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Buttonsmum67 · 09/12/2024 10:29

I will preface this by saying my mother is queen Narcissist.

Last year I did a DNA Ancestry test with my kids for a fun present. My youngest's came back with a random name as his maternal grandfather- then my eldest's came back with the same thing. Then mine with this random man as my father.

I with the help of friends managed to send my mother a message asking for an explanation. She said it must be wrong etc and told me to stop being ridiculous. At this point I did another one and it came back with the same match as before with this random man.

I messaged again and said I wanted answers now. She turned up at my house at 5am in floods of tears saying she had been attacked by a man and she had thought she had got rid of me with the morning after pill and then two months later found out she was pregnant again and had thought it was a miracle to come from something so horrible (she thought I was my dad's, as in my dad who bought me up). She asked me to promise that I would never say anything to anyone as it would ruin her marriage.

When we matched with this other gentlemen he messaged me immediately asking wtf was going on. I told him my mothers name trying to gauge any panic from him and he wrote back a long message saying basically omg we had a couple of months long affair when I was working with her- he mentioned my dads name and that they used to meet while my dad was working nights etc and she called it all off when my dad asked her to marry him. He has asked to meet but I have put that on the back burner for now as I don't know which story is true. And before anyone judges me about saying I don't think my mother would lie about being attacked, she has lied about having serious illness before to get out of arguments she created.

She then began what I can only describe as a hate campaign against me- making up stories to my siblings and dad about how she had had to borrow me money etc and I wasn't paying it back- none of which were true.

Since last year we now never speak. I have messaged and called my dad and even turned up at their house to speak to him and he has said his loyalties lie with my mother and I have greatly upset her with my behaviour. I HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING! Every time I call his phone she picks up and says you won't be saying anything will you.

When I say she was abusive growing up I am in therapy as still in my 30s I struggle to stand up to her.

This morning my aunts messaged me saying about my brothers weddings (He is her golden child and doesn't make any effort to contact me or my sister back). I haven't been invited. I am seething.

I feel like drinking a bottle of wine and writing to every member of my family what has happened to stop this bull, but I also don't want to ruin my dads life. He is so under the thumb with her I don't think he'd kick off anyway.

But here I am sitting a year later left on my own thinking I'm a product of rape and now being completely cut out of the family. My mother says she was attacked, my biological dad said they were having a fully consensual affair, I haven't told him what my mum said.

But I feel like I am keeping a massive secret for the benefit of everyone else and now I am the one being ostracised. I am so upset I am being cut out.

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Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 11/12/2024 20:30

pollymere · 11/12/2024 19:26

The phrase "Morning After Pill" interests me. There WAS a treatment for emergency contraception in 1984 but that phrase tends to refer to things that weren't licensed until 2000.

I think you've caught your Mum out in a huge deception. She may have thought you a miracle two months later... I suspect if you'd been born two months premature it would have noted how full term you looked!

I suspect this part may be true - that she used emergency contraception two months prior then got pregnant with you.

However your bio-Dad suggested that he was having an affair with your Mum right up until her engagement... so it's possible that your Dad knew about the pregnancy and assumed he was the father so proposed to your Mum!

Ouch.

I would make contact with your bio-Dad and make judgements for yourself. Your family have already judged you as making trouble and you might find a new family you connect with!

As someone who was young and sexually active in the Eighties, I can assure you that the "Morning After Pill" was definitely in use by that name at the time.

AliceMcK · 11/12/2024 20:32

pollymere · 11/12/2024 19:26

The phrase "Morning After Pill" interests me. There WAS a treatment for emergency contraception in 1984 but that phrase tends to refer to things that weren't licensed until 2000.

I think you've caught your Mum out in a huge deception. She may have thought you a miracle two months later... I suspect if you'd been born two months premature it would have noted how full term you looked!

I suspect this part may be true - that she used emergency contraception two months prior then got pregnant with you.

However your bio-Dad suggested that he was having an affair with your Mum right up until her engagement... so it's possible that your Dad knew about the pregnancy and assumed he was the father so proposed to your Mum!

Ouch.

I would make contact with your bio-Dad and make judgements for yourself. Your family have already judged you as making trouble and you might find a new family you connect with!

The morning after pill was definitely around in the early 90s and that’s what everyone called it.

BadgersGalore · 11/12/2024 20:37

Yep my friend took the morning after pill circa 1986, from the Brook Advisory Clinic. It was definitely called that then.

FagsMagsandBags · 11/12/2024 22:15

I have read all of your posts but going back to the first post and this bit:

I messaged again and said I wanted answers now. She turned up at my house at 5am in floods of tears saying she had been attacked by a man and she had thought she had got rid of me with the morning after pill and then two months later found out she was pregnant again and had thought it was a miracle to come from something so horrible (she thought I was my dad's, as in my dad who bought me up). She asked me to promise that I would never say anything to anyone as it would ruin her marriage.

So, did she mean that she'd taken the morning after pill and when found out she was pregnant it was because the morning after pill hadn't worked or that she really was pregnant "again", because if it's the latter it could no way be due to a rape that happened over two months previously and she must know one way or another because she knows when you were born and if that could be from around the time she was "raped".

I always want to believe the woman in these cases but from everything you've said about her and from this odd explanation I think she is lying and it's a horrible lie especially given how she is now treating you and trying to cut you off from everyone who loves you and who you love. Also, if she was raped, took the morning after pill and then found out two months later that she was pregnant/still pregnant and thought your father was the biological father then how would that ruin her marriage? Your father would obviously be hurt to find out you weren't his biological daughter but it would be clear that your mother was not at fault, she had been raped, and that she truly believed you were his daughter and has only found out differently because of the DNA testing thing. I think she's lying and she's doing everything she can to remove you from the family to protect herself. Ridiculous as everyone will believe any shit she comes out with or pretend to just to keep the peace.

I don't think you should feel you have to keep her "secret". I don't see why you should suffer from her dramatics and her lies about you. Tell them all everything. Try to meet up with this biological father if it will help you. Thank god you have your children and a good relationship with them. I'm sorry that your mother is a total bin bag of horrors.

Luddite26 · 11/12/2024 22:30

Hope you are ok OP.
You must be feeling. Try and concentrate on your own family the ones who live in your own four walls. they are the important family in your life and others don't matter.
Move forward meet your DNA father if you want to. Things will never be the same with the family you grew up with. Leave them to it. Look after yourself.💐

Buffs · 12/12/2024 14:49

What a shame. Everyone makes mistakes, your mum could have had a frank discussion with you about what happened, agreed a way forwards to help both of you and been kind and supportive. Instead she has thrown you under the bus at your time of need thereby forfeiting any loyalty you might have shown her. Whatever you decide to do you can rest assured that right is on your side and you can quite legitimately put your needs first.

AmIEnough · 18/12/2024 07:59

Wow! I have nothing of any value to add to this other than to say my goodness, I really really feel for you. Your mother sounds so narcissistic and is obviously deflecting due to guilt I guess much as she won’t admit it. I can’t believe so many people are saying that these ancestry sites are dangerous when all you were trying to do was do something fun with your children. I really wish you all the best.

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