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Jul 19, 2025
#redditrelationship #aita #redditstories She Pretended to Love Us... But Her Reddit Posts Revealed the Truth | Reddit Unheard Stories I accidentally found my stepmom’s Reddit account… and what I read shattered my entire reality. From her deep hatred for me and my siblings to her cruelty toward my deaf sister, she documented it all — anonymously. For years, she pretended to care. But behind our backs, she was feeding lies and venom to strangers online. This is the most personal and painful story I’ve ever told. ⚠️ TW: Emotional abuse, toxic family dynamics, mental health, ableism 💬 Let me know in the comments if you’ve ever discovered a horrifying truth someone tried to hide… 🔔 Subscribe for more real-life horror stories. #FamilyDrama #RedditStories #StepmomHorror #TrueStory #ToxicFamily
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I was just on my computer, lost in the
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usual digital hum of the internet when I
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saw it. My stepmom, Sarah, had
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accidentally left her Reddit account
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logged in. My heart gave a curious
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little lurch, a mix of mild curiosity
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and a fleeting thought that I should
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probably just close it.
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But then the first thing my eyes landed
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on was her last post and my world
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shattered
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in vivid horrifying detail in a random
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Reddit sub I'd never heard of. She was
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dissecting me. She criticized my
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appearance, lied about me calling her
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names, and flat out stated in no
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uncertain terms that she hates me. I
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scrolled further, a sickening dread
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washing over me. It wasn't just me.
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She had posts about how happy she is
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when my siblings aren't at home. She had
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comments talking about how she can't
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wait for us to turn 18 and leave the
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house. There were countless comments
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stating that it's totally okay to not
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love your stepchildren because they're
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not family and that it's okay not to
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consider them one and the vitriol.
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She viciously attacked anyone in her
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comments who tried to even give us the
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benefit of the doubt, anyone who
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suggested she might try to connect with
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us. She declared she was tired of
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hearing the laughter of a teenager,
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referring to me and my brother, and
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couldn't wait until we all left the
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house so my father could be with his
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real family, and then the words that
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burned themselves into my brain, word
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for word. She would rather unal alive
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herself than act like she cares about
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us. But that wasn't the end.
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Oh no. The true depths of her malice
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were yet to be revealed. What she hated
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the most, she wrote, was having to learn
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sign language for my little sister,
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Lily.
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It had always seemed strange to me.
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Lily, who is deaf, is a bright,
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articulate kid. We've all learned ASL to
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communicate with her, and she's always
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so patient, so eager to teach. Yet,
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after years, Sarah still struggled.
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She'd constantly asked us to interpret
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or pretend she didn't understand. Lily,
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always so forgiving, always said that
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for many people, sign language is very
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difficult. So, I never said anything,
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never questioned Sarah's supposed
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struggles. But now I knew. She never
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truly put in the effort to learn because
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she always found it stupid to learn how
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to communicate with my sister.
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She found Lily's existence, her needs
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stupid.
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My sister, who tried day in and day out
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to help her, to connect with her, was
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met with this hidden contempt. I was
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utterly consumed by the sheer venomous
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hatred she expressed when my father
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spent time with me and my sister. Her
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jealousy towards us, her own
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stepchildren, was so palpable, so raw
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that it disgusted me. And it disgusted
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me even more that there were so many
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people in those forums who told her they
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felt the same way about their own
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stepchildren validating her cruelty. My
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siblings are not problem children. We're
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normal kids navigating life. We even,
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God help us, loved her very much. We
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tried. And what fills me with
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incandescent anger the most is how
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perfectly fake she is in front of us.
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Do you know the number of times I
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offered to babysit my half brother, her
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biological child, so she and my dad
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could go on a date? Have some alone
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time?
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All those times she refused, making
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excuses, saying she didn't want me to be
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bothered or that she had it covered. But
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now I saw comments where she
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conveniently omitted that, where she
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complained about me living at my
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father's house and not helping her at
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all. And then other strangers on the
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internet would respond, encouraging her,
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telling her she should give my father an
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ultimatum, to make me leave because I'm
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too old to live with him, and he has a
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new family. The irony choked me. I cook
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my own food, do my own laundry. I help
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my father pay the bills, something she,
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the stay-at-home mother, doesn't do.
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And normally I only come home on the
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weekends because I'm doing a police
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academy almost full week, a rigorous,
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demanding schedule.
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It was my father, my actual father, who
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told me to move back with him
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temporarily so that when I come back
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from the academy on Friday nights, it
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would be a shorter trip, less travel,
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more rest.
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And then there were the bizarre,
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unsettling comments about my
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interactions with my father.
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She claimed it was not normal for me to
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hug him very tight and that I should
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know my place.
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He is my father for crying out loud.
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What the hell is wrong with her? I'm so
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disgusted.
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I have the comments. I have the posts. I
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have even comments from years ago and I
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will use them. I don't care. Not
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anymore. I didn't go back to my father's
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house after leaving the academy. I told
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him I was staying at a friend's place
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for the weekend, but I actually went
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straight to my mom's house. And there,
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in the quiet safety of her home, I told
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her everything. She doesn't even know
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what Reddit is. That site isn't used too
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much here. But I sat there methodically,
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painstakingly,
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translating every vile comment and post
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for her, watching her face transform
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from confusion to disbelief, then to a
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simmering fury. I showed her the videos
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I had taken, the irrefutable proof. My
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mom was furious. I explained to her that
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in the comments, my stepmother also made
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complaints and posts about my mother,
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despite the fact that they have always
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had a cordial, if distant relationship.
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But Sarah, in her twisted narrative, was
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lying, saying that my mother was
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troublesome, a problematic BM, and the
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anonymity of the internet allowed her to
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vent this manufactured hatred. No one in
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the comments said anything to challenge
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her. Everyone supported her, validating
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her lies. They recommended that she
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should move far away with her legal
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family, far away from the problematic BM
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and kids. The sheer audacity of it, the
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level of calculated deceit was
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breathtaking. First, we told my brother
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Mark. He was also visibly upset, his
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face paling as I read some of the
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vitriol.
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He said that she was a fake, that he had
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seen her ignore Lily and pretend that
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she does not see or hear her a lot of
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times. He explained that like me, it
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also seemed strange to him that Sarah
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had not yet learned sign language. My
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siblings spent a lot of time at my
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father's house. Just like English or
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Spanish, sign language is much easier to
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learn if you live with someone who uses
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it everyday, immersing yourself in it.
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Therefore, it is profoundly strange that
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Sarah doesn't use it, hasn't absorbed
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it. He said that even my father has
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offered to pay for her classes, but she
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always says she doesn't have time.
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Another lie exposed. We asked him if he
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noticed any other behavior of that kind,
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any other subtle acts of sabotage.
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He said that Sarah doesn't let him take
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care of our younger brother, their
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biological child, which she also does
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with me. But curiously, she does let our
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sister Lily take care of him. That
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detail threw me. I don't understand that
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what twisted logic allows her to trust
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one but not the others. Other than that,
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he's never noticed her treating him
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badly or anything like that. Her hatred
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seemed to be focused on me and Lily.
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At the time of telling my sister Lily,
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she was the most hurt. She cried,
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especially because of Sarah's comments
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towards me, calling me a
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It's kind of ironic how the comments
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towards her affected me. And the
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comments towards me affected her. We
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were each other's unexpected protectors.
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Something that Lily noticed that I
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didn't. A heartbreaking insight.
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Almost all of Sarah's comments are
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criticizing me, my sister, and even my
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mother. But my brother,
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she has only criticized sleepovers or
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when he comes back late from being with
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his friends.
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The insidious nature of her hatred, the
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specific targets became clearer. Lily
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said she always believed Sarah didn't
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really hear her, and she maybe wasn't
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speaking well or didn't understand her.
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I think that's the shittiest thing of
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all. My sister's greatest pride is being
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able to communicate, to pronounce some
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words, no matter how short they are or
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if they sound different to some people.
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We, her family, understand her. But
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Sarah made her feel insecure every
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single time she ignored her. I know that
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my sister always justified that by
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believing that it was her mistake, that
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she wasn't speaking clearly enough, and
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that Sarah made an effort to learn, but
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it was simply more difficult for her.
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But now we know that no, Sarah was never
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interested in learning. She just never
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cared enough to try. My mother, her eyes
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blazing with a protective maternal fury,
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said she was going to talk to both of
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them, mainly because even though it's an
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anonymous site, Sarah's way of
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expressing herself is sick, and she's
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not going to let my siblings be around
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someone like that. We arranged that
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we're going to tell our father all
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together and show him everything.
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So, we're probably going to tell him
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tomorrow because I need to leave for the
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academy on Monday.
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My stepmom's Reddit account is not
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deleted. It's crazy how she makes things
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up, conjures entire false narratives to
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get approval from strangers. At this
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point, I don't even know if she's crazy
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or a mythomaniac, pathologically unable
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to tell the truth. I would like to go
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back to her email since the password is
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saved, but I don't know if she will
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receive a notification of that because
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this time I close the account.
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I need to be careful. We talked to my
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father over the weekend. For now, he is
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staying at my mother's house.
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It is a complicated situation made even
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more so by the fact that my half
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sibling, Sarah's biological child, is in
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the middle of everything. An innocent
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caught in the crossfire. During the
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weekend, I went to my father's house.
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The first thing I did was tell my
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stepmom separately that I'd seen her
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Reddit account and I was going to talk
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about it with my dad. She scoffed, her
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voice laced with indignation.
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She told me that I can't condemn her for
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something she uses as an intimate diary.
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But I told her, my voice shaking with
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righteous anger, that this is not a
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diary. It is a social network where she
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makes her problems and lies public. If
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someone other than me had discovered her
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account, then what was going to happen?
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Were they going to believe all the
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things she invented?
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If her identity was revealed on that
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account by someone else, I would have
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too many problems. my own reputation
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tainted by her lies and could even be
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kicked out of the academy. There's a big
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difference between saying I'm stressed
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and my stepdaughters behave like
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assaults around their father. I simply
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told her that my mother and sister also
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know it and would come to talk about it
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too.
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She for obvious reasons just went to
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lock herself in her room, not wanting to
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talk with me. Her carefully constructed
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facade was crumbling. Once we talked to
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my father, I showed him most of the
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posts and comments. There were so many
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so many crazy comments that I think it
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would take me too long to read them all
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because they were just so long, too.
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She's that kind of person who comments
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the bio of their lives in the posts of
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other people, seeking endless validation
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for her manufactured victimhood.
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My father, a kind, trusting man, got
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angry. a slow, simmering rage that was
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terrifying to witness. Sarah had never
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expressed having a single problem with
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us like that to him. The situation would
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be different if we knew what she truly
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thinks about us if she had been honest.
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But she cultivated this secret garden of
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hatred. My father went to look for
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Sarah, who refused to talk about it and
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was mostly angry with me for violating
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her privacy.
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My father told her that she's insane for
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thinking that my sister and I provoked
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him.
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He couldn't believe the way she talked
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about my sister, the cold, calculating
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words, and the twisted happiness she
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expressed every time Lily went to the
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hospital and was not home. How she
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expressed to be counting the days until
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my sister stops going to the house
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forever. My father, his voice raw with
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pain and anger, told her that she knew
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that he is a father and that he would
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never leave us aside, never abandon his
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children.
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She made her decision to marry him
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knowing he had kids. And even so,
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instead of talking about her problems,
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she decided to create an anonymous
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account to play at being a victim.
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She whed that she needs a place to vent.
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But he told her that venting is not the
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same as telling lies. Venting is not the
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same as hating your stepdaughters and
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talking horrible things about them. She
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could have spoken about it, he pleaded,
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talk to him. but instead she chose to
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lie, to fester in her own toxic
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resentment. They argued a lot, a
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furious, agonizing battle of wills. But
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it didn't get anywhere because she kept
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defending herself, refusing to
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acknowledge the depth of her cruelty. My
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father only told her that it was over.
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The marriage, the trust, the future. My
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mother told my father firmly that she is
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not going to let my sister and brother
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be around a woman who is clearly
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mentally unstable because no normal
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person thinks like that. No normal
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person harbors such deep hidden
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animosity for innocent children. After
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arguing too much and even trying to make
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Sarah understand that what she did is
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wrong. She justified herself all the
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time, completely devoid of empathy or
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remorse. My father went with us, his
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head bowed, his shoulders heavy with a
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new devastating truth.
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He told her that he is going to come
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back just to see my brother everyday to
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ensure his son is cared for, but that he
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no longer trusts her. He never saw that
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side of her, the darkness lurking
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beneath the surface. She lied for so
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many years. Nothing really went as I
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expected because I expected her to be
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more mature, to at least have a moment
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of self-reflection.
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I think I at least hoped that she could
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apologize, express some remorse, but I
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think she doesn't even think that what
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she did is wrong.
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In her mind, everything was totally
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justified because being a stepmother is
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difficult, but nothing, absolutely
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nothing, justifies her being so cruel
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and poisonous.
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But yeah, that's what happened. I think
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it's deeply hurtful to know that someone
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can hide that much darkness inside. I
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wasn't too close with her, but I liked
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her to the point of sharing my clothes
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with her. So, I also feel sad about it,
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mostly for my dad. He has lost the woman
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he loved to her own bitterness and
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deceit.
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Am I the a-hole for tricking my parents
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into being on time for my wedding? My
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parents are late for everything, and I
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mean everything. Both of my sisters and
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myself have been disappointed so many
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times. graduation ceremonies, birthday
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parties, even my father's retirement
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dinner. It is completely my mother's
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fault.
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She is a wonderful mother and I love her
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dearly. She just does not understand the
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concept of punctuality.
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I have seen her talking to her sister on
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the phone and reminded her she needed to
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be at my baby sister's dance recital.
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She waved me off, dismissing my concern,
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and arrived after my sister had already
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danced, missing the entire performance.
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We are all used to it by now. My dad is
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just done trying to get her to be on
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time for anything. My now wife, bless
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her practical heart, told me in no
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uncertain terms that if my mother was
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late for our wedding, she would do
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terrible things to me. She was only half
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joking. But she was a witness to my mom
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and dad arriving halfway through my
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cousin's quincera, a sacred family
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event. So here is what I did. It is
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completely on me. My wife was not
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involved, though she appreciated the
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results.
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When we were getting samples for the
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wedding invitations, I talked to the
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printer and had one special invitation
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printed with the time on it, stated as
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being 1 hour earlier than the actual
16:44
start time of the ceremony. My mother
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was beside herself apparently when they
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left the house, convinced they were
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going to miss the wedding. She was a
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crucial part of the ceremony with her
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and my mother-in-law lighting the
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candles we would use to light the unity
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candle and all that symbolic stuff. When
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she arrived and noticed other people
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were also just arriving and parking, her
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shoulders sagged with relief. She was so
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relieved that we were starting late that
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she just went with it, ecstatic she
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hadn't missed anything. The ceremony
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went off beautifully and so did the
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wedding pictures and the reception. It
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was perfect. The problem came last
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Sunday. My parents came over for a big
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family dinner and we collectively didn't
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bother starting the grill until they
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showed up. My mom, ever oblivious, asked
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why everyone wasn't eating. We just said
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with a collective shrug and a knowing
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glance that we knew we would be waiting
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for them since they are always late.
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She indignant said that she was not
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always late and had been on time for my
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wedding. She hadn't been. They arrived
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45 minutes after the time on their
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actual invitation. My idiot cousin John,
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real name, because it's common and he
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deserves people to know he's an adult
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who can't keep a secret, snorted at her
18:01
statement. A few other people giggled or
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smiled at this, and she, ever sensitive
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to being the butt of a joke, picked up
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on it and asked what was so funny. I
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came clean. I told her about the special
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invitation, the elaborate ruse to get
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her there on time.
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She has been ticked at me ever since for
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not trusting her and making her look
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foolish in front of everyone.
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If my cousin had just controlled
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himself, she never would have known, and
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the secret would have gone to the grave
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with me. But sometimes justice and a
18:33
good laugh are worth the temporary
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