Families aren't perfect. But one seriously dysfunctional situation has us scratching our heads and shuddering in disbelief.
In a since-deleted post on Reddit, one woman revealed what happened under her roof that totally shattered her entire world. She says her husband left her for her own daughter, just after the young adult's 18th birthday.
“He told me that he was now in a relationship with my daughter and was leaving me for her,” the woman wrote in the post. “I couldn’t believe this. I couldn’t process it. I felt crushed, angry, disgusted, mad — every feeling I could feel."
While it would be easy to assume that the former couple's relationship was a complete mess prior to his unsettling change of heart, she says that wasn't the case. When she first met and fell in love with her ex, as a single mom of a 3-year-old, she says that her life felt completely "perfect."
She even had a child with the man she thought had completed her world. "In 2010, I had a son with my husband," she wrote. "My life was then complete. I had two kids. A great husband. A house. Car. Nice job. Life was great."
She says there weren't any red flags, either. "My now-ex-husband never gave me creepy vibes, but if he got with my daughter when she was 18, I’m sure something had been going on while she was a minor.”
But just after her daughter turned 18, her husband told her he was finished with the marriage. Not only that, he also revealed that he was in a relationship with her daughter. While the woman was, of course, horrified by the turn of events, she says her daughter didn't understand why it was so deeply problematic.
“She doesn’t see how it’s wrong or gross. She doesn’t care about me. He doesn’t see an issue too, obviously. But my own daughter? Come on,” she wrote.
To make matters much, much worse, just a year after the woman's ex and her daughter announced they were dating, the daughter became pregnant. With that, the woman says she had to cut them out of her life. That seemed to be just fine with her ex-husband.
“I had my ex-husband stop coming around completely, and my ex is OK with not seeing our son now that he has his ‘new’ family,” she shared.
But for her son, it's obviously created an immense challenge. “My son has had some hard times understanding why his sister and dad are gone, I haven’t told him the truth."
The woman shared that her daughter is 22 and now has two children with her ex-husband. Though it's been several years since the two became a couple, she still feels the situation is practically impossible to heal from.
“Her kids are my grandchildren, who also happen to be half-siblings with my son. How sick is that?! It’s disgusting," she wrote. “I’m still not over this. I don’t know how to get over this. I just want to move on.”
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