Father Finds Out He’s Infertile, Recognizes Who His Kids Look Like – Page 6

Bad Dream

“Of course the boys are yours, no matter what the science might suggest,” she wrote. Richard’s heart swelled.

Everything he’d been worrying about since he visited the doctor faded away like a bad dream. But what exactly did she mean by that? How could that be compatible with what the doctor had just told him?

Doubts

But still the doubts bubbled back up to the surface. Richard felt he had to get it off his chest. So he decided to do something else about it.

He approached his eldest son, who was a university student at the time, and told him about his diagnosis and what he thought it might mean.

Tough Talk

“I told him I’d just been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, which he took surprisingly calmly,” Richard explained.

“And I said, ‘Yes, but one of the things that I’ve just been told is that it is extremely unlikely that someone with cystic fibrosis could father a child.’ He said, ‘I’m already ahead of you, Dad. You’re saying you’re probably not my father?’”

Emotional And Angry

Richard, heartbroken at the thought that he wasn’t his son’s biological father, recalls that “it would have been the hardest sentence to utter, and he did it for me.”

Richard told his eldest son that “of course, he was still his dad, obviously,” but that he didn’t think that he had conceived him.

No Legacy

Richard believes that your children define who you are. So, not only had he been diagnosed with a dreaded disease, but he now knew that he didn’t actually have any children.

His legacy would stop with him, and that thought was almost too hard for him to bear. Then, two days later, Kate got back in touch.

The Ugly Truth

It turns out that Kate had been confronted by her eldest son. She called Richard and confessed everything to him.

She admitted that she had been seeing another man during their 20-year marriage, and to add insult to injury, Richard had even met him in passing. As it turned out, the man in question worked at Barclays Bank.