I don't post often; mainly, I lurk and learn. My situation is as follows, pasted from a long-ago post: I am a BC. My stepdad, who married my mother when I was 10 (I'm 32 now), cheated on her two years ago and left her for the OW. Two months later, she accepted him back into her home and life and tried to work on the marriage. We thought everything was going to be fine again. Not so. He continued the stupid cycle of leaving for the OW, coming home, leaving again, etc., until finally MY husband caught stepdad and the OW together in my mother's van, parked beside the road having sex. It was then that Mom finally put her foot down. He has supposedly been faithful since.
Last week, my stepfather had chest pains and was hospitalized. Some bloodwork that was done came back showing that he has hepatitis C. My mother has been tested, but the results haven't come back yet. She did not have it prior to this. I am sure of this because she had to be tested four years ago (she had had a blood transfusion in 1991 and the docs wanted to make sure that she was clean of HIV, Hep B and C, etc.). If she has become infected with this disease, that will be one more thing on her plate that can kill her. What a lovely gift from someone who is supposed to love her.
Please, BSs, have your spouses get tested for everything before you allow them back into your lives, even if they get pissed off when you suggest it (as my stepdad did when I told him he should). I'm sitting here right now bawling my eyes out over something that could have been prevented. Don't let this happen to your children.
