While divorce can help parents get along better, it can also put a lot of stress on the kids and make them grow up too quickly. Kids still have their mom and dad even after their parents split up. But when a new family member comes along, things change in a big way.

A girl told her story and asked if what she did was the right thing to do.

“When my siblings and I were in middle school or high school, my parents split up.” We are now 20 years old. Dad got married two years after the divorce. He married his wife in just six months because she was going to move back to her home state and he didn’t want to be apart from her.

When he told us they had run away together in Vegas, we didn’t really know her. That being said, she thought we were all very close and was very upset when we didn’t react much to their news.

She became envious of my mom after this. She was envious of how close we were to our mom. She then got angry that we got along so well with our mom’s partner (and still do), even though mom and him never got married.

“My dad’s wife started dressing up so fancy for school events and football games that we were going to.” It looked like she was going to a wedding or a red carpet event. She would look right at my mom and say mean things about dressing up to support “her kids.”

She would throw us big birthday parties with family from both sides of the family and try to dress us (the birthday kid and her) in clothes that matched. She got irritated every time we didn’t want to dress like her. My sister and her mom wore matching necklaces when they turned 16. When my dad’s wife went home to change, she wore the same color dress as my sister.

Because her mom isn’t married again, she talks as if mom is less important than her. She brags about having a ring on her finger and having the same last name as the kids and me. Nothing important. Just small things. We put up with her, but we don’t like her. If we could cut her out of our lives without losing our dad, we would.

“Both my brother (the twin) and I are getting married.” No fittings, tastings, viewings, etc. have been held for my dad’s wife by my fiancé and I or by my brother and his fiancée. But my mom was invited to things on both sides, which made my dad’s wife very angry.

She first asked my brother if he was invited to something. He said no, just no, nothing else. She kept asking him about it for a while before she moved on to me. She cried over it and said she didn’t understand why she wasn’t invited to the pre-wedding events.

I told her she wasn’t invited because her fight with my mom is so weak and none of us want to deal with it. That was a mean thing to say, and she’s worked hard her whole life to be our mom. But we treat her partner, who isn’t even our stepdad, like he’s more important than her. As she spoke, she was crying even more.

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