Love
“My Mom Paid £15,000 For My Dream Wedding…Then Had A Baby With My Husband 9 Months Later”
No parent should ever betray their own child.
Lauren Wall and mom Julie had a great relationship as to how mom and daughters usually would. The 19-year-old was planning to marry airport worker Paul White and her 38-year-old mom gave her £15,000 to prepare her wedding. Which daughter wouldn’t be grateful for that?
Lauren Wall, from Twickenham, southwest of London, had her husband cheater with her own mother.
Lauren never doubted them, not her own mother who’ve sacrificed that much for her wedding. “They’d laugh a lot together. I didn’t think to be worried at all. Who would? I couldn’t wait to settle into marriage but the ink was barely dry on our certificate when Paul changed.”
It was Lauren sister’s who caught their mom exchanging suspicious texts with Paul.
Lauren recalled, “When I confronted Paul he went white as a sheet – and refused to let me see his phone.” He walked out days later on his wife and 7-month-old daughter only to move in with her own mother.
“It was sick,” Lauren said. “It’s one of the worst things a mum can do to a daughter.” She recalls that they met when she was a business development manager at 18. She later met Julie when walking down the street.
She said, “When I saw her in the street and noticed she had a bump, my mind raced. She clutched her stomach and told me, ‘It’s a cyst’. I felt so sick, I went home and destroyed all the photos of our wedding.”
She continued, “She tried to claim the father was another boyfriend but I knew the truth. Paul and mum officially announced themselves as a couple that summer and my world crumbled.”
Strong Lauren, however, still attended the wedding that happened 5 years later.
“She rang me up and invited me. It was awkward. I got married on the 14th August 2004, they married on the 15th August 2009. It was almost too much to bear but I did it for my daughter. I went to watch Mum marry the same man I’d wed five years earlier.”
Lauren’s child would have an aunt who’s also a sibling at the same time.
In 2006, her mother tried to mend the bridge, “She initiated it. I dropped my brother off at her house and she got in my car, started crying and just said, ‘I’m sorry’. I told her, ‘Get out of my car’. She wrote me a letter a couple of weeks later apologizing. And that was the start of us mending our relationship.”
She continued, “I still bring it up and make a comment and she doesn’t like it. Just because we spoke after doesn’t mean I’m over it. Paul never said sorry or tried to apologize to me.” The happy wife of a new man and mother-to-be of her fourth child has also been trying to have a normal relationship, but she also knows it will never be the same.
“Time is a great healer, and mum and I have tried to have a normal relationship. But we will never be as close as we were – and I’ll never fully trust her again,” said the woman.
Yet, her mother, who’s now 53, still claims that “we didn’t have an affair. We are married and that’s it.” And Paul, who’s now 35, has not given a comment.