This Teen Won’t Stay With His Stepmother And Half-Siblings While His Grandparents Undergo Surgeries, And His Stepmother Is Making Him Feel Really Guilty About It
Unfortunately, this seventeen-year-old man has had to deal with a lot of grief throughout his life.
When he was just five-years-old, he lost his mother. And following his mother’s passing, his father went on to meet a new woman named Gemma. His father and Gemma had two children– his half-sisters– during their marriage.
But, once he turned eleven-years-old, his father also passed away, too. So, at that point, his stepmother Gemma wanted him to keep living with her and his half-sisters.
However, Gemma had never formally adopted him, and he honestly wanted to live with his maternal grandparents.
“Gemma tried to convince me to stay, but it was never what I wanted. She was fine, I got along with her, but she was never mom,” he revealed.
“Gemma was stepmom, that was it. And I didn’t feel strongly about that title, either.”
So, his grandparents were actually forced to take Gemma to court, and they ended up winning custody of him.
And now, at seventeen, he only sees his half-sisters about once a month and does not play a huge role in their lives. As for Gemma, his stepmom plays absolutely no role in his life whatsoever.
Gemma ended up getting engaged to a new man after his father passed away. Then, she moved into the new man’s house and had three more kids. And even though Gemma tried to get him to be a part of her family, he was really just never interested.
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Anyway, that means he has continued living with his grandparents all of these years and is very content at their house. Obviously, though, they are both older now– and each of his grandparents actually has surgeries coming up soon.
So, he decided to stay at his aunt and uncle’s house for a few weeks while his grandparents recovered. After Gemma received word of that, though, she tried to butt into the situation.
Apparently, Gemma first reached out to his grandparents and said that they should send him to her house. However, he and his grandparents had already discussed where he wanted to spend the time away from home, and they chose his aunt and uncle’s house together.
“We had also discussed Gemma, and I had said no way,” he recalled.
Aside from not wanting to stay at Gemma’s house for his own personal reasons, though, he also just thought staying at his aunt and uncle’s house would make more sense. After all, they were supposed to be caring for his grandparents after they got discharged from the hospital anyway.
Despite his and his grandparents’ wishes, though, Gemma would not stop blowing up his grandparents’ phone.
So, after a while, he was sick and tired of seeing her name pop up on the caller I.D. and decided to give his stepmom a piece of his mind.
First, he picked up his grandfather’s phone and told Gemma to stop bugging his grandparents. But Gemma just kept pushing her own agenda.
Gemma claimed she wanted him to stay at her home so that way he could meet the rest of her family and get to know everybody. Obviously, though, he knew what his stepmom wanted and told her that he did not care. He also said he had made his decision already.
If you could not have guessed, though, Gemma got upset and asked why he did not want to stay with her family. She also admitted that over the years, she had hoped he would decide to re-enter her family and “be her child again.”
And after hearing that, he got pretty annoyed and decided to just tell Gemma the unfiltered truth.
“I told her I had never seen her as my parent and had never considered myself her child,” he explained. Yikes.
Still, Gemma tried to guilt trip him. She wound up ending the call by saying that his father would have been really disappointed in him. Gemma also claimed his father would have wanted him to live with her and his half-sisters and would have hated seeing him decide to live with extended family.
Then, he just told Gemma he had no regrets about going with what he wanted to do, and he got accused of being cruel because of it.
Despite that, though, the call with his stepmom has still been weighing heavy on his mind. He honestly does not want to stay with Gemma and believes he is entitled to his own feelings.
But, at the same time, he has been left wondering whether telling Gemma that he did not want to stay with her and his half-siblings was a jerky thing to do or not.
Why do you think Gemma keeps trying to force a relationship after all of these years? Do you believe he has a right to choose where he stays while his grandparents are in the hospital? If you had been in his shoes, would you have done the same thing?
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