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Dad Left Shattered When Daughter Chooses Biological Father Over Him, Refuses To Walk Her Down The Aisle After ‘Real Dad’ Passed Away
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Dad Left Shattered When Daughter Chooses Biological Father Over Him, Refuses To Walk Her Down The Aisle After ‘Real Dad’ Passed Away

Dad Asks If He’s Wrong To Refuse To Walk His Daughter Down The Aisle As She Was The One Who Cut All Contact With Him Years AgoDad Who Got Canceled By His Daughter Asks “AITA For Refusing To Walk My Daughter Down The Aisle?”Daughter Removes Her Dad From Her Life After Finding Out He’s Not Her Biological Father, Gets Mad When He Won't Walk Her Down The Aisle Years LaterDad Asks If He Was Wrong To Refuse To Walk His Daughter Down The Aisle After She Hurt Him BadlyDad Asks If He's A Jerk For Refusing To Walk His Daughter Down The Aisle After She Cut Him Out Of Her LifeDad Refuses To Walk His Daughter Down The Aisle After She Cut All Contact With Him Years Ago, But Family Believes He's Being A Jerk HereDaughter Cuts Contact With Her Father, Expects Him To Walk Her Down The Aisle Years Later, But He RefusesDad Turns To Internet To Understand If He's Wrong To Refuse To Walk His Daughter Down The AisleDad Asks If He Should've Walked His Daughter Down The Aisle, Despite Her Cutting Him Out Of Her Life Years AgoDaughter Says She Wants Nothing To Do With Her Father, Then Expects Him To Walk Her Down The Aisle Years Later When She Changes Her Mind
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This story comes from a dad who hasn’t spoken with his daughter in years. “When she was 15 we found out she wasn’t my biological daughter and my wife had cheated on me years ago with a friend,” he wrote in a heartfelt post on r/AITA that received 21.2k upvotes.

The family collapsed after he divorced his wife, and his daughter “started pulling away from him.” At one point, she decided to live with her biological father, breaking the author’s heart and leaving him very depressed.

Now the situation has changed and the author’s daughter reached out to him after years asking if he could walk her down the aisle. After refusing, the dad turned to people online to find out if it was really the right decision.

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After not speaking with his daughter for years, this father receives a request to walk her down the aisle, to which he refuses

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It turns out that he’s had a very complicated relationship with his daughter, who turned away after finding out he is not her biological father

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And this is what people had to comment in response to this situation

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Liucija Adomaite

Liucija Adomaite

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Liucija Adomaite is a creative mind with years of experience in copywriting. She has a dynamic set of experiences from advertising, academia, and journalism. This time, she has set out on a journey to investigate the ways in which we communicate ideas on a large scale. Her current mission is to find a magic formula for how to make ideas, news, and other such things spread like a virus.

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Liucija Adomaite

Liucija Adomaite

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Liucija Adomaite is a creative mind with years of experience in copywriting. She has a dynamic set of experiences from advertising, academia, and journalism. This time, she has set out on a journey to investigate the ways in which we communicate ideas on a large scale. Her current mission is to find a magic formula for how to make ideas, news, and other such things spread like a virus.

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Denis is a photo editor at Bored Panda. After getting his bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Computer Design, he tried to succeed in digital design, advertising, and branding. Also, Denis really enjoys sports and loves everything related to board sports and water.

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Denis Tymulis

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Denis is a photo editor at Bored Panda. After getting his bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Computer Design, he tried to succeed in digital design, advertising, and branding. Also, Denis really enjoys sports and loves everything related to board sports and water.

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deanna woods
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When this woman was twenty, she made her decision to cut him out of her life and now she has to deal with the consequences of that decision. He doesn't owe her a thing and the only reason she called is because her bio dad is dead. He is not being an asshole, he is trying to protect his heart and mind by not getting back into that relationship again. She will only hurt him again. After the wedding was over, she would probably never call him again.

Gin
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. She just doesn't like the idea of not having a father to walk her down the aisle. She's just using him to make her wedding 'fit' her ideal. What kind of a person does this to someone who brought them up? That they thought was their real dad until 15? Not his fault that he wasn't. She's not worth it.

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Caro Caro
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NTA You can't tell someone to f off and then, when it is convenient for you, call them back. It doesn't work like that. The daughter needs to grow up. Would your friends accept this from you? mine wouldn't.

Patrick O'Harris
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even if he'd be the biological father, nobody could force him. She broke contact with him and treated him badly. Sure, getting to know "the other dad" is absolutely fine, but the rest is crap. He doesnt owe her anything, specially after that.

Brent Kaufman
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Getting to know her 'other dad' who caused so much pain to her family and caused her family to no longer exist (yes, yes, with the cheating wife; one issue at a time), is absolutely fine; if you're kind of amoral. I think the daughter is the kind of person that would find otherdad to be more of a kindred spirit, than 'not-narcissist dad' who was always there.

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deanna woods
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When this woman was twenty, she made her decision to cut him out of her life and now she has to deal with the consequences of that decision. He doesn't owe her a thing and the only reason she called is because her bio dad is dead. He is not being an asshole, he is trying to protect his heart and mind by not getting back into that relationship again. She will only hurt him again. After the wedding was over, she would probably never call him again.

Gin
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. She just doesn't like the idea of not having a father to walk her down the aisle. She's just using him to make her wedding 'fit' her ideal. What kind of a person does this to someone who brought them up? That they thought was their real dad until 15? Not his fault that he wasn't. She's not worth it.

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Caro Caro
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NTA You can't tell someone to f off and then, when it is convenient for you, call them back. It doesn't work like that. The daughter needs to grow up. Would your friends accept this from you? mine wouldn't.

Patrick O'Harris
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even if he'd be the biological father, nobody could force him. She broke contact with him and treated him badly. Sure, getting to know "the other dad" is absolutely fine, but the rest is crap. He doesnt owe her anything, specially after that.

Brent Kaufman
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Getting to know her 'other dad' who caused so much pain to her family and caused her family to no longer exist (yes, yes, with the cheating wife; one issue at a time), is absolutely fine; if you're kind of amoral. I think the daughter is the kind of person that would find otherdad to be more of a kindred spirit, than 'not-narcissist dad' who was always there.

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