5 Times DNA Tests Turned Family’s Lives Upside Down

There are several reasons why one can ask for paternity or DNA testing. Nonetheless, the five narratives that follow demonstrate how it may ruin relationships and dissolve marriages.
The ability to do DNA tests has altered how people manage becoming pregnant. Five Reddit users discuss how having DNA tests had a big impact on their lives in the stories that follow.
When Both Parents Learn Their Child Isn’t Really Theirs

On Reddit, a 29-year-old lady disclosed that she had fallen deeply in love with her 31-year-old husband when they were still in college. Before her spouse made the decision to take a DNA test, the couple’s relationship was going well. They had a daughter, five.

The woman’s husband began to show signs of change after the test came back negative. The initial poster (OP), who had never cheated on him, was taken aback by the outcome. When they tried to conceive, she insisted that since she and her husband were already married, no one else could be their daughter’s father.

OP had only had affairs with two other guys prior to dating her spouse. The results of the survey caused OP’s spouse to become increasingly resentful of his wife and start spending more time at work. He informed her that he had taken the test because, although they both had blue eyes, he had always been wary of the little girl’s brown eyes.

He wanted OP to leave their house at one time, but after he cooled down, he consented to continue talking about the matter. In order to find out, they decided to run a few tests. If the tests did not establish his wife’s innocence, the husband swore he would go insane.
A blood paternity test they underwent revealed, surprisingly, that neither of the pair was the child’s biological parent! The family’s life were completely upended, and a police officer visited to gather statements from them on behalf of the authorities.

When OP and her spouse sued the hospital where she gave birth, they did it as a team. She was afraid thinking about her birth daughter and wondering where she might be. The idea of what would happen after the young girl was located, though, scared her the most.
She didn’t want her five-year-old to know they weren’t her birth parents because she thought it would ruin her upbringing, despite her curiosity about her birth daughter. She was also concerned that the child would tell her classmates and teachers, starting rumours about her.
A few weeks later, OP made a reappearance on Reddit to announce that they had located their biological daughter, who was in foster care. The child was taken directly from the hospital by her pretend parents, but when the police found out she wasn’t their real child, they put her in foster care.

OP and her spouse submitted an application to take in her foster child as their biological child. Their lawsuit alleging the hospital’s negligence brought them a payment of around $2 million. The couple informed their long-term resident daughter that her sister was scheduled to visit them.

In spite of everything that was going on, OP and her spouse assured the young child that they still loved her. Now, she and her husband intended to move to a different town so they could start again with their kids. Fortunately, the tale ended happily, but what happened to this one about the father who took a test because his child had darker skin?
To please his family, a man takes a paternity test in secret.
A 30-year-old female Reddit member who was Brazilian and American contacted the “Relationship Advice” section in 2022 to ask for help with her circumstances. She disclosed that she and her 29-year-old Serbian husband had a three-year-old kid who didn’t look like them.

While her family was more mixed-race and had fair skin, her husband’s family was lighter brown in complexion. In order to provide the child with a diverse cultural upbringing, the Redditor and her spouse were close to their extended relatives and made frequent visits to them.
The daughter of the couple was born with fair complexion and smooth hair, but as she grew older, she began to become a darker brown. The rest of the family has taken an interest in the child’s evolving features because even her hair has grown more curly.

The family of the Redditor’s spouse was constantly interested in their lives and asked questions concerning their daughter. Her husband’s family had begun making jokes about “the milkman” and how much sunshine she had received throughout her pregnancy a year prior to her publishing this post.

The child’s mother ignored the jokes until they stopped, but they persisted and became passive-aggressive. She searched her husband’s phone’s album for a particular photo while they worked out a fence problem, days before she posted her Reddit post.
She clicked on the document’s screenshot, believing she had found what she was seeking for, only to discover it was a paternity test result! The test verified her husband’s paternity for their daughter. He admitted that he had taken it a year earlier as a result of his family’s persistent questions over the child’s darker skin when she questioned him about it.
He disclosed that, seemingly hinting to his wife’s infidelity, his relatives insisted he take the test. He would always bring up the subject of his child’s paternity when he visited his family, and she now remembered how particularly tense and unpleasant he’d get when he got back.

Usually, he would claim business or family matters as a justification for his actions. Infuriated, the Reddit member questioned why he had even entertained the notion, pointing out how insulting it was to her and their daughter. The man stated that he had never given the situation any thought and had merely taken the test to please his family.
In an attempt to dispel his family’s suspicions, he attempted self-defense by displaying her previous messages in which he expressed his support for her. But even though he’d kept the test a secret, his wife was still furious despite his best efforts to appear innocent.

She came to the realisation that their erroneous perception of her and her kid had ruined whatever pleasant memories they had shared with his family. Her spouse claimed that in order to avoid upsetting her, he kept it a secret.
Although the Redditor’s guilty husband expressed heartfelt regret, she no longer felt at ease in his family’s presence. She was upset, but at the same time, she found it difficult to put the matter behind her daughter.

The mother of the child was upset by the event and wondered if her husband trusted her. The trust violation eclipsed everything, and the pair was no longer as close, honest, and lively as they always were. It was their first big argument, and she wasn’t sure what to do after the incident. Her story ended on a less than satisfactory one, but this one will not disappoint.
One woman’s twin brothers were identified as her husband’s children through a DNA test.
A forty-year-old woman from Reddit also used the platform to tell her own DNA tale. She disclosed that she fell in love with her future husband at the age of 15. She decided to have a future with him after becoming pregnant two years into their relationship.

After moving into her parents’ home, the couple tied the knot when she was eighteen. The couple moved in next door to her grandparents’ unoccupied house, which she inherited, shortly after being married. Later on, the couple had more children together.
When she went on a girls’ trip with her pals at the age of forty, she was seven months along with their last kid. In order to sleep peacefully in her bed after her trip, the woman chose to return a day early. However, she was in for a surprise.
When she went into her bedroom, she discovered her mother with her husband! Her mother yelled at her, telling her to get out of “their bedroom,” which shocked her. The Reddit user confronted her husband after the parent left, draped in a bedsheet.
He was ready to admit the truth, telling how, when they were still living with her parents at the age of 18, his mother-in-law had tempted him. The man added that ever thereafter, they had monthly intimate encounters and made sure they were never discovered. His pregnant wife was devastated by the reality.

She realised that her twin brothers and youngest sibling might be her husband’s offspring, which would have made things much worse! After she contacted her father and told him everything, he was so distraught that he went straight to her mother.
The Redditor threw a party to reveal her mother’s and husband’s adultery because she wanted their family to know the truth. She was shocked to learn that certain family members—including her husband’s entire family—thought she was wrong for being honest.

Unfortunately, the church leader and her mother’s friend also learned of the truth and called to inquire further. The mother of the Redditor was far from being the kids’ pastor. But rather of accepting responsibility, her mother placed the blame on her, saying on the poster:

“She claims I’ve essentially ruined her reputation and life.”
After evicting his wife, the woman’s father moved in with her 38-year-old daughter. In addition, the distressed spouse demanded that the three youngest boys undergo DNA testing. The unexpected results of the testing showed that the Redditor’s husband was the twin boys’ biological father!

In response to the news, she gave him the boot and filed for divorce. Her father talked to her about selling the house that held bad memories for her grandparents, and the poster leaned on him for support. He intended to give her the proceeds from the sale so she could purchase a new house for herself.
The transaction would not benefit the mother or husband of the Reddit user. Seven children were now under the custody of her ex-husband. Since she had assisted in its establishment and served as the office manager while taking a hiatus from her work, she accepted half of his company.

She was devastated to have lost touch with certain family members. Her 14-year-old daughter elected to break off communication with her father, even though her younger children are unaware of the reason for her divorce. Eventually, the man’s ex-husband admitted that he had started the affair with his mother-in-law after being enraged over the billboard.
They developed a close bond after he called out to his mother-in-law for consolation. Although the Redditor’s ex acknowledged that he would have divorced her, he felt that staying in their relationship would have been better for him.
A paternity test proves the woman her husband’s family shunned.
A 24-year-old Reddit user shared a family history with other users. The OP disclosed that although her three sons bore a striking resemblance to their father, their daughter did not.

She arrived with platinum blonde hair and pale skin; her green eyes stood out from the others. Over the course of her pregnancy, OP developed a close bond with an older male coworker. She and another female coworker were treated particularly well by the colleague.
In addition to bringing coffee to her and the other woman in the mornings, her coworker occasionally placed flowers on their workstations. She didn’t give his actions much thought because he was a happy married man who never made approaches and who spoke highly of his family.
OP’s husband was unhappy with their connection despite its genuine nature and wanted her to break it off, but she refused. It caused arguments between the pair, but in the end, it seemed to go away. However, the husband’s rage returned when their daughter was born.
The young child shared her mother’s older male coworker’s skin tone and eye colour from birth. When the girl was born, the woman’s husband was unable to bear to hold her. His wife refused to submit to his demand for a paternity test because she felt it was pointless and embarrassing.

She persuaded him that their child resembled her great-grandparents, but he was uninterested and more interested in learning if she had cheated on him. Not only did she have to cope with him, but his family’s participation just made matters worse.

Her husband declined to help with caring for their daughter, and her in-laws even abandoned her. He wasn’t the same person he was when they welcomed their sons, and that wounded OP. Everyone ignored her during her son’s birthday celebration, so she made the decision to be tested.

Her mother-in-law kept the young child out of a picture of her grandchildren while it was happening. But when the DNA test results were revealed, indicating her spouse was their daughter’s father, OP had the final laugh. The entire family expressed regret for how they had treated her and felt awful about it.
When OP’s spouse finally held his daughter for the first time, he sobbed. In addition, he frequently apologised to his wife and broke down in tears whenever he touched their infant daughter. Since she thought he was sincere in his regret, she decided to forgive him.

But she refused to interact with his family, and in the end, she gave her husband a choice: they would either have to move back to her own nation or get a divorce. He realised how serious OP was when she informed him she was speaking with divorce attorneys, and he consented to do anything in order to win her pardon.
Sadly, she didn’t want to have any more contact with her husband’s family since she didn’t want her kids to go through what she had. She also attended solo and couples therapy with her spouse.

OP said how great she and her spouse were getting along and expressed her wish that this would continue. The next social media user also recounted her experience of having her husband want a paternity test because of concerns about physical resemblances to the Reddit member.
When mother-in-law demands a DNA test for her grandson, a woman threatens to file for divorce.
A woman shared on Reddit towards the end of 2023 that she and her spouse had been together for five years, three of which had been spent as married partners. They were tense because of her husband’s mother, who was quite controlling. She made an effort never to show it, but she frequently offered uninvited ideas and behaved inappropriately, bothering his wife.

OP thought it was unfair to be upset with him for circumstances beyond his control. The words she used and the horrible acts his mother did were the behaviours she was referring to. She objected to the fact that he didn’t confront his mother when his wife felt uneasy or agitated by her interference.
OP’s mother-in-law began to doubt her child’s paternity at one point. When the boy was a toddler, the mom made a remark about how different he looked from her son. The offended party believed the woman was accusing her of having extramarital affairs.

Emotionally concerned by the scenario, the Reddit member passionately rejected the charges, but her husband did nothing. Their relationship suffered as a result of his failure to defend her against his mother’s claims.
As her sense of disrespect and resentment deepened, OP emotionally withdrew herself from her spouse. The straw that broke the camel’s back came when he casually revealed one day that, in an attempt to placate their mother, he was going to have their son’s DNA tested.

His wife chose to quit putting up with the toxicity when she felt that his remarks were an insult to her dignity and a smack in the face. In order to escape the mayhem, OP hired legal counsel and began seeking for a new location.
She was not going to back down from her decisions, and she had the plans to file for divorce as soon as the DNA test came in. Although OP was aware that her husband’s divorce wasn’t about her, her main motivation was to protect her son. The poster understood how difficult life could be for her son because she herself had experienced a childhood marred by conflict between her parents.
She did not want him to have to go through what she had. Fortunately, OP also had a stable profession that allowed her to live independently and comfortably. She found comfort there in the midst of her turbulent life. She was grateful that she had kept her career even though she was given the choice to leave after getting married since it allowed her to continue being independent.

The Redditor disclosed in an update that she called her father-in-law on the day the test was due in order to take matters into her own hands. That evening, she invited him and her mother-in-law to their house. When her husband received the test results proving he was the boy’s father, he was at home.

In addition, he promised to face his mother after admitting that she had meddled in their union.
After that, he pledged to address his mother in order to make things right and sent her the results. But she did tell him about seeing a lawyer and starting the divorce process during the call. He was defending his behaviour as the call descended into a furious fight.
He acknowledged that he hadn’t anticipated her behaviour, but she clarified how his disregard for her emotions harmed their relationship. Even though OP refused to sign the divorce papers, she provided them to him and left that evening.

Her husband was still divided between supporting his failing marriage and remaining faithful to his parents, even after she had left. His mother rejected his request for an apology, accusing her son’s wife of severing their family.
After OP and her husband were able to have a conversation, he inquired about the possibility of couples counselling in an attempt to keep their marriage together. In addition, he requested if they could carry on as co-parents. Even after their divorce, the Reddit member disclosed that her spouse was adamant about keeping his son.

In addition, he promised to face his mother after admitting that she had meddled in their union. For the time being, OP remained where she was and hoped that therapy would help her husband learn how to put their marriage first.