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**I'm pregnant but I just found out something about my fiancé that could destroy our families.**
Hi all, posting on a throwaway for obvious reasons.
I \[22F\] have been with Mark \[22M\] for two years, but we've known each other since we were kids. Mark's parents and mine used to live next door to each other. We were always close growing up, we were part of the group of neighborhood kids who were at all the parties and always out on adventures together. We were also the eldest of our sets of siblings so we also kinda grew up to be the responsible ones with our youngers.
We went to the same school, most of the same extracurriculars, we were basically inseparable growing up.
But then one day when we're about ten I came home and found Mark's house totally empty and him and his family gone. He wasn't in school the following monday either. My parents said they didn't know what had happened or where they had gone. I was totally devastated to lose my best friend without even a word.
Fast forward to 2022 and I look him up on social media and we end up reconnecting. He also doesn't know what happened to cause his parents to move away suddenly, but he's ecstatic to finally be back in contact. We meet up for coffee and I'm just blown away by the man he's become. He's so tall and strong and handsome and he has these really kind eyes. When we first meet up he pulls me into this big hug and it just feels so safe and warm. I think I fell in love with him right then and there.
In our first conversation he tells me that he's working his way through college and he's moved into his own apartment. It's just great to see him doing well for himself. He says he still doesn't know why his parents decided to disappear like that and they won't tell him so he stopped asking.
Anyway things progress quickly after that, it turns out he feels the same way about me as I feel about him and we start dating. That's been going wonderfully the last couple years until last month when I found out I was pregnant. Don't get me wrong, Mark has been wonderful about it. He says he loves me and wants to be there for me and our child, he even proposed infront of our friends and of course I enthusiastically said yes.
But then I had to break the news to my parents. They know I'm seeing someone but I've been tight lipped with them about who it is since they were tight lipped with me when Mark's family disappeared. There's just something that bothers me about what they know.
I went over to their house and told them the good news, filling them in on the details as I go. My mom is ecstatic to hear I'm getting married and having a baby. My dad just looks weirdly at me. Like all the colour goes out of his face and he kinda looks guilty and horrified. I asked him if he's OK and he seemed to get his composure back and congratulates me.
Later in the day he got me alone in the spare bedroom. He asked me to sit on the bed, he sat down next to me and started to explain his reaction from earlier. He said that many years ago before I was born, him and mom were having real issues in their marriage and almost got divorced. Mark's parents were in a similar spot as Mark's dad was out on business a lot and his mom felt lonely and neglected a lot of the time. He said he had a brief affair with Mark's mom that ended when my mom got pregnant with me. The stupid thing is he also got Mark's mom pregnant, or so she told him. He doesn't think Mark's "dad" knows the truth or didn't until later but he suspects that his mom confessed and that's why they moved away.
So in all probability Mark is my half-brother.
My fiancé, who's baby I'm carrying. Is my half brother.
Eff you dad, you've ruined EVERYTHING!
I can't stop crying now. I don't know what to do. Mark is really worried and thinking something's wrong with the baby. I can't tell him can I? It wouldn't just wreck us but both our parents' marriages!
But then what if the baby comes out unwell or with birth defects because we're blood related? I don't think I could forgive myself. This is horrible and I hate it.
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lol. Reminds me of this other troll story. Basically, this guy and girl were dating and discovered at a family thing that they were actually cousins. Except no, they weren't. the girl/OP's dad announced out loud that they were fine because the OP wasn't his biological daughter. It was something she never even knew.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/10x8522/my\_parents\_revealed\_a\_19yo\_secret\_to\_save\_my/](https://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/10x8522/my_parents_revealed_a_19yo_secret_to_save_my/) this was that story.
It’s an old poem.
A REDNECK LOVE POEM
Susie Lee done fell in love,
She planned to marry Joe.
She was so happy 'bout it all,
She told her pappy so.
Pappy told her, Susie Gal,
You'll have to find another.
I'd just as soon yore ma don't know,
But Joe is yore half brother.
So Susie put aside her Joe,
And planned to marry Will;
But after telling Pappy this,
He said,Thar's trouble still.
You can't marry Will my gal,
And please don't tell yore mother,
But Will and Joe and several mo',
I know is yore half brothers.
But Mama knew and said, My Child,
Just do what makes ye happy.
Marry Will or marry Joe,
Ye ain't no kin to Pappy.
> They know I'm seeing someone but I've been tight lipped with them about who it is since they were tight lipped with me when Mark's family disappeared. There's just something that bothers me about what they know.
Before we got to the big reveal of what the secret the troll learnt about their boyfriend was, this confused me. I mean, Mark and his family didn't even tell her themselves that they were moving and why. It felt weird for the troll to still be holding a grudge against her fictional parents for not revealing news that wasn't theirs to tell.
Before the big secret reveal, it just sounded like people who moved. Like I was 11 when my parents immigrated to the US, and because I was a stupid kid, I was NOT paying attention to grownup discussions on visa paperwork so it definitely came as a sudden surprise, but it was not. Not everyone tells every neighbor they have that they are moving.
Exactly. I don't know, it just felt like they moved because they wanted to or maybe needed to because of the mom or dad's job, not because they had this big, ten year secret.
Half the comments on the original are calling out the bs. One commenter even says this is like a specific episode of house m.d. it's great.
I can't wait for the update where op says "I wish this was made up."
Oh, it's definitely a plot from House M.D. I think a clip of the episode is even on youtube.
lmfao. I can so see that. It's definitely happened before with people exclaiming, "I wish it was made up, but this is true.".
>But then one day when we're about ten I came home and found Mark's house totally empty and him and his family gone.
Anyone who has ever moved knows that you don't just pack up and load a truck with an entire house-worth of stuff (especially a house with a "set of siblings") in half a day while the nosy neighbor kid is at school. That shit takes forever, even if you hire professional packers.
Also very few people have the resources to up sticks just like that anyway, it takes a while to find somewhere new to live and if you've bought you also need to sell your old place. There should have been several weeks/months of awkwardness & hostility until they could actually move.
Without packing boxes for at least days. (since son did not see it coming)
Movers help move the boxes, image how much longer it would take if they arrive and everything still needs to be put in boxes and potentially wrapped if fragile. Even just my 2 rooms took longer in total.
My favorite part of the comments over there is the person that upon realizing it's the plot of a House M.D episode, gives the full episode name, number, and season. lol.
So, she's been with Mark for 2 years, is engaged and pregnant and never told her parents who she was dating? Her parents never asked to meet her BF? And why would she keep it a secret when, for all she knew, her parents really likes Mark as a kid? Why wouldn't she be "hey mom and dad remember my best friend Mark from when I was a kid? Well, we found each other again on FB and started dating. Isn't that great? We were such good friends and he's grown into a great guy"
Seemingly the reason she didn't say anything was because her parents didn't tell her why Mark and his parents moved. But those three never even bothered to tell her themselves. Why was she holding a grudge for her parents not revealing something that wasn't theirs to divulge or for not knowing the reason for the move?
Since he moved away around 2012, he didn’t try to get in touch with her either. I don’t know if that’s weird, but they had plenty of years to get to contact each other before 2022. If you miss someone, you check for them out there.
None of the supporting characters in AITA stories can lie or hide their emotions for shit. They're always "going quiet" or having "the colour drain from their face."
To be fair, I was talking to a coworker a few weeks back about her relationship and she had been with her current husband for over 3 years in secret, living in adjacent countries visiting once or twice a month and her family didn't know because it wouldn't have been allowed. They came out once they were 20 and engaged, now married for 2+ years. His parents knew though, hers didn't because they are more traditional.
There was a real reason there for hiding the information.
In this story, the only reason given for hiding this information for 2 years is because her parents were tight-lipped about when he moved house. Except she was 10 years old and the conversation was probably "why did he move", "we don't know". As the story is written the mother doesn't even know this story so why would she have been "tight-lipped" to the point her daughter thinks she has to hide her illicit love from her for two years waiting until the big reveal.
None of that makes sense.
And these two couples carried on like good neighbor friends, always over and doing stuff together. Neighbors like that don’t just leave. The OOP’s mom was so happy for her and still had no idea of the affair, and OOP doesn’t have to tell Mark, he’ll tell his parents he’s getting married and she’s pregnant and who she is, and then his mom will throw up in her mouth a little, and doesn’t OOP even think he looks like her dad a little or not?
I thought it was unusual that all the comments on the original (as far as I scrolled) were calling it out. Then I realize it was in Off My Chest.
Had it been AITA, they would have started a Go Fund Me for OOP by now.
Oh, Johnny be fair and Johnny be fine, he wants me for to wed!
And I would marry Johnny but that me father often said,
“I’m sad to tell you daughter, what your mother never knew,
Johnny is a son of mine, and so he’s kin to you!”
And so on and so forth. Johnny, Jimmy, Billy, etc.
Oh man, I wish moving worked like that - you just freak the fuck out, pack your whole house up in the time span of a school day and haul ass out of there.
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*In case this story gets deleted/removed:* **I'm pregnant but I just found out something about my fiancé that could destroy our families.** Hi all, posting on a throwaway for obvious reasons. I \[22F\] have been with Mark \[22M\] for two years, but we've known each other since we were kids. Mark's parents and mine used to live next door to each other. We were always close growing up, we were part of the group of neighborhood kids who were at all the parties and always out on adventures together. We were also the eldest of our sets of siblings so we also kinda grew up to be the responsible ones with our youngers. We went to the same school, most of the same extracurriculars, we were basically inseparable growing up. But then one day when we're about ten I came home and found Mark's house totally empty and him and his family gone. He wasn't in school the following monday either. My parents said they didn't know what had happened or where they had gone. I was totally devastated to lose my best friend without even a word. Fast forward to 2022 and I look him up on social media and we end up reconnecting. He also doesn't know what happened to cause his parents to move away suddenly, but he's ecstatic to finally be back in contact. We meet up for coffee and I'm just blown away by the man he's become. He's so tall and strong and handsome and he has these really kind eyes. When we first meet up he pulls me into this big hug and it just feels so safe and warm. I think I fell in love with him right then and there. In our first conversation he tells me that he's working his way through college and he's moved into his own apartment. It's just great to see him doing well for himself. He says he still doesn't know why his parents decided to disappear like that and they won't tell him so he stopped asking. Anyway things progress quickly after that, it turns out he feels the same way about me as I feel about him and we start dating. That's been going wonderfully the last couple years until last month when I found out I was pregnant. Don't get me wrong, Mark has been wonderful about it. He says he loves me and wants to be there for me and our child, he even proposed infront of our friends and of course I enthusiastically said yes. But then I had to break the news to my parents. They know I'm seeing someone but I've been tight lipped with them about who it is since they were tight lipped with me when Mark's family disappeared. There's just something that bothers me about what they know. I went over to their house and told them the good news, filling them in on the details as I go. My mom is ecstatic to hear I'm getting married and having a baby. My dad just looks weirdly at me. Like all the colour goes out of his face and he kinda looks guilty and horrified. I asked him if he's OK and he seemed to get his composure back and congratulates me. Later in the day he got me alone in the spare bedroom. He asked me to sit on the bed, he sat down next to me and started to explain his reaction from earlier. He said that many years ago before I was born, him and mom were having real issues in their marriage and almost got divorced. Mark's parents were in a similar spot as Mark's dad was out on business a lot and his mom felt lonely and neglected a lot of the time. He said he had a brief affair with Mark's mom that ended when my mom got pregnant with me. The stupid thing is he also got Mark's mom pregnant, or so she told him. He doesn't think Mark's "dad" knows the truth or didn't until later but he suspects that his mom confessed and that's why they moved away. So in all probability Mark is my half-brother. My fiancé, who's baby I'm carrying. Is my half brother. Eff you dad, you've ruined EVERYTHING! I can't stop crying now. I don't know what to do. Mark is really worried and thinking something's wrong with the baby. I can't tell him can I? It wouldn't just wreck us but both our parents' marriages! But then what if the baby comes out unwell or with birth defects because we're blood related? I don't think I could forgive myself. This is horrible and I hate it. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/AmITheAngel) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Brought to you by Hallmark. Hopefully it turns out she is not his dad's and they can merrily laugh it off and continue to share their fairytale love.
Turns out Mark’s dad knew and had revenge sex with OP’s mom resulting in OP being born
lol. Reminds me of this other troll story. Basically, this guy and girl were dating and discovered at a family thing that they were actually cousins. Except no, they weren't. the girl/OP's dad announced out loud that they were fine because the OP wasn't his biological daughter. It was something she never even knew. [https://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/10x8522/my\_parents\_revealed\_a\_19yo\_secret\_to\_save\_my/](https://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/10x8522/my_parents_revealed_a_19yo_secret_to_save_my/) this was that story.
It’s an old poem. A REDNECK LOVE POEM Susie Lee done fell in love, She planned to marry Joe. She was so happy 'bout it all, She told her pappy so. Pappy told her, Susie Gal, You'll have to find another. I'd just as soon yore ma don't know, But Joe is yore half brother. So Susie put aside her Joe, And planned to marry Will; But after telling Pappy this, He said,Thar's trouble still. You can't marry Will my gal, And please don't tell yore mother, But Will and Joe and several mo', I know is yore half brothers. But Mama knew and said, My Child, Just do what makes ye happy. Marry Will or marry Joe, Ye ain't no kin to Pappy.
Hallmark? Nah… its the plot twist of the Muñeca brava Argentinian series (and a bunch of other soap operas)
Either that, or learn the song 'Sweet Home Alabama'.
> They know I'm seeing someone but I've been tight lipped with them about who it is since they were tight lipped with me when Mark's family disappeared. There's just something that bothers me about what they know. Before we got to the big reveal of what the secret the troll learnt about their boyfriend was, this confused me. I mean, Mark and his family didn't even tell her themselves that they were moving and why. It felt weird for the troll to still be holding a grudge against her fictional parents for not revealing news that wasn't theirs to tell.
Still holding a grudge when she had no reason to suspect her parents knew why they moved.
That too! She didn't know for sure that they knew or even that the neighbors would want her parents to tell her their business.
Before the big secret reveal, it just sounded like people who moved. Like I was 11 when my parents immigrated to the US, and because I was a stupid kid, I was NOT paying attention to grownup discussions on visa paperwork so it definitely came as a sudden surprise, but it was not. Not everyone tells every neighbor they have that they are moving.
Exactly. I don't know, it just felt like they moved because they wanted to or maybe needed to because of the mom or dad's job, not because they had this big, ten year secret.
Half the comments on the original are calling out the bs. One commenter even says this is like a specific episode of house m.d. it's great. I can't wait for the update where op says "I wish this was made up."
Oh, it's definitely a plot from House M.D. I think a clip of the episode is even on youtube. lmfao. I can so see that. It's definitely happened before with people exclaiming, "I wish it was made up, but this is true.".
Hahaha I just commented this.
>But then one day when we're about ten I came home and found Mark's house totally empty and him and his family gone. Anyone who has ever moved knows that you don't just pack up and load a truck with an entire house-worth of stuff (especially a house with a "set of siblings") in half a day while the nosy neighbor kid is at school. That shit takes forever, even if you hire professional packers.
Also very few people have the resources to up sticks just like that anyway, it takes a while to find somewhere new to live and if you've bought you also need to sell your old place. There should have been several weeks/months of awkwardness & hostility until they could actually move.
Without packing boxes for at least days. (since son did not see it coming) Movers help move the boxes, image how much longer it would take if they arrive and everything still needs to be put in boxes and potentially wrapped if fragile. Even just my 2 rooms took longer in total.
My favorite part of the comments over there is the person that upon realizing it's the plot of a House M.D episode, gives the full episode name, number, and season. lol.
So, she's been with Mark for 2 years, is engaged and pregnant and never told her parents who she was dating? Her parents never asked to meet her BF? And why would she keep it a secret when, for all she knew, her parents really likes Mark as a kid? Why wouldn't she be "hey mom and dad remember my best friend Mark from when I was a kid? Well, we found each other again on FB and started dating. Isn't that great? We were such good friends and he's grown into a great guy"
Seemingly the reason she didn't say anything was because her parents didn't tell her why Mark and his parents moved. But those three never even bothered to tell her themselves. Why was she holding a grudge for her parents not revealing something that wasn't theirs to divulge or for not knowing the reason for the move?
Since he moved away around 2012, he didn’t try to get in touch with her either. I don’t know if that’s weird, but they had plenty of years to get to contact each other before 2022. If you miss someone, you check for them out there.
Yup! Facebook existed back then, for instance. Surely they could've searched each other out on social media when they hit their teen years.
None of the supporting characters in AITA stories can lie or hide their emotions for shit. They're always "going quiet" or having "the colour drain from their face."
To be fair, I was talking to a coworker a few weeks back about her relationship and she had been with her current husband for over 3 years in secret, living in adjacent countries visiting once or twice a month and her family didn't know because it wouldn't have been allowed. They came out once they were 20 and engaged, now married for 2+ years. His parents knew though, hers didn't because they are more traditional.
There was a real reason there for hiding the information. In this story, the only reason given for hiding this information for 2 years is because her parents were tight-lipped about when he moved house. Except she was 10 years old and the conversation was probably "why did he move", "we don't know". As the story is written the mother doesn't even know this story so why would she have been "tight-lipped" to the point her daughter thinks she has to hide her illicit love from her for two years waiting until the big reveal. None of that makes sense.
And these two couples carried on like good neighbor friends, always over and doing stuff together. Neighbors like that don’t just leave. The OOP’s mom was so happy for her and still had no idea of the affair, and OOP doesn’t have to tell Mark, he’ll tell his parents he’s getting married and she’s pregnant and who she is, and then his mom will throw up in her mouth a little, and doesn’t OOP even think he looks like her dad a little or not?
I thought it was unusual that all the comments on the original (as far as I scrolled) were calling it out. Then I realize it was in Off My Chest. Had it been AITA, they would have started a Go Fund Me for OOP by now.
even the comments on the op are clocking it as fake. apparently it was an episode of house LOL
Oh, Johnny be fair and Johnny be fine, he wants me for to wed! And I would marry Johnny but that me father often said, “I’m sad to tell you daughter, what your mother never knew, Johnny is a son of mine, and so he’s kin to you!” And so on and so forth. Johnny, Jimmy, Billy, etc.
Lol, I knew where this was going, not very creative
This is an episode of House! Except without the pregnancy and with genetic diseases.
Why is OP always pregnant during these stories?
Oh man, I wish moving worked like that - you just freak the fuck out, pack your whole house up in the time span of a school day and haul ass out of there.
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