Tiptoeing towards love

Introduction (Important, don't skip)

Tiptoeing towards love

Maternal uncle-niece

Back in the day, Maternal uncle-niece marriages were widely practiced in Southern India, especially Tamilnadu. It has reduced drastically in the present, but still, some people do practice it and this story is one of those where such a marriage takes place between the niece and Maternal uncle.

Important ⚠️

--In many communities in Tamilnadu, it is not only permitted, but even deemed one's entitlement to marry one's niece ie one's elder sister's daughter. The maternal uncle of the girl is known as Murai Maàman which indicates his right to marry the girl.

--Currently, it is mostly practiced in rural and small to medium cities.

--In northern India, Hindus have outlawed consanguineous marriage by avoiding the same 'gotra' or patrilineal relationship between the probable bride and the groom.

--Whereas, in southern Indian there are communities which practice consanguineous marriages. The uncle- niece (especially a man and his elder sister's daughter) marriage exists. The ritual named Maman Kalyanam (uncle niece marriage) remains in practice in Tamil Nadu. The principle involved is that of return-the family that gives a daughter expects one in return, if not now, then in next generation. The effect of such marriages is to bind people together in relatively, tight-knit kin groups. It is not illegal as it is their custom. The legality of Uncle-niece marriages was confirmed in the Hindu Code Bill of 1984.

--The custom is in vogue, but not in every part of South India, nor in every caste and community. It is widely practised in Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu, but infrequent in other states like Telangana and Karnataka.

--I acknowledge the genetic issues that might happen but it's not always the case eventhough the chance is always there.

Soo...

Guys, I don't personally encourage such marriages but If there are people who does such marriages out of their own free will and consent, then of course, I'm going to support them. (I find them cute😭♥️)

And yah, I'm aware that most of you are learning about this now and are disgusted. But it is what it is.

People still practice it.

And yes, I'm romanticising such a relationship in this story, but you do know what you were getting yourself into, don't you?

( And what I write don't define who I'm, so don't relate everything I write to me)

Plus, don't read it If it's not your cup of tea.

Just deem it as a dark romance where you enjoy the story but don't ever wish for something like that to happen in reality.

And that doesn't mean this is a dark romance guys...

It's set in the current time period and it's a family drama and cute love story between the main lead and female lead. The couple's will have 14 year age gap. So again, leave If you're not comfortable.
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I explained the best I could🙂and If u still can't accept it, I can't do anything. Just deal with it.

Plus I'm taking a break soon (Will try my best to complete his lotus before that) and this story will be updated eventually after I'm back...

And I've unpublished Devoted to him for the time being.

Byee🙂