There are different reasons why people might ask for DNA or paternity tests. But the five stories below show how it can hurt relationships and end marriages.
People deal with children differently now that they can get DNA tests. In the stories below, five Reddit users talk about how getting DNA tests changed their lives in big ways.
Both Parents Discover Their Child Isn’t Biologically Theirs
On Reddit, a 29-year-old woman said that she met her 31-year-old husband in college and loved him very much. Their relationship was going well until her husband chose to get a DNA test. They had a five-year-old daughter together.
The test came back negative, and the woman’s husband began to like her more. It shocked the original writer (OP) that she had been caught cheating on him. She insisted that since she and her husband were already married when they tried to have a child, no one else could be the father of their girl.
“I never cheated; I never would cheat.”
