Woman Cuts Parents Off After They Attend Former Stepdaughter's Wedding Instead of Her Baby Shower
A woman says her parents and brother are opting to attend her mom's former stepdaughter's wedding rather than her baby shower
Now, the woman is debating whether or not to cut them off
Commenters on Reddit, however, say the woman is being "petty"A woman says she wants to cut off her parents and brother after they opted to attend a wedding rather than her baby shower.
In a post on Reddit, she explained that every year, "without fail," a girl named Ginger would join her and her family for a few weeks during the summer while growing up.
Although her mom insisted that Ginger was their "sister," the poster always knew "that was impossible." She later found out that Ginger, who is three years older than her, is actually the child of her mom's former husband, who died.
"When I was in middle school my mother finally explained who the girl, Ginger, really was," she writes. "Before she met my dad, she had married a man with a six month old daughter (yea you do the math—) and a year later he died of an aneurysm."
"She had grown 'so close' to his daughter that her and the mom agreed that even though her dead husband was gone she could still see Ginger every summer for three weeks," she adds.
When Ginger entered high school, she became more involved with their life, as her mom invited her over for visits and on vacation, which the poster says "was really annoying."
"Worse yet she decided to go to a university in our state, and my parents helped her and her mom move closer to us, so now it felt like Ginger was always around," she explains.
Fast forward to now, and Ginger is getting married — on the same date as the poster's baby shower.
"My mom told me I could reschedule it and that Ginger's wedding was booked a year and half ago (really nice venue which my parents paid for— we have money, money has never been a struggle for us)," she writes, "but if I reschedule it I risk having the baby before I'm able to have the party."
Now, the poster's family is calling her "selfish" and accusing her "of intentionally causing the conflict."
"All of them (my father, mother, and brother who for some reason have always loved this stranger) have refused to come to my party," she writes. "So I told them they finally had to pick between the two of us."
"My mom called me the devil, and my father told me he's ashamed at how I've come out," she adds. "I have no one on my side but I still do not feel like I am wrong. Ginger is not our family!!"
The poster notes that her baby will be her parents' first grandchild, and if they aren't willing to put her above Ginger, then she plans on cutting them off entirely.
"Ginger will have her whole family there but mine won't even make time for what's important to me," she adds.
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However, most Reddit users called the poster "jealous," and noted that she scheduled her baby shower on Ginger's wedding day, not the other way around.
"Weddings take a long time to plan and the venue was no doubt booked before you even got pregnant," one user wrote. "Why was your shower scheduled for the same day as the wedding?"
"You keep calling Ginger a 'stranger' but she's not one...You are obviously extremely jealous of her relationship with your mother. Go to therapy," another added.
In an update to the post, the woman revealed that she decided to go to therapy to address her "unresolved tensions regarding the subject of Ginger." She explained that she has "lived in a perpetual state of anxiety" ever since Ginger entered the picture, as it always "felt like a competition" between them.
With that, she also has "chosen for now to close my relationship with my mother and father. I realize that a lot of my anger and resentment for this person is misdirected when my real feelings at their core is toward my parent."
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