'She helped Leah hide Jessica's passport': Stepfather cancels family vacation after his stepkids try to trick his daughter

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    Font - PASSPORT 'Jessica found out that she didn't have her passport'
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    AITA for cancelling the entire vacation when I found out that my stepdaughters deliberately hid my daughter's passport to get her to stay home? Not the A-he I've been married to my wife Beth for 5 years. I have a bio daughter named Jessica (she's 18). And I also have two stepdaughters named Monica and Leah. They're 25 & 28. Both are single moms and live with us currently.
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    Font - there's been issues about my stepdaughters asking my daughter to babysit the kids. Jessica didn't have a problem with it at first since this is what she does to earn money but since her stepsisters don't pay her much, she'd just refuse to babysit. We worked this out by having my wife take care of paying for the babysitting.
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    Font - I planned a family vacation for 3 days and everyone wanted to go. However, Both Monica & Leah suggested that Jessica stay home and watch the kids since Beth doesn't want her grandkids to come. They said it's because the kids are used to Jessica and hiring another babysitter would cause issues. And also said that Jessica isn't too "fond" of our destination but it was obvious that Jessica wanted to go. They insisted and Beth offered to pay her double and there was just..a lot of back and fo
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    Font - We were supposed to go last week but when everybody had bagged their bags and was time to go, Jessica found out that she didn't have her passport on her. We searched her bag then went home and searched there. Beth and my stepdaughters kept insisting that we go back to the airport or else we'd miss our flight. They insisted that Jessica stay at home with the kids. They even told the new babysitter to go home cause she was no longer needed. I refused to go and kept searching for the passpor
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    Font - stayed upstairs for a while and Beth refused to speak to me and said that I punished my stepdaughters for worrying about their kids and wanting them to stay with someone they know. I got told I overreacted and ruined the trip for everybody. Editing to mention that kicking my stepdaughters out isn't possible since my wife co-owns the house that we currently live in.
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    Interesting_Bug_8878. 3 4 As Enthusiast [8] NTA. To be honest, I would have kicked your wife and lazy no-good stepchildren out right then and there and ended the marriage. If they were 12 I might understand this level of entitlement and immaturity. But in their late 20s??? And with your wife??? She should have roasted them for pulling this BS. 66.0k Reply Share
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    Font - pomegranateseeds37. 2 Yeah there is NO WAY the wife wasn't in on this too she absolutely knew about this plan. OP needs to ditch all 3 of them.
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    Product - ravenofmyheart NTA. You don't just have a stepdaughters problem, you have a wife problem. I would rethink your current family situation, and how your daughter is being treated. 25.6k Reply Share
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    Font - Positive-Elk-8110 OP. W4 & 8 More You're right. After seeing where my wife stands in this, I'm beginning to consider some things.
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    Jumpstart_55 Your stepdaughters both S k and your wife is worse. NTA and you should be reconsidering this marriage 11.9k Reply Share
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    Font - BFIrrera Parta sipant [1] ΝΤΑ Leave Beth and her daughters and you and Cinderella get out of there before it's too late.
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    Stlhockeygrl W 2 Certified Proctolog|st [21] Nta - except for how you let them treat Jessica. SHE should get taken on vacation. Your wife and her kids and grandkids should stay home with their spawns. If the parents are sooo worried about their kids that Jessica is the only babysitter, THEY need to stay home.
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    Rectangle - Potential_Shelter624. (S YTA You've heard of Cinderella. Protect your daughter get her TF out of there.
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    Font - YouthNAsia63 C tain [157] Rebook the vacation. Someplace your daughter would like. It will be a less expensive trip this time because the passport stealing stepdaughters and their spawn can stay home and think about what they did. You didn't ruin anything. Your stepdaughters did. ΝΤΑ
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    Font - Wickedlove7 Aficionado [14] NTA. Your stepchildren and wife however are. You're step children are spoiled entitled brats. Your wife......backing them up that your child should stay home to stay home to watch their children. As How about Beth, misses the vacation and babysits her grand kids. Or how about the parents do it.
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    Font - They don't get to force their step sibling to miss vacation because they want her to babysit. They wanted to not have to pay since your wife pays her for it. They knew they'd have to pay good money to someone to watch their children. Honestly tell your daughter not to help them anymore. They lost that privilege. I also would buy her a safe keep her valuables in it since they are known to steal Honestly I'd divorce and kick them all out. Well minus your bio child. Edit you say the kids lov
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    snag2469 Parta ipant [3] Nta. I time to kick the stepdaughters to the curb. 1.1k Reply Share Positive-Elk-8110 OP. I'm afraid this is not an option since my wife co-owns the house.
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    Font - BlessedOfStorms NTA but also Y T A. This was not enough. I would've taken my daughter on vacation and left the rest at home. I would have told them to be moved out by the time we were back. How dare they.
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    Font - CrystalQueen3000. Prime Ministurd [447] I'm surprised there's not more comments calling you out for staying with your wife and her awful daughters. YTA be a better dad
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    Font - DazzleLove Enthusiast [7] YTA. I guarantee you this is the tip of the iceberg of what your daughter has suffered at the hands of these witches. You've successfully avoided noticing it for 5 years to keep your wife sweet, but at the A expense of your child. It's only now that it's so egregious you finally grew a backbone. And even now you are so in thrall to your wife that you are doubting yourself.
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    Font - dizedd A ESH except Jessica Enthusiast [6] You owe Jessica a really nice vacation to a place she chooses. You owe her an apology for forcing her to live with two awful ADULT stepsiblings for the last 5 years and a wicked stepmother.
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    Font - You need to get her away from this unhealthy situation. Besides the fact that she is being disrespected and taken advantage of, she is seeing an example that it's ok for an adult to be stunted and mooch off all of their relatives forever. Your wife's daughters are losers. They have kids of their own, and they can't manage to live independently? I was a very young single mother myself-I had my own apartment. I can't
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    Font - imagine cramming my kids into my moms house with moms stepkid AND my sister and her kids too. That would be an emergency/we're going to be homeless/ this is extremely temporary situation, not a way of life. But your steps were going on a family vacation with you ffs-so obviously there's no financial emergency, or you and wife would be skipping a vacation and paying for a rental deposit for them to move out instead.
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    Font - Please support Jessica into moving out on her own ASAP if you decide to stay with wife. You should support Jessica being an adult ASAP anyways, because living like your stepdaughters do is not emotionally healthy. Save money to help her with rental deposits/moving/maybe a couple of hundred a month towards her share of rent with a roommate soon. The goal should be out of the house by 21-it's worth helping financially to make that happen vs. letting grown up kids live with you then spending
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    Maleficent-Spinach37. Part ipant [3] NTA. And whoa, your stepdaughters (and wife for brushing it off) are straight-up toxic AHs. You did not overreact. You need to really think on if your wife is who you thought she was for brushing aside what her daughters did.

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