A woman was astonished and perplexed to learn via a paternity test that her husband is not the dad of their five-year-old kid. She revealed the shocking experiences and adamant that despite the test results, she has never been unfaithful to her spouse. Read the story to know what happened.
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I don’t know how it happened and I haven’t been able to stop crying all day. I never cheated. I love my husband, we’ve been together since college and he’s the love of my life, he’s handsome and kind and while I’ve slept with two other people, both were before we got together. There is no other potential father for our daughter. We were married already and actively trying for a baby. I never cheated, I never would cheat, and I don’t know why he took that stupid test because I would never, ever cheat, but it came back negative and now he thinks he’s not her dad. I don’t know how to convince him it was a faulty test and I’m so scared.
These past few months it’s like he’s become someone completely different from the man I married. He’s cold, and suspicious. He kept demanding to see my phone, and wouldn’t tell me why, and I showed him at first but eventually told him I wouldn’t anymore unless he explained why. He’s been distant with our daughter too. He stays in his office for hours on end, and I don’t know what he’s doing. I did not cheat. He accused me this morning, saying he’d done the test after realizing that our daughter’s eyes (brown) wouldn’t naturally come from ours (both blue) and that he wanted me to get out of the house. I didn’t leave and he locked me out of our bedroom and now I’m in my daughter’s room. This is terrifying.
What should I do?
UPDATE
Hi everyone. First off, I wanted to thank everyone who reached out, my original post got so much attention, it was hard to get to everything, but I ended up making a list of plans, and tests I wanted to get done. My husband was (understandably) distrustful of me for a while, but he apologized for the way he acted (which I didn’t need) and said that he wouldn’t try to kick me out of our home. He did say, though, that if every test came back and I’d cheated, then he was going to “go scorched earth.”
We did a few tests. Blood paternity tests for him and me, and our daughter, and we had an appointment with a chimerism specialist coming up, but that got canceled because, well, some of you guessed it, but my daughter is not biologically mine either. I don’t know how this happened, but a police officer came to our house and took our statements, and we’re suing the hospital where I gave birth. I don’t know what happened to my baby, and that is terrifying. I have my husband back, but my whole world was still upended, and I just wish he’d never taken that stupid test. I’ve been sleeping in my daughter’s room, and I’m so afraid that she’s going to be taken away from me, but at the same time I want to know where my biological daughter is, and if she’s okay. I pray to god she’s okay.
My daughter still doesn’t know the details, and we’ve been trying to keep this quiet. The last thing we need is a big scandal. I don’t want people who know us to look at her differently. She deserves better than that, she’s such a good kid, and she’s not some spectacle to be gawked at. If we can find her birth family, I have no idea what we’ll do. I guess the best case scenario would be to get a bigger house and all live together, but I don’t know if we can afford that, or if they’d go for that, or even if we’ll be able to locate them, or if I’m just crazy.
This whole situation is crazy. I don’t know anyone else who’s been in a situation like this. I mean, are there support groups for parents of kids who got mixed up? I googled and nothing came up. Literally all I’m getting are tabloid articles from trashy magazines that slap the faces of innocent kids on the same pages as celebrity sex scandals, and fiction. How do we tell our daughter? I mean we can’t tell her now, she’ll tell the kids at school and then it’ll be everywhere, but we have to say something.
I don’t know what I ever did to deserve this.
