She Caught Her Dad With Another Woman While He Was Supposed To Be On A Business Trip, And He Doesn’t Want Her To Tell Her Mom The Truth
This 17-year-old girl recently decided to go away on a weekend trip with some of her friends. At first, her dad wasn’t on board with the idea, but after a bit of persuading, she was allowed.
It just so happened that her dad was supposed to go on a “business trip” in the same city as well.
“So he said he’d check on me while he was there. I didn’t think much of it, but then, everything got really weird,” she recalled.
During the last night of her getaway, she and her friends were just eating dinner at a nice restaurant when she randomly saw her dad. He was at the same restaurant, sitting at a table in the back with another woman.
The nature of their meal seemed off, too. She saw them holding hands, laughing, and getting quite close.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes, and I felt like my stomach had just dropped. I was tempted to ignore it, but something in me just couldn’t,” she explained.
That’s why she walked right up to her dad’s table and flat-out asked him what was going on. His face went completely pale, and he immediately became defensive.
Her dad tried to play the whole thing off as a “business dinner,” but she saw the woman resting her hand on his arm. The way the woman was glancing at her dad also looked “way too familiar.”
This led her to point out how she wasn’t stupid and knew what was going on. Then, by the time they both got home from their respective trips, her dad expected her to keep his cheating a secret.
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He actually pulled her aside and begged her not to say anything about the other woman to her mom. He claimed things were “complicated” and that spilling the beans would ruin their family.
“He said I was just a kid, that I wouldn’t understand ‘adult relationships,’ and that I’d cause my mom unnecessary pain. But I feel like he’s the one causing the pain by lying and sneaking around,” she vented.
Still, she hasn’t yet told her mom, and the guilt is eating her alive. She can’t even look at her dad the same way anymore, and suppressing her emotions whenever they’re in the same room together is becoming impossible.
Deep down, she thinks that her mom has a right to know what’s going on.
“But I also don’t want to be the one to tear my family apart,” she vented.
This has left her wondering whether telling her mom the truth would be the best thing to do or not.
Should she feel responsible for keeping her dad’s secret? Do you agree that her mom deserves honesty? What would you do?
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