It turns out her ex-husband lied about the divorce, telling their daughter that it was her mother who cheated.
The Redditor discovered several text messages between her daughter and her father in which her daughter described how she “didn’t want to be near” her mother and was “disgusted” by her mother’s supposed infidelity.
And her ex-husband made no attempt to tell their daughter the truth—so she decided to do so herself.
She writes that she “sat my daughter down and told her that… I won’t be held accountable for actions that weren’t mine.”
She made sure to avoid “any and all questions that I couldn’t say without [her ex-husband’s] perspective,” but broke the news to her daughter about her father’s sexuality and infidelity and how it had resulted in their divorce.
She writes that her daughter was shocked by the news, and apologized for her behavior towards her mother.
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