People in a family should always be there for each other, but sometimes a bad family member tries to split them up. When an internet user wrote about their experience, they talked about how their sister-in-law tried to tell them what she thought was a secret family truth. Her plan to cause chaos didn’t work, though, because what she did had the opposite effect.
What he wrote:
“My name is John and I’m thirty years old. My daughter is six years old.” I am not related to her biologically; we are not related by blood. I knew her mother from when I was a kid and became friends with her. We were only friends and never got together romantically. Her daughter was born when she was 23 and her husband was 25. Before she was even born, they both died in an accident. After their sad deaths, I felt obligated to take in their baby.
My new sister-in-law saw an old picture of me with a friend at a family dinner a few weeks ago and asked who she was. I told her she was the mother of my daughter. The next day, she did a DNA test on my baby without telling me and then pushed the results in my face. My brother hadn’t told her the story of how my daughter Lily was adopted, it turned out. To be more specific, she knew that my friend had died, but I think she didn’t know that my friend was married or that Lily wasn’t my real daughter. I think she thought Lily was my and my friend’s real child.
To give you some background, my parents and brothers know that my daughter is not biologically theirs. I told my daughter Lily that she was adopted, too. She knows that her parents have died; I never hid this from her. Lily has nothing at all in common with me; she looks just like her real parents. Most people think I’m her biological father and that she looks a lot like her mom. I don’t usually correct them because it doesn’t seem important.
When my sister-in-law showed me the DNA test results, she said I was “raising a dead woman’s affair baby.” She said this in front of my family and daughter. I looked at her for a second and then laughed out loud.
I told her that I knew Lily wasn’t my real daughter and that the process was called adoption. She yelled and ran off with a red face. Now my brother is mad because he says I made his fiancée feel bad. But I think it was embarrassing for her to test a child who wasn’t hers and then show off the findings.
What did she want me to do? Give up and leave my daughter? He thinks I’m wrong, and my brother says she thought she was doing the right thing. But I don’t feel that way, especially since my SIL did something very wrong.
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