Her Sister Said Her Daughter Wasn’t “That Special” After She Started Bragging About Her Daughter’s Academic Achievements
This woman’s 16-year-old daughter is incredibly intelligent and ambitious. Right now, her daughter is enrolled in all the AP classes that her high school has available. Her daughter’s course schedule also includes computer science, economics, and social studies as electives.
Since her husband is a lawyer, this inspired their daughter to enroll in a law self-study elective course. To complete her daughter’s packed school year, she also takes two other languages (Italian and Russian) alongside a required English class.
In the country they live in, English is a second language for citizens and a requirement for students to learn.
“Obviously, I’m very proud of her for doing all of this, and I talk about it A LOT,” she said.
No one has ever expressed frustration with how much she gushes about her daughter’s academic success until she attended a family dinner a while ago. During the dinner, she was letting her mother know that her daughter had just earned an A+ in her AP math class, and her sister lost it.
“My sister snapped at me to shut up about my daughter already and that she’s not that special. I was shocked because my sister was always one of my daughter’s biggest supporters,” she explained.
Prior to this incident, her sister has never badmouthed her daughter. After her sister’s outburst, their mother attempted to get her sister to relax. However, her sister was so angry that she was red in the face.
“She scolded me for bragging about my daughter’s accomplishments when I know how her daughter was just kicked out (her words) from AP math because of a few too many bad grades. I didn’t know about it. She never told me, but she obviously told my mom since she was on her side,” she shared.
Then, she told her sister she was sorry for her behavior since her hope was to resolve the conflict. Unfortunately, though, her apology didn’t help matters too much because her sister continued to criticize her.
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She thinks it must have been clear that she was a bit baffled by her sister’s intense reaction to her talking about how wonderful her daughter was doing in school.
Not long after this, her husband said that the two of them were going to head out, and she and her husband went home.
Since then, a ton of her family members have been texting her to shame her for supposedly “insulting” her sister’s daughter. These messages baffled her even more, but no one was willing to hear her out.
Now, she feels guilty that she hurt her sister so much, and she’s wondering if she should have a discussion with her sister and tell her once again that she’s sorry.
What advice would you give her?
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