Her Dad Is Trying To Guilt Her Into Allowing Him To Propose To His Girlfriend At Her Upcoming Wedding
A woman is going to be getting married soon, and her fiancé’s family has offered to help them both pay for their wedding.
While her fiancé’s family has been nothing but incredibly supportive of them, her own family has been anything but.
Her dad is not the giving type, and he used to charge her rent back when she lived with him. So, her dad is not paying for her wedding at all, but that’s not the problem she has with him.
“My mom died of cancer a few years back,” she explained. “We were incredibly close, and it was so hard to watch the kindest person I have ever met go through such a horrible thing.”
“I know everyone grieves in different ways, but my dad began dating really soon after she passed. Within months he was on dating apps and filling me in on the details of the women he was meeting.”
“This, among other things, really damaged our relationship for a while. He met his now GF within the first year of my mom being gone, and they now live together. I am glad he has someone to keep him company, but it was fast.”
She is really not that close to her dad or her dad’s girlfriend, but they’re all polite to one another and get along well enough.
Not too long ago, she came over to her dad’s house, and when it was just the two of them, and her dad’s girlfriend had walked away, her dad started showing her a video.
It was of a bride, and as she got ready to toss her bouquet, she walked over to one of her bridesmaids and passed her flowers off.
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The bridesmaid’s boyfriend then got down on one knee and proposed to her.
She figured her dad was simply showing her this because it had to do with weddings, and she admitted to him the video was pretty adorable.
Then, her dad revealed that this was exactly how he envisioned proposing to his girlfriend at her own wedding.
“I was shocked and asked if he was serious,” she said. “He said he had been thinking about it, and this is what he wanted to do to make it special and to show that I am welcoming her into the family.”
“I told him that he was going to have to figure something else out because that day is about my future husband and me and that we were spending a ton of money for our special day. His argument was that it would be a “5-minute thing,” and then it would go back to being my day.”
Her dad has always loved being right in the middle of everyone’s attention, so she is convinced that if she does let him follow through with this proposal, her entire wedding won’t be about her after he whips out the ring.
The other thing that irritates her is that she knows her entire family will be gossiping about a proposal, as it’s still pretty recent that her mom died.
“When people think back to my wedding, I don’t want them to just remember my dad’s proposal,” she continued.
“I told him that, especially because he is not offering to contribute to the wedding, it was completely out of the question. I explained that I really think his GF would be uncomfortable with all of that attention on her too.”
“The next morning, my dad tried to guilt trip me and told me he was disappointed that I didn’t want to be involved with something so special. I told him he needs to plan something that is completely separate. I can tell he thinks I am being a jerk.”
It’s already hard enough for her to have to go through with a wedding without her mom by her side, but now that her dad is trying to make her special day all about him, she can’t handle it.
She’s left wondering if it’s wrong of her to deny her dad this opportunity for his proposal. Do you think she should keep telling him no or give in?
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