Her Dad Got Married To His Mistress Without Her Even Knowing, But Now That She’s Spent Time Around This Other Woman, She Honestly Loves Her
This 25-year-old woman’s dad surprisingly got divorced from her mom out of the blue a couple of years ago.
Back then, her dad claimed that he was filing for bankruptcy, and the divorce would be best because it would prevent them from losing everything they owned.
Well, her dad did follow through with the divorce, and then they all found out that it was a lie because he turned around and got married to his mistress.
Her dad’s mistress was a woman he had been seeing for more than a decade, and she and her siblings were not invited to his wedding at all.
To be honest, she and her siblings had no clue that her dad was getting married again.
Now, she describes her mom as not a totally terrible person, but her mom is not easy to deal with in the least.
Her mom is a narcissist and a pessimist who excels at manipulating people. Her mom only cares about herself, and her mom can be downright mean as well as dependent.
Despite all of her mom’s bad qualities, she does love her, but she admits that living with her mom is draining and anxiety-inducing.
She believes her mom is the kind of person who would have been better off never having children, really.
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But anyway, when it came time for her to meet her dad’s newest wife, she was well aware of the affair, and so she did her best to be distant.
Instead of being able to keep this woman at arm’s length as she planned, she ended up adoring her.
“She is the opposite of my mom; she praises me so much and has always been beyond thrilled to introduce me as her daughter; she encourages me to do the things I want and always rationalizes with my dad when he’s being accidentally critical of me rather than egging it on like my mom did in the past,” she explained.
“She’s willing to do things I want to do and not just what she wants, and she has always made me feel like my voice matters. A lot of times, I feel extremely guilty, especially because my mom doesn’t even know they’re married, but my inner child is absolutely thrilled to have a maternal figure like the mom I dreamed of and longed for my whole life.”
“I can’t help but love her and consider her my third parent, and as bad as I feel, I am extremely thankful for her.”
Have you ever found yourself in a similar situation?
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