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Pregnant to another woman’s husband

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antybus24 · 06/06/2024 01:13

Backstory:

I met a guy on Tinder last September. We hit it off, had several dates and it went cold. Didn’t think anything more of it- until come February, I found out I was pregnant.

Tried to contact the guy- he had changed his number. Went to an address I had met him at before, turned out it was an Air BnB he had rented. I literally had no other way to contact him so I carried on and decided to do it alone.

Fast forward to April and got a Facebook message request- which turn out to be this guys wife. I asked her if we could meet for coffee as we needed to talk, insisted I knew nothing about her existence (which I didn’t) but we needed to talk. Met up with her a few days later and it turns out they have a son who is my daughter’s year at school (my daughter changed schools last September). I told her the news, naturally she was upset and left.

Fast forward a few days and I get a phone call from the head of my daughters school saying she is being bullied and I, my ex and the bully’s parents were called into the school- and yep, you guessed it. It was him and his wife. My daughter was distraught, stayed with her dad for a while and came back just over a week ago. We are hardly talking still.

BD has since contacted me and said he wants to be part of his child’s life- which I respect. What I can’t respect though is the fact his wife told their son and he and others have chosen to bully my daughter over it- me and her Dad are considering, again, moving her schools next year and talking about home schooling.

He is saying he is going to contact a solicitor and looking into joint custody. He hasn’t made an effort until recently (I suspect his wife told him straight away, he certainly knew when we were called into the school), hasn’t offered to attend a single appointment or offered a single penny towards the various baby shite that’s currently cluttering my spare room. Plus I just think it’s fucked that he still lives with his wife and wants to take a child that was made from the result of his affair into their home?! She doesn’t want anything to do with me but he tells me she is OK with it and I just can’t see that being true.

I have asked at least the 3 of us need to sit down and have a discussion. I am happy for him to be part of his child’s life, but I can’t let him take my child into a home where I believe it will be unwelcome surely?

AIBU?

OP posts:
User2460177 · 06/06/2024 09:43

NonPlayerCharacter · 06/06/2024 08:13

The wife must be a super sleuth to have discovered the affair and OP's identity when the husband was not in contact with her, had changed his number, given a false address and was not possible for her to reach via Tinder or any social media.

Edited

Or more likely she found out about the affair and the husband told her who op was.

User2460177 · 06/06/2024 09:40

LilacPanda · 06/06/2024 05:19

Exactly…. Think the OP is fudging the truth to make her appear innocent here.

Either way OP you made a choice to keep a baby by a man you hardly knew. Everything you have to come is on you.

How vile to have these sorts of attitudes. Op is a “loose woman” therefore she deserves to have her children bullied?

op has done absolutely nothing wrong. She and her children are the victim of a horrible man and his cruel behavior.

VJBR · 06/06/2024 09:40

Upinthenightagain · 06/06/2024 06:54

I would be disappearing, moving as far away as you can get and hope he doesn’t chase you down. I wouldn’t want my child having to stay with a woman that will despise it. Your daughter is already suffering because of all of you and your crappy adult behaviour.

This. I would move away. Don't put his name on the birth certificate. Let him make the effort to trace you.

mycatisanarcissist · 06/06/2024 09:38

What if you choose not to put him on the birth certificate? I wouldn't. He sounds like a massive twat and the wife will hate your child. This is already a toxic situation. I would just disappear. I realise that's not practical for everyone.

uniquestionss · 06/06/2024 09:34

Why did a random woman find you on fb and meet you for coffee???

Choochoo21 · 06/06/2024 09:33

YABU

If you didn’t want him being part of the child’s life/going into his home then you should have not gone through with the pregnancy or just not told him/his wife about it.

Surely you knew that by telling him/his wife that it would open a can of worms and there would be a lot of tension and issues around it.

I do think for the child’s sake that you did the right thing by telling him but you can’t be surprised that this is going to cause you issues and will carry on causing you issues for the foreseeable future.

The only thing you can do now is accept that this is going to be difficult and try and work with him to co-parent as best as possible.
I would try reaching out to the wife too and do the same.

The school is who you need to get on to about the bullying and I wouldn’t move her yet but I can see things getting more difficult for your current child when the baby is born and unfortunately if the school can’t get on top of it then the last resort may be to move her.
I definitely wouldn’t do it yet though.

froggie25 · 06/06/2024 09:32

Aren't they rules on MN about accusing people of trolling or lying? If you don't believe it why waste your time commenting? I don't see what's implausible. Plenty of women get pregnant from a ONS and the odds of them being known to each other (kids at the same school etc) aren't that slim if they are in the same area. I don't see why someone would give falsehoods if they genuinely want advice. What would be the point?

Willmafrockfit · 06/06/2024 09:23

Combattingthemoaners · 06/06/2024 09:20

Sounds like the script to a Netflix drama.

or channel 5?

i dont think i would watch it

Change2banon · 06/06/2024 09:20

whyhavetheygotsomany · 06/06/2024 05:25

Sorry but none of this makes any sense

Exactly this

Combattingthemoaners · 06/06/2024 09:20

Sounds like the script to a Netflix drama.

SapatSea · 06/06/2024 09:19

If this is real then I think the married man is talking about joint custody so that he doesn't have to pay CM and perhaps the wife doesn't want you to get any of the family money either. If they were to go for any custody I'd show evidence of the son's bullying and how you think the baby would not be safe around him or welcome in the home.

Willmafrockfit · 06/06/2024 09:18

MrsDTucker · 06/06/2024 09:15

Plenty of women have ONS and keep the baby.

If OP knew what was to come she might have decided not to but all if this drama is down to the man.

but the wife also and their child,
all very extreme

MrsDTucker · 06/06/2024 09:15

Plenty of women have ONS and keep the baby.

If OP knew what was to come she might have decided not to but all if this drama is down to the man.

usererror99 · 06/06/2024 09:14

Why would you have a child with a man you barely know? You've messed Up 2 children's lives. If you found out you were pregnant in February and found out he was married in the April there was still time to make a decision about proceeding with having this child.

Ereyraa · 06/06/2024 09:13

How did his wife randomly send you a friend request? What did you think would happen when you told her?

No one comes out well in this. Another child born into nonsense setups.

If it’s even real. Really hope for the children’s sake it isn’t.

MrsDTucker · 06/06/2024 09:09

WhenTheMoonShines · 06/06/2024 08:10

I’m confused, your DD who is being bullied is your affair partners child, and it was her half sibling that was bullying her? Or a different child of yours was being bullied by your affair partners son, who is a half sibling of your DDs sibling?

You are making it more confusing than it is.

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MrsDTucker · 06/06/2024 09:05

I would have liked to have been in on the school meeting though.

AnneLovesGilbert · 06/06/2024 09:01

I wish people would stop telling her to move away. Her daughter has a relationship with her father, she went to stay with him for days after the school incident. She can’t move her daughters school without her dad’s consent and why should their relationship be damaged when neither of them has done anything wrong?

NonPlayerCharacter · 06/06/2024 09:01

NotSayingImBatman · 06/06/2024 09:00

Righto.

Er, you're the one who thinks this is plausible!

MrsDTucker · 06/06/2024 09:00

How old are both kids? Fancy telling the son who the daughter is.

Assuming he didn't tell you he had son in your daughter's year before you met?

What add the odds.

NotSayingImBatman · 06/06/2024 09:00

NonPlayerCharacter · 06/06/2024 08:57

He lied about his name? And she never ever went to even look at his social media profiles while they were dating? And having covered his tracks so brilliantly and disappeared off the Internet to OP, his wife still discovered both the affair and OP's identity? James Bond in the dating world and Inspector Clouseau at home?

I don't know why you're so determined to believe all this - you've even admitted the dramatic school showdown is dodgy, to say the least - but I guess at least that makes it all good for something.

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Righto.

Hobnobswantshernameback · 06/06/2024 08:59

Gosh, what a tale of woe.

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NonPlayerCharacter · 06/06/2024 08:57

NotSayingImBatman · 06/06/2024 08:52

Because. He. Lied. About. Significant. Details. Because. He. Is. Married.

She. Presumably. Did. Not.

Bloody hell. Being located by the wife is the most believable part of the whole tale.

He lied about his name? And she never ever went to even look at his social media profiles while they were dating? And having covered his tracks so brilliantly and disappeared off the Internet to OP, his wife still discovered both the affair and OP's identity? James Bond in the dating world and Inspector Clouseau at home?

I don't know why you're so determined to believe all this - you've even admitted the dramatic school showdown is dodgy, to say the least - but I guess at least that makes it all good for something.

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