AITA for blackmailing my boyfriend?
I (16F) am with my boyfriend "Allen" (24M) since I was 13 and he was 21. I'm an unwanted child (my parents had me when they were in high school and I was raised by my maternal grandmother who never wanted me) and he was the first person who actually cared about me. I got pregnant when I was 14 and my grandmother kicked me out, so I went to live with him.
My boyfriend has to travel a lot for work so he would only stay home two weeks per month, and the rest of the time I would be alone with our kid. I had to quit school and I lost all my friends because of it, so Allen and my son are everything I have. Even though he's absent, Allen never let us have any sort of difficulty and he's a good boyfriend and father.
Except I found out he's married and has two other kids with his wife. I found out through social media - I have a secret Instagram account for posting texts I write and, although he always claimed he has no Instagram, I found his account with a lot of pictures of his family. He probably blocked my regular account and that's why I couldn't find him at first.
When he returned from his last trip I confronted him about what I found and he begged me not to tell anyone. I asked him when he got married and he said when he was 20, so he was already married when we met.
I was furious. I told him I would tell his wife because she deserved to know (he has her @ on his Insta bio so contacting her would be easy) and he started to panic. He said he didn't love her, that he only married her because she got pregnant, but her father is a cop and he would kill him.
So that's when I had the idea. I told him I would keep quiet about it if he gave me money. Lots of it. I know he has a good salary and he has savings, so I asked him for a lot of money (I don't leave in the US so our currency is different, but it was enough to live well for a while) and let me keep the apartment. I also wanted him to stay away from me and our kid, I was clear I only wanted his money.
We settled a deal and he gave me the money. I feel guilty for what I've done because his wife deserves to know and blackmail is something really awful to do, but I'm a teen with a baby with no education and no job, no friends and no family. I want to get a job, but I need time for that and I need the money while I'm unemployed.
Sorry for the weird English, it's not my first language.
Anyway, AITA?