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The original was posted on /r/bestofredditorupdates by /u/LostWorked on 2024-06-27 18:01:38+00:00.
Trigger Warnings:Ā Infidelity, Physical Violence, Sexual Abuse, Incest
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I am NOT the OOP, that is u/ReNotGotLuv
Original Post - May 14th, 2024
I honestly canāt believe Iām even posting this because sometimes it feels like Iāve walked out of a bad story. But pretty much, I (27m) have two siblings, my sister Cass (30f) and my brother Mark (32m). Our parents divorced when I was 10 and we split time between the both of them. Cass was always closer to our dad and she has always disliked Mark to the point of claiming things about him which are hard to believe. However, as much as sheās disliked him, sheās always loved me.
Five years ago, it turned out that Markās wife Jane was cheating on him with our father. It obviously caused chaos, Cass sided with our dad, Mark moved in with our mom and I sided with him. But even though I sided with him, Iāve always kept in contact with Cass. And Mark is fine and all right with that.
I didnāt see my dad again until this Friday when he and Jane dropped Cass off at our momās for motherās day. I was outside walking home and my dad noticed me and I donāt know why, but I agreed to have coffee with them. It was a really tense conversation between us and I confirmed that he wouldnāt be invited to my wedding and I didnāt know if I wanted to get to know his and Janeās kids and he even told me I did the right thing choosing Mark. It was weird but he dropped me off after about half an hour but Mark saw him do that from the window and since then heās been cold and snippy with me. Was I the AH for talking to my dad?
Comments:
- OOP on an incident between Cass and Mark: āI did not decide that sheās wrong and that it didnāt happen. I donāt know if it happened. I was twelve years old at the time. Pretty much, Cass had a laundry basket in her closet and his camera was on top of the basket facing outward into her room. It was dead when she found it and she claimed Mark must have been recording him but he claimed that our mom put it there when she did laundry but he never let anybody look into the SD card. Our mom didnāt remember if she did or didnāt.ā
- OOP on when the incident occurred: āThis was fifteen years ago, thereās been nothing like that from him since then and I can respect thatās what Cass believes and itās why she keeps him at armās distance.ā
- OOP on his sistepmother-in-law and his half-siblings: āJane is 35 and the kids sheās had with my father are three and one.ā
Update 2 - May 23rd, 2024
So, I didnāt plan on updating but things really escalated.
My brother Mark had a meltdown where he ranted at mom for not caring more about what our dad did to his life, then at Cass for always halfway associating with him just for momās sake and then he kicked me in the stomach and I literally fell through a table like it was WWE or something. Cass wound up saying that his behaviour is why Jane left him and sheās better off off with our dad and called the cops on him. I feel the worst for our mom because she just wanted a good motherās day and I feel like our issues with each other just ruined her weekend.
I did go to the hospital but only because Cass begged me to. Iām perfectly fine, thereās nothing wrong with me. I didnāt press charges on Mark, I just feel really bad for him. I feel like lifeās dealt him a pretty garbage hand and thereās no point in me making things worse. But Mark did leave, he moved out and I donāt know where he is now. He only talked to our mom before he left and she hasnāt told me what it was about.
Mom, Cass and I had a big conversation about things and Cass admitted that she doesnāt love or like Mark and brought up other incidents from when they were teenagers and that she doesnāt trust that he wasnāt trying to spy on her. She admitted that he was right that she only associated with him for momās sake and that sheās glad that Jane is with our dad. That felt really rough to hear and it made our mom cry a lot.
As for our dad? Cass made it clear that sheās not going to stop seeing him and Jane and told me that while she wants me to get to know our little siblings, sheās never going to force me to and sheāll understand if I never do.
I felt like I had to post this because I needed to vent. I wish there was some resolution to all this that we could be a family again but, Iām angry and frustrated that there is none and itās like there never will be.
- OOP on Cass and their mom: āMy mom divorced my dad when I was just a teenager, she doesnāt care for him and hates him for what he did to Mark. But Cass has made it clear to her that her relationship with him is not something sheāll discuss with her. But beyond that? Cass loves our mom, she loves almost everyone and everything, itās just Mark that sheās always seemed to hate.ā
- OOP on him and Cass: āMy sister literally saved my life and my fianceeās life, you would be lucky to have a sister like her.ā
- OOP on the other incidents that Cass brought up between Mark and her: āMy sister never said that he raped her, in fact she was adamant that he did not. She told us several things when we had our talk and one of the things was that when she was 14, he had a party at home and she got really drunk and passed out. She woke up in his bed and felt something was wrong and she wasnāt properly dressed but was adamant that he did not rape her but that he did do inappropriate stuff.ā
Update 3 - June 18th, 2024
Anyway, to give an update if yāall want it, Mark has pretty much gone off the deep end. Last week, he messaged our mom to clear out his room because heās not coming back and to just throw it all away. As she was doing this, Cass came to visit and decided to help and they found a USB in his closet. I wasnāt home for this but apparently Cass argued with my mom until she let her open it and there was like a cavalcade of photos of her in there. Nothing inappropriate from what my mom told me but it made Cass have a breakdown and she spent time in the hospital psych ward.
She got out a few days ago and Iāve talked to her but I havenāt seen her because our dad picked her up and sheās stayed with him. But on sunday, she put up a big instagram post praising our dad and Jane and mocking Mark and saying the worst stuff about him. That somehow made its way to him wherever heās gone and he came crashing home yesterday because of it. He literally drunk drove his Prius into my truck when trying to park in the driveway.
And thankfully I was with my fianceeās family because according to mom, he demanded to see me so he could kick my ass because now heās blaming me for all of this. And to be honest, I kind of am too. Everything was mostly fine until I got in that car with my dad and itās like everyoneās spiralling now. Even me a little bit, if Iām being honest, but now, I mostly just feel bad for our mom because this whole thing has got her feeling so down and awful and inadequate about herself.
Dude was spying on his sister. No good way to spin that.