A woman has shared the story of how she learned she was related to her boyfriend.
The TikTok user, who goes by the handle "mattilathehun" on the platform, explained in a video uploaded on Thursday, April 8, that her now-ex partner got her an ancestry DNA test for her birthday.
In the video in question, Mattila (who hails from Saskatchewan in Canada) states: "So we got the results back a month later and I was looking through the list of relatives."
Take a look at her confession in the video below:She continued: "I turned to my boyfriend and I said: 'Hey this is pretty nifty, I'm related to someone who has the same name as you.'
"And that’s how I found out I was dating my cousin."
Suffice it to say that Mattila's account of the embarrassing situation has picked up a lot of attention online, accruing over 487,000 views, 86,900 reactions, and a further 480 comments from other TikTok users who wanted to share similar experiences.
For example, one person wrote: "Nova Scotian here (and no, not from South Mountain) – I'm my own 6th cousin [...] Talk about a family wreath!!! [sic]"
A second commenter wrote: "I was going to a boy's house to make out when my dad asked me what his grandpa's name was. I went and asked him on MSN – cousins."
A third added: "My brother was dating a girl in college who turned out to be his 1st cousin from his bio dad's side he'd never met before."
Meanwhile, someone else chimed in: "My parents aren't cousins but they share some cousins because my paternal great aunt was married o my maternal great uncle."
Another person commented: "I'm from NL and me and my husband did 23 and me. We are distantly related."
Meanwhile, someone else wrote: "My mom told me how if you wanted to date someone, your parent would go 'you can't date them they're bad news' which was code for: 'they're your cousin.'"
Another commenter wrote: "My parents found out they were cousins too and, well, they didn't stop dating cause, obviously, I'm here."
Finally, someone else added: "My aunt and uncle didn't find out they were cousins until they had been married like 10 years."
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