She’s Not Attending Her Dad’s Wedding After She Overheard His Fiancée Saying Her Dad Would Be Better Off Without Her And Her Brother
This 26-year-old woman’s father is supposed to marry his fiancée Lily, who’s 40, in just one month, but she hasn’t exactly been thrilled about their engagement.
She has really tried to form a relationship with her soon-to-be stepmom, at least for the sake of her dad, but she always felt like something was off with Lily.
She could never put her finger on it, yet the way Lily interacted with her and her younger brother Thomas, who’s 23, simply felt fake. To her, it seemed as though Lily was putting on an “act.”
Then, a few weeks ago, her gut instinct was confirmed while she was over at her dad’s house for a family dinner. Everything started off okay, but by the middle of the meal, her dad stepped out for a phone call.
This left just her and Lily in the house, and Lily began talking on the phone as well. So, while she was in the other room, she overheard her dad’s fiancée completely trash-talking both her and her brother Thomas.
“I wasn’t eavesdropping, I swear. I just happened to hear it,” she explained.
“Lily was saying things like, ‘I don’t get why he still wastes time on them. They’re both adults now. He needs to cut them loose and stop babying them. They’re just in the way.'”
However, the real cherry on top was when her dad’s fiancée suggested her dad would be “better off” without her or Thomas in his life!
That understandably made her livid, and she honestly didn’t know what to do at the time – which is why she didn’t confront Lily. Rather, she waited until her dad came back inside and spilled the beans about what she’d heard.
Olena Tkachenko – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
To her surprise, her dad didn’t take her side and actually tried to justify his fiancée’s remarks. He wrote off the statements, saying he was “sure” Lily didn’t mean them like that, and accused her of taking the comments too seriously.
Plus, her dad said that his fiancée was only stressed out with their wedding right around the corner.
“He kept downplaying it like I was overreacting and making a big deal out of nothing,” she revealed.
And now, with the wedding only a few weeks away, she doesn’t even want to attend anymore. She hasn’t been able to speak to Lily since the family dinner, and her dad has been behaving as if nothing is wrong.
She expressed how disrespected and hurt she felt, and he genuinely believed she should let it go in order to support him.
“But honestly? I don’t feel like being part of a family where I’m seen as a burden, especially when the person my dad’s marrying doesn’t even like me or my brother,” she vented.
That’s why she told her dad she was considering skipping his nuptials, and he has not stopped guilt-tripping her. He thinks she’s acting selfish and trying to ruin his big day over “one little comment.”
Nonetheless, she’s not interested in sitting at the ceremony and pretending like everything is fine, and she doesn’t know if that makes her a jerk or not.
Does she have valid reasons for missing the event? Should her dad understand that? What advice would you give her?
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