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Found out I have half brother my mum stopped my dad from seeing

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MayaYanney · 29/04/2026 15:33

Hey guys

a few months ago I learned from a relative that I have a half brother one year older than me.

my father fathered a child in Russia when working there.

the story is allegedly my mother learned about him when she was about to give birth to me.

Allegedly the woman kept quiet she was pregnant and till the kid was one and then decided to tell my dad when my mum was about to give birth to me.

my father kept in contact by phone and visited him till I was 3/4. Think this Lady didnt know about me/my mum, not sure.

then one day she calls mother told her over the phone when she called “it was your choice to give birth. You were 38, last chance to have a kid. You wanted the kid for yourself so now raise him yourself” and hanged up.

some time later this woman called my mother had her friend say wrong phone number, this phone was sold.

my father never spoke to him after that. I guess he thought she disappeared again and wanted nothing to do with him? Idk? I am not sure if he continued paying child support.

now obviously you can’t stop a father who wants to see his kid but my father is a very weird man. He also has a relationship with my other much older half sister from previous marriage because her mother kept in contact. I really believe if my mother didn’t do this he would still be in contact with this boy.

now my mother says

it’s not her fault she found while married and pregnant he has a kid and she was very sick of this woman being annoying and calling non stop, very often, for hours when they were busy chatting about their son. Says “I was just sick of her calling constantly! We couldn’t get anything done! Maybe if she didn’t call everyday and wasn’t so annoying!!!”

I don’t know how to feel about all this. I am disturbed my mother did this. Am I right to think this was very cruel? And look at her differently now? My sister says I’m over reacting.

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Anywherebuthere · 03/05/2026 08:02

MayaYanney · 30/04/2026 21:35

A woman being ok with having a deadbeat hubby, supporting his deadbeat ways and supporting that deadbeat dad not seeing his kid will always be immoral and gross

Sounds like this extreme hate for your mother runs deeper than how she spoke to the other woman.

What else do you hate her for?

This other women, other baby stuff is all your dad's doing not your mums.

If it was the other woman writing up a post asking for advice I'd be saying go for maintenance and see if the child can have a relationship with the dad. Leave the wife out of it and don't expect her to play happy families. The wife owed her and the child nothing.

Tableforjoan · 01/05/2026 10:41

MayaYanney · 01/05/2026 09:06

Yeah only because she was too old and couldn’t

Edited

Maybe view that as her karma, it might help your mind.

In your eyes she took away a child from a dad, so the universe didn’t grant her another child she wanted.

DeathNote11 · 01/05/2026 09:17

MayaYanney · 29/04/2026 15:45

MY FATHER BEING A POS DOESNT CHANGE FACT WHAT MY MOTHER DID WAS IMMORAL

Your mother reacted to an awful situation created by your father. A word to the wise - if you take this out on your mum you'll damage your relationship with her & that would be a huge mistake you'll most likely come to regret. Find a good therapist, work through this properly & don't burn any bridges in the meantime. Wishing you strength, it's an awful situation & I can completely understand why you're lashing out.

MayaYanney · 01/05/2026 09:06

Tableforjoan · 01/05/2026 07:27

At least she didn’t create more children with a second deadbeat. Silver linings op.

Yeah only because she was too old and couldn’t

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ThePM · 01/05/2026 08:04

MayaYanney · 29/04/2026 16:28

Tell me this.

Picking up my fathers phone and telling a single mother on the phone “get lost he said he wants nothing to do with you”

is this ok?

Yes it is. Your mother felt threatened by all this and her fight or flight reaction was Fight. In the moment she did what she ‘had’ to do.

You sound so young, so certain, and so lacking in compassion in the way that only people who have never had to make hard choices do.

You need to seriously pipe down, and learn some manners. You are way over-stepping here to an extent that will embarrass when you reach your mother’s age. You have zero grounds to be “disappointed” in your mother.

Tableforjoan · 01/05/2026 07:27

MayaYanney · 30/04/2026 21:35

A woman being ok with having a deadbeat hubby, supporting his deadbeat ways and supporting that deadbeat dad not seeing his kid will always be immoral and gross

At least she didn’t create more children with a second deadbeat. Silver linings op.

Tableforjoan · 01/05/2026 07:27

MayaYanney · 30/04/2026 21:31

I really do wonder if this woman made a thread asking for advice

how she got pregnant, single mum trying to be in contact so her kid has a father and a woman says “get lost he wants me to tell you he wants nothing to do with your kid”

would the comments be the same?

”his poor wife, leave him alone”

Edited

I’d tell her to contact the man and make sure it’s the man. Even if that’s meant a solicitors letter if needed or via the aunty.

I’d also say if that’s what the man wanted then he was a weak man and that her child was better off without such a useless father, who would pick a woman over his child.

Id also advise her to look into if child maintenance payments could be done between her country and ours.

Because ultimately the relationship is between the man and child and it’s about what’s best for child not if the women are or are not innocent or mean.

supersop60 · 01/05/2026 06:56

Elanol · 30/04/2026 22:21

Wow, your mother prevented your father from having a relationship with his son. She stopped an innocent child from having a relationship with his father. And he let her.

If she was a step mother on here doing that she'd be torn to shreds. What a strange place MN is.

‘He let her’
That’s entirely on your dad.
OP is your real issue that you’d like to have contact with your half brother, and you’re blaming your mum for depriving you of this?

InterIgnis · 30/04/2026 22:43

Elanol · 30/04/2026 22:21

Wow, your mother prevented your father from having a relationship with his son. She stopped an innocent child from having a relationship with his father. And he let her.

If she was a step mother on here doing that she'd be torn to shreds. What a strange place MN is.

She didn’t. OP’s father was a grown ass man perfectly capable of deciding that for himself.

InterIgnis · 30/04/2026 22:43

MayaYanney · 30/04/2026 21:35

A woman being ok with having a deadbeat hubby, supporting his deadbeat ways and supporting that deadbeat dad not seeing his kid will always be immoral and gross

Your mother isn’t going to give you what you want here.

Elanol · 30/04/2026 22:21

Wow, your mother prevented your father from having a relationship with his son. She stopped an innocent child from having a relationship with his father. And he let her.

If she was a step mother on here doing that she'd be torn to shreds. What a strange place MN is.

MayaYanney · 30/04/2026 21:35

A woman being ok with having a deadbeat hubby, supporting his deadbeat ways and supporting that deadbeat dad not seeing his kid will always be immoral and gross

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MayaYanney · 30/04/2026 21:31

I really do wonder if this woman made a thread asking for advice

how she got pregnant, single mum trying to be in contact so her kid has a father and a woman says “get lost he wants me to tell you he wants nothing to do with your kid”

would the comments be the same?

”his poor wife, leave him alone”

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MayaYanney · 30/04/2026 21:29

Rhaidimiddim · 30/04/2026 21:26

Are you at all disturbed about your dad's egregious part in this? FFS, blaming your mum for your dad's mess! Your dad walked away from his kid.

Didn’t I mention I’m estranged and haven’t spoken to him in decade?

no I am blaming her for attacking a woman and blaming this woman who did nothing to her for her husbands mess

I am glad you understand it’s terrible a man walks away from his kid. So what does it tell you about my mum if she was cool being with a dead beat and supported a man walking away from his kid.

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Rhaidimiddim · 30/04/2026 21:26

Are you at all disturbed about your dad's egregious part in this? FFS, blaming your mum for your dad's mess! Your dad walked away from his kid.

Flowersforyourchocolateprettyplease · 30/04/2026 21:08

Your sister is right.

YABU but clearly won't listen.

If he was a deadbeat nasty man, you sure don't seem to have any empathy for your DM.
You seem hung on wanting her to suffer somehow.
Is your life perfect OP?

Tableforjoan · 30/04/2026 21:07

The number would have been on other bills.

Also laughing at the thought that the dad took long enough for the women to move her entire home to bother going to look or trying to ever call her. But it’s still the mums fault.

Aunty has photos dad has the address but zero back up of a phone number 🤣 dad wrote zero letters and made zero attempt to call or text to realise the number was missing. A Russian women not known for being meek women took one angry women over the phone to basically go into hiding. I think the whole story is rather strange.

Mum made a hasty angry fuck up of a fuck off answering the phone.

Dad just gave zero fucks. But odds are the sibling gives zero fucks about some half sibling as well which is what really seems to be bothering op.

It’s that she wants this half sibling. Because she wants a sibling her other half has zero interest in her either.

Many half siblings raised well apart actually don’t want to know the other and find it annoying and a pain in the arse when these halves come crawling out wanting some instant family from them.

TheCheekyCyanHelper · 30/04/2026 20:52

OnlyMabelInTheBuilding · 30/04/2026 20:46

I’m with your mum. What a whole pile of shit.

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Her mom is a pile of trash.

OnlyMabelInTheBuilding · 30/04/2026 20:46

I’m with your mum. What a whole pile of shit.

TheCheekyCyanHelper · 30/04/2026 20:43

DontReplyAll · 29/04/2026 15:59

No, but presumably she was hurt, distressed, harassed, exhausted (you were tiny after all), betrayed etc etc

Under those circumstances, I’d have some compassion .

I wouldn't. Women like the ops mom are selfish, and narcissistic. They only care about themselves.

TheCheekyCyanHelper · 30/04/2026 20:41

Minnie798 · 29/04/2026 15:54

Irrespective of what your mum said to this woman , if your dad wanted to maintain a relationship with his son, he would have.
Your mum may have stayed in her marriage, but she was perfectly within her rights to choose to have no involvement whatsoever with the OW.
I think your dad was cruel, not your mum.

Her mom deleted the womans phone number.

TheCheekyCyanHelper · 30/04/2026 20:40

Lavender14 · 29/04/2026 15:53

Op having been in the position of being pregnant and cheated on, it's really not a great place to be. Your mum obviously enabled this for 3/4 years and it then became too much.

I honestly don't think you have a clear enough picture of what actually happened to suggest your mum did anything wrong. If she was indeed being tortured by your dad's mistress multiple times a day then that's harassment. And it could have been left to your dad to make the contact while leaving her out of it. That must have been extremely painful for her every time the phone rang.

I'm not saying she handled it correctly, but it does sound like there's more to this than your mum simply shutting it down out of spite. My guess is she's held her boundary in her own home - which she has the right to do, and your dad made a choice not to make contact via other means which he absolutely could have done.

Her mum wasnt cheated on. The two women just got pregnant around the same time, but the boy is older than her mom's first child.

itsalltoplayfor · 30/04/2026 20:15

You do not know anything about the Russian woman really. Is she totally 'innocent'? Being a single mother seems to give her saintly status in your eyes. Maybe she married later on, maybe she had many children by different fathers - you just don't know. Sure, your mother could have been kinder to her but what a mess (of your father's making) she had thrown at her at a challenging time of her life with a new baby. You seem irrationally angry at only your mum for this and there must be a reason for that.

Anywherebuthere · 30/04/2026 20:04

Put your self in your mothers shoes for a minute.

Some random women calls them when she is at her most vulnerable to give the news of the offspring of her husband.

Of course she was going to be angry and insecure. What she did wasn't right but it's understandable.

Redirect your anger at your dad who couldn't be asked to put anything on the end of it and ended up making babies with multiple women instead. Who knows how many more are out there.

InterIgnis · 30/04/2026 19:52

MayaYanney · 30/04/2026 18:59

One outburst I get, but decades later she says she doesn’t care. She can’t admit it was not right and she not only cool with my father being a deadbeat but her second husband after my dad was a deadbeat too

It wasn’t one word either. Second time after a while she called my mum had her male friend say “You have the wrong number”

the woman didn’t know about my mums existence either.

he wrote and visited but she no longer lived there/moved

i mean I know my dad is disgusting, but im just disappointed in my mother. Idk I just feel very strongly about men who abandon their kids and partners who are ok with it/support it

She doesn’t have to admit it wasn’t right if she doesn’t feel that way. You’re looking for her to answer to you, express contrition, and affirm your view as the only valid and correct one.

You aren’t entitled to that from her. She has her own opinions, and you don’t have to like or approve of them. Piously lecturing her isn’t something she needs to entertain, and it isn’t going to make her sympathetic to your opinions, either.

You want something from your family that you aren’t going to get. You would be best served working on what is actually within your power to control, and coming to terms with that.

I would be wary of your aunt tbh, based on what you’ve said so far in reference to her suggests she’s got her own motives that have nothing to do with what is in your interests. If you have little in the way of family connection and mourn this, then alienating a mother you are close to may be something you end up regretting.

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