AITAH for telling my wife that her daughter can’t move her ex husbands baby into my house?
My wife and I have been together for a little over a decade. We are a blended family, I have two children and so does she. When we first got together her ex husband/baby daddy caused a lot of drama for us for many years. He was a drug addict and did everything he could to try and break us up and poison his children’s minds about me. Due to his drug addiction and consequent choices he lost custody of his children.
He went to jail for a few years after he assaulted my wife and I one New Year’s Eve, when he got out of jail he appeared to get his life together and even got remarried. Earlier this year he had a baby with his new wife but she died of a drug overdose this summer. So now he is a single dad with no job and failing health. He has liver failure and has been told by his doctor that he has approximately 6-8 weeks to live.
He has recently contacted his oldest daughter who lives with me and said he wants her to have the baby when he passes.
This puts her in a tough position because her mother and I have spent the last decade raising her to be a strong, driven individual with big goals. She turns 18 in a few weeks and is set to go off to college.
She wants to take the child when her dad passes and wants us to help her look after the child. I am very against this, my wife is also against it but is scared that it will push her daughter away if she refuses to help. I am 43 years old and my youngest child is about to be 12, as selfish as it sounds I don’t want to start over raising a baby at this age, especially his baby!!
AITAH for telling them that the baby isn’t welcome? Should I put my pride and life plans aside and raise this child?
I am the main financial contributor in the house so I will be committing my time, money and life to this. I have plans to retire early and travel the world, this is will change everything for me and I don’t know how to feel about it.
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