It’s Friday and you may be feeling tired or stressed after a long week at work. Or you may feel a little down or perhaps maybe even feel that you don’t fit in and question your sanity. if you are having one of those days then console yourself in the knowledge that no matter how inadequate you think you are or however abnormal you feel you might be, there is always someone worse off.
There is a story in the Irish Examiner this morning about a couple who got married in Oklahoma a year and a half ago. Nothing unusual in that you might say. What makes this marriage a little different is that fact that the happy couple are in fact not only husband and wife but also mother and daughter. The marriage has come to the attention of the authorities and they now find themselves behind bars.
The 43 year old mother married her 25 year old daughter this year. If that’s not bad enough, it now seems that she married her son in 2008 but he filed for annulment after 15 months citing ‘incest’ as the reason. She had three children so presumably the third child is getting ready for a marriage proposal soon.
So cheer up, no matter what you’ve done, you’re quite normal.