[FULL STORY] What’s your random act of kindness that completely backfired?

my dad was secretly living a double life so when I found out I exposed him to my mom she forced him to take us to confront his second family the day that my life fell apart started with me trying to do something nice my dad was leaving for work one morning and he was pretty angry that nobody had prepared him lunch so given that it was my day off I decided to surprise him I cooked him his favorite meal and stopped by his office but as I was waiting for him in the lobby I saw

something that completely broke me the door to his office opened and out walked a woman followed by him as well as two kids I didn't recognize one of them called him daddy I quickly hid behind a corner and when the four of them walked outside I followed in the car park I saw my father hugging the woman and kissing her on the lips then taking the children in his arms and kissing their forehead it was at that moment I realized my father had a secret family I wanted to go straight back into his office and

confront him in front of everyone demand an explanation and put him on the spot but I figured that wasn't fair I made my way back home going straight to my room and locking the door I tried to make sense of what I had just seen I kept coming back to the same question how could my dad do this how could he have another family I don't even remember how much time passed before he came home that night all I know is that by the time he walked through the door I knew that I had to

confront him so when he gets home I'm waiting for him my mom is out so it's just the two of us he walks in all smiles and says hey sweetheart how was your day I just look at him and say who are they his smile drops instantly and he looks at me like a deer in headlights he asked me what I was talking about but I could see the panic in his eyes I'm not playing games so I say it again I asked him who the woman and the kids were he just stands there staring

at me and I can see him trying to come up with something to say but before he could I kept going I told him that I had seen him with them and that I had heard the little girl call him daddy I said I saw him kiss and hug their mom and asked him again who were they at this point he knows he's caught he doesn't even try to deny it instead instead he just sigh and says it's not what I think how could it not be what I think what else could it be when

you hug a woman and have a little child beside you to call you Daddy what other reason is there for a child to call you Daddy safe to say I was not having it I asked what it was then however just to hear his explanation I told him it looked like he had another family I asked him how long this had been going on and accused him of being a liar he tried to calm me down he said that it was complicated and that I didn't understand but I don't care about any of that I

just want the truth so I kept pushing and demanding answers until he finally admitted it he told me that yes he had another family he's been seing this woman for a few years now and they had two kids together a little girl and a 20-year-old son that was severely disabled he had cerebral paly he says he never wanted it to go this far but now he was in too deep and he didn't know how to get out I was devastated my dad had been living a double life for so long to be fair to him

he managed to hide it for a very long time so in a weird way I have to give it to him however there's no way I can forgive him and what's even worse is that he started begging me not to tell my mom he says it would destroy her and that it would tear our family apart he even tried to bribe me with money saying he'd buy me anything I wanted if I just kept quiet at first I immediately thought that there was nothing that could stop me from telling Mom but then that night after

everything had settled down I found myself lying in bed staring up at the ceiling every time I closed my eyes I saw my dad with that other family laughing and smiling like they were his whole world and every time the same question kept coming back to me what would happen if I didn't tell Mom if I didn't say anything my mom would never know she could go on living her life unaware of the double life her husband was leading she'd still smile when he walked through the door still laugh at his jokes still believe in

the love they'd built over the last 20 years I knew how much she loved him I'd seen it every day of my life the way her face would would light up when he came home the way she'd lean into his touch the way she'd talk about him to her friends when it was a girl night in and I knew how much she trusted him she never doubted him never questioned where he was or what he was doing if I told her the truth all of that would be destroyed I'd be the one to shatter the

perfect picture she had of their marriage and honestly that was a very heavy burden to bear I battled with the thought that it would be right for me to be the one to take that away from her the thought of seeing the pain in her eyes the idea of tears streaming down her face made my heart ache I knew it would devastate her I didn't know if I would be selfish in telling her or not but then another thought crept in one that I couldn't ignore if I didn't tell her what kind of person would

that make me could I really look her in the eyes day after day knowing what I knew could I pretend everything was fine when I knew it was far from it if I didn't tell her I figured my dad would just keep living this double life lying to both of us and betraying both of us and if mom found out on her own the Betrayal would be even worse than knowing that I knew and didn't say anything I couldn't live with myself if I kept this from her she deserved the truth no matter how painful

it was after I knew my dad was asleep I took his phone I knew his passcode and I started going through his messages sure enough I found texts between him and this woman they were texts where they talked about how much they miss each other and how much they love their kids there in between the pictures of our family were dozens of photos of him with the other woman and her kids I clicked on the first one they went to Disney World together I looked at the day this was taken and it was during the

week of a big project work trip that Dad had told us about earlier I now know exactly where he was for that week they were all smiling standing in front of Cinderella's castle the kids were wearing Mickey Mouse ears and the woman had her arm wrapped around my dad in another photo the little girl was on his shoulders laughing as they watched a parade go by there was a picture of them on the teacup ride and another of them holding giant stuffed animals clearly having the time of their lives I stared at the screen I

felt my eyes burning before the tears fell down Disney World was the one place I had begged him to take us year after year every time he'd given the same excuses like we didn't have enough money or maybe we could next year when things calm down at work and I had believed him I had accepted it thinking that maybe one day we'd finally get to go just like all my friends had but that day never came and here I was 18 without ever going to Disney World and he was taking his daughter who looked no

more than two there he had chosen them over us the tears fell down my face as I kept scrolling I couldn't stop myself from imagining what that trip must have been like I wondered if he ever thought of us while he was there or if he ever felt guilty when his other daughter called him daddy as they walked through the park did he ever regret not taking me instead but those thoughts only made me angrier clearly he hadn't regretted it enough to change his behavior he'd kept it up living this double life taking them on

the trip I'd always wanted while telling me and my mom that we just had to wait that maybe someday we'd get to go but someday never came and now I knew why I took screenshots of everything and saved them on my phone because I knew I needed proof when I talked to my mom the next morning when she woke up I sat her down at the kitchen table and told her everything I showed her the screenshots and she just broke down she cried asked me how long this had been going on and asked me why

he would do this I didn't have any answers for her I was just as shocked and hurt as she was but she was strong after a while she stops crying and she tells me that we're going to confront him together she said he needed to face the consequences of his actions and she wanted me by her side when she did it that night when my dad came home we were waiting for him my mom didn't waste any time she looked him in the eye and told him to tell her the truth about the other family

he tried to deny it at first but we both knew he was lying so my mom showed him the screenshots and he finally broke down he admitted everything how he met this woman how he started seeing her and how it eventually led to them having kids together he says he never wanted to hurt us but he didn't know how to stop he spoke about the early days of his marriage he was young and overwhelmed by the new responsibilities that came with starting a family the pressure of establishing himself in his career had taken a toll

on him it was at a work conference early in their marriage that he met her Jessica she was everything he felt he wasn't at the time carefree and fun what started as innocent conversations soon grew into something more at first he convinced himself it was just a fling but that was a lie he told himself and once he started it snowballed years passed and the affair grew deeper and more complicated Jessica got pregnant and suddenly it wasn't just about him and her anymore he tried to Rize it by saying he was caught up and couldn't

find a way out without destroying everything my mom and I sat there absorbing the reality of his words at that moment I knew that the life we had before was over my mom knew it too and my dad sat there broken by the weight of his own choices I'm so angry at this point but I'm also heartbroken I told him that he needed to tell the other woman the truth that she needed to know about us he says she didn't know anything about us she thought he was single but he never told her he was

married so we made him set up a time for all of us to meet we told him that we were going to meet this other woman and he was going to tell her the truth he tried to talk us out of it but we were not backing down he's lied enough it's time for the truth to come out the next day we drove to a park where my dad had arranged to meet her my mom and I were in the car watching as he walked up to the woman and the kids he was holding the

little girl and she was laughing as he played with her it broke my heart to see it because she had no idea what was about to happen when we got out of the car and walked over to them the woman looked confused she asks my dad who we are and he just looks at the ground my mom didn't waste any time she told the woman who we were and what was going on the woman was in shock she couldn't believe what she was hearing but she still remained calm she looked at my dad asking him

if it was true and he just nodded she didn't cry though she just stood there trying to process everything then she said something that shocked us both she told my dad that if he wanted to stay with her and their kids she'd accept him as her boyfriend my mom and I were both stunned how could she be okay with this but it turns out she already had some suspicions she knew something wasn't right but she didn't want to believe it she said she'd stay with him because she loved him and their kids but she didn't

expect anything more from him my mom is done at this point she looked at my dad and said she was filing for a divorce and that was it we left the park and my dad stayed behind with his other family I haven't seen my dad much after that except in court