My wife (46) and I (48) have twin daughters (20) who're growing into beautiful, successful young women and we're very proud of them. In this story I'll call them Amy and Becky. We live in a college town and as they are both very good students they were admitted on partial scholarships to the local university. Because room and board are so very expensive there we decided as a family that they should stay at home and as compensation we would pay the remainder of their tuition. Also that we'd save the money we'd have otherwise spent on room and board and share it with them when they graduate.
One day two years ago, just after they'd finished high school, my wife and I hopped into the car to do some grocery shopping and left them lounging by the pool with a couple beers. (We've allowed them to drink responsibly at home since they were 16. To the best of our knowledge, they've never abused alcohol, so we won!) About halfway to the supermarket we realized that we'd forgotten our shopping list and, so, we returned home about 15 minutes after we left. I ran into the house to get the list and, to my very great surprise, saw Amy writhing naked on the sofa with Becky's head buried in her sister's crotch.
I couldn't help but stare for a second. When Amy saw me looking she was horrified. I averted my eyes, grabbed the list, and went back to the car. Driving away, I told my wife what was happening in the house; we decided to figure it out while we did our shopping. By the time we got home we only knew one thing - that we could not shame them in any way. Both twins were sitting at the patio table, fully clothed, looking very pensive. I put away the groceries and went to the garage, pretending to be busy while my wife went out to talk with them. She said plainly that we weren't angry, that it was natural for young people to explore their bodies and their sexuality, that there was no shame in it. I'm not privy to the whole conversation but by the time I came back into the house the twins were fine. I simply smiled at them and told them I "saw" but wasn't "watching", that they'll always be my little girls and asked if we could just let it go. Both of them stood up, gave me a hug and that was that.
So that was in mid-May. By mid-June it was pretty obvious that the twins were continuing their sexual relationship and we suspected that they knew we knew, so for the rest of the summer it was an open secret in the family that they were together. Still, they worked hard to keep it hidden from us and we went out of our way to pretend not to notice. My wife and I researched the psychological effects of adult sibling incest and came to the conclusion - as we suspected based on our own observations of the two well-adjusted girls living in our house - that it is not necessarily harmful. It's actually legal in many European and Asian nations and, much to our surprise, is legal in Rhode Island, of all places. We discussed all this and decided that it would be unfair - maybe even unhealthy - for us to consent to their relationship only to keep them ignorant of that consent. So my wife took them aside one day and told them that we knew; that because incest was illegal in our state and ostracized by society they needed to be discrete; but that, at home, they could be themselves freely without judgement. And, after that, they were. They were never lascivious around us but it was not unusual while watching tv or after dinner dishes were washed for one of the twins to take the other by the hand and head up to a bedrooms for an hour or two. It wasn't unusual for them to emerge from the same bedroom in the morning. In fact, by the time they started college, they had converted Amy's room into a den for homework and they were always sleeping together in Becky's bed.
I also started noticing some changes in my wife's sexual response. Becky's bedroom is not next to ours but we could still sometimes hear when one or the other of the twins was having a particularly good time. Sometimes that happened as we were about to have sex, ourselves and, when it did, I always found my wife to be soaking wet before I'd even laid a hand on her. I could hardly blame her; some of the sounds coming out of that room had me hard as a rock.