This Mom Forced Her Daughter To Miss Her Best Friend’s Wedding
One woman has a 19-year-old daughter that she’s a mom to and between her and her daughter, it’s a pretty rough situation.
She labels her daughter as “L” to protect her identity, but let’s just refer to her daughter as “Lauren” to make things easier.
Lauren is best friends with a girl who is labeled as “J.” Let’s call her “Jessica.” The two have been best friends for 13 years. Lauren’s mother describes them as behaving like sisters.
Jessica was scheduled to get married on April 1st, and Lauren was so excited to attend. It was going to be the first wedding she had ever gone to, and it would be her best friend’s special day.
Suddenly, Lauren fell ill with chickenpox around one week before the wedding.
After dealing with the awful chickenpox symptoms, Lauren had finally started to feel better a week later, two days before Jessica’s wedding.
However, Lauren’s mother told her she could not go. She explained to Lauren that she shouldn’t attend in order to prevent spreading the chickenpox to Jessica and other wedding guests.
Lauren disagreed with her mom, arguing that Jessica wouldn’t care if she came after having chickenpox since Lauren was pretty much healed.
According to the CDC, those who have not been vaccinated against chickenpox usually have the illness for 4-7 days.
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During this whole fiasco, Lauren’s mother never mentions anything about trying to get a doctor’s advice on the situation.
Lauren’s mother eventually told her that she should tell Jessica about the chickenpox, and if Jessica was okay with her going, that’d be fine.
But Lauren was already extremely distraught and frustrated, so she backed out of the wedding completely.
Now, things are extremely tense between Lauren and her mother. Her mother writes that she tries to give Lauren as much adult freedom as possible but that when it comes to potentially affecting the health of others, she has to lay down the law.
Lauren is heartbroken to have missed her best friend’s wedding day and blames her mother.
Other Reddit users commented on the mother’s post, saying that there was more that could’ve been done in this situation.
“Why didn’t you get her to consult a doctor to see if she was contagious?” commented one user.
To read the original Reddit post, visit the link here.
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