His Daughter Asked Him To Help Honor Her Stepdad At Her Wedding, But He Said No, Because This Guy Has Always Been Terrible To Him
This father has two adult children– Emily, who is 30-years-old, and Hayes, who is 26-years-old– with his ex-wife.
A few months after their son was born, his ex-wife left him for her high school sweetheart Sam and ended up marrying him less than a year later.
But while his daughter Emily has always had a good relationship with her stepfather, he and Sam have not had the best relationship over the years.
Sam has consistently tried to make him feel like a bad father and an insignificant person in his children’s lives. Sam and Emily have been especially close, and Sam would often taunt him over this.
“When I told him he was being childish, he’d tell me in return that he knew it cut me up inside to have to share her affection as a dad. He told me one day he would be walking her down the aisle, and maybe she’d even want him to do it alone,” he explained.
Luckily, despite Sam’s behavior, the father-daughter relationship between him and Emily was never strained or ruined.
They have continued to be close, and he also feels a lot closer to Hayes than Sam ever has. Sadly he thinks that Hayes being gay is the reason behind Sam choosing to have a more distant relationship with him.
But still, while his children were growing up, he did everything he could to keep his feelings about Sam to himself, even though it was certainly challenging at times.
“There are times I had to restrain myself from exploding in front of the kids when Sam would taunt me. I knew he’d love a chance to get me out of my kids’ lives,” he said.
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Emily planned to get married within a few months and wanted both him and Sam to bring her down the aisle as a way to represent both of her father figures and their importance to her. Unfortunately, Sam has recently been diagnosed with a motor neuron disease that has left him confined to a wheelchair and has been struggling with his ability to speak.
Recently, Emily came over to his house to discuss planning a special tribute to Sam, and she asked if he could not only help her plan it out but also help contribute to it financially.
Because of his negative relationship with Sam, he chose to refuse his daughter’s request. Hayes also refused to assist with this, but Emily was upset that her father especially would not want to help with this idea.
“I told her he had treated me poorly over the years, and I accepted she loved him. But he was not worthy of my money or that effort in my eyes,” he explained.
As one last effort, Emily asked if her father would help her do this for her sake rather than think about it as something he would be doing for Sam. Still, he declined, leaving Emily to reluctantly accept his decision.
Since this conversation, Emily’s fiancé called him, asking to set aside any issues he had with Sam and consider his daughter’s happiness. Emily is likely soon going to lose Sam, who is an important person in her life, and she wants to pay tribute to him on her special day, and this feud is leaving her stuck in the middle. Emily’s fiancé even accused him of not being a good father and said that he is clearly enjoying watching Sam suffer.
Do you think that he should agree to help with a tribute to Sam at Emily’s wedding, or do you think he is right to refuse?
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