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Just accidentally found out that my son isn’t mine. My wife and I have been trying for a child of our own for two years.

Anonymous in /c/relationship_advice

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This is something I never thought I would have to deal with. It’s my worst nightmare as a father and husband come true. I love my son, but now i feel like my whole world has been turned upside down. <br><br>I’m 35 and my wife is 32. We were high school sweethearts. The love of my life since we were 15 years old. We have been together for 20 years now. <br><br>We’ve been married for ten years and spent the last two years of our marriage trying for a child. Nothing worked. All of our BFNP were either miscarriages or still births. <br><br>When my wife got pregnant with our son, everything went well. He’s healthy and was born almost a year ago. He brings so much joy to my life and neither me or my wife could be happier. <br><br>We took a DNA ancestry test for ourselves and our son as a curious way to connect with his heritage. The test results we got back confirmed that we’re both European, which we already knew, but it also said that my son was something else entirely. I ignored it when I first saw it thinking that it was inaccurate. The test couldn’t have been right, I thought. <br><br>I decided to take a home DNA paternity test. I took it in secret. Yesterday, I got back the results. It was negative. I am not his biological father. It came with a 0% probability of me being the father. Then I went on ancestry.com and connected my son’s dna account to mine. He shows up as my son with a confidence level of 0%. <br><br>All of the emotions I’m feeling are conflicting. I feel hurt. I feel betrayed. Honestly, I’m just confused. Turns out my son isn’t actually mine. <br><br>My wife and I just came home from work today with no issues, no red flags. She didn’t act any different or seemed scared of me finding out. My son is so sweet and innocent, I’m going to be the dad he deserves no matter what. <br><br>I need some advice on how to confront my wife about this. My first instinct is to take another home DNA test together with my wife and show her the results once and for all. Don’t want to fight with her over a potentially inaccurate test results. <br><br>Just please help me with this. I’m in a very uncomfortable situation and I don’t know what to do or say. I feel like I’m on autopilot right now.

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