Her Mom Bought Her A Prom Dress And Got Offended When Her Stepmom Purchased One That She Liked Better
A young woman graduated from high school 3 years ago and that November before she graduated, her mom bought her a $150 prom dress.
Back when her mom bought her the dress, she was in love with it. The dress was pretty tight and a deep, dark red color.
She does have body dysmorphia, so she likes to not wear any kind of clothes that are tight since it makes her anxious enough to often have panic attacks.
“I thought the red dress would be a good exercise in self-acceptance, but as prom got closer, I couldn’t deny the fact that I hated how I looked in it,” she explained.
“I genuinely wanted to like it and spent months trying it on almost daily to convince myself it wasn’t that bad, but I ultimately began dreading prom.”
She did ask her mom if they could go shopping for another dress that she felt more comfortable in, and her mom said yes.
Before she could go shopping with her mom, she hung out with her stepmom to celebrate her birthday.
Her stepmom gifted her $100 and then they started to talk about how she wanted to get a different prom dress.
Her stepmom said that she knew of a store that was offering 50% off of the prom dresses that they had and so, they both made their way over to the store to check it out.
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“…As soon as we walked in, I saw The Dress,” she said. “It was dark blue with silver accents, it fit me like a glove, and it was only $100.”
“The best part was that I actually felt beautiful in it. Coincidentally, I had $100 of birthday money burning a hole in my pocket, so I bought it.”
“Even though I said she shouldn’t, my stepmother told me she would reimburse me, as she wanted me to spend the $100 on a birthday gift to myself rather than a prom dress.”
This dress wasn’t like her first dress because it was not completely fitted to her body; the fabric flowed over her hips and wasn’t tight, so she felt a lot happier with this choice.
She immediately sent her mom a text filling her in on the fact that her stepmom just bought her a new prom dress.
Her mom didn’t reply back, so she wanted her mom to tell her if she was mad. Her mom insisted she wasn’t, and she figured everything was alright.
Well, she was wrong. Her mom came to pick her up and take her out to dinner for her birthday, and although she really wanted her mom to see her new dress, her mom said she didn’t want to talk about it.
She stayed quiet about her prom dress throughout dinner with her mom, but after dinner, she told her mom she wanted to talk about it since clearly, her mom was angry.
Her mom admitted she was offended that she let her stepmom buy her another dress, and although she pointed out to her mom the anxiety she had about looking good in the original red dress, her mom didn’t want to hear it.
Her mom was deeply upset by this incident, and her mom wanted her to reimburse her for the first dress.
She only went with a second dress because she wanted to look and feel good at her prom, but she was worried that accepting this second dress from her stepmom did make her “disrespectful” to her mom.
Although her mom and stepmom are polite to one another, they do not try to spend time with one another and they’re certainly not friends.
Money isn’t a problem for her stepmom, whereas it is for her mom, so she thinks that might have affected her mom in this situation.
Do you think it was wrong of her to accept the second dress from her stepmom, especially since it made her mom feel hurt?
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