BREAKING
By too young for this - This FML is from back in 2013 but it's good stuff - United States
By too young for this - This FML is from back in 2013 but it's good stuff - United States
OP you might need to see a therapist after this, which is completely okay. I can't imagine how hard this is for you. I mean damn, your parents lied to you for that long? How could they have thought it would be better to lie to you? It makes absolutely no sense.
If it's any consolation, they were trying to protect you. To give you an illusion of a stable family. You deserve that.
I can kind of relate to this..
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I am so confused. So they were still living together while divorced?
Of course they lied to you. You're their child. The inner workings of their marriage is none of your business. Learn your place. You're older now and you still can't handle the news, but even if you could it's still none of your business. Anyway, FYL, it sucks that your dad cheated and it sucks even more that they told you.
your comment really fits your name, parents owe their children the truth, children are not property or pets. children must respect and follow reasonable rules given by their parents(anything short of abuse), but that does not mean that parents are gods compared to children, the child didn't ask to be born, when you decide to have a kid(or mistakenly have one) you have a responsibility to protect and respect your children that is equally powerful of the childs responsibility to honor their parents rules/boundries of coarse they might not want to tell their child when the kid is too young, but lying to and manipulating a child is just as bad as a child lying to and manipulating their parents(bratty behaviour) parents should lie to their children to keep them safe/when they can't handle the truth, but any other time they owe their children the truth, if they don't give their children the truth their child has no reason to respect their parent or trust them anymore, and that's what ruins family bonds. parenthood is not a 1 way street of respect and obedience
I can't even.. What?
Wait...so you lived in the same house with them, but your dad was married to another woman? Or they said they were married but lived separately and you thought that was normal?
They are good if they can keep that hidden for that long.
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This still leaves the question of how old you are, if you're 14 years old, this FML just got juicier.
Why has your mother been okay with this whole charade?