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She married the man of her dreams and was supposed to live happily ever after. Everything changed when her husband’s ex dropped a bombshell that he has secret lovechild – a 12-year-old daughter – who would be moving in with him permanently.
The news couldn’t have come at a worse time. The wife is pregnant with their first child together and the stepdaughter wants nothing to do with the baby. As the mood in her home reached an all-time low, the woman reached out to the internet for advice. What she was about to learn would shake her world to the core.
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She had a happy marriage with the man of her dreams, and a baby on the way
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Many understood why the 12YO was acting out and suggested the couple goes for therapy
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The woman dropped a bombshell when she came back to update netizens on the situation
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“Sue for fraud”: people felt she shouldn’t let the husband get off lightly
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Robyn is an award-winning journalist who has produced work for several international media outlets. Made in Africa and exported to the world, she is obsessed with travel and the allure of new places. A lover of words and visuals, Robyn is part of the Bored Panda writing team. This Panda has two bamboo tattoos: A map of Africa & the words "Be Like The Bamboo... Bend Never Break."
Robyn is an award-winning journalist who has produced work for several international media outlets. Made in Africa and exported to the world, she is obsessed with travel and the allure of new places. A lover of words and visuals, Robyn is part of the Bored Panda writing team. This Panda has two bamboo tattoos: A map of Africa & the words "Be Like The Bamboo... Bend Never Break."
Not the focus of the story and doesn't erase his behaviour, but it bothered me the way the relationship is described as starting ("I hit on him and he gave clear uninterested signals. Instead of respecting that I asked someone to set us up anyway and he said no. Instead of respecting that I got access to his personal number and badgered him"). Er, don't do that to someone. Honestly this whole thing reads as creative writing to me. A daughter he told you he hadn't met is just welcomed to fully live with you as strangers and you weren't suspicious till the internet pointed out it was odd? He told such a huge lie but being called on it with no proof was enough for him to reveal all? Including totally irrelevant details like her pestering him to date her but being wildly vague on how everything about daughter being discovered, moving in, his lie revealed, went down? Hopefully I'm right thinking this sounds like lazy fiction so there aren't real kids in this mess.
I was waiting for someone to call this out. Just too much nonsense at the beginning and a mom dumping her TWELVE year old on strangers, no DNA test, no lawyers... no way.
I can totally see that being a thing people do. I'm active over on reddit and I also like to write. A few times I've come up with °*~dramatic~*° scenarios while daydreaming and thought to myself that it would be a fun format to post them in r/AITA or r/advice. But then I reminded myself that it's not what those subs are supposed to be for. There are subs for creative writing, though, so I guess I could just put them there. Anyhow, I can see people not caring enough to refrain from just putting their wild ideas out there.
You noticed how he got the daughter into the house as soon as he thought he had OP nailed down with a baby? Oh, but why are women hesitant to have babies? Because too often s**t happens as soon as we are pregnant, that's one reason.
I read through this thinking Jake was a people pleaser and trying to keep everyone happy, in a really tough situation. Then came the update. I still think he's a people pleaser, but a lying scummy one.
Not the focus of the story and doesn't erase his behaviour, but it bothered me the way the relationship is described as starting ("I hit on him and he gave clear uninterested signals. Instead of respecting that I asked someone to set us up anyway and he said no. Instead of respecting that I got access to his personal number and badgered him"). Er, don't do that to someone. Honestly this whole thing reads as creative writing to me. A daughter he told you he hadn't met is just welcomed to fully live with you as strangers and you weren't suspicious till the internet pointed out it was odd? He told such a huge lie but being called on it with no proof was enough for him to reveal all? Including totally irrelevant details like her pestering him to date her but being wildly vague on how everything about daughter being discovered, moving in, his lie revealed, went down? Hopefully I'm right thinking this sounds like lazy fiction so there aren't real kids in this mess.
I was waiting for someone to call this out. Just too much nonsense at the beginning and a mom dumping her TWELVE year old on strangers, no DNA test, no lawyers... no way.
I can totally see that being a thing people do. I'm active over on reddit and I also like to write. A few times I've come up with °*~dramatic~*° scenarios while daydreaming and thought to myself that it would be a fun format to post them in r/AITA or r/advice. But then I reminded myself that it's not what those subs are supposed to be for. There are subs for creative writing, though, so I guess I could just put them there. Anyhow, I can see people not caring enough to refrain from just putting their wild ideas out there.
You noticed how he got the daughter into the house as soon as he thought he had OP nailed down with a baby? Oh, but why are women hesitant to have babies? Because too often s**t happens as soon as we are pregnant, that's one reason.
I read through this thinking Jake was a people pleaser and trying to keep everyone happy, in a really tough situation. Then came the update. I still think he's a people pleaser, but a lying scummy one.
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