His Teen Daughter Flipped Out On Him When He Refused To Give Her A Car For Her 16th Birthday And Cut Her Off Financially
This 48-year-old man has a 15-year-old daughter named Lisa from his marriage to his first wife. He doesn’t have the best relationship with Lisa’s mom, and Lisa became a pawn in his ex-wife’s resentment of him.
So, that’s why he and Lisa also struggle to have a good relationship. While Lisa is a good girl, she can act as entitled and rude as her mom is, which he doesn’t love either.
Several years ago, he remarried, and Lisa chose not to come to his wedding. At the time, Lisa then said a ton of nasty things to his 38-year-old wife, Rosemary.
That obviously served to further strain his own relationship with Lisa. A year and a half back, he and Rosemary gave birth to their son, and Lisa didn’t take that well.
Lisa texted him that since he now has a perfect baby to deal with, he no longer needed to annoy her while trying to play happy family.
“It hurt me deeply, and I ended up distancing myself from her, though I kept sending her $100 a month as her allowance,” he explained.
Following those hurtful remarks, he and Lisa unexpectedly added to their family. Rosemary has a sister who is an awful mom, who terminated her custody rights to her 17-year-old son Blake.
He and Rosemary jumped to take Blake in so he wouldn’t be stuck in foster care. Sadly, Blake is permanently disabled from a terrible car crash that he was involved in.
“Luckily, he can somewhat walk and doesn’t need 24/7 assistance around the house, but that’s about it,” he said.
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“Blake is an amazing person, and he quickly became a part of our family. I decided to give the $100 allowance to Blake instead. He was beyond happy and grateful. I also made a hard decision and gave him my car.”
“It’s a ‘22 Cadillac Escalade, and I was planning on getting rid of it this year anyway since Lisa is turning 16 in a month, and I wanted to gift it to Lisa. Now it’s Blake’s car, and he absolutely loves it. He really needed a car because his mobility issues don’t let him get around easily anymore, and it changed his life massively.”
When it dawned on Lisa that her allowance had been cut off, she called him up, and that was the first time he had spoken to Lisa in at least a year.
He informed Lisa that since Blake joined the family, he doesn’t exactly have enough money left to give her an allowance now. He said he would still send the court-ordered child support payments to her mom, but Lisa wouldn’t be getting anything beyond that.
Lisa then questioned him about his car, as she was aware he was previously thinking of gifting it to her for her 16th birthday. He replied that things had changed, and she was no longer receiving his car.
What he said from there was somewhat rude; he said he has two kids to play family with and Lisa should stop bothering him. He was just throwing her own mean words back in her face.
“This caused her to blow up completely to the point she got her mom to call me and scream at me, and so did her new husband,” he continued.
“They threatened to sue me; Lisa said she’ll go no contact, and so on. I just brushed off the threats, especially since Rosemary is a lawyer, and I made my peace with poor contact with Lisa years ago.”
“They also managed to write a few mean things to Rosemary and Blake, and this is what got me wondering whether I was [a jerk] here.”
What do you think?
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