“My Stepmother Sabotaged My Stepsister’s Cooking”: 29 Family Members Who Ruined Thanksgiving

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“We found out my brother is not the biological father of his 23-year-old son. Only his mother has known all these years. My niece didn’t show up to dinner — she called beforehand and let us know she wouldn’t be coming (which was sad because she was going to bring the banana cream pie). My brother and his ex-wife were divorced years ago. I don’t know if my brother knew about the affair, but I doubt he was surprised by it — she is…not good.”

“The bio father was a co-worker of hers at the time. He knows who he is and that he was a ‘friend’ of his ex-wife. My nephew, at present, is not interested in meeting him.

The discovery came about through an ancestry.com-type service, I don’t know which. My niece and nephew decided to both get them and were comparing results, and noticed a conspicuous absence of our last name in his report. They started joking that my brother was not his father. Then, they arrived at the section where it listed his parents explicitly (apparently, both had used the service and consented to being shown as connections), and boom. 

My nephew confronted his ex about it, who admitted to having had an affair but still insisted that he was the father…even though the name of the guy she had an affair with was in the report under ‘father.’ WTF. 

My nephew called my brother to break the news. He did not come to dinner, but my brother and I went to visit him later. He is 100% still part of our family. We made that clear to him; I don’t know if he doubted that anyway, but he was glad to hear it. My brother stated plainly that he is still, and will always be, his son. My nephew was not a big fan of you-know-who, and now hopes to never have to speak to her again.

My brother could definitely file suit, as he paid something like 14 years of child support. He said he won’t, though, because it wouldn’t be worth having to interact with her again. He did seriously consider taking a shit on her bed, though. She really does suck.”

—mrmightypants