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Woman Declines Stepdaughter's Request to Have Family Heirloom, but the Teen ‘Already Considers It Hers'
A woman is at odds with her 16-year-old stepdaughter after the teen asked for a family heirloom
The woman's grandmother left her a pretty, but "not super expensive," bracelet when she died
The teen has set her sights on the prized piece of jewelry — and refuses to back downA woman who has been saving her grandmother's bracelet says her stepdaughter is now asking for it — and won't take "no" for an answer.
"My grandmother left me a bracelet when she passed. It's not super expensive, but it has a lot of sentimental value to me. I wore it at my wedding, and I've kept it safe ever since," the woman writes in a since-deleted post on Reddit.
When her 16-year-old stepdaughter saw it in her jewelry box a couple of years ago, the teen mentioned how "pretty" she thought it was.
"I told her it belonged to my grandma, and she asked if she could have it when she turns 18. I kind of laughed it off and said, 'We'll see.' That was months ago," the poster writes.
Cut to last week, and the teen brought it up again — "but this time, she told me she already considers it hers," the woman writes.
"I told her I never said I would give it to her, and it was important to me," the mom explains. "She got upset and said I should want to pass it down to her because she's 'basically my daughter.' "
When the woman reiterated that she didn't want to give it away due to its sentimental significance, the teen "stormed off." She then went and told her dad — the poster's husband — that she was being treated like she "wasn't family."
"Now he's on her side too," the woman writes. "He says it wouldn't hurt me to let her have it and that it would mean a lot to her. I told him it means a lot to ME, and I don't understand why she feels entitled to it."
Now, both her husband and stepdaughter are giving her "the cold shoulder," and she feels like she is "going crazy."
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While the father-daughter duo were on the same side, most comments were in support of the woman.
"This is a family memento. And the first thing you have to do now is hide it, because they will try and steal it from you," wrote one commenter.
"You're not treating her like she's not family you're just protecting something that's important to you," another added.
"Why would you give it to her when she turns 18?" a third person asked. "Wouldn't you wait, and leave it to her when you die, just like your grandmother did?"
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