She’s Only Inviting Her Parents To Her Wedding To Attend As Guests And She Has A Good Reason For Not Wanting Them More Involved
A 27-year-old woman was the only child growing up in her family until a terrible accident changed all of that at the age of 8.
One of her grandmothers, her aunt, and her uncle passed away in a car crash, and because of that, her triplet cousins were left orphaned.
Her cousins were just 6 months old at the time of the accident, and her mom and dad decided to adopt them.
Now, her mom worked as a teacher, but after the accident and adopting her infant cousins, her mom left to be a stay-at-home mom and take care of her cousins, who had a lot of needs.
Her parents were very middle class, but taking on an additional three children put a strain on finances.
“From ages 8 to 13, my parents were too focused on my cousins that they forgot they had a daughter, and the money was so tight that I had to quit all of my hobbies because my cousins’ hobbies were expensive and they needed to make sure that they maintained the same standard of living for them,” she explained.
Her aunt and uncle had life insurance, and that money was set aside for when her cousins would go to college.
When she turned 13, 5 years after the accident, her grandparents on her mom’s side revealed to her that her mom and dad used all of the money they had put aside for her college education.
Her grandparents had found out about this, and her mom and dad had made it clear they would never speak to them again if they told her about her college money.
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Despite that threat, her grandparents went ahead with telling her, but they reassured her that they would be helping her pay for college.
After she learned this, she never looked at her parents the same again, and since they had their hands full with her cousins, she became an afterthought.
Her cousins grew up, and they began college, at which point her parents suddenly started thinking about her.
She was not keen on being close to them in light of what had happened, so she never did more than call them from time to time.
Well, she recently got engaged, and her wedding is happening soon. Since she is not close to her parents, she is having her grandpa be the one to walk with her down the aisle.
Meanwhile, her grandma is going to be doing everything that a bride’s mom would normally do at a wedding.
She has invited her parents to attend her wedding, but only in a guest capacity.
They aren’t going to be more involved than showing up and sitting in the crowd, and she made that quite clear to them when she hand-delivered their invitations to her wedding.
Her parents were upset with her for not including them, but she told them the reasoning behind her decision.
“Now they are trying to apologize but it is too little too late for me,” she said. “My cousins contacted me trying to make me take it back, offered me what was left in their college funds since they didn’t know that I didn’t have one to make it fair.”
She wouldn’t accept that from her cousins, since it was never financially motivated for her. She feels her parents didn’t give her the emotional attention she so needed growing up, and that’s why they’re not included in her wedding.
She did tell one of her friends about the situation, and this friend of hers thinks she handled things in a rude way.
Her friend also feels that she should leave her past in the past and move on.
How would you deal with this?
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