Since losing a parent is among life’s most excruciating experiences, this elder sister decided to take matters into her own hands after learning that her younger sibling was receiving unfair treatment from their widower dad’s new wife.
The sister used Reddit as a platform to describe the horrific event, which was chaotic from beginning to end.
Find out how it all worked out by reading on!
She revealed that their mother had tragically died three years prior, and that she was the older of two sisters. But according to the sister, their bereaved father moved on quite fast and got married again six months after his wife passed away.
The ancestral mansion of their late mother, bequeathed to her eldest daughter in her will, was entered into by their father and his new spouse. The 16-year-old younger sister was left in a holiday house. The situation was made worse by the new wife removing all of the mother’s photos and putting them in the younger sister’s room.
The drama begins.
The 16-year-old girl was informed that the new wife was expecting a child as she was having a hard time adjusting to the death of her mother and her father’s quick marriage. Besides this, she was also carrying twins.
The younger sister, who was still processing the loss of her mother and now had to consider welcoming two more children into the family, was devastated by this news.
The 16-year-old made the decision to throw a Sweet 16th birthday party at their house while her father and his new bride were gone in the middle of all of these difficulties. The teen’s father and stepmother ended up returning early from their trip, but the celebration went on well into the following morning. They were also not content.
The father was upset at finding a bunch of inebriated kids lying about the house when he returned home, even though he was informed of the party. This led to a furious altercation between the 16-year-old and the pregnant wife, which intensified into a yelling contest.
The younger daughter was transferred to live with her aunt when the new wife ejected her from the household as things continued to become worse. She even went so far as to call the teenager a burden to her father, comparing her to her deceased mother.
The elder sister intervenes.
The elder sister was horrified to learn what had transpired. “When I learned about it, I was incensed. The following day, I arrived home,” she stated in the Reddit post. She decided to kick her father and his new wife out of the house as she was the rightful owner. The woman was seven months along with her twins at the time.
The stepmother was given a week to leave the house, but she didn’t know it belonged to her daughter. The elder sister was aware that it was not the best idea to kick a pregnant lady out of her house, but she felt powerless to do otherwise, especially since she thought her father ought to have helped her younger sister, who had been depressed since her mother’s death.
The elder sister was demonized by her father in spite of her deeds and good intentions. He called her an ungrateful brat and even made a threat to go against her mother’s wishes. But the elder sister was ready for this; she had hired a family attorney.
A large number of Reddit users backed the older sister. They thought the stepmother was trying to find a method to get rid of the 16-year-old so she and her husband could have a family on their own.
Someone expressed their satisfaction at learning that the stepmother was ignorant of the older daughter’s ownership of the house.
Others stated that the father ought to have defended his daughter when his new wife made some hurtful comments about his late wife and that he should never have allowed the matter to get to that point.
It was widely believed that the newlywed husband and his widowed wife should not associate with the two sisters, and that they deserved each other.
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