'I'm her real dad, not you': Bio Dad Disregards Daughter’s Broken Arm, Gets Mad at Stepdad for Stepping up and Taking Her to the Hospital

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    Posted by u/HopefulAd1737 17 hours ago AITA for telling my bio dad this is stepdaughters why I am her real dad
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    I (m39) have known my wife for 10 years now, married for 7. When I met her she had a 3 year old daughter (now 13). I always made it a point to treat her as I would my own kid and we became close pretty quickly, when she was around 4 she even started calling me daddy.
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    Her biological dad comes in and out of my step-daughters life, she calls us both dad but she usually around home with my wife and I refers to him as his first name.
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    Well, last night she was visiting with her bio dad when I got a text from my stepdaughter wondering if I could pick her up. Well, I got there she was sitting outside with her bio dad holding her arm she came over to my car and told me she was messing around with a skateboard and fell on her arm, her arm was bruised, swollen, and hard for her to move. I asked
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    her bio dad why didn't he call my wife he said I don't think it's that bad she's just being dramatic. My stepdaughter just looked at me and said Dad can we just please go I'm in a lot of pain. As she was getting in the car I told her bio dad see this is why I'm her real dad, not you... I actually care for her and her well-being.
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    Later that night my wife got an angry text from bio dad calling me an AH, and my wife kinda agrees that I was being an AH At that moment. daughter actually did break her arm but her bio dad wasn't going to do anything about it... I'm the one who was in the ER with her until 1 am.
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    Also, I would like to add I don't call her my stepdaughter instead I call her my daughter just for the sake of the post I figured it would be easier.
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    hempfandango177 17 hr. ago edited 11 hr. ago ● Maybe unpopular but NTA. How long was that poor girl sitting there with a broken arm? I would've said a lot worse to that man if I were in your shoes. e: i guess it's not an unpopular opinion after all. 9.4k Reply Share ●●●
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    marv115 17 hr. ago So, she broke her arm and your wife still thinks you the AH? For real? NTA 2.8k Reply Share
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    HopefulAd1737 OP · 16 hr. ago She thinks how I was responded I was being an AH she's also mad at daughter's bio dad for not taking her injury and pain seriously Reply Share 1.4k
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    Corpuscular_Ocelot 16 hr. ago Partassipant [4] Should you have said it? No. Was it true? Yes. ● Yeah, Y T A maybe, but I can understand not holding back in that situation.
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    The issue isn't that he didn't deserve it, the issue is he was 100% the AH, but you gave him ammo to deflect being an AH, make the issue about something else, and make your wife and daughter's life more miserable.
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    Express-Chapter9429 - 17 hr. ago Partassipant [2] Kind of ESH. I get the impulse, but you didn't add anything positive to the interaction here. Especially not cool to do where your kid could possibly hear. She doesn't need to be subjected to y'all's conflict or to be told her father doesn't care about her.
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    Express-Chapter9429 16 hr. ago Partassipant [2] Kids aren't dumb; they figure out pretty quick who actually shows up for them. But they sure as don't need it rubbed in their faces. Just because you didn't say it TO her doesn't mean there's zero chance she heard you say that. Also, again, you saying that only adds to the conflict. Not helpful in any way.

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