His Teen Stepsister Is Practically A Stranger To Him, Yet She Wants To Live With Him And His Wife This Summer
If you’ve ever had blood siblings and eventually stepsiblings, you know it’s sometimes a lot more difficult to bond with your stepbrother or stepsister than your biological sibling.
One man has always been very close to his biological sister versus his stepsister due to his rocky relationship with his mom and their age gap. Now, his stepsister wants to move in with him before she goes to college, and he has to say no.
He’s 32-years-old and has a younger sister who is 26. Growing up, they were always very close. Unfortunately, their dad passed away when his sister was a baby. His death left them in a tough situation, as he and his sister don’t have a great relationship with their mom.
“She did not believe in children having any downtime; she believed boys should be athletic and do as many physical activities as possible,” he said.
“When I was a kid, she had me in basketball, football, hockey, karate, and boxing. I had no say in the activities I did, and my mother expected me to excel at them all. I was never a kid into sports or athletics in general, so I hated it, and I was never very good.”
This caused a strain in their relationship for years. Whenever he told his mom he wanted to pursue something else, she told him to be masculine, strong, and try harder.
His mom did the same thing to his sister and insisted on enrolling her in “girl-appropriate activities” like dance and art classes.
When he was a teenager, he and his mom were on such bad terms that they each knew he’d be moving out the moment he turned 18.
Before then, when he was 16, his mom remarried his stepfather, who had two kids that were only two and four at the time.
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“By that point, my mother and I were just holding on until I was 18 and could be out of her hair,” he explained.
“That did not stop her and her husband from trying to pawn his kids off on me under the guise of spending the same time with them as I did my sister. I was not interested. I knew I would be estranged from my mother once I moved out, so I made no effort.”
Two years later, when he finally moved out, he kept in touch with his sister. He’s married now, and his wife always liked his sister too.
When his sister graduated from high school, she lived with him for the summer and lived with him again for a while after graduating college.
Last year, his sister got married, and he walked her down the aisle. His mom, stepdad, and stepsiblings were not invited, although they tried to show up and were turned away after watching him walk his sister down the aisle.
He believes this is where something shifted in his stepsister’s perspective, and suddenly, she started reaching out to him.
In May, his stepsister messaged him on Facebook and asked if she could stay with him the summer after graduating high school, just like his younger sister did.
He told her no. Then, she continued messaging him, asking if they could talk it out, and he still said no.
His stepsister would not give up and even started messaging his wife.
A few weeks ago, he saw his stepsister at a mall near his house, and she approached him. Once again, he told her he wasn’t interested in having her live with him and that it wouldn’t happen.
Then, his stepsister went on a rant about how he wasn’t treating her as fairly as he did his biological sister.
“She told me she and her brother deserved better,” he recalled.
“That spending a few months in my home would be good sibling bonding. I told her she is not my sister, so [she] could not live with me. She became upset [and] tried to start a scene, but I simply left.”
Since then, he’s blocked his stepsister on every platform, and she’s been complaining to their family, including his sister.
Should he let his stepsister live with him, or does he not have to because she’s practically a stranger?
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