And quite honestly, she was beyond confused. But, after her niece eventually asked her stepsister to make her be sentimental again, she started to understand what had happened.
“My niece wanted me to dedicate myself to her the way she had been told I had. She wanted me to put her before my child,” she recalled.
Then, after that bomb was dropped, both she and her grandparents could not believe their ears. Her grandparents even actually ended up telling her stepsister to leave, who– after some arguing– obliged. Afterward, her grandparents also called her mom to ask what the hell her mother had been thinking to lie to her niece like that.
Still, though, the drama was far from over– because then, she received a call from her mother. And during that call, her mother actually told her she needed to talk to her niece and help them “fix the hurt” her niece was going through. But, to be frank, she was honest with her mother and said it was not her job to fix a problem that her mother and stepsister created all by themselves.
If you could not have guessed, though, her mother got pissed off and claimed she should help for the sake of her niece– not them. She was also accused of lacking compassion.
So, ever since that night, she has been left wondering what to do about her niece. She is not sure if refusing to step in and talk to her niece was the right thing to do or if leaving her mother and stepsister to deal with the lie on their own makes her a total jerk.
Why do you think her mother and stepmother tried to play up her relationship with her niece so much? Do you think they realized how much the lie could damage her niece once the truth finally came out? Is it understandable why she does not want to help her mother and stepmother deal with the situation or not? If you were in her shoes, what would you do?
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