Her Daughter Dumped Her First Child On Her To Take Care Of And Now That Her Daughter Is Pregnant Again She Said No Way Is She Raising Another One For Her
A 56-year-old woman and her husband Eddy have a daughter named Kelly who is 33, and when Kelly was 16, she got pregnant.
Kelly went on to have Opal, who is now 16, but Kelly didn’t raise Opal at all. Instead, she and Eddy did.
“We helped a lot as Kelly was only seventeen when Opal was born,” she explained. “However, Kelly would rarely help with parenting even when she was available.”
“Even asking her to watch Opal for an hour while we ran errands was an issue. It was rare that Kelly wouldn’t complain about why she “had to be there” to look after Opal.”
Kelly did graduate from high school, and after she did, she decided that she did not want to go to college.
Instead, Kelly got a job that was really accommodating schedule-wise, but despite that perk, Kelly never was around for Opal.
Kelly also expected her and her husband to buy everything that Opal needed. When Opal turned 6, Kelly moved out and officially dumped Opal on her.
Kelly still never makes time for her own daughter; only seeing Opal for holidays and every couple of weeks.
She really has been more like Opal’s mom than Kelly has, and although Kelly abandoned her own daughter, Opal is thriving.
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A week ago, she and her husband Eddy took Opal out for dinner to celebrate the excellent grades she could as the school year came to an end.
Kelly was invited, along with a few more of their loved ones. During dinner, Kelly got up out of her seat and told everyone that she and her boyfriend are having a baby.
She was not happy that Kelly stole Opal’s attention away at the celebratory dinner, and she managed to keep herself quiet.
Kelly then said that since Opal had been such a blessing, she and Eddy would be so thrilled to raise another child, and she could not keep quiet any longer.
She stopped Kelly and insisted that she wouldn’t be parenting Kelly’s second child, nor would she be buying anything her child needed.
Kelly lost it on her, and they all began arguing there at Opal’s dinner.
“Kelly called us heartless and claimed we were willing to throw our grandchild away,” she said. “Eddy and I called her selfish for expecting us to raise another child. We are too old to raise a baby.”
“Kelly is thirty-three and needs to grow up. Give the baby up for adoption or be a parent and raise it yourself.”
Kelly started sobbing and wound up leaving, and this whole incident has divided their entire family.
Some of her loved ones think that they made Kelly feel like they don’t care about her newborn baby, and the rest of her loved ones believe they should have said something to Kelly without everyone around.
She stands by what she said to Kelly; she’s done tip-toeing around the issues and she wants Kelly to grow up and be independent as well as responsible.
“After Eddy and I called her out, Kelly confirmed that she had expected us to adopt and raise this second baby as well,” she continued.
“Kelly said how she and her boyfriend did not have time to raise a baby but that putting up the baby for adoption would be “throwing it away.” She assumed we, at almost sixty-years-old, would have no troubles or opposition to raising a newborn baby.”
Do you think she should have waited until Opal’s dinner was over to set Kelly straight, or did she do the right thing calling her out in front of everyone?
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