His 14-Year-Old Daughter’s Biological Mom Abandoned Her, But Now Wants Her Back, And He Said No Way
A 44-year-old man has a 14-year-old daughter named Milly, but Milly is technically his niece and not his daughter, as Milly’s biological mom is his sister, Laila.
Back when Milly was 3-years-old, Laila got a job in a different country, and so she asked him to look after Milly while she was gone.
Milly’s dad sadly passed away before she was even born, so his sister was the only parent Milly had.
“Laila had promised to send money for me to take care of Milly and that’d she’d call and visit as often as she could until she could take Milly to live with her permanently,” he explained.
“After she left, she called probably 3 times in the first two months and then went AWOL. For years I’d tried to find out what happened and assumed the worst, only to hear from one of her friends a couple of years later that she got married to someone else and has an entirely new family.”
“I was heartbroken because Milly would ask when her mom was coming back, and I never knew what to say except “soon.” But even she grew tired of it and realized when she was about 8 that her mom wasn’t coming back anytime soon, that’s if she was coming back at all. Because of this situation, me and my wife were granted parental rights to Milly, and she couldn’t have been happier that we were officially her parents.”
11 long years after his sister Laila dumped Milly on him, she popped back up a week ago with her new rich family and 2 new kids.
The majority of his family was thrilled to see Laila after so long, but he, his wife, and his parents were livid with her.
As Laila tried to fill them in on why she went missing for so long and why she didn’t reach out to Milly, he could only hear her excusing away the abandonment of her own child.
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Laila then demanded that he give Milly back to her, but his parents stuck up for him and insisted that Milly should remain with him and his wife before reminding Laila that she doesn’t have any parental rights.
“Welp, there she goes screaming at me about stealing her daughter because I was infertile, and to hear that come out from her mouth hurt me in a way I’ve never been hurt before to the point where I cried and left,” he said.
“Me being infertile has always been my weak point, and for her to casually bring it up like that despite being my sister broke me. For the next few days, I prevented her from contacting Milly, and I haven’t told her that Laila is back because I’m scared I’ll lose my daughter.”
“I’m a human being too; I get attached, especially to someone I’ve had to raise, that too out of my own pocket, not that I’m complaining. I believe Milly is my daughter, and I can’t let her go back to the very same woman who abandoned her.”
He’s left wondering if it’s wrong of him not to want to give Milly back to Laila. What do you think?
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