TLDR: 1) AWALT even my fucking mom has branch swung at at least one point in time. 2) I would appreciate input on next steps. Is it worth it to bring this up? I refuse to believe my mom is just using my dad 100% for his money, I personally choose to believe that she loves him still, even if she may have kept this horrible secret hidden (and perhaps that is even supporting evidence to her loving him). That makes me happiest. I dont want to cause a miserable shit storm in my family. We are all pretty happy these days as things go and I don't want to be selfish and ruin that.
<HEAD> I am so conflicted right now. On the one hand, I suppose I should have seen this coming all along. On the other hand... jesus. Its my own father.
Some background
Me: Am a freshman in college. Im enrolled in a basic GE bio entry level course. Weve been learning about genes, inheritance, etc... there is a lab attached to the course. Today we did "do it yourself" blood typing. I was under the impression since I asked my mom about it told me when I was 10 or whatever, that I am O blood type.
For those not familiar, you can be A, AB, B, or O. Your type is determined by two (one from each parent) of 3 possible alleles (A, B, and O). A and B are codominant and O is recessive, meaning if you have the A and B allele you would be AB. If you have A and O alleles, A (since its dominant) would mask the O, and you would be type A with alleles A and O. If you are type O then the ONLY possible alleles you can have are O and O, therefore you can ONLY pass an O allele to your child.
1) Anyways, today when we did the blood test, I found out I am type AB. Part of me still thinks the test must have been wrong. I did it twice just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating, but even still maybe it was wrong. My dad is type O (I noticed when I went w him to one of his (fairly) recent doctors appointments, plus have asked in the past and thats what he said). Anyways him being O wouldn't be a problem if I was type O like Id been led to believe. He would have passed me an O, meaning I would be A, B, or O. But since he can ONLY pass me O, I cannot be AB.
Cont background: parents Mom is way too crass at the dinner table sometimes and jokes about stuff like "oh yeah anal is really great" (my reaction every time: OMG MOM STOP I WONT WANT TO HEAR THIS). I have overheard her on occasion talking to her friends when they are over about stuff they have done with other guys, but I usually make a point to stop listening quickly. No one wants to imagine their parents doing anything raunchy.
Dad: OK here is the part about Dad that makes me think maybe I should have seen this coming. His first marriage he adopted two of his wifes children from another marriage (not his) after returning from military service. Then went on to have another two children with her. They divorced I dont know when, but some time before my mom and him met in law school when they were late 20s or early 30s. They had me and my brother. My dad has a really nice job. He's paid for four kids to go through college already, and still has me and my younger brother who's in 10th grade. He regularly helps out (read: donates money to) the lowlife son from his first wifes marriage. Mom doesn't work so god knows how much he gives her to help her stay alive.
2) All that being said he is still one of the happiest people I know. Im horrified with what happened in lab today and still want to get another independent blood type just to make sure Im not wrong about this, but as Im looking at my parents relationship in hindsight, with a sinking shitty feeling, I can't find anything that actively disconfirms that she might have cheated on him to have me.
No I do not have any wish to find my "real" dad. That is him as far as I am concerned. But I don't want to hurt him either. He is very happy in his relationship with my mom. I don't have any super solid reason to believe she is still cheating on him or that it was more than a one time thing.
Lessons learned: WTF life is a real bitch sometimes, and so is apparently every god damn woman on the planet at one time or another
EDIT 1: Any updates I post will be in the UPDATE comment below
EDIT 2: Fuck that Ill just post updates here
UPDATE 1) Last night was hell. I called my mom and told her about it. She admitted in so many words that she had been having an affair that lasted 6 mo around the time I was conceived, explained that she wasn't feeling connected to Dad at that time and the relationship was rocky. Begged me not to tell him, which I still haven't (yet). Said it was the only time anything like that happened and that she loves Dad, and theres nothing that can be accomplished by telling him other than suffering. Says theres a "zero percent chance" she is going to sleep with anyone other than Dad the rest of her life.
I was so happy yesterday. What the hell happened? God damn I have been lurking on this sub for a while but until now, I dont think I realized the implications of swallowing the pill. Cypher was right fuck. I dont give a shit what happened, I just want to go back to yesterday. Give me the sweet tasting steak.
UPDATE 2) I see a lot of people advised that doing a professional test before talking to anyone would have been the best way to go. but I didnt read that before talking to my mom and she admitted to it so the cat is already out of the bag. the blood type still could have been wrong (hoping against hope this is true) but that doesn't change mom had an affair