Recounting her five-year relationship with her husband, one woman took to Reddit to share her story and the events that led her to hesitate between staying in the marriage or starting over as a single mother.
From the moment their precious baby boy was born, her husband’s mother kept making comments about the child’s appearance, mentioning over and over again that it didn’t resemble her son.
Despite the woman’s efforts to stay collected, she was disturbed by her husband’s failure to defend her against his mother’s pushy behavior.
“For a while now [my MIL] has been making comments about how my son doesn’t look like my husband when he was a toddler. Basically accusing me of sleeping around. This, rightfully so upset me,” the woman wrote on the platform.
Even though she was in emotional turmoil and fiercely denying the accusations, the woman’s husband remained passive, failing to stand for her. His lack of action and support caused a rift between them, leading her to distance herself emotionally out of frustration and feeling disrespected.
The breaking point came when he mentioned he wanted a DNA test. It wasn’t that he suspected the child wasn’t his but he wanted to please his mother. This decision came out of the blue and shattered the woman’s heart into a million pieces. She couldn’t believe the audacity of her husband’s request but she still agreed to do the test.
However, while they awaited the results, she was already determined to leave her husband because his request was an outrageous insult to her integrity. She sought legal advice and searched for a new home for herself and her son.
The DNA test results, expected in just a few days, promised to provide confirmation, and she intended to pair them with divorce papers.
This decision wasn’t made just to protect herself and her integrity, but also to protect her son from a future overshadowed by animosity and bitterness. Having experienced a toxic upbringing when she was a child herself, the woman was determined not to let her son go through the same and be part of a dysfunctional household.
When the results finally came and showed that her child was her husband’s, she told him and his family that their marriage was over. It was a huge slap in the face for every of them, but she believed they didn’t deserve anything less.