Her Dad Only Ever Orders Takeout When She’s At Her Mom’s House, And It’s Making Her Feel Left Out And Like Her Dad Favors Her Half-Brothers
This 15-year-old girl’s parents are divorced.
She alternates which of her parents she stays with each week.
Her father had two other children with another woman, and her half-brothers are 10 and 9 years old.
Over the last two months, her father ordered delivery on seven different occasions.
They share a delivery app account, so she can see his past orders, and she receives a notification whenever he orders food.
Also, she wonders if he’s also picked up food or gone out to eat a few times with her half-brothers or if he’s ordered food from another app or through restaurants directly.
“Not a single one of these seven orders has been during my week at his house. In the last year, he’s ordered similarly high amounts of food, but I’ve had it at his once. He says that it’s just a coincidence. When I’ve asked him if we could have something ordered or eat out during my week at his, he just tells me that I’m free to make something from what’s in the fridge and to stop acting like he’s made of money,” she said.
While her father and stepmother aren’t wealthy, their salaries are quite a bit higher than the average in the area they live in.
Her mother never orders food, is a big fan of eating healthy, and makes her meals for her when she stays at her house.
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At her father’s house, she cooks her breakfast and lunch. She and her stepmother switch off each night with making dinner for the family.
“I’m not bothered about not eating takeout with my mom, so I guess my biggest issue with it at my dad’s is feeling left out rather than the food itself,” she explained.
This past Friday, she arrived at her father’s house, and when she went to throw something away, she saw a fast-food bag in the garbage can.
Since she’s been feeling hurt by her father only ordering food when she’s not around for months, this sent her over the edge.
Once more, she questioned him about why he only ordered delivery when she was at her mother’s.
Unfortunately, this started an argument between the two of them.
“I ended up implying that he favored my half-brothers and asked why he even bothered with having me at his house when he clearly didn’t want me there,” she shared.
In hindsight, she thinks she was out of line for saying that.
After the fight, her father hasn’t said a word to her.
She’s concerned that she’s being spoiled by feeling hurt in response to her father ordering food only with her half-brothers.
Also, she clarified that she’s a great cook, and the fridge at her father’s house always has a lot of options, so it’s not as if there isn’t enough food around for her to make something.
She acknowledged that it would add up if her father was ordering food for five people instead of just four.
When she is staying at her mother’s house, her stepmother makes all the meals that week, so it makes sense that her stepmother occasionally wants a break from cooking.
She regrets arguing with her father and telling him that he favored her half-brothers.
Now, she doesn’t know if she is wrong for being so upset about the ongoing situation. She wasn’t sure if it was something small that she was blowing out of proportion.
At the same time, she feels like she had the right to feel left out, and part of her felt better after screaming at her father and telling him exactly how she was feeling.
What would you have done if you were in her shoes?
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