She’s Left Feeling Angry After Her Dad Told Her Not To Talk About Her Late Mother In Front Of Her Younger Siblings
Losing a parent at a young age is heartbreaking and can flip your entire world upside down. Likewise, things can get incredibly emotional when the widowed parent marries someone else.
One young woman is angry with her dad after he told her not to talk about her late mother in front of her younger siblings, who are now confused over how they’re related to each other.
She’s 19-years -ld and has three siblings. A brother named Jayden, who’s 17, a 10-year-old sister named Remi, and a 6-year-old brother named Jonah.
Five years ago, they tragically lost their mom. About a year later, their dad remarried.
She and Jayden don’t really see their stepmom as a parental figure. However, things are different for Remi and Jonah, who were very young when their mom died. Remi sees herself as having “two moms,” while Jonah sees his dad’s new wife as his only mom.
Things became complicated when her dad asked her and Jayden not to speak about their late mother around Jonah and to only talk about her with Remi if she asked.
He told them that his new wife “deserved the chance” to be seen as Jonah and Remi’s only mother since she would raise them for the rest of their lives.
“We respected that, although we disagreed with his decision,” she said.
As time passed, Remi and Jonah started getting confused about why she and Jayden would treat their stepmom differently.
Remi would become upset anytime they didn’t celebrate their dad’s second wife on Mother’s Day or visit their biological mother’s grave without her.
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“Again, that was what dad told us to do,” she explained.
Now, Jonah is getting confused about the moms in their lives. He’s confused about why Remi says she has ‘two moms’ and why she and Jayden have a ‘different mom.’
Because their dad refuses to talk to Jonah about his biological mom, Jonah started believing that she and Jayden are his adopted siblings.
“We started to correct him, but dad cut us off,” she added. “So, we left it alone. It did mean that Jonah kind of put us in boxes away from him.”
Now, their dad is accusing her and Jayden of acting like half-siblings to Remi and Jonah. She told him that it resulted from his choice not to talk about their late mother around the little kids. She said “feelings and confusion” have gotten in the way of all four kids being close.
Instead of apologizing for confusing the kids, their dad told them that if they had treated their stepmom more like their ‘second mother’ from the moment she entered the family, this issue wouldn’t be happening.
Do you think their dad owes them an apology for creating confusion in the family?
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