Woman says best thing about marriage to first cousin is no in-laws

The British newspaper Metro had an article on October 9th about a cousin couple planning to marry in Colorado:

The bride-to-be, who wants only to be known as Erin, revealed an unusual benefit of marrying close relative Richard, and said he is the most considerate partner she has ever had.

Erin, whose father was Richard’s mother’s brother, is going to marry her fiancé near their home in Colorado next August.

The digital artist moved in with Richard, in Autumn 2018 after her first marriage ended in 2017, with the couple getting engaged earlier this year.

Erin’s home state is one of the few in the United States where marriages between first cousins are legal.

As first cousins, Erin and Richard still have some relatives that they don't share like his father and her mother.  There is a big age gap between them, but she is still young enough to have a baby and they are trying to conceive.  I hope they have taken a genetic carrier test.  I think they should have waited until marriage before having sex. I can't tell if they reached the level of adultery which I cannot support, but it sounds like her marriage was already ending before they reconnected and that the marriage was over before she moved in with him.

But then it started to make me really uncomfortable and nervous because things got really intimate and sexual, so I just stopped talking to him for a few years, and even blocked him on Facebook.

She restarted contacted after her marriage began to fail later the same year, and says that initially she only wanted help with a place to stay.

There seems to be a discrepancy in the dates and I'm not sure if that's due to the writer or Erin.  If Richard really contacted her in 2017, then "a few years" have not passed yet.

UPDATE: On February 6, 2020, The Sun had an article about this couple:

A WOMAN who’s spoken out about falling in love with her first cousin, who is nearly twice her age, says she plans to marry him and have his babies.

Monica VanHoek, 35, she confided in Paul Derschan, 55, a construction company manager, when she looked for family support and comfort after a failed marriage — and the couple fell in love.

Oddly, their names are different in this article.  Compare the pictures in both articles and they are wearing the same glasses and are the same ages.  Either this entire relationship is a hoax or they are using fake names to protect their identity.