A man has been left devastated after his marriage fell apart due to a DNA testing kit.
The dad decided to order a DNA kit to test his middle child, after he noticed that the boy "looks nothing like him", the Mirror reports.
On social media forum Reddit, the man explained how he had been married for 12 years, and has three children with his wife - but had a feeling she had "played away" from the relationship.
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This was due to the fact that the middle child had none of the father's physical features. So, wanting to find out the truth, the dad-of-three ordered a paternity kit to test his son's DNA against his own.
The man told his wife that "she shouldn't have a problem with it if she has nothing to hide" - and it turns out that she didn't.
Speaking on Reddit, the man said: "I always had this nagging feeling that our middle child wasn’t mine. Our oldest and youngest look just like me, but my middle child doesn’t.
"My wife has shown me a picture of her grandfather and he does look a lot like him, but he just doesn’t have any of my family features. He looks so different to anyone else in the family.
"I decided I wanted a paternity test to put my mind at ease.
"My wife got pretty upset when I brought it up because cheating has always been a deal breaker for her, but I just saw that as all the more reason to get one done."
And when the paternity results arrived, they did in fact confirm that the man was the boy's biological father - and finally, he was left at peace with the information.
He continued: "I thought everything was fine, and I had my peace of mind. Except she told me she was going to take the kids and go to her parents for a while.
"When I asked why she exploded. [She] told me that she was seriously considering divorcing me over this stunt.
"She was furious with me for doubting her loyalty. [She said I know] how she felt about cheating and that she would never forgive me for what I put our son through, making him question his place in the family."
The man tried to explain his reasoning behind the paternity test to his wife, but she didn't want to hear any of it - infact, she decided to totally ignore him.
He said: "I just wanted to be sure, and that surely she could see why I'd question it when he looks nothing like me.
"She told me she would never forgive me for this, and that I hoped my foolish pride was worth the cost of my family."
After some space away from one another, the couple decided to have a serious, sit-down conversation about their potential future together.
He added: "We talked and basically it boiled down to her wanting a divorce because I don’t trust her and think so poorly of her character that I thought she’d pass another man's child off as mine.
"She then said she’ll never forgive me for treating my son so abhorrently that he asked why I hated him.
"I didn’t realise I treated him so differently, but apparently it was obvious.
"I tried to defend myself but she asked what I meant then. [She said] no matter how I tried to dress it up, I accused her of cheating and treating our son like trash because he wasn’t my spitting image.
"She then brought up she wondered if I was projecting because only one of us ever had infidelity in their background and it wasn’t her.
"That stung, because while yes, I had cheated in two past relationships, I’ve never cheated on her. I said that but she said she’d never cheated at all, but that didn’t stop me from accusing her of it did it?
"So now my kids won’t talk to me and my wife wants to divorce me - all over a paternity test."
Now at a loss of where to turn, the man took to Reddit to ask users for advice on his next steps as a possible single man.
In response, one user said: "This guy keeps saying 'my wife is divorcing me over a paternity test' but she isn't.
"She's divorcing him over treating one of his children abhorrently and distrusting her and generally being a crappy partner.
"Honestly, this guy sounds like he sucks. Good for her."
Another user added: "The more he writes the more I think that his wife leaving him and his son hating him is about more than just a DNA test."
A third user said: "All over a paternity test... All over husband being a total d***head, more like."
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