My dad cheated on my mom with his now-wife, which broke up our family when my brother (17) was 8 and I (15) was 6. They got married just two days after the divorce was finalized, and my parents fought over custody. We always knew about the affair and never had a good relationship with them or the kids they had together.
When we were 12, we got permission to reduce visits to our dad’s house from every other week to every other weekend. Even though my brother is 17 now, he still has to go, which is frustrating but whatever.
Last weekend, while we were at our dad’s house, his wife found out that he was cheating on her and had gotten another woman pregnant. The whole weekend was chaos—she was crying, and my dad hid in the garage. She kept trying to get us to sympathize with her, but we didn’t, so we stayed out of her way.
When my brother got home from work, she tried talking to him. He told her to f*** off, and she got upset, saying she had been good to us and that we should at least be nice to her. Things escalated when my brother reminded her that she and our dad had an affair in the first place, and in our eyes, she was nothing more than the woman who ruined our family. That’s when she lost it and slapped him. The other kids and I all saw it happen.
I called the cops and reported that she had hit my brother. That forced my dad out of the garage, and we got to go home. My brother decided to press charges.
Now, my dad is angry because his wife’s family is upset with him. Her kids were sent to stay with her relatives for a few days, and she went with them. But then she showed up at our mom’s house and started yelling at her—mostly at me—for calling the cops and potentially putting her kids at risk of being taken away. My mom wasn’t having it and called the cops on her again. Now, everything is a complete mess.
AITA for calling the cops? It looks like she might lose her kids if she keeps coming to our house.
