'Now the girls want my number': Stepdaughters in their 20s change their tune about Dad's long-term girlfriend after finding out she's secretly a millionaire, backpedaling immature behavior to money-grub for themselves

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Mar 5, 2025 2:00 PM EST

Kids can be really judgmental, but when this woman first met the man of her dreams, who already had two grown daughters of his own, she underestimated exactly how cruel the girls could be.

If you lose a parent, there's nothing that can replace them. However, as children grow into adults, it's important to note that your parents, while they're firstly your guardians and the heroic figures that brought you into this world, they're also just people. And people get lonely. With that in mind, it's crazy how often kids will try to parent trap their divorced or widowed parents into solitude, forever entrapped by the parent of their children until the end of time. Luckily for the man in this next story, he was able to find a woman willing to look past all of that, enduring years of bad behavior from his daughters because she truly loved him.

However, when the girls learned that Dad's three-year relationship was a cash cow that they could bank on, they changed their tune with dollar signs flashing in their eyes like they'd won the lottery.

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  • Is there such a thing as being a golddigger for a stepparent? Chasing an inheritance that will likely never be theirs, these girls got a wake-up call about their bad behavior as they tried to manipulate their father into a lifetime alone. 

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  • "AITA for not being friendly with my partners daughters now that they've "warmed up" to me"

    I'm (42) dating Tim (59), a widower. He's in banking, I'm a bartender. I know what it looks like. His 2 daughters thought the same thing, but he's broke as a joke and I've got a trust fund, so actually no.
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  • He's broke because his late wife got cancer. 3 times. He ran up 6 credit cards, 2nd mortgage on the house, cashed out his retirement, everything and anything to get her the treatment she needed and then to get treatment enough to see both daughters married. His daughters live 6hrs drive away.
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  • We drove to them for Xmas last year and the year before. They ignored me, dragged Tim away when he tried to include me and prevented their husbands from making even small talk with me by talking over me.
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  • Year 1 Tim chastised them, they apologized (to him, not me) They blamed the pain of seeing their Dad with a woman who wasn't their Mum. Year 2, they did it again.
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  • This year I told Tim not again. He could go, I would never ask him not to see his daughters for Xmas but I'll stay here. Tim didn't love the idea because me going with him means we can share the responsibility of driving when his back starts to bother him. (He hates to fly)
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  • His 2010 deathtrap is starting to go anyway, so I leased him a comfy luxury ride (my brother has a dealership) He called the girls, super excited that he'd be able to see them more often without having to worry about his back,, who then
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  • blew up and accused him of spending their Mothers money on a "bull**** house and car to impress some bimbo bartender and didn't offer them a dime for their weddings"
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  • In the ensuing argument it came out that they assumed there had been a life insurance policy, nor Idid they have any idea about the credit card debt or the 2nd mortgage that the house was underwater on or that Tim was looking at foreclosure and bankruptcy until he moved in with me.
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  • They did not realize it was my house, that he pays no bills save the water bill (man takes excessive showers) and shared groceries. Now the girls want my number. They are sorry I "felt lonely" at Xmas.
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  • They want to come visit and stay with us next year! Conveniently in summer, I live near a beach. I've told Tim absolutely not about giving out my number. I'm happy to be polite if they come to visit Tim but, we're not going to be
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  • friends. If they had talked to me for even 2 seconds they'd have understood. I am not shy about admitting the only thing I have ever contributed to my blessed financial state is "not developing a crippling coke addiction" like my cousin Danny did.
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  • Tim thinks I'm being too unforgiving. They would have warmed up to me eventually but knowing how generous I am being with their Father has made them warm up quicker.
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  • I maintain I don't care about now or later, they had their chance to not be catty brats over incorrect assumptions that I was taking advantage of him.
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  • Stardust Shinah NTA You don't owe them a thing. That being said, they are his kids and you gotta consider that if you don't extend an olive branch that means he will be pulled in the middle and eventually push will come to shove. Is that something you're comfortable with?
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  • KBD_in_PDX Considering that the daughters knew nothing at all about their parents' financial state BEFORE you arrived, it's safe to assume that they did not regularly have conversations with their parents about planning for end of life, etc.
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  • It's hard to say who is the a h le without knowing if your partner ever corrected their assumptions that you were being supported by him. It COULD be concerning as an adult to see your parent making extravagant purchases for/with a partner. You say you know what the situation looks like to outsiders... so why would you not be understanding of them thinking it is what it looks like?
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  • So my question would be: Did your partner ever tell them that they have things backwards, and that he doesn't support you financially at all, and in fact you support him?
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  • LilyLuigi . They aren't being nice because you are helping their dad. They hope to get stuff from you.
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  • Solid-Technology-448 NTA. These are grown women, not angry children, and you owe them nothing-- certainly not the money and favors they very obviously want.
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