Imagine being a father who never wanted children, but life had other plans. You end up having twins, but the feelings of fatherhood never really kick in. Fast forward years later, and you’re faced with a tough decision: attend your daughter’s wedding without your wife or stand by your partner and risk losing your child’s love forever. This is the story of a man caught between a rock and a hard place.
The Unwanted Fatherhood
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New Love and a Tough Decision
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Supportive Wife’s Advice ️
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The Breaking Point
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A New Life in California
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The Moment of Truth ⏳
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Supporting from Afar
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Reconnecting with the Twins ❤️
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The Wedding Invitation Dilemma
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Daughter’s Accusations
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Dad’s Choice: Wife or Daughter’s Wedding? ♂️
This father never wanted children, but after having twins, he couldn’t shake the feeling that he wasn’t meant to be a dad. Years later, his daughter is getting married, but she refuses to invite her father’s wife. The dad, who has paid for the entire wedding, is now faced with a heartbreaking decision: attend the wedding without his wife or stand by his partner and risk losing his daughter’s love forever. What would you do in this situation? Let’s see what the internet thinks…
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Daughter doesn’t invite wife to wedding, dad declines invite. NTA.
Commenter calls out OP for hiding behind his wife’s views.
Father faces backlash for prioritizing wife over daughter’s wedding
Daughter’s wedding, wife not invited. OP’s selfishness is unacceptable. ♂️
Daughter’s wedding dilemma reveals deeper family issues. YTA.
Divorced dad’s past actions cause daughter’s wedding dilemma. YWBTA.
Daughter has the right to choose wedding guest list. YTA
Daughter’s wedding invites dilemma: YTA for choosing wife over family
Commenter calls out OP’s wife, sparks heated discussion
Heartbreaking comment on father’s past actions towards daughter.
Father wants wife at daughter’s wedding, daughter disagrees. YTA.
YTA for planning to move away with another woman while married.
NAH commenter suggests attending daughter’s wedding despite wife’s exclusion.
Commenter calls out OP’s behavior and predicts he may lose his daughter.
Daughter doesn’t want stepmom at wedding, dad in a dilemma
NAH for not wanting to leave wife at home for daughter’s wedding.
Father faces tough love from comment calling him out on hypocrisy
Suspicious post with fake daughter and family drama
Daughter’s wedding invite sparks family feud. ESH but daughter’s hurt.
Commenter calls out father for lack of responsibility. YTA
Father caught between wife and daughter’s wedding. Daughter being entitled.
Father left mother of his children for mutual friend. NTA.
Father faces tough decision between daughter’s wedding and wife. ESH.
Commenter calls out OP for leaving kids for mistress. YTA
Commenter calls out insensitive dad for wedding dilemma.
Daughter wants NC, wife is pragmatic, YTA for forcing.
Fatherhood isn’t for everyone. Daughter wants wedding sans wife.
Commenter accuses OP of being affair partner, Yikes!
Curious about the wife’s perspective
Father’s absence creates transactional relationship with hurt daughter.
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Daughter’s wedding paid in full, but wife not invited? NTA.
Absentee father prioritizes money over daughter’s wedding. YTA.
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User calls out OP for being selfish and lying to ex. YTA
Daughter rightfully excludes unfaithful mother from wedding. YTA.
Supportive comment acknowledges NTA but respects wedding host’s decision.
NTA comment suggests conflict resolution, walk away.
Wedding or wife? Red-faced dad gets called out.
Father’s past actions haunt daughter’s wedding decision.
Daughter feels hurt as dad prioritizes wife over her
Dad faces tough dilemma: daughter’s wedding or wife? Commenter thinks NAH.
Did the ex-wife manipulate the kids against the dad?
Daughter blames wife for wedding invite issue. NTA stands firm.
Choosing between daughter’s wedding and wife? NTA, but tread carefully.
Daughter’s wedding dilemma: Dad’s past actions come back to haunt him.
OP is NTA for not attending daughter’s wedding. Explanation inside.
User suggests vasectomy and advises against attending daughter’s wedding
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Father faces tough love and tough choices for his daughter’s wedding.
Last Updated on May 4, 2023 by Diply Social Team
