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AITA for refusing to babysit my half-siblings and telling my dad I’m not his “backup mom”?
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If I were the protagonist, I also wouldn't babysit these children. They're not related to her, she doesn't like her step-mother. She was forced into this situation because of her dad's selfish decisions to betray. There's no justification for it, it's not a forgivable act, and she doesn't need to help them at all.
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19-years-old is such a young age to have their life so unwittingly affected by the horrors of infidelity. It's something she'll carry with her the rest of her life, and may even be a scar when she starts to enter relationships herself. These things have a way of staying with us forever.
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19-year-old refuses to babysit half-siblings, father guilt-trips her despite cheating on her mom and destroying the family dynamic: “I really don’t care about them”
Cheating is one of the worst, most heart-breaking experiences a person can go through. I don't care how strong someone thinks they are, or how detached they want to be. When you're in love with someone, when you see each other growing old together, when you feel so certain about the person, the deception of infidelity can be earth shattering. As if your entire life is flipped upside down, like you're in a surreal nightmare that you never wanted to have.
There are so many nuances that go along with cheating. Of course, everyone makes mistakes, but it's completely individual if the couple chooses to stay together. If you do choose to forgive and take back a cheater, it takes years of therapy, healing, and grieving to get to a point where your relationship is normal again. Psychologist Esther Perel swears that for the right couple, under the right circumstances, cheating can rebirth the relationship into something even sweeter than before.
If you're curious about a case of cheating that didn't last, scroll below for the full story.