'AITA for not lying to hide my sister's affair when her husband confronted me?'

A Redditor has sought advice from fellow Reddit users after they refused to hide their sister’s extramarital affair from her husband.

Taking to Reddit’s "Am I The A*****e" (AITA) forum, the person, under the username LiveTradition6222, shared that their 32-year-old sister and her husband, 35, have been married for six years.

They further explained, “We’ve always been close, but recently she confided in me that she's been having an affair with her coworker. She claimed her marriage had been ‘on the rocks’ and begged me not to tell anyone.”

Redditor gets accused of revealing sister's extramarital affair to her husband

However, the Reddit user faced the dilemma when their brother-in-law “showed up at my place out of nowhere, visibly upset. He told me he found some ‘suspicious’ texts and asked if I knew anything. I panicked and said, ‘You should probably talk to her.’”

The person and their brother-in-law’s meeting did not end well as he “stormed off” and now their sister is also angry at them.

“She says I basically confirmed the affair by being cagey and that I ‘ruined her life.’ I told her I wasn't going to lie for her and that this mess was her responsibility,” the Redditor added.

They also revealed that even their parents are taking their sister’s side and feel “I should've done more to protect her, but I feel like she put me in an impossible situation. AITA?”

Reddit users think OP did the right thing

A fellow Redditor thinks the poster was not wrong as they commented, “NTA. It sounds like she is blaming you for not being able to lie effectively when she puts you in a very awkward situation.”

“NTA. It’s not like you told him she’s cheating. She’s displacing her guilt and humiliation into anger towards you. She had no right to put that burden on you to begin with,” another Redditor wrote.

“NTA. Family or not don't protect a cheater. Your sister brought this on herself. She fafo. It's not your fault she cheated. She made that choice now she had to take responsibility, own it, and suffer the consequences. She ruined her own life. Also your parents are disgusting wanting you to protect her from consequences from cheating. Finally the act from your sister after she found out you said something is typical cheater nonsense. You ruined my life cause the relationship i was in is over. Like who is she trying to fool. If she cared so deeply about the marriage she would have worked through the rocky patch with her husband. Instead she chose to cheat like a complete piece of crap then wants you to cover for her unfaithful lying a*s. Only a*****e here are your parents and sister. You 100 percent did the right thing,” a user said.

Another user shared, “I love how cheaters say other people ruined their life by exposing their affair. That is so f****d up. Cheaters are the ones who ruin their own lives. No one else is responsible.”

A person posted, “NTA. The only one responsible for ruining her marriage is her. Even if you had been able to lie, her husband was already suspicious, so he would have found out eventually.”

“You didn't ruin her life. She did it by cheating on her husband. NTA,” a comment read.

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