Child Disowned by Parents Ruins Their Marriages Years Later

Two married people had an extramarital affair that resulted in a child. This child was kept secret from their families until the day the child became a teen and decided to touch base with them.

A teenager opened up on Reddit about what it was like to be disowned by both biological parents and the repercussions of confronting them.

In a short Reddit confession, the 17-year-old wrote of being a product of an extra-marital affair, and the mother was forced to tell her husband about the affair because she fell pregnant while he was overseas.

Despite this, her marriage did not end. Instead, she decided to let her parents raise her illegitimate child. As for the father of the child, he never kept contact with the child and did not tell his family about the affair but secretly paid child support to the child's grandparents.

The mother had other children with her husband, but they were told their grandparents had adopted the child. However, the lies started piling up, and the child, at 17, decided it was time to make contact with the biological father.

How Did the Confrontation Go?

First, the teen sent a friend request to one of the bio father's children. When the father found out, he contacted the mother and requested they have a Skype video chat.

During the call, the father told the teenager that he and his mother decided they would not stay in contact for the sake of their families. He begged for the teen's understanding, urging the teen to move on in life.

But the teen wasn't willing to do what the father asked. In fact, the father's blatant reaction only made the teen want to reveal the father's secret, so the teen reached out to the wife and sent her screenshots with all the evidence of her husband's infidelity.

To take it further, the 17-year-old also told the children of the mother who abandoned him, including her extended family and her husband's family.

The revelation of the long-kept secret destroyed the father's marriage. Meanwhile, the mother also separated from her husband, while her other children hated her for stepping out of her marriage.

However, when the teen's adrenaline and anger faded, a bad feeling surfaced from breaking up two marriages. On the other hand, the teen admitted it felt necessary to reveal the truth after the way the parents made the teen feel like an inconvenience in their lives.

Bothered, the teen asked Reddit users if exposing the parents and ending their marriages was wrong after they kept their illegitimate child a secret for 17 years.

What Did Commenters Have to Say?

The teenager did not think the news would lead to the end of his father's marriage though wanting to punish them somehow. Despite how ugly things turned out, many commenters were on the aggrieved teen's side.

Commenters clarified that it was not the Reddit user's fault that the parents decided to keep a living human being a secret, so the end of their marriage was the consequence of their long-kept secret.

One netizen encouraged the teenager to be supportive of the parents' other children, to try to form genuine connections with them, and embrace being free of this secret.

Other commenters emphasized that the father needed to be exposed for cheating. Even though it cost him his marriage, it was a secret that would have eventually come out.

Additionally, people urged the teenager not to worry about what happened after exposing the truth because it was the parents' decision to have a child under such complicated circumstances. "Kids are never responsible for their parent's choices, most especially not the choices made before they even existed," added another commenter.

No matter how the truth came out, commenters assured the 17-year-old that the secret would have been exposed, and it did not change the fact that the parents were responsible for breaking their marriages.

Although this was not the ideal situation to grow up in, netizens encouraged the teen not to view life as a mistake. It was understandable to struggle to grapple with everything, so people advised the teen to speak to the grandparents and seek therapy.

Here is a story about a woman who discovered her husband's infidelity through a note she found in a bag she bought at Goodwill.

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