No matter how hard we try to forgive and forget, a parent destroying a marriage due to an affair is a tough one to get over.
This boy was trying, but he really didn’t have the heart to play nice with his stepmother, who was his father’s affair partner.
His family, though, thinks it’s time he move on.
Check out all of the details and decide for yourself!
AITA for leaving a family party early when my father’s wife wouldn’t leave me alone?
I (19m) became estranged from my father two years ago after he was outed for having an affair.
The woman in question is someone he had worked with, who knew he was married, who had met my mom and me, and had seemed a little off at the time.
He hated his dad and the woman for their intentions.
We now know it was because she liked dad and wanted me to like her.
I was disgusted with my dad.
He tried denying it, then he tried to convince mom it was a one night stand and nothing more and he’d forever regret it, then he wanted her to stay with him and raise the baby he knocked the other woman up with, since they only had me.
The dad didn’t want to be blamed for his actions.
Even when he moved in with the other woman he kept trying to stop mom from going through with the divorce. He tried to get me to talk to mom on his behalf.
He told me mom was the one breaking up our family and not him.
Then when he gave up and accepted mom wouldn’t take him back, which is when the other woman lost the baby, he tried to get me on board with things.
He simply wanted to get away from the mean new couple.
I ignored all calls and texts from him. I couldn’t block him while still a minor. But I didn’t reply and I didn’t see my dad face to face during this.
I knew I wanted him out of my life for good.
He tried to make me see him but he failed. And once I turned 18 it was over for him.
He ended up marrying the other woman and now they’re expecting a kid together.
He knows what he wants and doesn’t wish to change that.
I don’t want anything to do with any of that, including the baby, and yes even if I don’t have to see them I have zero interest in knowing that child and any future children.
I still see the extended family.
Which is why I was at a party they also attended (but weren’t technically invited to).
During the party dad’s wife approached me and told me she wanted to talk, I said no and walked away.
She needed to take a hint here!
I walked away from her again.
The third time she spoke before I could move and said she wants her baby to know their brother and she wants me to be a part of their family.
She wants to know me and have me for dinner and maybe I could spend some time with them.
She tried the whole “we’re family now” crap and I left early because I did not want to deal with it.
Everyone blamed the boy for the ordeal!
I thanked the hosts who were already annoyed that she and dad were there (a couple of dad’s siblings want him around still and the others don’t but to keep the peace they let them stay).
The two siblings of dad who think we should all be easier on dad and forgive him were so pissed at me for leaving early because then the rest of the family turned on dad.
He got bad mouthed!
They told me I could have spoken to the woman and not taken it out on her, since she didn’t do anything to me.
And leaving was an OTT reaction and not a mature one which caused “family disharmony”.
This boy simply wanted to have a good time with his “real family”!
Let’s find out what the Reddit community has to say about this story.
Agreed! This lady needs to recheck her morals!
This user has a good point!
This person knows the lady is up to no good!
It’s bizarre that the family expected the kid to be okay with everything!
This user can’t understand certain domestic settings!
Why can’t the lady just leave this boy alone?
It’s obvious he doesn’t want to call her “family”!
If you liked that post, check out this story about a guy who was forced to sleep on the couch at his wife’s family’s house, so he went to a hotel instead.
