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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Possible-Physics7157 on 2023-07-19 04:29:43.

My son(17m) has been dating my friends daughter(18f) for the last couple years. Their relationship has been solid and their relationship started getting pretty serious. Last month my friend called me and he was upset because my son had cheated on his daughter. I was taken aback and thought there had to be some kind of misunderstanding.

My son tried to explain that everything was a lie and she was just trying to ruin his image. I initially believed my son and went to go and confront my friend. At this point, his daughter showed us an entire folder of evidence against him. It looked really bad and I went home ashamed to even show my face to them.

My son eventually admitted that most of what she was saying was true. I also pulled up the text logs from our phone provider to check the validity. I put off dealing with the situation as I had to travel overseas for work and didn’t have time to investigate this. After I got back in town, I decided that I would take away the car that he had gotten on his 16th birthday. I decided to gift the car to his ex and I contacted my friend to fill out the paperwork.

He agreed on a time for us to deliver the car and I made my son come with me to hand deliver it. When we got to my friend’s house, his daughter had her new bf and a few friends over. My son begged me to not make him give the keys in front of all her friends. I didn’t really care and wanted to make sure he was shamed for what he did. He is complaining that this ruined his life but that was kind of the goal. He can no longer drive to work so he had to quit his job. He doesn’t need the money as I pay for everything. He will have to wake up an hour earlier for school to catch the bus and he has to wait an extra hour to catch the bus back home. I wanted to show him what could happen if you cheat in a more high stakes relationship. AITA here?