His Stepdaughter And Daughter Were Supposed To Be Sharing A Room On A Family Vacation, But After His Daughter Kicked His Stepdaughter Out, He Tried To Make His Stepdaughter Sleep On The Couch
It’s pretty well known that things can get emotional and complicated when it comes to blending families and trying to form a close relationship with new stepparents or stepchildren.
One man has struggled to get his family to bond since remarrying, and a recent drama-filled vacation might be the thing that makes them fall apart.
He’s a father of three kids, a 10-year-old daughter and two sons who are under 10. He divorced the mother of his children and recently remarried six months ago.
His current wife has a 12-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. They all live together, along with his wife’s 23-year-old sister, who helps with the kids.
All the kids have been having trouble adjusting to one another, especially his daughter and his stepdaughter.
His daughter is upset over not being the eldest in the house anymore, his stepdaughter can be possessive of her mom, and overall, they’re not great at sharing things.
Things really got tense for their blended family on a recent vacation they took together along with his sister-in-law.
The kids all had to share rooms in their vacation rental house. He and his wife shared the master, his sister-in-law got a room, his daughters shared a room, and his sons shared a room.
The first night of their vacation went without a hitch, and everyone slept fine. But after the second night, he found out that his stepdaughter went to sleep with her aunt because she got into an argument with his daughter.
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“The third night, my stepdaughter came to me and said that my daughter kicked her out of their room,” he explained.
“I went to talk to my daughter, and she said she hated sharing a room and wanted my stepdaughter gone. I know it sounds mean, but she’s never had to share a room before, and she’s still adjusting.”
Instead of scolding his daughter or making her share, he asked his stepdaughter if she would sleep on the couch or with her aunt for the rest of the trip because his daughter needed space.
His stepdaughter started to cry, and his sister-in-law and wife found out. They were livid and yelled at him for kicking his stepdaughter out of the room. They told him that his daughter should’ve been the one to leave if she didn’t want to share.
He kept defending his daughter, saying she was not used to sharing her bed. He thought his stepdaughter would be fine with leaving the room because she’s used to sharing a bed after sleeping with his wife on a pull-out couch for five years before she married him.
“My wife started yelling at me for favoring my daughter,” he said. “She and my sister-in-law ended up leaving early with my stepdaughter. They’ve all ignored me and my kids since we got back.”
He thinks what he did over the vacation was so bad that his wife is considering leaving him. Although she hasn’t said anything about leaving, he’s noticed that she and her sister have gone back to work to start saving money.
Was he wrong for kicking his stepdaughter out of the shared room?
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