His Dad Tricked Him Into Attending His College Reunion So They Could Pretend To Be A Happy Family
It’s always a shame when people have to deal with mean family members at home who act like everything in their lives is perfect whenever they’re out in public.
This happened to one young man whose father tricked him into attending his college reunion so they could pretend to be a happy family. But in reality, his dad had kicked him out of the house two years prior.
He’s 20 years old and sadly grew up knowing that his parents didn’t want him and that he was ‘an accident.’
“As a result, I pretty much raised myself until I was kicked out at eighteen,” he said.
“I won’t lie, it hurt being rejected by the people who were supposed to love me, but I’m at peace with it.”
Since his parents kicked him out of their house two years ago, he’s been living with his aunt and attending college.
His parents hardly contacted him until six months ago, when they started calling him and profusely apologizing for how they treated him in the past.
He wasn’t sure how he felt about getting back in touch with them, but their apologies seemed genuine, so he continued to call them. Things were going well until they invited him out to dinner with them.
“I showed up at the restaurant expecting a quiet dinner and a heart-to-heart,” he explained.
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“Instead, I found out that my father’s fraternity had rented out the whole place for a 25-year reunion.”
“He met me at the door and told me to act like we’re a happy family in front of his old friends.”
Instead of leaving, he decided to go straight to the buffet because he was starving, and he was, at the very least, going to get a free meal from the disappointing evening.
He tried staying in the background for most of the night but eventually started talking to some of the other younger people, who he assumed were his dad’s friend’s kids.
Many of them started talking about their 18th birthdays and what their parents had given them as gifts.
When they asked him what he received, he decided to be brutally honest and told them that he got kicked out of the house when he turned 18.
The other kids were shocked by his answer and started apologizing. He told them it was alright and explained his current living situation. After that, he avoided talking to anyone for the rest of the night until it was time to leave.
“Later that night, my father started blowing up my phone, admonishing me for embarrassing him,” he remembered.
“Apparently, what I said had gotten back to my father’s friends, who are now being very cold to my father.”
His dad was very angry with him and told him it wouldn’t have been a big deal to “lie and save face” that night.
So finally, he muted his dad’s number and went to bed. For a while, he was confident in his choice to be honest at the reunion party, but now he’s wondering if he was wrong, especially because his parents might not ever want to contact him again after ruining his family’s illusion.
Should he feel bad for what he said at the reunion?
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