She Never Let Her Mom Know That She Got A Full Ride To Attend College, And Now That Her Mom Found Out, She’s Beside Herself
An 18-year-old girl used to live with her mom up until she turned 17. The relationship she has with her mom has always been rocked, but it has only gotten worse and worse as the years have gone by.
The issues she has with her mom stem from her mom’s new husband, who entered her life when she was 8.
“I was several months out from losing my dad, and when she introduced me to her husband (then boyfriend),” she explained.
“I was honest that I did not like her dating. She told me I would come around. But within four months, she left me with a cousin and got engaged to him while his kids were present. I found out because my cousin got a text with a photo of them, and the news had already gone around the rest of my mom’s family and her husband’s family.”
2 years later, her mom got pregnant, and she was literally the last person who learned of this news.
Her mom’s 15-year-old stepson then made her feel even worse by saying that her mom had already done a great job of replacing her deceased dad and that her mom was on the way to replacing her as well.
Her mom and her mom’s new husband did make somewhat of an effort from there to be more inclusive of her, but she was already done.
So, she drifted apart from her mom, and everyone let her just be alone.
“Mom pulled away from me and would then feel bad and try to bond,” she said. “Eventually, I just decided I had lost her because I couldn’t blend with her husband and his kids, and because she would always resent me for that, the way I resented her for moving so fast after dad and putting everyone before me, I moved in with my dad’s parents.”
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“This is where I was when I applied for college and stuff, and I got the scholarship. I never told my mom.”
“We didn’t talk for months. It was only after I started college last week that she reached out to my grandparents about something, and she found out.”
Her mom was absolutely beside herself when she learned that she is already in college, and her mom couldn’t believe that she would exclude her.
Her mom maintained that she would have wanted to celebrate her getting into college had she known, but she pointed out to her mom that she really wasn’t part of her life at all.
“…Just like she had moved on with her life away from me, I had done the same away from her,” she continued. “She told me it was different, and I was being cruel. Her husband took over and demanded I go to them and discuss everything “as a family” so that my mom could have the life she deserves and have her kid treat her right instead of being selfish and spoiled.”
“I never set out to hurt my mom. But I did stop thinking about her role in my life after I moved out.”
She’s curious if it was mean of her not to tell her mom about getting a full-ride scholarship to college.
Do you think she should have told her mom?
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