Father Favors Niece Over His Own Daughter After She Abandoned Him, Now She Wants Him Back

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Oct 15, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Everybody makes mistakes, and especially when we're young. When your parents are divorced and fighting, it can be difficult to understand the situation and know how to navigate it. Ultimately it's up to the adult to be the bigger and better person in the situation.

Having divorced parents is immensely difficult, and any breath of relief from the stress is like a breath of fresh air. For the poster of this Reddit thread, she chooses one side for her own reasons, and later goes back on her decision. 

In this Reddit thread, like it's stated above, the original poster (OP) is a teenage girl whose parents are divorced. Her mother got full custody and moved abroad, which distanced her from her father. Years down the line, things changed, but he's not willing to accept her the same way.

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  • 01
    r/AITAH ⚫22 hr. ago Head-Sky-8304 AITA for choosing my niece?
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  • 02
    I have a 15 years old daughter with my ex. My ex did everything in her power to get full custody. I only managed to get every other weekends.
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  • 03
    But it didn't really matter because soon she decided to move to another country and I couldn't see my daughter anymore. I couldn't even call much because of the time difference.
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  • 04
    The worst part was when she got remarried and my daughter called him daddy. That hurt. A lot. I talked to them, asked them to stop this but they called me a selfish jerk and told me if I was actually a good dad I would be happy that my daughter has an amazing father figure in her life, who loves her.
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  • 05
    The older she got, the worse things got. She stopped calling me dad and I was just "Cam" while her stepdad was dad. She told me her real dad is the one who is raising her, as if it was MY CHOISE not to raise her.
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  • 06
    I would wake up at 4am just to be able to call her(because of the time difference) and she would tell me not to bother her and hang up the phone. I think it was about 3 years ago when I just gave up. I stopped calling. They didn't care. I finally accepted that I don't have a child.
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  • 07
    Well except for my niece Anna(14). She is the daughter I always wanted. She is so sweet and funny. She lost her mom when she was a baby and my brother would welcome any help to raise her so I helped him.
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  • 08
    Anna is the one who calls me dad. She saves her pocket money to surprise me on my brithday. She makes me go shopping with her which is pure torture and I love it because I enjoy every second I spend with her. She will sulk if I don't call or visit her one day. She asked me to teach her how to play golf because she knows how much I love it and
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  • 09
    how happy it would make me to share my interests with her. I love this kid.
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  • 10
    My ex's husband passed away and she moved back to our country. Apparently staying there all alone without him was too hard for them. Now they are demanding things from me that I can't and don't want to do.
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  • 11
    My daughter and Anna don't get along and my daughter has decided that she will honor me with her presence at my house if I turn Anna's bedroom at my house into a bedroom for my daughter instead because I don't have another room to give her.
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  • 12
    I said no. Here is how it goes, do you want to visit? Great. You can visit and you can either learn to get along with Anna or you can sleep on the couch and I don't want to hear complaints about it. Anna has agreed to share with you, you should be grateful.
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  • 13
    Now they think I'm an for prioritizing my niece but if I have to choose, I'll choose Anna. I just hope they don't make me choose.
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  • 14
    Vivid Budget124 21h ago • NTA. Your daughter's demands sound like a bad episode of a sitcom. She wants to kick Anna out of her room and then act like she's doing you a favor by showing up?
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  • 15
    If she wants a VIP experience, she better be ready to share the couch. Sounds like Anna's the real star of this show, and you're not about to swap her for a guest star who's been MIA. Let your daughter know it's a package deal, you and Anna or the couch, her choice!
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  • 16
    kmflushing ⚫21h ago • Your niece calls you dad? What does she call your brother, her actual dad? He didn't have the same reaction you did when his daughter called another man, dad?
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  • 17
    Significant_Ki... • 18h ago • So... I feel like I'd love to know what country OP lives in, how old OP's daughter was when they got divorced, why the mom was allowed to take her out of the country, and what the mom had told the daughter.
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  • 18
    I mean I get that OP is hurt but I know where I live it's very hard for one parent to get almost full control like that the norm is 50/50 here.
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  • 19
    adobeacrobatr... • 22h ago • NTA. Dont be a doormat op. Your daughter was emotionally manipulated by her mother and deserves a dad who tries. But you have two daughters now. And you need to be firm and make sure both treat each other with respect.
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  • 20
    She cant come back after years and expects you to just give her your daughter/niece's bedroom because of blood relations. NTA.
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