Things can sometimes go off the rails when you’re planning a wedding.
And if you’ve been there, you know exactly what I’m talking about.
And that brings us to today’s story from Reddit’s “Am I the A**hole?” page.
Read this woman’s post and see if you think she’s out of line.
AITA for excluding my stepmom from helping plan my wedding?
“My stepmom has been married to my dad since I was 7. She was the other woman in my parents marriage and she was also supposed to be my mom’s best friend.
I didn’t know her very well pre-affair reveal. She lived in another city and apparently most of my life and all of my sister’s life she and our dad had been sleeping together. This is not something I was aware of as a kid.
My sister and I knew we didn’t have parents who got along after the divorce, we could sense the tension, once or twice we had an idea mom h**ed our stepmom, but she never said or did anything directly in front of us. The vibe was just there. It did not stop us loving our stepmom.
We found out what happened when we were 17 and 19. We felt so bad for our mom but our stepmom had always been good to us, and dad was good to us, so we tried not to let it change things.
After my fiance and I announced our engagement on social media my stepmom wrote a post about how she dreamed of this day when I was born, how she had been so excited to watch her very first baby grow up and get married, how she and dad had talked about it before I could walk.
She tagged my dad, but she also tagged some friends who knew her back then who were also friends with my mom. The post was distasteful and honestly was exposing that she had always planned to have the affair. It did change how I felt. I told her to take it down and apologize, she told me she did not regret the post and why wasn’t I happy she loved me that much.
I accused her of trying to rub it into my mom’s face that she had stabbed her in the back and won the love of my sister and me after betraying her with our dad like she did. She told me it was 20 years ago and mom should be over it.
I decided not to include her in any wedding planning. She is a wedding planner as a profession and I know she would want to, but I am not happy with her post. Mom was so happy when I told her. But when my stepmom wanted to know when she’d be dress shopping with me and what I wanted her help with, I told her I did not want her involved in any wedding planning.
She and my dad are saying I am overreacting and should not be treating her this way when she has been a d**n good parent to me.
AITA?”
Take a look at how Reddit users reacted.
One reader said she’s NTA and that her stepmom sounds very DENSE.
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Another individual said she’s NTA and she did the right thing.
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And this individual said the stepmom is calculating and both her and her and dad are disgusting and awful.
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Now it’s your turn.
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