He Made His Daughters Leave Their Family Vacation And Go Home After They Intentionally Left His Disabled Stepdaughter Out
A 38-year-old man has a 16-year-old daughter named Nora and a 14-year-old daughter named Lilly that he had with his first wife.
He is currently married to his second wife, who entered their marriage with 11-year-old Jenna. Jenna is disabled and uses a wheelchair.
His wife used to homeschool Jenna, but he was able to get her accepted into a private school. Despite that, Jenna has a tough time with social schools since she spent her younger years essentially in isolation.
He then got Jenna therapy, expecting that to help her flourish socially while also getting her to get along better with Lilly and Nora, but his daughters didn’t make a quick effort to get to know Jenna.
“Yes, they did exclude her from activities but I had several sit-downs with them in hopes of getting them to understand that Jenna is a normal girl and has so much in common with them so they shouldn’t feel like she’s difficult just because of her disability,” he explained.
He really did believe that his daughters were growing to be more accepting of Jenna, but a couple of days ago he realized that wasn’t true at all.
He, his wife, and the girls all went to spend 4 days at a resort on the beach, and while they were there, Lilly and Nora kept going off and doing things while Jenna was left behind with him and his wife.
On the second day of their trip, Lilly and Nora said they planned on getting some ice cream, and he turned around to Jenna to see if she would like to go, to which she said she would.
“I asked them to take her with them and they were “unsure” at first but then took her,” he said. “An hour later my wife came to me saying that Jenna called her saying the girls left her near one of the benches and told her to wait 5mins until they get ice cream but didn’t come back.”
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“We went there immediately, and found Jenna sitting alone while the girls were eating ice cream and hanging out at a different location.”
“I got so mad at them especially after they admitted “leaving her there”. I told them vacation was over FOR THEM and had them pack their stuff and took them home.”
Lilly and Nora sobbed as he packed them both into his car. The girls begged him to be able to stay on their family vacation, but he wasn’t hearing it.
While his wife and Jenna stayed at the resort, he drove Lilly and Nora back home for his mom to babysit them.
He drove back to the resort, and the vacation picked back up as planned; just without Lilly and Nora.
“Both girls and their mom were all over me about this and their mom went on a rant about me favoring my stepdaughter over my biological ones and being a doormat for my wife,” he continued.
“The girls were upset but I explained why I did what I did. Their mom defended them saying that I shouldn’t force them to “care” for their stepsister and expect them to be her “maids” and stop their life for her.”
His ex-wife then told her entire family, and everyone is ganging up on him. His ex-wife is accusing him of destroying their anticipated family vacation.
He’s left wondering if he did overreact with Lilly and Nora when all he was trying to do was get them to not exclude his stepdaughter.
Do you think he was right to drive his daughters back home, or should he have let them stay?
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