His Dad’s Wife Flipped Out When He Told Her She Can’t Do A Mother-Son Dance With Him At His Wedding

This 26-year-old man’s parents are no longer together, but they were when he was growing up. Actually, his dad is his biological parent, and his mom is not.
His mom met his dad when he was an infant, and his mom officially adopted him when he turned 18-months-old.
“The woman who gave birth to me didn’t want me, and Dad was alone with me until he met Mom,” he explained.
“I never had a relationship with my birth giver and I never considered her my mother or one of my moms. I have one mom, and she’s all I ever needed in a mom.”
“My dad met his wife when I was 6, she moved in with him when I was 7, and they got married when I was 8. I never liked her. She tried to be close to me but she did so by also being dismissive of my mom. She made it sound like I should discard Mom and let her (Dad’s wife) be my new mom since neither was bio-related to me.”
His dad’s wife would say to him that kids need both of their parents to be in a relationship, and there was no way he could be that attached to his mom since she never gave birth to him.
Due to that, he always kept his distance from his dad’s wife. He tried his best to be polite, but he never formed a bond with her or considered her to be a member of his family.
He simply put up with her, but that was it. This woman is not a mom to him in the least, and if his dad were to pass away or get divorced from her, he would happily cut her right out of his life.
“I have never hid the fact I feel this way either,” he said. “I have also called her out before for minimizing my mom’s role in my life.”

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“As an adult, I don’t see her very often, which works great for me. But now I’m getting married and she decided she’s going to try and be one of the “moms of the groom.” I told her it wasn’t happening, and then she flipped when she found out my mom and I were doing a mother/son dance.”
“She insisted I needed to dance with the two moms who would be at my wedding. I told her I was dancing with my only mom.”
His dad’s wife responded that she should be treated the same as his mom, but he pointed out that she isn’t his mom and never has been.
He added that the way she feels about his mom is exactly why he has never felt the need to treat her like a mom to him.
Finally, he said to his dad’s wife that she never earned a spot in his life like that and she needs to get over herself because there will be no dance.
“It seems this is the first time she realized I don’t love or care about her at all,” he concluded. “And she cried to my dad. Both of them think I was cruel and needlessly harsh when all she ever did was try to love me.”
He’s left wondering if it’s wrong of him to exclude his dad’s wife from his wedding. What do you think?
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