'My mum has been sleeping with my husband for 22 years - he fathered my brothers'

A heartbroken expectant mother has opened up about the moment her life was turned upside down and the devastating family drama that followed. Discovering that your partner has been unfaithful is painful enough — She found out that her husband had been cheating on her with her own mother.

To make matters worse, the affair has been going on for a staggering 22 years — the entirety of their marriage. As if that was not enough, she also learned that some of her siblings are actually her husband’s biological children.

At seven months pregnant, the woman shared her painful story on Reddit, revealing the emotional wreckage she’s facing. According to her,

Describing the background, she wrote: “I’m 40 years old. My parents — dad, 63, and mum, 60 — have been married for 43 years. I have six siblings. My husband, 39, and I have been together since we were 15.”

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"I got pregnant at 17 and we moved in with my parents. I gave birth to my now 22-year-old daughter. We got married at 18 shortly after. My dad’s father passed shortly after our wedding and left his ranch-style house to my father. My grandparents built a house next door to my parents when they retired. My parents decided to let us live in this house & told us this would be my inheritance. My husband and I had no issues with this.

After describing their close-knit family and what appears to be a blissful family life, she then reveals her shock at discovering the affair between her husband and mother. She writes: "I thought I had a good marriage, we were intimate more than twice a week, we went on date nights, we bought each other gifts, we didn't fight. My entire was shattered on New Year's Eve when I returned early from a girl’s trip I had taken with some friends. I walked into my bedroom to find my mum having sex with my husband. My mother screamed at me to get out of “their” bedroom which really shook me up even more."

Confronting her husband, she discovered that his sexual relationship with her mother was not a one-time occurrence but had, in fact, for many years and even longer than her marriage. "I asked him for the truth. He told me that my mum seduced him when we were 18 and living in their house. They’d been having unprotected sex at least once a month for longer than we were married," she added. "I ran the math and was horrified because the timeline meant my twin brothers and youngest brother could be my husband’s."

Alerting her father to his wife's cheating, she continued: "I made my husband confess and my dad was devastated, he and my mum were high school sweethearts too. Needless to say, we could hear my mother screaming from her house when he confronted her."

Describing the family fallout, she reveals how she threw a party at her sister's house and used the family get-together as the opportunity to tell them all about her husband and mother's relationship. "At the party, I had my 22 F daughter take all the kids to our basement and put on a movie, leaving only the adult children and siblings, and I told them exactly what they’d been doing," she explains.

She continued: "Most of the family is on my side, except my 3 youngest siblings, 38 F sister, Ex’s entire family. They all say I’m an AH for dropping this publicly."

Yet this is where it gets worse for the original poster as she reveals the backlash against her mother who has been let go from her role as a children's pastor due to the infidelity. She explains: "My mum has since been let go as the children’s pastor there and she claims I’ve essentially ruined her reputation and life."

She continues to explain the fallout and its impact on her family, including her divorce plans and her broken relationship with her mother. She explained: "I'm now over a month removed, still extremely bitter and angry at my mother, especially at her hypocrisy of calling me a w**** and shaming my family, when she's done much worse. I also despise my ex with everything within me now, as he was f****** both my mum and me in some instances coming to our bed minutes later. He got my mother pregnant less than a week after getting me pregnant and while I thought it was so cute and fun that I shared a experience with my mum, she was carrying my children's half-siblings. He has broken all trust I had in men and being faithful."

posters have leapt to support the original poster as one person replied: "Good on you for not literally stabbing your husband. I wouldn’t be as strong." Another added: "You need to change this title from "I ruined my mum's life and reputation" to. "My mum destroyed our family, and at the same time ruined her own life and reputation".. You did absolutely nothing wrong, and you are a victim, just as much as everyone else in your family who was hurt by this.." A third shared: "'My mum ruined her life' There I fixed it for you."

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