Karen DEMANDS I BABYSIT... ENDS UP REGRETTING IT! - Reddit Stories

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, mister rhdter here. Welcome back to another episode
of Reddit podcast Stories. Our first story we'll be reading today,
Karen demands I babysit since she had a family emergency.
After that, am I the jerk for not attending my
sister's wedding because of her dress code? And after that,
am I the jerk for saying it's easy to be
a perfect mom when you don't have kids. Now, for

(00:21):
every thumbs up, this video gits one. Karen does not
get to make someone else babysit her kids. It's not
like you love a choice when I drop them off
without saying anything. So please smash that like button and
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every single day. Karen demands I babysit since she had
a family emergency. I thirty seven male and my wife

(00:44):
who's thirty three, have no kids. We live in a
small two bedroom house with the second bedroom converted into
a game room slash office for us. My sister who's
thirty two and brother in law who's thirty five have
two kids, nephew who's eight and niece who's nine. With
our great kids, we love them and would do absolutely
anything for them. We've babyset for my sister and brother

(01:06):
in law before and had no issues until recently. On
April seventh, Good Friday, brother in law got a call
that his sister, who's twenty eight, was in a bad
car accident along with two of her friends. She had
to be airlifted to the hospital. They weren't sure if
she was even going to make it, so family members
were being called in to say goodbye and support the
rest of the family. This happened across the state we

(01:28):
live in. Sister texted me around ten fortyish that night
asking if I was awake, then called to explain the situation.
She then asked if I would babysit the kids over
Easter weekend while they traveled across state to be with
brother in law's family. I told her no, I couldn't.
I work in a steel manufacturing plant. She knows this
on a rotary shift, and after Easter on Monday, I

(01:51):
would be starting the overnight shifts. I told her that
I was going to sleep during the day on Saturday
and Sunday to get accustomed to being on third shift.
When she asked if my wife would be willing, I
again told her no, since she's going to be doing
Easter stuff with her side of the family. When she
asked why I couldn't just sleep in on Sunday or
why I couldn't my wife take the kids with her
to the Easter stuff, I snapped back at her and

(02:12):
I gave three reasons why that one, I wanted the
weekend to adjust my shift in sleeping schedules and couldn't
do that in one day. Two, my wife wanted to
spend Easter with her side of the family, and finally
that no is a complete sentence and that's final. She
got upset, said we'll talk later, and hung up. They
took the kids, and on the way, sister texted me

(02:34):
that I'm a jerk for not taking what they're going
through to heart, for not helping them in the time
of need. That it wouldn't have hurt me or my
wife to miss a day of sleep or take the
kids with her. And brother in law is really upset
with us. He prays we don't have an emergency and
need him because he'll say no and he wants to
sleep in. I haven't responded, and we're currently not speaking

(02:55):
to each other. Going to add when sister called. My
wife was asleep to get up early in the morning
to do her family things. Our parents live in another state,
our other brother lives in another country. I don't know
why she didn't call any of their friends when I refused.
So am I the jerk for not babysitting my sister's
kids in their time of need? Not the jerk. I

(03:15):
don't get why the kids couldn't be with their parents.
If Op's wife is expected to take the kids with her,
why couldn't they go with their own mother. I know
it's a worrying time, but and I know this is
going to sound harsh, the kids' parents won't be involved
with medical procedures, so they'll have plenty of time, and
the kids might even be a welcome distraction. Not the jerk.
I work nights, and if I don't call off, I

(03:38):
can't adjust my sleep schedule on short notice. No way
you could have kept the kids quiet for five to
eight hours, and that's assuming your wife could supervise them.
You wouldn't be excused for calling out for an emergency
for a non relation. It boils down to can you
take the punishment for calling in or would it jeopardize
your employment status. If you aren't close to a ride up,
then you should have called in to help out. Am

(04:00):
I the jerk for not attending my sister's wedding because
of her dress code? I eighteen female, recently decided I'm
not attending my sisters who's twenty one female wedding. My
sister has her dream wedding planned. She's been dreaming of
her wedding all her life and has everything down to
the tea. She has her cake, her venue, her dress,
the bridesmaid's dresses, and the flower arrangements all prepared. She

(04:22):
sat me and my sister's down to show us the
dresses she wanted us to wear. They were cute, flowy
pink gowns with pink lace around the neck area. We
all loved them, but I had a problem. They were
short sleeved. Now, her wedding is in the summer, so
short sleeves are kind of a must have. But I
have scars all down my arms and do not want
them to be on show at the wedding. I pulled

(04:43):
her aside and asked if I could get a dress
with sleeves or if I could wear sleeved gloves. She
said no, and that she wants everyone to look the same,
so I couldn't wear sleeves or have a different dress.
I said I wasn't comfortable having my arms on show
around such a large amount of people, and that you
would see them in all the pitchers. She asked if
I could just put makeup on my arms, but I

(05:04):
have Key Lloyd's scars and makeup won't cover them at all.
She then said if I wasn't going to cooperate, I
just shouldn't come. She told my family I was being
difficult and didn't want to obey the dress code because
I wanted to be different. She sent out her invites
a few weeks ago and messaged me asking why I
haven't confirmed that I'm going. I said that I'm still
not comfortable being in short sleeves and that I will

(05:26):
just not attend since I don't want to ruin her
perfect day by dressing differently. She complained, saying that she
had already bought the dresses and I said I'll give
her the money for mine, but she didn't listen. I
know I probably sound selfish and I shouldn't let my
own issues be priority over my sister's wedding, but I
don't like being in short sleeves and there's no other
way to work around it. Edit. I did forget to

(05:48):
add I was not a bridesmaid. My sister wanted all
the girls in our side of the family to wear
the same dress as it's similar to hers. Not the jerk.
You came up with a perfect solution with the gloves.
Her not accepting it is because of some ridiculous perfectionist
aesthetic that no one will even care about, and it's absurd.
She'd rather have things look a certain way again that

(06:09):
no one will notice except for her, than to have
her sister at her wedding. She's making a bad choice.
I'm sorry it's hurting you. Not the jerk. Why is
it that weddings make perfectly nice people turn into selfish
and titled jerks. I always cringe when I hear dream wedding.
It smacks of future bridezillas, not the jerk. Dress codes

(06:30):
are one thing, but this is a bit beyond. Who
orders specific dresses and outfits and enforces the guests to
wear them. That's very odd unless you are in the
bridal party, but it sounds like you are not. From
what is shared in the post, am I the jerk
for saying it's easy to be a perfect mom when
you don't have kids. I twenty eight female, have a
two year old son. My brother, Tommy, twenty five male,

(06:53):
has been dating Gianna twenty two female, for a few
months now. She's a little judgmental, not of me particularly,
but in general. She babysits for other kids and constantly
judges the parents. She says she had never let her
kids act the way the kids do. Sometimes it makes sense,
and I agree. Others, she claims that her future kids
will never ever throw a tantrum. They'll accept no the

(07:15):
first time, the only time. I've told her, good luck
with that when it comes to toddler's My son is
learning no and has appropriate consequences for tantrums. But he's
learning it'll happen. It's also important to note that Gia
is infertile. She can't have kids without medical intervention or adoption.
Saturday night, we went out for my dad's birthday dinner.

(07:36):
I messed up and didn't prepare my toddler well enough.
He got over stimulated and began melting down. I quickly
took him out of the restaurant to calm him. Down
before he could cause a scene. It took all of
five minutes and we returned. He got food and everything
was good. Giannis started on, my future kids will never
act like that in a restaurant. I ignored her. The

(07:57):
next day, myself, Tommy, our parents, my son, and Gianna
went to the mall for an event they were having.
My son was playing in a structure and I had
my eyes on him. My mom asked me a question
and I turned to answer her. When I turned back,
he was gone. Panic set in, and myself, my parents,
and Tommy, along with some people nearby, began helping me look.

(08:18):
It only took a few minutes to find him, and
he was perfectly fine. He had seen a pretzel cart
and wondered off. I was still pretty worked up, holding
on to him for dear life. He had never wandered
off before. My mom was reassuring me, saying it happened
to her with both of us kids. Then I hear Gianna,
why went you watching him? I tried ignoring her. Then

(08:38):
she said I would have never let him wander off.
I was already so worked up and upset. I just snapped.
I said, it's easy being a perfect parent when you
don't have kids, come back to me when you do.
Gianna got visibly upset. She then made Tommy take her home.
Tommy and Gianna have both texted me telling me how
insensitive that is since she can't have kids. To me,

(09:01):
she talks about having kids all the time, So why
is it different for me to say that? Am I
the jerk? Not the jerk? You weren't referring to her
inability to have biological kids. You were referring to her
inability to keep her mouth shut. Not the jerk. Tell
her you said those things because you truly believe that
she will be a mother someday and will realize what

(09:22):
a jerk she's being. It's twenty twenty three. We don't
parent shame. Not all wheelchair users can walk. So I'm
at a theme park and I'm a full time wheelchair
user who cannot walk or stand. I won't name the park.
As soon as management found out, they were angry and
more than rectify the situation. But the story is funny
in my opinion. It happened a few years ago. Someone

(09:44):
of the rides is in a building and has an
area outside the entrance for pushchairs and those big strollers
that some people bring to theme parks. My friend and
I head to the entrance and this young employee comes
to me and says, you just leave your wheelchair there.
I look at him, and my friend is about to
say something, and I catch their eye and wink. I
wheel over to the area and sit there with my

(10:05):
brakes on. My friend catches on and comes and stands
next to me. The worker comes over and says, you
can go in now, see me not moving? I reply,
how you told me to put my wheelchair here? He,
not seeing what's happening, replies, yes, so you need to
leave it here and then go in and get it
after I ask him how that'll work, and he sort

(10:27):
of blinks at me, confused, then walks over to a
guest who has asked for help. Another worker who's older
and has team leader on his badge comes over. The
guy who has told me to sit there is still
talking to another guest, and the older worker comes over
and asks if I'm okay. I explained that the guy
had told me to sit here in my chair, and
so I did, and then he told me to head

(10:48):
into the ride, but leaving my chair here, and how
I'm confused? As I can't walk or stand. This worker
is mortified and tells me this is obviously not the
park rules, and how no one is asked to leave
their wheelchair there if they don't want to, and how
I'm allowed in with my chair. The first worker comes
over and the supervisor slash team leader asks him what

(11:08):
he's on about and how he can't tell wheelchair users
to do this, et cetera. The younger guy said he
was told to tell people they could leave their wheelchairs there,
and we came to realize that he was just confused
and thought everybody in wheelchairs could actually walk. The guy
realizes his mistake and then realizes what I was trying
to tell him earlier, and he's mortified, apologizing over and over.

(11:30):
I explain how it's okay, and I'm glad he's realized
what he said wasn't okay, but I can see that
he had been confused and it turned out he was
very new. I head onto the ride, and as I exit,
the supervisor comes over and refunds us our park entry
tickets and has food and shop vouchers for myself and
my friend. I explained how they didn't need to do
this and how I'm just glad the new guy found

(11:51):
out his misunderstanding with me, who found it funny and
I had a bit of a fun time messing with him.
This company doesn't offer bribes until it does. This happened
a year or two ago. I had just returned from
a long mission from my company in Indonesia. As soon
as I could finish the paperwork, I could go on leave.
I had about three days of report writing left to do.

(12:12):
I had been invited to a BS meeting on the
company ethos, which I had declined. The HR underlingk sent
an email saying that it was obligatory, which I ignored. Anyway,
the meeting started without me. Then the HR person came
out and said I had to attend. Room is full
of techies, engineers and anyone else who was in the

(12:33):
office at the time. PowerPoint display went on and on
company ethos other stuff, and then HR what to do
if you are offered a bribe, which made me smile. Anyway, HR,
what's funny? Me? Oh nothing, HR? No go on. So
I asked if we were supposed to offer incentives in

(12:55):
order to complete missions? Never, if you remember the PowerPoint
we just worked through. So I quickly copy and pasted
a section of my WhatsApp conversation with the missions officer
about four levels above HR, UNDERLININGK and send it to
HR Underlingk's email, I just sent you something. She opened
it and began to read. Missions manager was a sound

(13:16):
guy who understands that in some countries a little cash
is the only way to make things function anyway, The
email stated the case, I had a higher car, but
I didn't have access to a driver all the time,
and I was stuck in the hotel on weekends. Theoretically,
you can use your home driving license to obtain an
Indonesian driving license, and it should be straightforward. In reality,

(13:37):
they see it as an opportunity to make some money
and will happily make you wait for a year and
do a driving test unless you give a fat wad
of banknotes in an envelope two million Indonesian rupia about
one hundred and thirty dollars. But it's a lot to them,
Mission manager says fine. I asked him, how can I
put it through expenses? Missions Manager team building exercise, get

(13:59):
a receipt code for make a fake one, which I did.
I found a site on Google that let me make one.
There are hundreds of sites like that, so I made
one for four steak dinners with wine and loads of beer.
I printed it out, messed it up, and then scanned it.
It looked legit. Missions manager looks good to me approved.

(14:19):
She was reading this on our laptop, but it was
shared with the seventy inch screen behind her. She looked
up and everyone was smiling, hr underling, Okay, we'll break
for coffee. I didn't come back. She didn't come looking
for me. I went on vacation two days later and
titled stepfather is stalking us by watching our outside home

(14:40):
surveillance camera that he installed. Me and my stepdad have
always been quite close. He's always been supportive and always
been there for me more than my own father has been. Regardless,
Me and my girlfriend moved into my grandmother's house just
over a year ago to help her around the house
a little more. Me and my girlfriend both having relatively
nice cars parked in the dry I asked if he

(15:01):
would install a camera into the house to keep an
eye on them. He did this for me. I offered
him the money and he didn't charge me anything. I
didn't think anything of it until last autumn. I'd gone
to visit my friend for the day who lives about
eighty miles away. I'd come home at about seven pm,
and as my grandma went to bed, me and my
girlfriend decided to go out for a bit of a
date night. I got a phone call from my stepdad

(15:23):
around nine thirty pm, asking if I was okay, as
I wasn't home yet. I straightway knew he had checked
the camera to see if I was home yet. I
was fuming and told him I don't appreciate being clocked
in and out. He took offense to this and thought
I was being ungrateful. Since then, he hasn't really made
any comments. But then a couple of months ago, me
and my girlfriend had a baby. She was in the

(15:45):
hospital for a while, and he kept checking when I
was home from the hospital each evening. I know because
the minute my car got into the driveway, it was
don't forget to put this in your car for tomorrow,
or if I stayed out for a while later, I'd
get when you get home, can you wo, which suggests
he knew I wasn't. I really didn't want him watching me,
so a few weeks ago he made it quite obvious

(16:07):
he had checked if I was in before coming to
visit with my mom few me, I unplugged the camera
from the Internet so that I could only access it
when I needed to. I wanted to see how long
it would take him to notice the problem, but instead
he's been in a funny mood for a few weeks.
Today he came to inspect as it had gone down,
and I openly and honestly told him I appreciate what

(16:28):
he's done for us, but I don't want him stalking us.
He threw a massive tantrum, accused me of being ungrateful,
and tried guilt tripping me by saying it's only because
he cares. He then deleted it from his access or
so he claimed. Anyway, I don't mind him having access.
It helps in keeping an eye on my grandma if
she ventures out or anything. But I'm a grown adult

(16:48):
who doesn't need clocking in and out. It massively breaches
data protection. It's weird, and what winds me up the
most is him having a tantrum about it. Take his
down and get your own. Not hard to install. It
just takes an afternoon. You should also check around your
house for any additional ones. I caught Karen, my dad's
girlfriend snooping through his bank account on his computer, so

(17:11):
I exposed her as a gold digger. I'm sixteen female.
My dad, who's thirty six male, has been dating Delia,
who's forty two female, for a year. He introduced us
three months ago, and to keep it short, I don't
like her when my dad's not around. She's super passive, aggressive,
and I feel like she's constantly trying to compete with
me and be like his favorite or the better one.

(17:32):
I honestly don't know how to explain it. I can't
really discuss it with someone because it's not like I
have any proof or anything. Yesterday, she came here at
eight am because the three of us were supposed to
spend the day together, but my dad got called in
for an emergency and said he'll be back by two pm.
No problem, I said. At the kitchen where you have
full view of the living room, not because I was

(17:52):
watching her, but because I've always sat there to do homework.
If I looked at her, all I could see was
her back, so I thought she was on her phone.
I had to go to my room to get some papers,
and when I walked behind her to go to the stairs.
I saw what she was doing. She was using my
dad's laptop. He's an architect, so his laptop is really
really important and he doesn't let anyone use it. I

(18:13):
thought to myself, what but couples are weird and guessed
that she was the exception. She's also in the field.
She saw me, smiled, and I went upstairs, got my thing,
and came back down. I guess she thought I was
going to my room for a while, because when I
walked behind her again, she didn't notice me. She was
seeing my dad's bank account, his Facebook, and his Instagram.

(18:33):
She really had three things open at once, and I said, hey,
you shouldn't be seen that, and I took his laptop.
She got red in the face and tried to make
excuses like I was trying to close them. It's not
what you think, until she got mad and said that
she was his partner and I had no right to
snatch things from her hands, and that I was being
a jealous brat because Daddy wasn't all mine anymore. She

(18:57):
demanded an apology, and I told her to get out
until my my dad came back, because I wasn't comfortable
having her around anymore. She did leave, but called my
dad crying and made a fake version of what happened.
He came back mad, but after I explained what had
happened and he saw the living room footage, he knew
I was telling the truth, apologized and thanked me. My grandmother,

(19:17):
on the other hand, is upset because she really loves
Delia and said that I did act like a jealous
daughter and that when you have a man, you have
to make sure he's good, and agreed that I should
apologize because I acted like a huge jerk. You're not
the jerk, and it's amazing your dad has your back.
Let your other family members be mad. You did the
right thing for your father, simple not the jerk. Delia

(19:40):
was crossing a boundary of your dad's his rule that
no one should touch his laptop, and on top of that,
she was clearly invading his privacy by going into his
online accounts. You defended his boundary because you knew she
was crossing it and her behavior wasn't okay. Husband wrongly
accused me of stealing from him, so I returned the
shoes that I bought for him. I'm twenty nine and
my husband who's thirty six. As the breadwinner of the family,

(20:03):
I stay home with the kids who are preschool age.
He pays for the mortgage bills, household needs, food, kids needs,
et cetera. He has set a monthly budget for each
category and handles getting everything done. Recently, he's become overwhelmed
and told me to handle grocery shopping. But before he
let me, he asked me to write a list of
all the stuff we need so he could calculate the total,
and also so he'd have an idea how much I'll

(20:25):
be spending when I take his credit card. I didn't
have an issue with that, because this way we'd watch
our spending habits. However, he said, I'm never allowed to
get something that isn't on the list unless I'm paying
for it some other way. On Friday, I was doing
some grocery shopping as usual and saw that the store
had some nice shoes on sale. The price was insanely
low for this brand, and so I decided to grab

(20:46):
a pair for my husband, thinking that he'd be happy
with them since he needed new sneakers. Anyway, I bought them,
and when I showed them to him, he flipped out
on me, saying I made a huge mistake by buying
something that wasn't on the list. I agreed with him,
but I thought that since the shit shoes were for him,
then it would be different. He said, I messed up
and shouldn't have bought those sneakers without even telling him.
But in my defense, I said that the price was low,

(21:08):
so it's not like I spent one hundred dollars on shoes,
and also I saw this as a great deal and
wanted him to have those nice sneakers. He plainly said
that what I did is considered stealing since he never
consented to have those sneakers purchased, and said that I'm
being irresponsible with money. That is why I no longer
have an income and my spending habits need a grib.
I felt hurt by what he said. We argued about

(21:30):
it for hours, and he avoided speaking to me for
the rest of the day. The next day, I went
and returned the sneakers and took the money back. He
got home in the evening and lost it when he
found out I returned them. He said he couldn't believe
how petty and childish I was to actually do this.
I explained I was just correcting my mistake. He tried
to contact this store and was told the sneakers were

(21:51):
already sold. He even got angry with me, but I
told him that he accused me of stealing from him
when I was just trying to do a nice gesture
for him. He yelled that I had a lot of nerve,
calling what I did a nice gesture while using his
money to do it. I told him he had no
right to yell at me. After I corrected my mistake
and gave back the money he accused me of stealing.

(22:11):
He threw a fit, then went out with his friends
and came home late at night, still not talking to me.
Did I mess up? Maybe I shouldn't have purchased them,
knowing they weren't on the list, But I just wanted
him to have those sneakers and thought I was doing
a nice gesture, not the jerk his money charge him
for cooking, cleaning, laundry, general housekeeping, and childcare, then if

(22:32):
you're a stay at home mom, he earns family income.
This is not right. As for the argument that you
stole his money to buy him a gift, it's beyond
messed up. If you decide to stay with them. Surely
you should stop buying him birthday and Christmas presents. By
his own logic, you are stealing from him. My mom
took some time off work when my sister and I
were very little and my dad worked. I was talking

(22:53):
to him about it the other day and he said,
I may have been earning the money, but there's no
way I could have dedicated that my much time to
my job. If your mum hadn't been doing so much
at home. She earned it just as much as I did.
We're a team. You're supposed to be working together, Opie.
Ask yourself how often your husband acts like you're on
opposite sides. Not the jerk, Not the jerk, but I'm

(23:15):
seriously concerned for you. Almost all couples in your same
situation with only one breadwinner, share finances, so you should
have your own credit card and be able to make
reasonable purchases without discussion. Am I the jerk for refusing
to work from home? So now people can no longer
bring their dogs to the office. Hi, I'm thirty two female.
Here it goes. When everyone was working in the office,

(23:36):
dogs were never even an option. Locked down, shut down,
working from home people trickled back in and they are
allowed to bring their dogs to ease the transition. My
group stays back for another year. Everyone's finally called back
to the office. I'm allergic to dogs, and the smell
gives me my grains huge bummer because I do like dogs,
but it explains why in one foster home I was

(23:58):
always feeling sick. Says we'll figure something out. People with
their own offices are not willing to give them up.
Boss tells me that maybe it's best if I work
from home. I live in a tiny studio that barely
fits my bed, and I have to sit on it
or on my floor to have a workspace. I have
one window. It's suffocating and I was starting to go
crazy living there during lockdown and working from home. So

(24:21):
I say that if I can negotiate a raise that
will be enough to help me move to a larger place,
I will consider working from home. Boss takes that to
their Boss comes back and says, unfortunately, it's not in
the budget. I say, I'm not going back to working
from home. Boss insists it couldn't be as bad as
I'm saying, and that everyone has to make adjustments. Mind you, Boss,
and most of my other coworkers live in houses that

(24:43):
they own. Most have huge backyards and tire rooms to
dedicate as an office, et cetera, so of course they
don't think it's a big deal. I stand firm and
remind them that someone can give me an office, but
no one would, so unfortunately everyone has to stop bringing
the dogs to the office. Coworkers and other people in
the building are saying I'm being selfish for not just
taking the deal and going back to working from home,

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because they had all love to be allowed to. When
I've told people about the tiny apartment and how I
can't afford more, they say things like just move back
in with your parents, or stop buying Starbucks and start
doing Uber and uber eats after work and move to
the suburbs, as if I'm choosing to be in this position.
Just despite them, Others have been like, why can't you

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just take a clariton and tell me I'm making up
the smell causing migrains. Each of them has a suggestion
about how I should just go out of my way
to make all these changes, some of which I can't
even do, just because people want to bring their dogs
to the office. Am I really the jerk for this.
Thanks for the responses so far. I appreciate the judgments
and they're giving me a lot to think about, just

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as a node. Due to circumstances, i'd prefer to not
get into too much. I cannot just go find a
new job or a new place to live. These are
things that are for me out of my control for
the time being. Things will hopefully change in a few years.
The jerk, But i'd start looking for a better job.
People aren't jerks in an office and they won't get
over this. Your environment there is only going to get worse.

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Not the jerk. If they want to be with their
dogs so much, one of them should make the sacrifice
of giving up their office, or they should be given
the option to work from home. Not the jerk. Dogs
weren't permitted before lockdown. They shouldn't be permitted now. Yeah,
it sucks leaving the fur babies at home, but it
is what it is. I may be out of line
with my thinking, but this could technically be considered discrimination

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because of a known medical condition. Maybe the thread of
an EOC complaint would straighten out your boss. Am I
the jerk for letting my ex sign over his paternity
rights before he knew the babies were his me female
forty two, and my boyfriend, male fifty seven, of four
years split recently. We met while we were both going
through divorces, and we got together about six months after

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mine was final. His was final before mine. We lived
in different towns, so we sometimes would go a couple
of weeks between visits due to distance, but it worked
for us. He has four kids, a son who's thirty seven,
daughter who's thirty five, son who's fourteen, another son who's twelve,
and has shared custody of the two youngest with his
second ex wife. I shared two kids, my son who's eighteen,

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my daughter who's sixteen, with my ex husband. It just
hasn't made any sense for us to move closer due
to having to fight with exes to change custody agreements.
I found out eight months ago that I was pregnant.
This was completely unexpected, as he had of a seconmy
after his last son was born. Neither of us had
any intention to have more kids, and I was not
prepared to be pregnant at forty one. I didn't even

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find out until I was almost five months along. I
went to see him, and his reaction was well, he
broke things off with me and had some very choice
words to call me. He refused to believe anything other
than that I was seeing someone else and trying to
pin this pregnancy on him. His ex wife cheated on
him often, which is why they split, so part of
me understands his emotional reaction, but he spent the last

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eight months ghosting me and has refused to even speak
to me. The babies, twins, a boy and a girl,
were born three months ago. I do not need his
financial help, but I decided to file for child support
so he would do a paternity test once his friend said.
He took the test, but before we had the results,
which I never needed. He was the only person I
had been with. I had him served with papers to

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sign over his parental rights and all financial responsibility as well. Unsurprisingly,
he signed the papers without hesitation. We got the paternity
test results back, and now he's blowing up my phone
and showing up at my house angry at me and
saying I'm the jerk because I refused to entertain the
idea of getting back together or moving closer to him.
He also says I tricked him into signing over his rights.

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I am aware he may be able to fight me.
As it is recent. Some of my friends and family
are telling me I am the jerk for doing this
to him, and others say they understand why I did so.
Dear read it, Am I the jerk? Edit? I live
in Colorado. We did have to go to court to
relinquish his rights, but it was a very short visit.
He did not deny paternity. He admitted to ever wanting

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anything to do with the babies, that he had not
met them, and that the distance between us would make
it difficult to co parent. My lawyer brought up his
felony that he had abandoned the babies, the fact that
I have both financial means and family support. The judge
agreed termination was acceptable. I will apologize because after speaking
to a few people, I'm learning it is rarely this
smooth when my lawyer made it sound and seem so easy.

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I do know he can fight and possibly get his
rights back, and I'm undecided on if I would fight
him on that. I am absolutely willing to co parent
with the man. I am not willing to forget what
happened and just start dating again. Not the jerk. Why
would you get back together with someone who accused you
of cheating. He has nobody to blame but himself, and
if he signed over rights and the kids weren't his,

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the papers wouldn't have meant a darn thing. Sounds to
me like his family is giving him crap and now
he wants to save face. Op. I do believe he
really felt there was zero chance of the babies being his.
I was one hundred percent fine with a paternity test
when I found out I was pregnant, because of course
with the vasectomy, he was going to have concerns and
that I could have dealt with. But ghosting me was

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childish and left me alone when I was feeling very vulnerable.
Now he wants to be a family. He is a
good dad, and I would be okay with him being
in the twins lives, but I don't want to pass
off kids every other week for the next eighteen years.
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