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Would you love the child the same? Would you divorce your wife?

Spiderman

Veteran Member
So let's say you're a guy. If you had a son or daughter that you loved and cherished, and then you found out that your wife cheated on you, and that the child really wasn't yours, would you love the child any less?

Would you divorce your wife?
 

Misunderstood

Active Member
I have divorced my wife. As far as for my daughter my only child. I would do or give anything for her, I feel I am expendable and my only purpose is to love God and support her any way I can at whatever the cost. I live in awe of her everyday.

However, I do not know whether she is mine or not and do not want to know. As my ex has Bi-polar disorder and would take off for months at a time, only she knows for sure, and maybe even she does not know. I
 

Saint Frankenstein

Here for the ride
Premium Member
I see this happen a lot on those paternity shows. I personally wouldn't love the child any less. As for the relationship with the mother, it depends. If they were cheating but were truly repentant and wanted to work with me on restoring the relationship and the trust, I would stay with them. I'd rather the child not be told they weren't mine, though. I would want that to be a secret. Although if they're a different ethnicity, you can't really hide that. Lol
 

Misunderstood

Active Member
I see this happen a lot on those paternity shows. I personally wouldn't love the child any less. As for the relationship with the mother, it depends. If they were cheating but were truly repentant and wanted to work with me on restoring the relationship and the trust, I would stay with them. I'd rather the child not be told they weren't mine, though. I would want that to be a secret. Although if they're a different ethnicity, you can't really hide that. Lol

I agree, it was not her taking off that caused the divorce, I felt it not her fault during those times. It was that she took our daughter twice and would be on the streets and traveling around with who knows who, and there was nothing I could do as the police said she had as much right to do take her as I had to keep her. The only way I could do anything was to have custody and to get that was to have a judge award it in a separation or divorce hearing, I filed for a separation and was granted full custody when she was 5 and have raised her ever since. I told my wife the separation was to protect Jessica not that I wanted to be apart from her (my wife), she wanted no part of a separation and changed it to a divorce.
 

Electra

Active Member
Maybe not love less but feel less responsibility/ duty.

Of cause it's all circumstancal, depends on the partnership a lot.

I can also see adopting and loving just as much as a birth child...

Lots of variables.

I found out my parents weren't my birth parents and i felt a lot less responsibility to act a certain way.
I didn't love them less though.... unfortunently.
 
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Nous

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
So let's say you're a guy. If you had a son or daughter that you loved and cherished, and then you found out that your wife cheated on you, and that the child really wasn't yours, would you love the child any less?

Interesting question. I would hope that I would not love the child less, and I don't think I would. But I can imagine that some men in certain circumstances might.
 

whirlingmerc

Well-Known Member
So let's say you're a guy. If you had a son or daughter that you loved and cherished, and then you found out that your wife cheated on you, and that the child really wasn't yours, would you love the child any less?

Would you divorce your wife?

I probably would love them the same.
 
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