Dead Son’s Parents Make Daughter-in-Law Prove Her Child’s Paternity — She Responds with Her Own Demands

A widow had her husband's children from his first marriage take a DNA test after his parents did the same to her. That was not the end; she continued to shock the family with demands and ultimatums as payback for how they treated her.

On Reddit, a 36-year-old woman opened up about what it was like being the untrusted second wife of his late husband, James, 39. Before she and James got together, he was married to his first wife, Lucy, and together they shared two daughters, Emma, 16, and Claire, 14.

According to the second wife, Lucy was the wife James' parents favored. As much as he loved Lucy, James swore he was never in love with her and only married her because she fell pregnant with Emma.

Ultimately, James admitted he stepped out of his marriage with Lucy and had an affair with one of his co-workers. The 39-year-old thought Lucy would realize the downfall of their relationship, but she did not, so he filed for divorce.

Two years later, he met the woman who would later be his second wife. Lucy did not handle James moving on well and painted the new girlfriend as the one he had an affair with. She ran with that narrative until James had to prove her wrong. He admitted to Lucy that he had a one-night stand with a co-worker but did not have an affair with his girlfriend.

Despite this information, the girlfriend was still seen as the woman that broke Lucy and James' family. Nonetheless, James always defended her. He even went as far as cutting down communication with his parents.

But the ups and downs and the non-stop family drama became too much to handle for the 36-year-old girlfriend, who admitted, "I decided to end things until I found out that I was pregnant."

What Happened After She Discovered She Was Pregnant?

The pregnancy changed everything. James and his pregnant girlfriend decided to get married, though Emma and Claire were not happy about the decision. In fact, his daughters and parents did not attend the wedding at the last minute. But five months into the second wife's pregnancy, tragedy struck the family, as James died in a car accident,

Even though things were tense between the second wife and James' family, she let Lucy attend the funeral for the sake of Emma and Claire. But the day still ended with another family fight. Lucy dug up things from the past and said the baby James' wife was carrying was not his, planting seeds of doubt in his parents.

The second wife found herself embarking on her motherhood journey alone. She welcomed her son, and the one time James' parents reached out to her was to demand a paternity test. She agreed on the condition that they pay for it.

The results proved that James was the child's father, which also changed how her in-laws treated the child's mother. They were much more willing to speak to her and even asked to see the baby.

But the widow was not going to let them off easily. She denied them access to her son until the family publicly apologized to her. Moreover, she agreed to supervised visits for as long as they treated all their grandchildren and they submit to her final demand.

What Did the Widow Demand Next?

In the spirit of keeping the promise of equally treating the grandchildren, James' parents set up a trust fund for the second wife's son and agreed to send him to a private school of her choice.

But the trust fund still did not gain James' parents' full access to their grandson because the widow had one final demand. She asked that Lucy's children also be subjected to a DNA test, the same way she was forced to test her son.

"James' parents were shocked," she said, but that was their only option if they wanted to be invited to her son's first birthday party. Again, she reminded them of the equal treatment she requested.

Not once did the widow think of backing down. In fact, she gave an ultimatum: either Lucy's children get a DNA test or James' parents would not see their grandson until he was 18 years old.

The in-laws thought she was being unreasonable, but she didn't care. Therefore, to make sure they kept in contact with their grandson, the parents asked Lucy to get her children tested.

Lucy also thought it was shocking and unacceptable, and Emma and Claire refused, so James' parents threatened to cut them off financially.

This whole ordeal put the second wife back in the hot seat, but since she was already used to being painted as the bad person, she did not care that Lucy and her children were upset with her.

However, some Reddit commenters found the story hard to believe. One user suspected that the second wife might have made up details to make herself look like the victim.

They thought it was too convenient for the first wife and children to be wrong and for her in-laws to be wealthy. The commenter believed the 36-year-old realized the odds were not in her favor and decided to make up details that would make her look like a good person.

Some commenters were also not sold on everything the second wife claimed, but one thing they did agree with was the demand for her dead husband's children to get DNA tests.

One Reddit user said they sympathized with her because she lost her husband at five months pregnant and was ill-treated by her in-laws. They also agreed that Lucy's pregnancy happened the same way hers did, so asking for a DNA test was not outrageous.

Commenters believed that if Lucy was not hiding anything, taking the test should not be a problem, but if she did not want to, no one was forcing her, and all she had to do was let go of her former in-laws' money.

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