins, even though they are distant and that Lola is also now embarking on a relationship with Peter - her daughter's blood cousin.
Legally, there isn't anything wrong with it, therefore they have a right to not address it, but equally there is a social stigma about cousins dating cousins, so therefore, I feel like in order for people like myself to feel comfortable with it they need to address it...
Legally, there isn't anything wrong with it, therefore they have a right to not address it, but equally there is a social stigma about cousins dating cousins, so therefore, I feel like in order for people like myself to feel comfortable with it they need to address it...
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Hear hear, although the mentioned it yesterday briefly , I find it very uncomfortable to watch.
Yes it is a little weird that His girlfriend's child is his first cousin but it is Lola he is dating, not Lexi.
Ben and Lola on the toher hand was a little more yucky though it was very distant (phil and Billy are second cousins aren't they so once you go down 1 (ben) or 2 (Lola) generations down) and again didn't grow up with each other to have that familial bond.
Lily's mum as in Kylie?
she slept with her husbands brother.
Its not that EE hide it, its that EE doesnt seem to think its a big deal. I mean Lauren and Joey used to bump uglies and pretty much nobody (in Walford) batted an eyelid.
Incest and dodgy relations have been a staple of EE for years. Everyone is related to everyone else.
IIRC, pat and carol were unhappy about their relationship at the beginning because of this and tried to stop them from seeing each other.
Have to say though, having watched on and off recently, the younger characters(Abi/Lauren/Lola/Jay/Dexter/Peter) do seem to (now and again)have a reasonably friendly relationship as a group - which is a bit refreshing. Abi actually seems to be nice well adjusted girl next door type-wonder how long that will last!
Lola is Billy mitchells grand daughter, Billy is Phils vague cousin. Phils son Ben is Peters (half) Uncle?
Now in real life...my SIL(A) was married and had two kids (B & C) with chap(D) and then divorced and Chap(D) married other SIL(E) and they had two kids together (F & G) so BC are FG's half siblings and cousins. Then there was another divorce and two more kids (H&I) HI are BC's cousins and free to marry them (which if they did would make FG half siblings, cousins and b/sIL to FG.
Similar to what happened in EastEnders then...
Jack bonked Roxy and had baby Amy, he then bonked Ronnie (again!) and Ronnie had baby James. James was Amy's half brother and also Amy's cousin.
I didn't realise until this thread that Peter is related to Lexi. Now I do and it's oh so confusing hahaha
Only in Eastenders xD
The Beales haven't acknowledged Lexi at all though. I would have thought that Peter might have done when he said he didn't mind paying for nappies, but nope.
Three-quarter sibling, as Roxy and Ronnie are full siblings.
Richard is Amy's half brother and second cousin.
These are problems, yes, but they've been and gone Lexi has been born, Lauren and Joey have already had a relationship, but it isnt to late for Peter and Lola, their relationship is something that can/should/needs to be stopped now!
Its not a problem now, but the more support it gets, the more chance it has of leading to marriage and then that's when they'll become family and things would become confusing.
It's different when you enter a relationship with someone with a child, because you're effectively offering to be that child's parent. What happens when Lexi start's calling Peter "Dad"? Dearie me! pass the sick bucket
Plenty of people adopt or become guardians of other family members. It's not sick. If Lexi did grow up calling Peter dad - which would never happen anyway as Phil is her granddad - there would be nothing wrong with it. Just as there is nothing wrong with the relationship between Peter and Lola.