People Who Were Born From Affairs Are Sharing What It Was Like Growing Up, And OMG

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“I was the product of an affair. I was born in the same hospital as one of my half-siblings, only a month later. Apparently, the nurses were scandalized over it and were rude to my dad, and they told my mom, assuming she didn’t know. She knew. In her defense, she wanted a kid but not a man. She never wanted my dad to leave his wife; she just wanted a baby. At the time, adoption or donor sperm was hard for single women, so she picked my dad, who already had eight kids and was a known cheater. She wanted a man who would knock her up and walk away. That was my dad.”

“I grew up being told he was just a sperm donor and owed us nothing. I had a much better life than my half-siblings, who technically had a dad, because he was a deadbeat even to them. And because he was married to their moms (two ex-wives with four kids each), they felt, fairly, that they were owed more from him. But I never felt any loss.”

—travelcat147