My (37M) GF's (34F) daughter (13f) falsely accused me of sexually assaulting her. Now I'm proved innocent, my gf wants to reconcile but I'm not sure I want to?

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UPDATE.

https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/isnvxh/update_my_37m_gfs_34f_daughter_13f_falsely/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

We've been going out for the best part of 2 years. It was going amazingly well and because of lockdown, we moved in together. She has just the one daughter and I always thought we got on well.

Last week, I got home from work and I noticed her and her daughter we're not in. I didn't really think it was strange, but I then was contacted by the police asking me to go in and see them which I did.

Basically, her daughter accused me if sexually assaulting her. I didn't if course, absolutely denied it and the police asked me permission to search my house which I did. They examined the daughter, didn't find anything and she basically was interviewed and admitted she made it up. She admitted her dad, who's a real wrong un, was telling her she needed to say that so it could get me out the picture and he might be able to be back in her life - he's not been in it for a while and hasn't long started to make contact and spend time with her and we've noticed she's changed a bit lately. Acting out, being disrespectful that sort of thing. If I ask her to do something, "you're not my fucking dad" etc.

Naturally I'm relieved but I'm angry, upset, and just really confused. My girlfriend made contact, saying she wants to move back in and we look into picking up where we left off. I told her no way, because I can't trust her daughter yet and don't really want to be around her and I'm not sure I want her living under my roof. She said she's only a kid, and I shouldn't hold it against her and was being manipulated - I know that's true, but I can't look past how horrible it was. She also says as a mum she did what she has to do and as horrible as it was, she'd do it again in a heartbeat so can't say she apologises. I mean I get that, but it doesn't make anything easier and I can't apologise for how I feel too.

So here I am, I don't know what to do. She's staying with her mum until we can talk but I genuinely don't know what way it'll go. Do I take her back and move on? Or shall I cut my losses?

Edited to add it's bad enough what happened. What's making it feels l worse is that I feel like she should be a bit more empathetic and apologise at least for what happened and what the kid did. But she's not doing that.

Edit 2 Jesus Christ. I'm not a police apologist or anything but what is it with people in this thread and the police? They did a great job, investigated properly and my name is cleared and I have no further involvement with them. I just don't understand why people have a problem with me stating the facts or even not being negative about them?

Tldr: GF's kid accused me of sexual assault and it later was admitted she made it up. GF wants to get back together and I'm not sure I want to.

Here's the update seeing as it's been removed.

I broke up with her.

Thank you all honestly for all the advice and reassurance. I honestly already knew that I wanted to finish it ever before my last post, but i just needed others to write it out to verify it in my own mind.

A few people said "why is this even a question?" Well in all honesty - it was mainly because I'm not the most self confident of guys. You see even though I'm told I'm a great guy and a good catch (I've only ever been in 3 serious relationships and sexually active with 7 women including her and she couldn't believe it when I told her I'd been single for a while before I met her) I don't have a lot of confidence with women. So I was genuinely weighing up if I should stay with her as I might not meet anyone else for a while and might not be able to do better as sad as that sounds. Plus, I was worried if I do meet someone else - how do I explain how my last relationship ended? "Oh yeah me and my ex didn't work out because her 13 year old daughter accused me of fingering her and I didn't ever want to see her again. But she later admitted it was false and her dad out her up to it and the police cleared me. I'm totally innocent, honest!" So I suppose looking at myself, I've got a lot to work on before I consider dating again.

So to elaborate on the break up but keep it salient, I told her to come over last night. Said to her I agree what she did was right by her daughter and I would do the same if I had a child that told me that but I think she's out of order for not apologising what I've been through or showing me any empathy. I said I can't trust her daughter anymore, and don't want to be around her or have her in my life so that's it, I'm finishing with her. I also said there's too much drama - I don't want her ex interfering in my life. I didn't sign up for that.

She started really crying, saying she's so sorry etc but I told her it's too late, she should have done that as soon as she knew I was innocent. I told her to go back to her mum's and think about how she wants to get her and her daughter's stuff back, and call me in a few days when she's decided. More tears, but she then after a while if it would make any difference if her daughter apologised? I said no, I never want to talk to her again - I'm especially done with her. And I explained why.

Not only am I so angry with her, I can't trust her. And what she did, makes me angry for another reason too. Basically I was sexually assaulted as a child by an older male family member when I was 7. It fucked me up for a long time. So to have someone lie about something so disgusting, it fills me up with a lot of rage. She (my ex) had no idea - I never told her in our relationship at all. If she knew, she would definitely have apologised. I got so annoyed about that - like why does knowing what I went through make me more worthy of empathy? Does not ruining your boyfriend's life make me less of an apology? I went off on a rant about that, I was so pissed off.

So after I had my rant about it, I told her to leave and we'll talk in a few days about when to start collecting her stuff.

I feel mixed - justified in ending it, but sad it's over. Like we were amazing up until this. Really started to bond as a team. Lots of good moments. My dog's missing them too, he sat by the door crying after she left.

EDIT! Just to get this out the way - let stop with this "you let the father win" or "he's won" talk. He's not really won anything! He's alienated his daughter, ex hates him and the police are looking for him. Not only to mention if he happened to cause me or my family any more trouble or bother us again, it'll end up very badly for him. He may have "won the battle" but he's certainly "lost the war."

Tldr: told her to come over, said we're done, explained why and we'll talk soon to arrange her getting their stuff.