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Man Secretly Takes a Paternity Test to Appease His Family
In 2022, a female Brazilian/American Reddit user, 30, reached out to the “Relationship Advice” subreddit seeking assistance with her situation. She revealed that she and her Serbian husband, 29, had a three-year-old daughter who looked different from them.
Her husband’s family had fair skin, while hers looked more light brown with mixed ethnicity. The Redditor and her husband were close to their extended families and often visited them to give the child a rich cultural experience.
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When the couple’s daughter was born, she had smooth hair and fair skin, but she started turning darker brown as she got older. Even her hair has become curlier, leading the rest of the family to show interest in the child’s changing features.
The Redditor’s husband’s family was consistently involved in their lives and curious about their daughter. A year before writing her post, her husband’s family had started joking about “the milkman” and that she’d gotten too much sunshine while pregnant.
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The jokes continued and were passive-aggressive, but the child’s mother ignored them until they stopped. Days before putting up her Reddit post, she scrolled through her husband’s phone’s gallery, looking for a specific picture while they sorted out a fencing issue.
Thinking she’d found what she was looking for, she clicked on the screenshot of the document only to realize it was a paternity test result! The test confirmed her husband as their daughter’s father. She confronted him about it, and he confessed that he had taken it a year before because of his family’s constant questioning about the child’s darker skin.
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He revealed that his family demanded he get the test, insinuating that his wife might’ve cheated on him. Every time he visited his family, the topic of his child’s paternity came up, and she now recalled how unusually irritable and stressed he’d be when he returned home.
He usually excused his behavior by blaming it on work or family issues. The Reddit user became angry and asked why he even considered the idea and how disrespectful it was to her and their daughter. The man claimed he’d never entertained the matter seriously and only took the test to appease his family.
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He tried defending himself by showing her older messages where he supported her and tried to shut down his family’s suspicions. However, his effort to seem innocent didn’t dispel his wife’s anger, especially since he’d chosen to keep the test a secret.
She realized that the memories of whenever they spent time with his family were now tainted by their false outlook on her and her daughter. Her husband said he didn’t tell her because he didn’t want to make her uncomfortable.
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The Redditor’s guilty husband apologized sincerely, but she couldn’t find comfort in being around his family anymore. She felt distressed, but simultaneously, she struggled to let the issue go for her daughter’s sake.
The child’s mother questioned if her husband trusted her, and the incident left her shaken. The couple was no longer intimate, open, and vibrant like before, as the breach of trust overshadowed everything. The incident was their first significant disagreement, and she was unsure how to proceed. Her story concluded without a comfortable ending, but this next one won’t leave you hanging.
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A DNA Test Exposed One Woman’s Twin Brothers as Her Husband’s Children
Another Reddit user, female and 40, took to the platform to share her own DNA story. She revealed how she was 15 when she fell in love with her future husband. Two years into their relationship, she fell pregnant and chose to have a future with him.
