'You're so petty!' Internet labels man 'loser' after he uninvites late ex-wife's children to his wedding
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: A man has to deal with many angry comments online after sharing his story on Reddit’s 'AmItheA**hole' sub-section. The person identified only by his username u/nuke_euler, wrote, “AITA for disinviting my late wife's children from my wedding?”
He then elaborated, “About a year ago, my wife (Anna, 60F) of 25 years passed away, 8 months after being diagnosed with cancer. Besides our 25-year-old son (Andrew), she also had 3 other children (Allison 42F, Barbara 40F, Caleb 39M) from a prior marriage. Their father was never really around, so I (52M) have raised them as my own basically ever since I married their mom.”
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‘I invested a large amount of money’
u/nuke_euler said that the treatment of his late wife was quite financially draining for him. He explained, “I wound up having to downgrade my car to pay for medical bills, make withdrawals from my 401k, and take on a lot of debt.” However, after losing his wife, the man soon met another woman named, “Beth (49F) who I have since married. Given that we're living together in Beth's house, selling Anna's house made a lot of sense.”
The Reddit user posted, “When we were packing up the house, I asked Anna's kids if they wanted anything, and they said they didn't. I invested a large amount of money renovating the house and getting it ready to sell, and eventually found a house-flipping company that would take it on,” before mentioning, “On the day of the closing, I was surprised to find out that Allison had sent an email to the lending company, telling them that she had been reading up on state law, and that since Anna's kids weren't mine, they were entitled to the portion she would have gotten from the sale.”
‘This was supposed to be a fresh start for me’
He then stated, “Turns out she was right. I feel like Anna's children deliberately chose to kneecap me, but they're insistent that Allison didn't know what was going on and was just asking questions. I should have been able to take the money Anna and I had saved up and start a new life, but now I'm probably going to have to sell the new motorcycle I just bought and have long wanted, and I'm not going to be able to get myself out of debt."
“This was supposed to be a fresh start for me, and now I'm stuck with the same old problems I've always had. The day of the eventual closing I was still extremely upset, so when I woke up for work, I texted Allison, Barbara, and Caleb and let them know that I'd also been doing my own reading about our state's laws, and it turns out I'm not actually their father, and they should work on their relationship with the person who actually is. I also told them they were no longer welcome at my wedding, which was the next weekend.”
‘Beth thinks I should just swallow my pride’
But u/nuke_euler revealed his action upset his biological son Andrew. He said, “We met for lunch the following day, and I asked him to be my Best Man, but he told me that unless I apologized to his siblings, he didn't want to attend my wedding.”
The person added, “I was hoping he'd get over it, but he hasn't talked to me since, saying that he's too old to be a 25-year-old child of divorce, and that he was offended that I got married the weekend after the anniversary of his mom's funeral. To me, that date isn't particularly meaningful since the date that weighs on my heart is the one that she actually died. Beth thinks I should just swallow my pride and apologize so that Andrew will talk to me again, but I can't help but feel hard done by here.”
‘They were entitled to that money just as you are’
Soon people jumped into the comment section to thrash the man as a user asserted, “Wow, YTA a million times over. You are so petty for telling them you aren’t their father anymore when YOU raised them. They were entitled to that money just as you are, and it doesn’t sound like they tried to do it maliciously. Nice job ruining those relationships for the rest of your life. I hope you come to thoroughly regret it.” Another user said, “He married his new wife on the one year anniversary of his first wife’s death. WTF?!”
The third user posted, “YTA to be honest you met a girl and are getting married in around a year if your late wife’s death that tells me you probably didn’t love her the way you should’ve. Your upset that the kids are taking some of the money yet instead of just getting out of debt you bought a new motorcycle.” “YTA. Of course her children are entitled to her share of the common asset. You're acting like they have screwed you over. Grow up.” the fourth one added. While one said, "He's so cold about these people, and so insistent that they "shook him down" or "kneecapped him" when all they did was get the money they're legally entitled to, that he was never ever going to give them (making me doubt that he didn't know they were entitled to the money, he was just hoping they wouldn't notice). He seems more upset about the motorcycle than Andrew not speaking to him."
Redditors continued to mock him as one wrote, "And just imagine, that loser is also in medical debt because his wife had cancer, cry me a river!" Another one continued, "You don’t understand, this is his new chance at life! Otherwise he’d have to confront his own mortality and the fact that he’s totally having a midlife crisis!"
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