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r/AITA My Wife Was Brainwashed

2025-10-16 Comedy
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Wife's Cult-Like Therapist, Unfair School Suspension, and Paternity Secret Fallout

Learn how to manage relationship collapse when a spouse adopts dogma from a therapist, and identify red flags when schools discipline based on anonymous claims or parents revoke support after paternity reveals.

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  • Review actions when a spouse adopts an authoritative, cult-like dependence on their therapist (00:00:00).
  • Analyze the fallout from suspending a child based on unverified, severe accusations (05:53).
  • Examine managing outright parental neglect after a biological father is revealed (09:49).

This episode dissects three Reddit posts involving extreme relationship dynamics: a marriage collapsing under therapist influence, unfair school discipline based on anonymous claims, and a teenager confronting a life-altering paternity secret. The commentator stresses active defense against manipulation and blind adherence to authority figures, whether professional or parental.

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Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3hJo9o8qFqrblXu1Plkv8L Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rslash Discord: https://discord.com/invite/VD6eYD3 0:00 Intro 0:07 Therapist 5:53 Punishment 9:49 Paternity "Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC By Attribution 3.0

Top Comments (10)

@Mario-SunshineGalaxy64 2025-10-16

The fact that everyone is so hush-hush about what the daughter supposedly said speaks volumes, the school knows that their punishment can’t be justified so easily so they refuse to elaborate. The fact that this is happening in Tennessee points to the punishment being politically motivated instead of the daughter actually breaking school rules and while I’d normally say that OP should take it to the superintendent I doubt anything would happen.

1.4k 36 replies
@arkues 2025-10-16

That, "this is not your child this is the disease that killed and replaced them" is centuries old ableism. That is an extremely bad sign and WILL lead to abuse. Op of story 1 needs to take action before the damage is done.

1.2k 27 replies
@adventfear 2025-10-16

What. The. FUCK did I just listen to?? All three of these stories were 100 percent crazy for all different reasons!

1.2k 11 replies
@penguin-schluppstudio 2025-10-16

Story 1: Back in the medieval era up until the early 1900s, autistic children were seen as changlings, a type of fairy that looks like a person, but doesn't act like the person they supposedly replaced. The therapist is practically accusing the boy of being a changeling.

772 15 replies
@silly-kitty3272 2025-10-16

3:59 we have not gone far from "your child has been replaced by a changeling and the fey have your real child"

729 12 replies
@danielbrant6740 2025-10-16

*Last Story:* You know what bad parents hate more than anything? Being outed as bad parents. OP needs to post her revelation on social media and tell _everyone_ what her 'dad' did because all this stemmed from his ego in stealing another man's child only to treat said child as less than.

437 5 replies
@widevader 2025-10-16

Story 1: more like 4.5, she was basically abusing her child from the age of 3

367 12 replies
@halfgingerish 2025-10-16

OP in the first story needs to GET. UP. The fact that he just 'allowed' another child into this whole situation is absolute madness. This is a walking CPS case if I've ever heard one. She needs so much help.

236 2 replies
@FlameRose97 2025-10-16

"We're suspending your child for antisematism." "What did my child say/do?" "We can't tell you." Impeccable logic.

175 1 replies
@mirandaherr1654 2025-10-16

As a mother of an autistic son the first story is beyond heartbreaking. The father should absolutely not have had a second child and divorced her long ago. If she wasn’t able to provide care for her son, he needed to divorce her not have a second child with her.

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