When a marriage comes to an end, whether that end was amicable or not, the children who are there to witness the dissolution will be affected no matter how kind both parents were to each other in the process. That’s just how things work in this world—children have big feelings for their tiny bodies, and they’re not able to hide how they’re feeling if they think they’ve been crossed in some way.

This is especially true in marriages that come to an end due to infidelity. The child, if old enough, understands that one of their parents decided to choose someone else instead of their family, instead of honesty. It’s worse when the cheating parent builds a relationship with their affair partner’s kids, leaving their biological children to wonder why mom or dad never spends time with them anymore.

Such is the case in this next story, and the 16-year-old son refuses to accept his mother’s apologies after she chose a life without him, his younger brother, and his father. Scroll below to see how the confrontation plays out.