Couple decide to stay together after finding out they're brother and sister

A woman on a mission to locate her long-lost mum was stunned to find out she had unwittingly wed her own brother. Adriana and her spouse Leandro, both from Brazil, have been together for nearly 19 years and have a daughter. The pair, who opted not to reveal their surnames or faces, had spent their lives trying to track down their respective mums, both named Maria, who had deserted them when they were babies. Neither of them could have anticipated that the women they were seeking might be the same person. Adriana, employed in cosmetics sales, hadn't seen her estranged mother since she was one , leaving her dad to bring her up. Leandro, a lorry driver, brought up by his stepmum, knew his mother had also abandoned him in his birthplace of Sao Paulo when he was eight. While Leandro remained in the city, Adriana left their hometown to work as a housemaid, got hitched for 15 years and had three kids. The couple met for the first time over two decades ago after Adriana's marriage broke down and she returned to Sao Paulo. They quickly fell head over heels and began living together, reports the Mirror . Determined to locate her mum, Adriana sought help from a local radio station back in 2014. However, at the end of Radio Globo's 'The Time Is Now' programme - which specialises in finding lost relatives - the mother revealed that she also had a son named Leandro who didn't know her. Upon learning her husband is also her sibling, a devastated Adriana said: "I don't believe that you're telling me this. Leandro is my husband." She added: "Now I'm scared to go home and find out that Leandro doesn't want me anymore. I love him so much." The pair experienced Genetic Sexual Attraction (GSA), a phenomenon occurring between "two adults who have been separated during the critical years of development and bonding and are reunited alter as adults," according to a GSA support forum. Adriana and Leandro, who allegedly never formally married, informed the radio station they would stay together despite the startling discovery they are actually brother and sister. The wife said: "Only death is going to separate us. All this happened because God wanted it to happen. "Of course it would have been different if we had known all this before, but we didn't and we fell in love. We thought it was funny that both our mothers had the same name, but it is a common name so we just thought it was a coincidence. "At first we were really knocked by it all, but we had a family meeting and told everyone that we are going to stay husband and wife, whatever anyone might think. We have so many plans together. Nothing is going to break us up. Nothing." The couple revealed at the time they didn't hold their mother responsible for abandoning them and had contacted her multiple times with intentions to arrange a meeting in the near future.

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