I married a woman I’d dated for just five months. Everything seemed perfect—until three weeks after the wedding, I found mail addressed to another last name.
Curious, I opened one, and my heart nearly stopped—it was from a lawyer saying her son’s father was suing for full custody.
I had no idea she even had a child. She explained they’d never married but shared custody, with their son living mostly with his grandmother. She’d been quietly sending money to support him.
Now that she’d married me, the father was trying to take full custody, claiming her new marriage changed things. She’d kept it from me, worried it would ruin what we had, but now she needed my support—and I promised to stand by her.