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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:
McSpoot · 06/06/2024 08:15

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?

OP has a daughter (of unknown age but in school). She is also pregnant with a second child. The affair partner has a son (same/similar age to the OP's school-aged daughter). The fetus is a half-sibling to both the OP's daughter (through mother) and affair partner's son (through the dad).

The OP's daughter was bullied by the affair partner's son. These two kids have no relation to each other (though they will share a half-sibling).

NonPlayerCharacter · 06/06/2024 08:14

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?

Apparently.

Didimum · 06/06/2024 08:13

Mothership4two · 06/06/2024 02:01

🤔

Yeah

NonPlayerCharacter · 06/06/2024 08:13

NotSayingImBatman · 06/06/2024 08:03

Presumably OP didn’t have a vested interest in lying about her identity to cover an extramarital affair.

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.

PumpkinsAndCoconuts · 06/06/2024 08:13

SpringerFall · 06/06/2024 08:01

A random man she slept with turned out to be a loser go figure she chose him, she slept with him, she did not protect her self enough not to get pregnant let alone what diseases he has

she chose that

she did not protect her self enough not to get pregnant let alone what diseases he has

all intercourse (=vaginal intercourse between a man and a woman) can lead to pregnancy.
OP cannot eliminate that risk (except for certain fairly invasive surgical measures).

But is that really the yardstick we want to judge women by? "You did not get a hysterectomy and therefore did not protect yourself sufficiently"?

The person who could have prevented this whole shit show is the "father". But he chose to deceive her instead...

nupnup · 06/06/2024 08:12

Springchickenonion · 06/06/2024 06:59

I wouldn't normally condone this... bit as you are worried for the safety of your baby. Could you lie and say its not his...

I would never suggest this. Only because you are worried about the guys son and wife...

Jesus fucking Christ, what a way to mess up your kid.

Are you for real?

Onomatofear · 06/06/2024 08:11

The man who had the affair with the op has a son. The son is bullying the OP’s daughter.

Onomatofear · 06/06/2024 08:10

He probably wants to have 50% custody so that he can wriggle out of paying child support but you don’t have to let him. Let him go to court if he wants to - they are unlikely to grant this, especially as the two of you have never been married.

This won’t even be important until your child is at least 2. He won’t be able to have them overnight until then. Research shows that babies should be with one care giver the majority of the time.

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?

VickyEadieofThigh · 06/06/2024 08:09

Allfur · 06/06/2024 06:52

2 people have sex, only one has to deal with the possibity of getting pregnant by mistake, and now she is to be shamed for making a choice not to have an abortion, is this the 1950s?!

Not a single person - apart from you - has mentioned abortion.

NonPlayerCharacter · 06/06/2024 08:09

PrincessArora · 06/06/2024 06:21

Ah. Mumsnet at its best. Let’s not give any advice, let’s just pick holes in the OP, who may well have changed some details not to be recognised…….i always do………..why not just answer the question or not bother commenting?

How can you give advice on a situation that, one way or another, is clearly not the way it's being presented?

froggie25 · 06/06/2024 08:08

I agree you should move and have nothing to do with him. Don't add him to the birth certificate. While in an ideal world a child has a right to know its father, it's a horrible situation for a baby to be born into and I think you need to weigh up the pros and cons here. Start afresh and raise the baby alone or put up with years of uncertainty and resentment. You have no idea how this family will treat your baby and your daughter will always be linked to her bully.
Move away and cut contact.

PurpleBugz · 06/06/2024 08:07

Did the school call you in via phone? I would do a subject access request to school to get evidence of that bullying. Then offer him contact at your house (suitable anyway when baby tiny). If he takes you to court you take your evidence that his wife is and other child are high risk of doing emotional even possibly physical abuse depending what type of bullying happened. The main thing is to not stop contact that will be what has you loose the most in court just insist on never at his

froggie25 · 06/06/2024 08:05

PrincessHoneysuckle · 06/06/2024 07:59

The man's child goes to your daughters school and you didn't know?

Why would she? I have no idea who any of the parents are at my ds school. He gets a bus and there is very little involvement with the school except for the odd parents evening.

NotSayingImBatman · 06/06/2024 08:03

NonPlayerCharacter · 06/06/2024 04:58

You couldn't find him through social media, but his wife, who didn’t know you, found you through Facebook?

Presumably OP didn’t have a vested interest in lying about her identity to cover an extramarital affair.

SpringerFall · 06/06/2024 08:01

PumpkinsAndCoconuts · 06/06/2024 07:57

What choice? The choice to have intercourse with a man she believed to be single?
The "choice" to not suspect that he was leading a double live?
The "choice" to keep the baby instead of terminating the pregnancy because she should have known that the nice man she met online was leading a double life??

He deceived her.

He was the one that intentionally engaged in risky behavious (all intercourse can lead to pregnancy, it is therefore inherently risky) despite obviously knowing that he was a married father.

He also changed his phone number and made sure that OP could not contact him.
Which meant that she did not have the information (married, father etc.) required to make an informed "choice" in this situation.

She can definitely blame him for that. Endlessly.
Whether that qualifies her for victimhood is fairly irrelevant imo. But he absolutely screwed her over.

A random man she slept with turned out to be a loser go figure she chose him, she slept with him, she did not protect her self enough not to get pregnant let alone what diseases he has

she chose that

poetryandwine · 06/06/2024 08:01

It’s all about your new child’s rights, not its father’s.The first thing your baby has a right to is financial support, so unless he starts now with generous voluntary support go straight to CMS.

The physical custody side is a nightmare given the bullying of your DD by his son and his wife’s presumed role in that. You need legal advice.

PumpkinsAndCoconuts · 06/06/2024 07:59

SwedeCarrotLimes · 06/06/2024 07:57

Wtf is it with people having unprotected sex with folk they barely know?

Unprotected sex?

I must have missed that update.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 06/06/2024 07:59

The man's child goes to your daughters school and you didn't know?

PumpkinsAndCoconuts · 06/06/2024 07:57

SpringerFall · 06/06/2024 07:37

The OP is not a victim, she made a choice women do have choices it does seem like they make bad ones a lot of the time but they cant endlessly blame men for that

What choice? The choice to have intercourse with a man she believed to be single?
The "choice" to not suspect that he was leading a double live?
The "choice" to keep the baby instead of terminating the pregnancy because she should have known that the nice man she met online was leading a double life??

He deceived her.

He was the one that intentionally engaged in risky behavious (all intercourse can lead to pregnancy, it is therefore inherently risky) despite obviously knowing that he was a married father.

He also changed his phone number and made sure that OP could not contact him.
Which meant that she did not have the information (married, father etc.) required to make an informed "choice" in this situation.

She can definitely blame him for that. Endlessly.
Whether that qualifies her for victimhood is fairly irrelevant imo. But he absolutely screwed her over.

SwedeCarrotLimes · 06/06/2024 07:57

Wtf is it with people having unprotected sex with folk they barely know?

PicaK · 06/06/2024 07:55

There's so little mention of your eldest child in this that it's scary. Or compassion for a boy who is dealing with his dad's emotional betrayal of his mum.
Can you trust this bloke to not lie and betray his daughter? He is riding rough shod over his family - it's all about what he wants.
Be very wary of him.

ItsNotInMyMind · 06/06/2024 07:54

“Baby shite”? 😏

Viviennemary · 06/06/2024 07:52

It's a mess. Fair enough you didn't know he was married but getting pregnant such a short time into a relationship isn't a very good idea. The number of unplanned pregnancies on here makes me think is there such a thing as contraception in this day and age.

I don't think the three of you having a discussion is a good idea. I agree you should move away. Why should your child and indeed the other child suffer because of irresponsible adult behaviour.

AccountCreateUsername · 06/06/2024 07:51

newyear2024 · 06/06/2024 07:30

This sounds like a plot of a Lisa Jewell novel

Unfair on Lisa Jewell, her plots are tighter than this!

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