A young woman has taken to Reddit to share her disturbing situation following the recent death of her mother from cancer.
The user, who is 17 years old, He shared that he had lost his mother. last year, but just a few months after the loss, her 45-year-old father married a 25-year-old woman and moved his new wife and five-year-old son into the family home.
What’s worse, the original poster (OP for short) further discovered that the new wife had been his father’s partner during his mother’s three-year battle with cancer, and that the five-year-old boy was actually his half brother.
Dismissing the lingering pain over the loss of OP’s mother, the new wife immediately tried to intrude on OP’s life and tried to brand herself as the “new mom,” despite being less than a decade older than her.
A young woman took to Reddit after her father married his 25-year-old lover in the months immediately following her mother’s death from cancer.
OP explained the infuriating situation on the TwoHotTakes subreddit in a post titled “I told my dad’s wife I don’t want anything to do with her and her baby.”
In the post, she added that, before her mother’s death, her parents were beginning to go through a divorce, but she “never knew why.”
About seven months later, her father moved the new woman and her five-year-old son into the family home, and the couple married soon after.
“She came in acting like she ran the place, she wanted to take out all of my mom’s things and I got furious saying she wouldn’t come in here taking out anything of my moms,” OP recounted with disgust.
‘I told them that when I go to college I will rent a storage unit and then I can move her there, but for now she will stay in her room (she had a separate room that she went to after chemo appointments and, like I said, my mom and dad were in a divorce mess, so they didn’t sleep in the same room).’
A few months after the wife moved out, OP was going through her mother’s things when she found evidence that the mother had hired a private investigator to investigate whether the father had been cheating on her.
Upon discovering this, she realized with horror that her father had been carrying on the affair for six years ‘and was cheating on (my mom) while she was battling cancer.’
The teen further explained that the new wife has been “trying to get me to do things with her, she has also tried to force me to take care of her son and tries to pass it off as ‘sibling bonding time’,” which OP rejected in big measure. in.
To make matters worse, OP described her father’s new wife as wanting to immediately get rid of her mother’s things and take her place as the new mother of the family.
What’s more, before her mother died, the two were planning a trip around the world before the teenager left for college, but, when the mother’s death seemed imminent, they had arranged for OP’s aunt to take the trip with her.
Since the student will be graduating high school in May, the trip with her aunt is quickly approaching.
When the new wife found out about OP’s plans, she called a “family meeting” and demanded to take over planning the aunt’s trip, in addition to taking the trip herself.
“She said…she’s going with me because she’s my ‘mom’ now and this would be a good bond for me, her son, and me,” OP described.
‘I turned it off immediately. I told her that this is a trip to honor my mother… my only mother because I had one and I’m not looking for another, I told her that she’s not coming because I don’t want to have anything to do with her or her. Matter baby, so she stops trying to force it into my life.
‘My dad asked me why I was acting this way and why I didn’t give it a chance.
“I told her that she is young enough to be my sister and that I don’t want anything to do with the person she was cheating on my mother with nor do I want anything to do with the baby she had with my mother while she was struggling “. cancer,” OP described her confrontation with her father and her ex-lover-turned-new-wife.
“He tried to tell me that I wouldn’t understand what it’s like to be married to someone who is dealing with cancer and I asked him, ‘Is it as bad as dealing with cancer and then finding out that your partner is cheating on you and has a secret baby?’ (He’s his son, he’s my half-brother).
‘He broke out at me and told me that I had no right to speak to him or his wife in this way, and that I will be part of this family and take his wife on a trip. I told him once again that no, I’m not. I’m going to take my aunt and he can’t do anything because I’ll turn 18 before the trip,’ she declared.
Hundreds of people took to the comments to express their sympathy for the situation, as well as offer advice and encouragement to OP.
Other Reddit users soon flooded the comments in support of the teen, with many praising her maturity given the devastating situation, and many more expressing disdain for the father and his new wife.
‘Is there any chance you could move in with your aunt and take your mom’s things with you? “Your father lives in a fantasy land where everyone will live happily ever after,” one of the circumstances assessed.
A man who claimed to be the father of a 19- and 20-year-old, 45-year-old, wrote, among other things: “I will say that if due to some serious set of circumstances I were in a similar situation to your father, there would be no De There was no way I would allow the new woman in my life to be called Mom or touch any of your real mother’s things.
“Your father should be helping you enforce your boundaries in this situation, not helping someone else walk over them,” he fumed.
‘Your father has absolutely betrayed you in this case. “I’m sorry you’re going through this and I’m upset that your father is in the current state of mind that he is in,” the father of two continued.
She concluded: “I don’t know how I could look at myself in the mirror with all the shame your father should be feeling right now.” Take care.’
A third shared a story of how his friend took revenge after a similar situation: “I have a friend whose father cheated on his mother when he was 12. Dad married his partner and 20 years later, my friend only refers to her as a “side piece”.
‘If he calls her house and she answers, he will greet Side Piece, can I talk to my cheating father?’ Funny. They both get angry but what did they expect?
Another chimed in by emphasizing the ‘deception’ of the mistress-turned-wife: ‘I had to laugh out loud when I read that your father’s mistress-wife, who is only eight years older than you, decided that she is now your mother. Just wow. The deception is strong with that one.
‘Wish you all the best. I’m glad your aunt is on your side. We aunts can be quite fierce protecting our nieces,” she concluded.