My maternal aunt is gay. During her college days she brought home a girl, according to my mother they were very much in love. My uncle, my mother's cousin got fresh with my aunt's girlfriend and made her pregnant. We now know he also got fresh with my aunt but she didn't get pregnant. This created all kind of problems, my uncle insisted on the baby stay with his family, the girl could stay too, but for sure the baby. Well both the baby and the girl stayed and miracles of miracles more babies came along.

My aunt also had a pregnancy but she had a miscarriage, after that she decided to keep a safe distance from her cousin. My uncle kept my aunt really close to him complaining of her decision but they were cousins and she was scared to have a baby. All those years my uncle kept the mother of his children and made my aunt responsible for them. Everyone thought it was strange that he didn't marry the mother of his children and made my aunt live with her. Now we know, but at that time everyone shook their head. Of course my aunt was more than happy to have been put in that situation.

My uncle kept his children's mother and his children at the same level he and the rest of the family lived, my aunt of course had her own share of the family money. For the longest time, until my cousins were adults no one knew of this weird family life. When it became common knowledge that they were the real couple and had been for by then forty years the world had changed and we heard so many say they already knew. They didn't, my mother knew, my uncle knew, but it was a deep secret they held onto for all those years. The thing is that my uncle came to really love his children's mother and never married anyone else.