Mom Suspects Son’s Wife of Cheating & Secretly Takes a DNA Test after She Gives Birth

• A Reddit user opened up about their family dilemma and asked for advice.
• The writer was forced to keep a secret from their brother.
• They wanted to know if they were wrong for not apologizing for a secret their mother told them to keep.

A Reddit user has taken a family dilemma to the platform. The anonymous user wanted to know if they were wrong for not telling their brother that their mother got his child's DNA tested.

When the user's brother's relationship came crashing down, the family opened up about how much they disliked his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his child.

"Both of my parents hated her so much since she has a very shaky history," wrote the user. It turned out she had been running away from home since she was 14 and struggled with drug addiction. But the brother met her when her life was more stable.

The family already had doubts about her, and once they discovered what she had done to their loved one, the family started questioning more than her family history.

The Beginning of the Sibling Rivalry

The anonymous Reddit user revealed that their brother's girlfriend had cheated on him after being together for a long time. The breakup was painful since the brother had done a lot to help his ex-girlfriend.

From the on-set, his parents never liked the girlfriend, to the point that the user suspected that their parents hired a private investigator to dig up information about her.

However, the brother did not end the relationship, and once the ex-girlfriend fell pregnant, the parents were forced to get along with the mother of their grandchild.

According to the writer, the parents had bickered with her since they started dating. But, when his son arrived, the brother threatened to never speak to them again if they did not stop talking badly about the mother of his child.

For the sake of saving their relationship with their son, the parents played nice. However, one of the siblings saw their mother doing something suspicious. "I was coming back from school when my nephew was like a year, and I walked into my mom putting something in his mouth and then putting it into a bag," they explained.

The mother was taking a mouth swab of the nephew for a DNA test kit she had ordered from Amazon. The sibling, who also shared the dilemma on Reddit, asked her what she was doing. The curious grandmother dismissed her child and told them to stay out of her business.

When her child asked why she was doing the DNA test, she explained that she wanted to know if the child was related to their family. At the moment, the Reddit user wanted to tell their brother but was threatened not to have their college and car paid for.

The grandmother did not plan on anyone finding out because even her husband did not know about the DNA test. Weeks later, the results came back, and she confessed that she was indeed the child's grandmother.

The positive results also led her to treat her grandchild's mother better. Seeing the harmony between the ex-girlfriend and mother made the anonymous writer feel less guilty about keeping the news from their brother.

The Truth Finally Came Out

When the brother found out that his girlfriend had been cheating on him all along, his family came clean about how much they hated her and even told him about the secret DNA test.

As the sibling had anticipated, the brother was furious with his mother. He asked if everyone else knew, and his father assured him he did not, while his sibling confessed that their mother threatened them against letting the cat out of the bag.

The anonymous writer expressed how upsetting it was to have seen their mother do something like that behind her child's back, but her threats led them not to say anything.

The siblings revisited the conversation, and the betrayed brother asked his sibling to apologize, but they refused. Therefore, the Reddit user wanted to know if they were wrong for not apologizing to their brother for something they were instructed and threatened not to reveal when they were 17.

The fact that the anonymous writer was a minor at the time the DNA test was taken, some users said it was not wrong not to apologize, especially because their college tuition and car payments were at stake.

Other commenters also agreed but thought it would have been a great opportunity for the siblings to share an honest empathetic conversation, where one sibling made the other understand the difficult situation of being caught between a mother's order and their brother's trust.

Even though netizens agreed that there was no need for an apology because the fault was on the mother, they still believed that it would have been nice for the sibling to apologize to their brother for what he was going through.

However, another user explained that the apology would not have just been about admitting to being wrong but a way to rebuild a special sibling relationship. "I understand you not telling, but I also understand him being mad. I would be going out of my way to mend fences and earn his trust back," added the commenter.

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