He’s Stuck In A Love Triangle After Learning His Newly Found Half-Brother Dated His Fiancé Before They All Met
This thirty-four-year-old man has a half-brother named Joe and a fiancé named Claire. But, the three are currently wrapped up in a love triangle of epic proportions.
He and Joe are technically half-brothers– they share the same mom– but he was put up for adoption and did not know Joe until recently.
And Claire, his fiancé, apparently dated Joe six years before he met either her or Joe.
“But a few years ago, I met Claire through a work event, and we really hit it off,” he recalled.
Claire had just moved into his area, so he assumed the role of being her city tour guide. Then, after a year of getting to know each other, he and Claire began to date.
It was not very easy at first, though, because apparently, Claire had a tumultuous relationship before meeting him. She was even left with trust issues so horrible that she was forced to see a therapist.
“And because of that, she never felt the need to speak to me about the matter. So, we never really talked about it,” he explained.
In other words, he had no idea that his soon-to-be half-brother, Joe, was actually his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend.
The news did not come out until last Christmas when he received an Ancestry DNA kit from a friend.
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He took the test and finally learned the identity of his biological mom– whom, after some consideration, he decided to reach out to.
Then, once he felt comfortable enough to meet his bio mom in person, he decided to bring Claire along for moral support. And, apparently, his bio mom was not the only one who showed up; Joe did, too.
“It was the first time Claire and Joe had seen each other in years. It was so awkward,” he said.
Nonetheless, he, Claire, and Joe all sat down to chat with his bio mom and acted maturely about the situation. Moreover, everything seemed to be going just fine after the fact.
Still, he never anticipated having a super close, brotherly bond with Joe seeing as they just met each other.
And, since he knew Claire before Joe, the thought of breaking up with her for Joe’s sake never even popped into his mind.
But then, after he eventually proposed to Claire, everything went downhill– because Joe was pissed.
“About a month after the engagement, Joe came to me quietly and said that he could not accept me as his brother if I have a relationship with his ex. And if we went through with the marriage, it would be the last time we ever spoke.”
So, understandably, he was pretty bummed out. After just being reunited with his half-brother, he did not think his love life would ever interfere with the budding family relationship.
Regardless, though, he was unwilling to sacrifice his fiancé for a half-brother that he had just met.
In turn, he flat-out told Joe that even though he would miss what might have been between the two of them, he would always pick Claire first.
And now, both he and Claire have been accused of being terrible people for rubbing their happy and successful relationship in Joe’s face.
So, this has left him wondering if saying that he would always choose Claire over Joe was a really jerky thing to do.
Blood or not, is it okay for someone you just met to give you a relationship ultimatum? Do you think he made the right decision in choosing Claire? If not, how would you have navigated this situation?
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