It’s true when they say some doors should never be opened!

This girl revealed a family secret to her husband that she shouldn’t have and things didn’t go as planned!

Check out what happened!

AITA for revealing a family secret to my husband about his father?

My husband’s father died of a heart attack at age 42 on the plane while flying to his home country to visit family. My husband “Joe” was 13 and his sister was 9 at the time. His mother had few skills and poor English.

They were doing well for themselves…

From that moment on, Joe worked to support the family after school and at gruelling factory shifts after finishing high school. He eventually pursued a trade and built a good life. We raised two children and are financially secure.

In the 40 years I have known them, Joe, his sister, and their mother (now deceased) idolized their father and spoke wistfully about how much better their lives would have been had he lived.

This is where it gets bad.

This summer, Joe’s mother cousin visited from the home country and was visibly surprised to see his parent’s wedding portrait in a prominent place in our home.

At a private lunch, she asked it they had “forgiven” the father. At my blank stare, she was incredulous that “they didn’t know?”

Her mother was their mother’s older sister, and she stayed for months to pick up the pieces after the tragedy. She arranged the funeral, dealt with the finances, and discovered that the father was flying to meet another woman, who he had met in Canada, to start a new life.

UH OH…

He had most of their savings on him in cash. He was apparently abandoning his family.

She kept this information from her sister to spare her the added heartbreak and to protect the children. Whether she ever told her sister the truth is unknown, but my husband and his sister certainly never knew.

That would have been ideal…

We agreed that I should not tell my husband. When he boasted about what a wonderful man his father was, I bit my tongue.

I finally caved when Joe recently was speculating on how rich we “could have been” owning property that his father “would have” eventually bought!

I told him what his cousin had said, and how his father was perceived by the relatives who knew. Joe was calm and flatly denied everything.

Husband never accepted it…

He admitted that he had met the other woman at his father’s restaurant where his father introduced her as a “friend”. Whether or not it was an affair was none of his business, Joe maintains.

I won’t tell his sister, as she is emotionally fragile and still references losing her father at age 9 as an excuse for her life choices – financial problems, an unstable partner, etc.

The sad reality is that things likely would have been worse if he had lived.

She didn’t want to shut her eyes at it.

As it now stands, Joe and I agree to disagree. Cheating irks me, but family abandonment is unforgivable.

My mother-in-law was a kind, loving person. I no longer want the fairy-tale wedding portrait dominating our home. It is built on lies.

AITA for telling my husband?

Yikes! That’s a tricky situation!

But if they decided to keep it a secret, why did she break her promise?

Let’s find out what folks on Reddit think about this story.

This user blames this girl for digging into the past like that.

That’s right! This user thinks this girl has moral issues with the story.

This user has some important questions for this girl regarding the situation…

Exactly! This user knows that telling the secret to the husband was useless.

True. This user thinks there was no point in getting into a dead man’s history.

Only if she had kept this information to herself, her husband wouldn’t have been conflicted about his father.

If you liked this post, you might want to read this story about a teacher who taught the school’s administration a lesson after they made a sick kid take a final exam.