Her Mom Called Her Cruel When She Declined To Pay For Her Stepsister’s Medical Bills
This woman’s parents had her when they were 16-years-old and still high school students.
When she was born, her father left school so that he could work full-time hours to help support her and her biological mother, and her mother stayed enrolled in school.
Once her mother graduated, she came to the decision that she no longer wanted to be a parent, and she walked out of their lives.
“I was 2, so I don’t really remember her being around. After that, my father worked three times as hard to provide for me. He also met a nice woman whom he later married when I was 7. I consider her my mom,” she said.
Throughout most of her life, after her biological mother left, she didn’t hear from her. Her mother didn’t support her monetarily or reach out often. The last time her mother contacted her was when she sent her a birthday card in the mail when she turned 3-years-old.
She never had hard feelings for her mother choosing to leave because she had so much support from her father, stepmother, and half-brother. In her eyes, they helped fill the void that she had from the absence of her biological mother. Her father and stepmother never spoke ill of her mother, either.
“Her leaving was not something I thought about every day, so you can imagine my confusion when she reached out on social media to talk. I thought about it for days before I agreed. We met in a restaurant for the first time in 25 years. It was awkward small talk at the beginning before we delved into why she left. My biological mother teared up while explaining why,” she explained.
Through her tears, her mother told her that she’d been going through intense postpartum depression. She felt stuck in her life, and so she didn’t know what else to do besides leave. She reassured her that it had nothing to do with her.
She empathized with her mother’s struggles because her stepmother dealt with postpartum depression as well after she had her half-brother, and it was awful for her stepmother to go through as well.
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After seeing her mother on a couple of other occasions, her mother asked her if she wanted to meet her new family, and she accepted the invitation.
Her mother was married, and they had three children. They had two daughters, 13 and 7, and an 11-year-old son.
Once she met her mother’s new family, she got together with them a few more times. However, the most recent time she hung out with them didn’t go so smoothly.
“My mother looked distressed while greeting me, so I asked if anything happened. She then explained to me in a quick response that her oldest daughter has health issues (I won’t say what due to how sensitive it is). She explained she needs $25,000 for medication and has accumulated medical bills of $20,000. She asked if I could pay it off,” she shared.
She graduated with a postgraduate degree and got her “dream job” at an amazing company with an impressive salary.
Reflecting on the situation, she assumed that her mother must have found out where she worked and schemed to take advantage of her for her money.
Then, her mother told her she could think it over before making a decision on whether or not she wanted to help her pay off her daughter’s medical bills.
But she didn’t need too much time to think before shutting her mother down. Understandably, she felt “used” and “exploited” by her own mother.
It was devastating to realize that her mother didn’t truly want to meet her–she had ulterior motives. She also acknowledged the irony of how “she just wanted money from the child she left to help the other child that she loves.”
When she rejected her mother’s request for money, she told her that she felt uncomfortable with the idea.
Then, her mother’s husband texted her horrible things about how she was a “nasty piece of work.” After that, her mother texted her and called her “cruel” and said that she wasn’t helping her stepsister out of spite and because she was supposedly holding a “grudge.”
It got even worse when other members of her family texted her to ask why she was being so stubborn.
Do you think she was right to reject her biological mother’s request for money?
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