First cousins announced relationship with snogging post in family Facebook group

People find love in all sorts of unusual places but one couple didn't have to search far for their soulmate, finding love in their own family.

Like many first cousins, Michael Lee and Angela Paeng, from Utah, US, were close as children but their relationship took a bizarre turn when they started a secret romance.

The couple, dubbed the "kissing cousins", just couldn't keep their hands off each other.

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And when they began dating as adults they decided to break the news to the family by sending them all a picture of them passionately making out.

The pair of star-crossed lovers, who compare their romance to Romeo and Juliet, shared their love story on Prime Video's reality series Extreme Love.

Angela said: "We've known each other all our lives. We've been each other's first crushes, first kisses and we happen to be first cousins."

The couple first developed a strong connection when they were just kids.

"We were like in second grade, seven or eight years old and we immediately clicked and were like best friends," Michael said.

Their friendship quickly turned into a young romance but the family soon found out, he added: "We were slow dancing in the closet, got caught kissing".

After that, the family stepped in to try and put some space between the canoodling cousins, which they weren't too happy about.

Angela explained: "I got pulled aside by my parents and they said 'what's going on?' and my mum said 'cool it Angie' and we felt like from then on we were kind of kept apart and it felt unfair, it felt a little bit like Romeo and Juliet except instead of these warring families it's the same family."

The couple went about their separate lives and each ended up marrying other people.

But both of their marriages ended in divorce and 10 years after last seeing each other they reconnected at a family reunion, where they immediately felt "fireworks".

"It felt like we picked up where we left off," Angela said.

Michael added that he quickly noticed Angela was still "super hot".

The couple decided to give in to their feelings for each other and began dating secretly.

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But they soon realised they'd need to break the news to their family and decided to take a less than gentle approach.

The couple made the shock announcement by sharing an image of them with their tongues down each other's throats to the family Facebook group and needless to say the news didn't go down too well.

"They were shocked and horrified," Michael said.

The couple's other cousin, Cathy, took the news particularly badly.

"She's the biggest hater in our family," Angela said.

Michael added: "I'd really like to talk to her face to face to figure out why all this hatred, 'no one else is as hateful as you where's it coming from?'"

The couple were finally given the opportunity to attempt to make amends with Cathy during their appearance on Extreme Love.

Michael starts by telling her: "Imagine in your mind it's just like your best friend, the person you're most attracted to, the person that you want to be around the most, just so happens to be your cousin".

But Cathy still wasn't convinced, she replied: "That's when you put the brakes on and back away, you can stop yourself, you have the same blood running through your veins

"I have a cousin as well as you guys, I think she's beautiful but I don't wanna go f**k her. I don't wanna be known as the cousin of the incest cousins."

Despite protests from their family, the couple continued on in their relationship and even got married.

They had to cross over the border to Colorado though as it's illegal under Utah's incest laws.

In 2019 the couple found out they were expecting their first child together, however, doctors were unfortunately unable to find a heartbeat.

Six months later they revealed they were pregnant again and in 2020 they welcomed a baby boy.

Their son, Eric, appeared to be perfectly healthy, with the couple revealing that they carried out tests to rule out any disability due to the risks associated with incestual couples' children.

Sadly, Michael passed away in 2021 after the couple shared their unusual love story with the world and Angela is now a single mother.

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