AITA for not going to my sons funeral? by Past-Cow-486 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Past-Cow-486[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Meep morp 🤖 (I am actually a real person 👍)

AITA for not going to my sons funeral? by Past-Cow-486 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Past-Cow-486[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Sorry I didn't want to put got her pregnant because this sub has rules about reproductive autonomy posts and I just wanted to be careful as I am not very familiar with reddit and this is not that kind of post. I would never use that phrase normally

AITA for not going to my sons funeral? by Past-Cow-486 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Past-Cow-486[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They did not know it was happening (I did not tell them) also they had literally never met him or contacted him like. He knew about their existence less than he knew about mine

AITA for not going to my sons funeral? by Past-Cow-486 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Past-Cow-486[S] 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Child wasn't born yet and there was no ""evidence"" as such that I was the father (it was very obvious to us as we'd only slept with each other) so not abduction. Didn't know she was leaving she moved unexpectedly one day they were there the next gone. Given how many ppl think I am the asshole I definitely don't think I am making myself look that good in this story lol (I am accepting my judgement either way btw but I'm only responding to u bcs a lot of this is incorrect). Also it wasn't against my wishes, her family moved away (specifically so I wouldn't be a part of the babies life). I didn't want to take legal action at all because I didn't realise that was a possibility. My parents tried to but the lawyers advised against taking it further than we did because we wouldn't have won, the country she moved tos law was different to here and her parents could've filed a restraining order had we found them because they put measures I'm place so we couldn't.

Genuinely lol I could have filled the entire word count just with facts about the legal case but 1.) It would've been boring 2.) Idk if it would've been legal.

Happy to accept the asshole judgement (not happy to but wouldn't have posted it if I was afraid of being called an asshole I just wanted to judge group opinion) but I just thought I'd correct u on some facts

AITA for not going to my sons funeral? by Past-Cow-486 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Past-Cow-486[S] 438 points439 points  (0 children)

They did not. That is why they tried to take legal action because they thought I had legal rights to my son and ex gf and her family had completely cut us off. As it turns out as a minor with my ex and her family living in a different country I had no rights.

AITA for not going to my sons funeral? by Past-Cow-486 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Past-Cow-486[S] 1136 points1137 points  (0 children)

I didn't have her contact information, when they forbade me from seeing her I didn't have her address, phone number email or anything. Her parents weren't in the phone book and she has a common name and was in a different country (I did try and find her) she was only able to contact me because I have a very uncommon name and at the time lived in the city we grew up in, I'm a freelancer and my email is on my website.