You meet the love of your life, you marry him and after years of trying, you finally have a baby who completes your family. Life is going incredibly well when suddenly you are accused of cheating by the people you love the most! Sounds heartbreaking, doesn’t it?
This is what happened to the Reddit user Strict-Mine-1326whose mother-in-law told her husband that their newborn looked “too much” like the mother. The original poster’s (OP) life fell apart when they demanded a paternity test for the baby, accusing her of cheating on her husband!
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Children look like their parents—sometimes, more like a parent who possesses the dominant traits
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The poster and her husband, Mark, are new parents and this happened after many difficulties where her mother-in-law was very supportive.
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The couple was happy and enjoying being parents when the poster noticed that her husband had started acting distant.
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One day he came home and said his mother told him the baby looked too much like the poster, and they both asked to take a paternity test.
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The shocked poster agreed, but when the test revealed her husband was the father, she had no further contact with her mother-in-law.
In today’s story, we delve into a family drama born from the appearance of the poster newborn. OP tells us that she had a previous miscarriage and after a two-year long struggle, she and her husband, Mark, were finally blessed with a healthy baby girl, Sophia.
Throughout the miscarriages and delivery, his mother-in-law was very supportive and even came to help OP with the new baby. While things were going well, the poster noticed that her husband had started to become distant from her and was even spending more time at his mother’s house.
Even though the poor poster was burdened with childcare and exhaustion, she didn’t complain about it, because she received a lot of help from her mother-in-law. However, OP’s world turned upside down when Sophia turned 3 months old and her husband said his mother told him the baby looked too much like OP and that she might have cheated on him.
Well, the mother-in-law and husband demanded a paternity test, leaving the poster completely heartbroken. After the results were released and he was indeed revealed to be the father, the poster decided to no longer have contact with his stepmother, just like Mark.
The woman then accused OP of “taking her family away from her,” and the couple ended up blocking her, angering their extended family. This negative reaction made the poster question whether she had done the right thing, so she vented online and asked Redditors for advice.
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Netizens were stunned by the atrocious accusation made by the mother-in-law in the poster only because the baby had dominant features. However, most of them pointed out that her husband was also responsible for this ordeal and that he had supported her mother in the first place.
He was observed that after giving birth, women can experience a range of mental and physical symptoms, including baby blues, postnatal depression and postpartum psychosis. People pointed out that the poster may have been suffering from something after giving birth and on top of that, her husband’s absence was putting more strain on her.
They couldn’t believe he let her suffer for so long and then blamed her. The poster justified his behavior by stating that he had a toxic relationship in the past where he was cheated on and that is why he reacted the way he did.
Research suggests that a person who has been cheated on may experience relationship anxiety that could make them feel insecure and fear being cheated on again. However, netizens said he could have had an honest conversation with his wife and gone to therapy rather than accusing her of cheating on him.
The poster mentioned that they were indeed going to couples counseling now and that her past relationship was the only reason she didn’t divorce him right away. She mentioned that even her mother-in-law had been cheated on, but that didn’t give them the right to treat her the way they did.
Do you think she did the right thing or do you agree with the Redditors who said that husband is the same as mother-in-law? What would you do if you were in his place? Let us know in the comments!
Netizens were baffled by the mother-in-law’s assumption that the poster had cheated, but they also blamed her husband for going along with it all.
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