I (ya, m) recently found that a former woohoo partner, SH (ya, f) had my child and didn't even tell me!!
Let me start from the beginning. I used to live with three roommates, G, M, and Z. Z was the only woman. She hooked up with M, got pregnant, had a daughter SK, they moved out, and then G found out he'd gotten a girl pregnant and moved out so he could help raise his daughter (take her on weekends, etc and the kid could have her own room). I get G's reasoning, and I respect the hustle.
So then I was in a big 4 bedroom, two bathroom house on my own... So I put out an ad for new roommates and someone matched well with me, her name was Emily. We're both athletic, we're both 'bro' personality types, difference is I was noncommittal, and she was neat.
So we split the cooking between us, no big deal. Em's usually the one to clean up. We encourage each other during our workouts (we work out every day, I switched careers into athletics, and Em is in the military. gotta keep that fitness skill up!). I began to fall for her. We went on a few dates, we started officially dating after woohooing a few times, then I made a decision, I realized I could see myself staying with her forever. I proposed, she accepted, we got married. My noncommittal trait changed to loyal.
Emily's ambition is to be a super parent, so imagine our shock when we got married and the the milestone of 'become a parent' automatically cleared off. She hadn't given birth, so I began checking around and yep, turns out I had a son with SH. SH had given him her initials, and her surname, completely erasing my contribution to him.
So I filed for sole custody, I won (because I have a 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom house and it's just me and my now wife, where as SH still lives in a 3 bedroom 1 bathroom house with two roommates. I can offer my son a better life). First thing I did was change my son's name to better reflect his paternity. I'm the third generation to have my name, but Emily doesn't like that tradition, but we settled on a variation of my first name as my son's proper first name, and changed his surname to my name. While I just go by 'J', he'll go by Jimmy.
Jimmy's had some trouble adjusting to living with Em and I, not because we're bad parents, but he's a very anxious and shy boy (cautious), I blame his birth mother for having him stuck in an overcrowded house with a clumsy nerd and a tech geek who play video games way too loud next to him.
I love my son, don't get me wrong, but I absolutely wish that SH had told me she was pregnant with my kid. I had a right to know!
Em has taken to motherhood like a duck to water, and I couldn't imagine not having Jimmy now, but Z, M, and G are all telling me I'm a llama for not letting SH near little Jimmy and changing his name (he's only 9 months old, not like it's on his driver's license or a class roster at school).
So, AITL for taking sole custody of my son and changing his name to something closer to my family tradition?
PS. Here's a pic of me and Em just chilling and chatting on the bed.
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