Her Estranged Dad Heard That She’s Having A Big Wedding, So He Asked Her To Give $12,000 From Her Wedding Budget To Help Fund Her Stepbrother’s Cancer Treatment

This 27-year-old woman has a pretty rough relationship with her dad and his new wife named Karen.
Her mom sadly passed away when she was 12, and two years later, that’s when her dad married Karen.
Off the bat, Karen made it obvious that her two boys, Hans and John, should be the priority over her and her dad got with that program.
By the time she turned 16, she had an enormous fallout with her family and moved out of the house.
This all went down after Karen sold her mom’s grand piano under the excuse that they never used it.
Her mom adored piano and music in general, and those things are important to her too. When her mom was still alive, the piano was the way that they bonded together.
Any time she caught herself missing her mom, she would sit down and play something on the piano.
The piano also helped her through some tough times with her family, as when she disagreed with them, she found solace in playing.
Another thing that’s worth noting is that her mom’s belongings mysteriously went missing as soon as Karen moved into their house, and the piano was one of the only things she had left to remember her mom by.

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But when she had the fallout with her family, she called her dad a terrible father. Her stepbrothers Hans and John stepped in and stuck up for her dad, saying she was wrong.
She replied to them that they were not really her dad’s children and that she did not consider them her family.
Karen began sobbing when those words left her mouth, and she could tell by her dad’s expression that she had hurt his feelings.
She did feel bad and was about to say sorry to her dad when John punched her in the face. She fell down, and John kept kicking her as she hit the floor.
Hans started to hold John back, but her dad just ran away to see if Karen was alright. Right then and there, she packed up her things and moved in with her uncle.
Then, when she turned 20, she moved in with her boyfriend. Not one time did her dad attempt to reach out to her or try to contact her.
Later on, her cousins revealed to her that her dad went around telling everyone at a reunion that she was pretty much dead to him and Hans and John were his only kids.
She then met her fiancé at 23-years-old, and he just proposed to her. She and her fiancé have been saving up their money for their wedding day, and her uncles on her mom’s side of the family decided to give her more money to honor her mom.
“I wanted to save it, but they told me to have a grand wedding and be the most important person that day which meant a lot after years of my wants being ignored,” she explained.
“The wedding got upgraded by a lot. I invited my grandparents and some cousins from my dad’s side. Suddenly after more than a decade, Dad contacted me. He didn’t ask to be invited or apologize or anything, he just heard I’m doing a big wedding and decided to ask for money.”
“I frankly was disgusted by his audacity and lack of remorse. He asked for $12,000. I told him I’m sorry about John’s condition, but I’m not giving him $12,000 and to not contact me again.”
It turns out that John, who is now 26, has cancer, and that’s why her dad asked her for the money.
A day after she spoke to her dad for the first time in years, Karen began calling and texting her to say she’s entitled and selfish.
One of her cousins also informed her that her dad and Karen went to every single one of her loved ones’ houses that evening to tell them that if they attend her wedding, they’re cut out of their lives.
Her cousins paid no mind to them, but her grandparents are incredibly stressed out over all of this.
“Some relatives think I should downgrade the wedding and give Dad some money so my grandparents can come without worries,” she said.
“Frankly speaking, I don’t even have half the money they ask for. Yes, the wedding cost around $16,000 but a lot of that money comes from my uncles given to me for this specific reason (emphasized by them), so I don’t think I should use it for something else.”
She’s left wondering if she should give some of her wedding money to her dad to use for Jonh’s treatment.
What do you think?
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