A teenage girl told her father how he let her down by choosing her “new” family over her. Now his mother-in-law thinks she was “too hard on him.” » Twisted sieve

You can't handle the truth!

I can totally imagine the young man who wrote this story saying this to his father… or at least THINKS of telling him.

Was he too hard on his old man?

Let's see what's going on here…

“My dad and I (17F) started therapy 3 weeks ago and last week in our third session I explained bluntly that I felt like my dad had failed me and had let me down by prioritizing marriage and his own happiness.

It wasn't the first time I tried to talk openly to my father about it, but it was the first time he said he seemed willing to listen and the first time he took it seriously. harm this was causing to our relationship.

There's a story…

Let me explain.

My mother died when I was just a baby and my father was a single father until I was 4 years old.

That’s when he met my mother-in-law/his wife Sharon. Sharon was a divorced mother with a 9-year-old son and an 8-year-old daughter.

They got married when I was 5 years old. Sharon's children/my half-siblings never liked me.

When my father and Sharon first got married, I considered them my brothers and sisters and loved them completely. But they were really mean to me.

They said they didn't like me, that everyone didn't like me, that I should leave, they encouraged me to run away because no one would miss me.

They said I would never be their sister or their family and I was weird calling them my siblings.

Sharon noticed more than my father.

But I used to tell my dad and when things were bad I would ask if we could leave. But he was trying to reassure me but he was very dismissive about how much it hurt me.

He told me we couldn't leave because Sharon was his wife and we were all family now and you can't leave a family.

Sharon only said something when her children made me cry.

I have two half-siblings from my father and Sharon.

I was so excited when they were born and bonded with them and loved helping them and playing with them.

Here we go again…

But then my half-siblings decided to use them against me. They were older and Sharon let them do more.

Eventually, they told our half-siblings that if they wanted to do cool things with them, they had to say no to playing with me and rejecting me became the normal thing.

My younger siblings repeated much of what my half-siblings told me.

This continued even after my half-siblings left, as they would take our younger siblings or visit them and bring gifts.

With each passing year, I withdrew and stopped trying.

I don't try to do anything with my younger siblings, I don't spend time with Dad like I used to and I'm focused on moving.

He decided to let it all out.

My dad started noticing it late last year and he sent me to a therapist and then decided family therapy was necessary for both of us.

That’s when last week happened.

My dad looked really shocked at first and apologized. After we got home, Sharon asked me why I had to be so hard on my dad.

My father and Sharon discussed it.

I spent the rest of last week trying to be alone with my thoughts. Our next session will be tomorrow.

Sharon apologized for saying what she did, but reiterated that she felt like I handled it poorly.

My dad has tried to talk to me since the appointment but I don't know how to talk to him anymore without our therapist.

AITA?

Now look what people have to say about it.

One person said she was NTA.

Another Reddit user spoke up.

This person had a lot to say.

This person also thinks they are NTA.

And this reader said his father was to blame.

It's honestly heartbreaking.

I hope they can find some peace one day.

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