A woman refused to help pay for her brother’s wedding until his fiancée took a paternity test.
The groom’s older sister, 32, explained in a post on Reddit’s “Am I the A——” forum that the bride, 27, and “impulsive” groom, 28, met about a year ago and got engaged just six months later. The following month, the bride announced her pregnancy. While most of their family was “shocked but supportive,” the Redditor questioned whether or not her younger brother was truly the father of his fiancée’s unborn baby.
The couple asked their families for help paying for their wedding. Because the groom’s parents “are not wealthy,” his well-off older sister stepped up.
“I agreed, with one condition: a paternity test,” she said.
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The woman explained that her brother’s fiancée was “dating someone else right before” their relationship, which made her doubt the paternity of the child.
“I have nothing against her, but the timeline of her pregnancy made me suspicious. My brother is positive the baby is his, but I wasn’t convinced,” she explained. “If I was going to shell out $20,000 for a wedding, I wanted to make sure he wasn’t being played.”
Even though the bride was “furious” by the woman’s implications, she agreed to take the test because she needed the wedding financial assistance.
“She called me cruel and said I was trying to humiliate her. My brother was torn but eventually agreed because he really needed the money,” the groom’s sister said. “The test came back — he’s the father. I apologized, and I thought that was the end of it.”
An apology isn’t enough for the bride. She “refuses to forgive” her soon-to-be sister-in-law and wants nothing to do with her. Even though the groom’s sister is still paying for the wedding, she’s lost her spot on the guest list.
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“She disinvited me from the wedding and told my brother she never wanted to see me again,” the woman said. “My brother is upset but says he has to side with his future wife. My parents think I was out of line, but some friends say I was just being cautious.”
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Reddit users agreed that the groom’s sister was in the wrong. They pointed out that the timeline didn’t warrant suspicions. The bride got pregnant after seven months of dating the groom, so she wouldn’t have been able to hide a pregnancy from another relationship for that long.
“You can’t carry a secret love child for seven months,” an individual commented. “She was mad because the timelines didn’t correlate and you were accusing her of cheating.”
“The math just doesn’t work,” another Redditor agreed. “Seven months is way too long to hide a pregnancy, let alone carry a baby from someone else. The accusation was baseless and unnecessary.”
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