Teenage Girl Found Private Texts Between Her Dad And Stepmom, And Now She’s Wondering If She Can Ever Forgive Them
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Some private words can cause very public consequences once the wrong person discovers them.
One teen girl snooped through her father’s messages and found a conversation never intended for her eyes.
Instead of harmless gossip, she uncovered a cruel exchange that permanently changed how she viewed two trusted adults.
Read on for the full story.
AITA for holding a text (I read by snooping) against my dad and stepmom for 6 years now?
When I was 13, I was using my dad’s phone and I was dumb and very clearly wrong when I opened a text that popped up from my stepmom.
She was a few months pregnant at the time.
A few texts up I saw that my dad had sent a text saying: “Alice (my mom) is being a witch again. I’m so glad I get to have a baby with someone I actually love.”
To which my stepmom replied: “And I can’t wait to have a kid without her awful genes mixed in.”
Which my dad found very funny based on his response.
She took the texts very personally.
The reason I remember these texts so clearly is because I sent a copy of them to my mom.
I knew my dad and mom hated each other. But I felt extremely insulted and betrayed by the texts because they directly involved me.
I refused to stay at my dad’s house ever since and when my dad took my mom to court, I told the judge that I can’t live with him anymore.
She knows her dad is sorry.
My dad and stepmom spent a very long time apologizing.
He does seem genuinely sorry because he has cried in front of me.
But I can’t really bring myself to forgive him.
I also know I shouldn’t have snooped. But I can’t unsee those texts.
AITA?
Her dad may be sorry, but if he meant what he said, that would be hard to forgive.
Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.
A mother shares her opinion.
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This person doesn’t think they’re really sorry for what they said.
It wasn’t funny, but her dad laughed anyway.
This person would have trouble forgiving a parent who said something so hurtful.
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This person calls the dad a two-faced person.
After forwarding the messages to her mother, OP stopped staying with her dad and still could not forgive him despite years of apologies.
Folks online ruled her NTA, noting that her snooping was admittedly wrong, but nowhere near as damaging as two adults insulting a child’s genes.
Dad eventually called the exchange a bad joke, but forgetting the punchline was cruel does not magically transform it into comedy.
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