All I know is that my grandmother and grandfather on my father's side are first cousins. They had one child (my dad) and, I think, hated each other and their pretty much forced marriage their entire lives. They are both buried in separate places even, as per my grandmother's request.

I happen to have a rather messed-up family tree on ''both'' sides. My father's side begins with "Dad's legal uncle was his biological father" and goes downhill from there. My mother's side has instances of "Mom and siblings have no legal dad" on one side, "Great-Great-Grandma had 17 kids" on the other.

My dad is my cousin, I have four grandmothers, two siblings I've never met and most recently I found out a friend I had in High School is actually my second cousin! Seriously, don't ask. Made worse by all the incest going on. It sounds like a freaking soap-opera and I'm not sure even I understand it completely. The funny part is that I didn't realize how weird all that was until a few years ago, since my family often acts like this is all very normal.

This troper has a large and weird enough family, but it turns out I have a cousin (out of ''many'') even I can't envy. He was born out of wedlock and put up for adoption, and only found his birth family a few years ago. But then his adoptive parents divorced and both remarried someone else, and his birth mother remarried twice. So between his birth father, his birth mother and her husband, his adoptive parents and both their new spouses, and his bride's parents, and ''their'' new spouses, he has ''at least'' '''ten''' ''parents'' at one wedding. Not counting long-lost distant relatives (this troper) who have no idea what's going on and spend most of the time running around the garden.

My best friend's ''incredibly'' weird family make my fucked-up relatives look normal. The full saga includes hidden pregnancies, incest, long-lost twins and a ShockingSwerve in that the man she thought was her grandfather was actually an imposter. Quite seriously. She's had a ''lot'' of therapy.

Do you live in a soap opera? (I'm the one above, I live in a sitcom)

This troper's half sister is also his cousin. His father divorced his mother and married her sister.

That can't have ended well.

Better than you'd think actually. While my mother and Aunt are barely on speaking terms, and my mother and father not even, I still have a very good relationship with my sister/cousin, and my father and aunt. Helped by the fact that they lived just down the street most of my childhood.

This troper has two older half-sisters and one older half-brother (from my father's first wife who killed herself before I was born), and a younger full brother. The age distance between the youngest one and the oldest one is no less than eighteen years, so she could vote before he was even born. Also, one of my sisters married my father's best childhood friend's son while I was still a kid and has two sons by him, meaning I have two nephews technically old enough to be my daughter's (their cousin) father. And to top it all off, most of the family aren't speaking to each other! Oddly enough, I have a good friend who has a similar familial situation, only even more twisted: she hasn't even hit thirty and is already a great-aunt, and the last time I tried counting her nephews from her five siblings and half-siblings, I gave up when I reached twenty.

I don't have a complicated family (thank goodness), but a close friend of mine does. Her grandparents divorced and remarried after they had her parents. Her parents ''also'' divorced and remarried. She was also partially raised by close friends of her family during her childhood, whom she considers "honorary family members". I once joked that she doesn't have a family tree; she has a family bush. Or a family shrub.

ThisTroper's mother and aunt are identical twins. So are his father and uncle. They met, got married at a double cerimony, and moved into the same house together. My mother and aunt both got pregnant at the same time, and gave birth on the same day to two more sets of of identical twins, my mother to my brother and myself, and my aunt to the girls. Growing up I called both my mother and my aunt mom, both my father and my uncle dad, and my cousins my sisters. I still do because 1. that's how I feel about them, 2. It's not entirely inaccurate from a strictly genetic standpoint considering identical twins have identical DNA and 3. I found out much later that the family has no idea which of the brothers fathered which set of twins because they liked to "mix it up" from time to time. (Grossed me out when I found out too.)

This troper is starting to think his family is like this. Especially since my half-brother (from my mom's previous marriage) has been married three times. With his first wife he has a son and a daughter, with his second wife another daughter, and his third wife already has a son beforehand. My dad has a son from another woman (but I won't go into details with that one). Also, my dad's been in Texas for a while, just maybe we have other relatives living there we don't know about.

Bealzabub}} This troper's HeterosexualLifePartner's family tree on her father's side is so intermarried that it resembles a loopy stick more than a tree. (The reason for this was money. You got cut off of the family funds if you married outside of the family.) This, unfortunately, explains several of my friend's... assorted... issues.

My family tree is complicated cause we dont know who my great grandad is, loads of family members have loads of kids, and also get married, get divorced and have kids with other people, so I have 5 siblings (one shares a dad with me, and the others from my mom's ex boyfriends and current boyfriend), six step siblings from our parents other relationships, and 12 cousins, two of which we arent really related to, cause theyre my uncle's girlfriends kids), and a lot of our aunts and uncles also have split up with their partners and went on to have kids in other relationships. My great grandmother was one of 14 kids and my great grandparents on the other side of my family have 9 kids. My friend sometimes refers to me as her niece, which confuses people even more-her family tree is as complicated cause her mom has 7 kids with 6 different dads.

This troper has a family tree complicated enough that if you made a relationship chart of it, there would have to be a colour specifically for 'step second cousins in law'. Not kidding. It's because most of my cousins are FAR older than me, so they can do mature adult stuff legally, and one of my cousins recently married a woman who had some nieces and nephews about my age. This makes us second cousins in law. And one of my aunts was divorced and remarried, giving me stepcousins, so my second cousins in law and stepcousins are step second cousins in law. And that's only part of it. My family is in every Australian state but Tasmania and...whatever the other one was. (Family hub is in SA.)

This troper's family tree is huge, I'm always meeting new relatives every week! My paternal grandfather was adopted, and has recently found he has a half brother dieing of cancer and a half sister who died in a car crash 30 years ago. His cousin had a daughter at the age of 12, who had a daughter at the age of 15... Now his mother and Step mother are both pregnant and seem to be in competition with each other. His maternal grandmother had 10 kids, and he has a dead twin he didn't know existed until a year ago.

This troper's family is not as complicated as some of the above entries, but it's still pretty bad. My dad's side is fairly simple: my uncle and aunt are second cousins and my grandma's brother has been married about seven times and has countless children. My mother's side is a bit more complex: For starters, my grandparents got divorced and then both remarried, so I have four grandparents on this side. My grandpa getting remarried led to my uncle meeting his first wife (his stepsister), so their daughter is her own step-cousin. Then, after my mom and dad got divorced, she got remarried twice; my first stepdad had a daughter that I never met, and now - thanks to my new stepdad - I have TWELVE siblings. Two of them are actual siblings, and the rest are stepsiblings (some biological and some adopted). Furthermore, I've only actually met four of my stepsiblings (the marriage only happened two years ago so we're all grown and living our own lives).

This troper's girlfreind's sister is a lesbian and is dating the daughter of this troper's stepmother's brother. This troper's step mother's other brother is also gay, and is dating the half brother of this troper's girlfreind's father. Wrap your mind around that for a bit. Still with me? Good. This troper's sister is currently dating the (male) cousin of this troper's girlfreind, who is the child of this troper's father's adopted sister, and this troper's girlfreind's mother's brother, and is about to have his baby.

This Troper's great grandmother had a baby from an affair. That Baby was this troper's mother. She married and had children with this troper's grandfather including having this troper's mother. She then remarried and had more children with this troper's step grandfather. Later on all the children where removed and placed in foster families due to abuse. Of this troper's mothers brother, and five sisters, half sisters, and step sisters, she only still has contact with one, my aunt who's now a grandmother herself. My mother was married four times. First with this troper's half sister's father, (who left her), then with this troper's father (who she divorced due to alchoholism) then with this troper's first step father (who was the love of her life, my real father figure, and sadly died of cancer) and my second step dad (who she divorced beacuse he was a huge asshole). She also has two step granddaughters from this troper's first step father's children (one of whom she and my step father gianed custody of after her mother was put in prison, and who I consider to be like a little sister) one step grandson from her my second step father, and one real granddaughter from my brother.

The two main character's in this troper's story both come from one of these. The whole story is started because of a feud between their big messed-up families.

Some forums and [=IRCs=] make mock family trees with all the regulars, just for fun. Since these tend to start from inside jokes and offhand comments, this trope is in full swing. Both the ones I'm part of are delightfully tangled.

This troper's family isn't too convoluted (although swinging from mother's side to father's side is a roll call of most of Europe, including Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Armenia; curiously, most of us gravitate towards the Irish), but on my father's side there was a weird sort of family grafting where a brother and a sister were adopted by my dad's grandparents in a way that may or may not have crossed generations even though all of them were roughly the same age (curiously, they're also the last survivors of that generation of the family, well into their 80s).