Have you ever been accused of having a scary or intimidating resting face?
Some of us may look upset or bored when we relax the muscles in our faces and stare off into space. It’s something out of our control that can usually be laughed off!
One woman’s stepsisters have been excluding her from family fun and say it’s because of her unapproachable resting face.
She’s 29 years old and has two stepsisters in their early 20s named Angie and Sierra. Her mom married their dad two years ago, and adjusting to her new family has taken some time. She doesn’t see them often since she lives on her own a few hours away and mostly goes home for holidays.
Angie and Sierra were always quite cold towards her, and she could never understand why. She figured it could be because of their age difference or their having different interests. They never accepted her invitations whenever she tried inviting them out with her. Things became even more uncomfortable for her when her stepsisters started hanging out with her 22-year-old brother, but not her.
A few months ago, while on a family trip, Angie and Sierra continued to do things without her. Then, finally, while at dinner, her parents confronted all of them for not spending time together.
“Angie and Sierra said they didn’t want to spend time with me because I wasn’t approachable,” she recalled.
“I’ll admit I have ‘RBF’ and often get lost in thought. I apologized and said I’d make an effort to be conscious of my face.”
However, her stepsisters’ comments about her being unapproachable have bothered her since returning from their vacation. She decided to talk to some other people in her life about whether or not they agreed with her stepsisters.
People closest to her, like her best friend from work and her sister-in-law, highly disagreed with what Angie and Sierra had said. Her mom also suggested she talk to Angie and Sierra and tell them how they made her feel.
She decided to have a Zoom meeting with her stepsisters, and instead of having some sort of bonding moment, things got worse between them.
“They said they shouldn’t have to invite me when I have an ugly face all the time, and maybe if I smiled more, I would have friends and wouldn’t expect to be brought along everywhere,” she remembered.
“I’ll admit, I lost my temper.”
She was so fed up with Angie and Sierra’s behavior over the last two years that she had an outburst and told them that if they found her face to be so repulsive, they needed to look away. Then, she hung up on them.
Unfortunately, she hasn’t received much support from her family following the tense Zoom call. While some members are on her side, her parents accused her of being overly sensitive and feel that she should have kept it together because Angie and Sierra are “just kids.”
She’s decided from now on, she’s going to keep minimal contact with her stepsisters and be as cordial as possible whenever she has to see them.
“I could’ve handled myself better, but I was just done trying with them,” she added.
Should she not have said what she did to her stepsisters?
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