This Teen Has Been Secretly Going To Therapy Because Of Her Rough Home Life In A Blended Family, And Now That Her Family Knows Her Secret, They Think She’s Rude
Therapy is an excellent way for people to get support and talk through any issues that may be affecting their daily lives. It is a very private and intimate process. Some people choose not to tell others in their life that they go to therapy for the sake of privacy.
However, one teenager is getting pestered by her family after she started going to a free therapy program without telling them.
She’s 17-years-old and has had a rough home life. She’s part of a blended family, as her mom was married with two children before divorcing, marrying her father, and giving birth to her. Her half-siblings were very young when her mom married her dad.
They were allowed visitation with their biological dad as kids, but he died when they were only 7 and 10. She was still an infant at the time.
Growing up, her parents always said she shouldn’t see her siblings as half-siblings. They told her that her siblings love her, and although it may take a while for a bond to form, they’d all be super close one day.
Now, she’s just a few years shy of turning 20 and still hasn’t felt any love from her siblings.
“They weren’t mean, but they were very distant with me,” she explained.
“They didn’t include me in sibling stuff they did together. I wasn’t included in their weddings.”
Over the years, she’s tried to find ways to bond with her siblings by asking them to do things together, but they never truly made time for her.
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Recently, she’s been feeling even more left out after her older siblings started having children and named them after each other but not her.
They bragged to friends and family how they named their children using their “sibling’s initials,” but that never included her.
Instead, they’ve always referred to each other as siblings but still see her as a distant half-sibling.
“I realized at that point I was struggling to cope with that and that it sucked to not get that closeness my parents promised we’d have, especially when I have tried, and I have asked,” she said.
She doesn’t want her parents to force her siblings to bond with her. A lot of pressure has been placed on her to do it herself.
Since the tension between her and her siblings has been bothering her, and she doesn’t want to talk to her parents about it, she found a therapy program to go to.
It’s a free local program for teenagers to enroll in without their parent’s permission or insurance.
She liked the idea of not having to explain to her parent’s why she needs to go to therapy, so she’s been attending the program and staying quiet about it.
However, everything fell apart when one of her aunts saw her leaving the program one day and told her family.
Suddenly, everyone jumped down her throat and asked her why she needed to go to therapy, almost accusing her of not needing it. Her parents told her she should’ve gone to them.
She told her family she shouldn’t have to justify why she was in therapy and that all they needed to know is she’s getting the help she needed.
Her family told her she was rude for saying that, and now she’s wondering if she’s done anything wrong in this situation.
Does she need to tell her family why she’s in therapy, or should she keep it to herself?
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