I NEED ADVICE: I THINK MY DAD IS CHEATING ON MY MOM!!
Question Posted Monday January 28 2013, 4:11 am
I THINK MY DAD IS CHEATING ON MY MOM!! So I'm 13yr old and I know that this shouldn't be any of my business but I really think my dad is cheating on my mom.so I was looking thru my dads phone to show him this picture that I took then I saw a naked woman on his phone my mom found out and was crying. I felt so bad but this was in 2011. Then it's 1:04 right now and my dad isn't home and it is his off day. My mom is staying up all night because I know she is waiting on him.i really don't want to tell my mom but I really have a felling that he is cheating. He doesn't even act romantic and give any compliments towards my mom. He is never home and when he does come home he always smells like ciggerates. He has 3 jobs but always says he has no money. I love my mom way more than I love my dad and I hate to say that. I even found a text message on his phone that said hey baby were where you last night. And a condom in his pocket. I don't know what to do please respond.
Razhie answered Monday January 28 2013, 1:24 pm: Talk to your Dad.
You are right - It's shouldn't be any of your business, but because of your father's carelessness you've been exposed to it.
What goes on between him and your mother is something they need to manage and figure out, but whatever is going on there, it is absolutely wrong of him to hurt YOU in this way.
You can't fix your parents marriage for them. You can't make your dad never cheat, or your mom feel secure about any of this. But you can tell your Dad that he is hurting you when he carelessly and inadvertently exposes you to his cheating. It's putting you in the middle of something you should never have to deal with. It's horribly irresponsibly as a parent.
Let him know he is hurting you. Let him know he's being a careless prick. Let him know that he shouldn't be involving you in this because he's to stupid to hide it. Let him know that YOU know, and that it makes you love him less, and respect him less.
You can't manage his relationship with your mom, but let him know he is fucking up his relationship with you. He deserves to hear it, and only you can tell him. [ Razhie's advice column | Ask Razhie A Question ]
Attention: NOTHING on this site may be reproduced in any fashion whatsoever without explicit consent (in writing) of the owner of said material, unless otherwise stated on the page where the content originated. Search engines are free to index and cache our content. Users who post their account names or personal information in their questions have no expectation of privacy beyond that point for anything they disclose. Questions are otherwise considered anonymous to the general public.