so i confronted my dad about the woman. he denied it at first but eventually admitted he’d been seeing her for years. my mom overheard the commotion. she asked what it was about we both stayed DEAD silent. my mom was already suspicious as if she already knew. my mom and dad gets into an argument over it and my dad packs his bags and leaves to sleep at a motel. the next morning, i call my dad and he finally admitted it. he’d been paying for an apartment across town for years and visiting them while telling my mom he was working late or going fishing. my mom was right by me when i called him. turns out she’d known about the woman for almost a year. she’d found messages on his ipad and confronted him privately. he’d promised her he would end it, and she’d kept quiet because he told her mom would never recover from it. she’d been carrying this alone for a year. i genuinely don’t know what happens now. my mom won’t speak to him, my sister is in utter disbelief after she found out, and my d...
got an uber home last weekend and the driver recognized my last name. turns out he used to work with my dad years ago. we’re chatting normally until he asks if my dad still goes fishing every other thursday. i said yeah, pretty sure. he goes “oh nice, is he still going with that woman from accounting?” i laughed because i assumed he was joking. he wasn’t... apparently my dad has been telling my mom he’s going fishing with his buddies every other thursday for like 6 years. the driver then showed me a photo of them all together at a christmas party. my dad was holding a baby. i have a 19 year old sister. my parents have been married 24 years. i got out of the car, went inside, and ate dinner with my family like nothing happened. haven’t confronted him yet. honestly still processing the fact that my dad might have a whole second family and my uber driver was the one to break the news. PS: gave the guy 5 stars because what the fuck else do you do in that situation submitted by ...