This thirty-five-year-old woman and her husband have three children, who are four months old, two years old, and four years old.
But, she also has a thirteen-year-old stepdaughter who spends every other weekend at her house.
Her stepdaughter and her husband always cherished this time since it was pretty much the only time they ever really spent together.
After recently welcoming their newest baby into the world, though, her stepdaughter’s visits have fallen to the wayside.
Apparently, her baby has been super fussy from the start. And after taking her to the doctor, the baby was found to be colicky.
“She cries all night long, and the past few months have been a nightmare,” she said.
So, the couple has been forced to work all day and get virtually no sleep at night while they tend to their baby.
And unfortunately, this has meant that she and her husband have been canceling her stepdaughter’s weekend visits in order to catch up on sleep.
Her stepdaughter was apparently really upset by this, though, because she decided to put her and her father on blast on social media.
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“She said, ‘My dad and stepmom cannot even take care of the kids they have. Yet, they keep having more. So much for a reliable, loving parent,'” she recalled.
Then, after her stepdaughter posted that, a bunch of her family members began commenting and asking what was wrong. And the stepdaughter said she and her husband kept canceling on “her” time.
But, she does not believe it is just her stepdaughter’s time at all. Instead, she feels it is also her husband’s time with his daughter– and that he has been sacrificing, too.
“It has been a very difficult situation for both of us,” she said.
Nonetheless, her in-laws are now claiming that she and her husband are total jerks after seeing the social media post.
They have even stopped helping her care for her younger children in response.
And now, she and her husband may lose their relationship with the stepdaughter altogether.
It all started when her husband tried to get in touch with his daughter. But, her stepdaughter would not answer the phone.
Plus, when he went to visit his daughter in person, his daughter saw him through the window and refused to open the front door.
Afterward, her husband decided to call his ex-wife and talk over the situation. But, his ex-wife explained that his daughter now wants to go back to court and fight to have his visitation rights taken away.
In turn, all of this has pushed her and her husband to wonder if canceling a few visits to catch up on some sleep was the seriously wrong thing to do.
Do you think her stepdaughter has a point? If you were in her shoes, how would you try to reconcile this situation?
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