16-year-old gives father’s concert ticket away to grandma after he tries to bring her stepsister along, causing rivalry between them: “She’s not welcome to come with us”

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Jun 9, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. There are these two content creators that I watch and they never fail to crack me up. They make reels about anything and everything. They make reels about dating, living in LA or Minnesota, day in the life of an old person, and other niche concepts. They have one about the difference between how your stepfather treats you to how your bio father treats you, and let me tell you, it couldn't be more true. 

Sometimes your stepfather tries to compensate for the fact that he's your stepfather. He wants you to like him, to see him as your own father. But that often means that his bio child gets the short end of the stick. It's not all the time, but it's far too common, and it's exactly what happens in the story below. 

In the story below, the narrator is a teenage girl who feels like her father has taken the backseat in affection and parenting after he got with his current wife and has stepchildren now. She puts boundaries where she sees fit, to his dismay. Read the full story below for all the juicy details.

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    AITA for giving the concert ticket I promised to my dad to someone else after I found out he was planning to take my stepsister with us?

    "It was a spiteful move"
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    My parents have been divorced most of my life and I had a good relationship with dad until I was 11. That's when he remarried and I felt like he prioritized his
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    stepkids but mostly his stepdaughter who's my age. Suddenly he was showing up less to stuff like my hockey games and he was always cheering me on at those. Any plans we made
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    he'd try to bring his stepdaughter into and he'd ask me why I wasn't doing more to bond with her. He didn't care as much about me
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    bonding with his stepson but it was like his stepdaughter was all he cared about.
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    Sometimes he ruined the few moments we had together by saying how much he wished she was there with us. Or he'd answer calls when he didn't answer calls when he was with them.
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    I started going to his house less. I'm 16 so I can choose that as long as I still go some of the time. Dad was like I miss you, why don't you come every other week like you used to and I told him
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    why. He asked me why I was acting like I hated his stepdaughter. I told him I didn't hate her but I don't want to include her in our time. I told him
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    I don't want to feel like I come in second and like he doesn't care so much now. He asked me how he cares more about his stepkids. I said he goes to all his stepson's
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    football games and he goes to all his stepdaughter's competitions and recitals. He doesn't even go to half of mine anymore when he used to. And I told him he stays to watch them practice but never
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    comes to mine. Then I brought up the phone calls and how if anyone calls while he's with me he answers but if he's with them
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    he mutes his phone. I told him I deserved the same level of consideration.
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    I told him to leave me alone since he wanted to fight with me on it. And things were so tense for a few weeks. He then apologized to me and said he wanted to make it
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    up to me and he asked if I'd give him the second concert ticket | got for my birthday and take him and we can have the day to ourselves. I asked him if that meant just him and me and he
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    said yes. He said he was sorry to have made me feel that way and he never wanted me to feel less important. So I told him he could have the other ticket and we'd go
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    together. I didn't give it to him though and now I'm glad because last week I found out he bought a ticket so his stepdaughter could
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    come with us. Dad got mad at me because I got crying mad at him and I told him he wasn't getting it.
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    I ended up giving it to my grandma and she decided to come with me (and two of my friends who already had their own tickets). Dad told me it was a
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    spiteful move and that he couldn't afford a second one. Then he said his stepdaughter couldn't go on her own. I told him she's not welcome to come
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    with us or tag along and he can figure it out. I even said f you to him because I was THAT mad.
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    My dad tried to get my mom to discipline me for it but she had my back. He said I'm being taught to be childish and spiteful and he said even saying his
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    stepdaughter isn't welcome around me and my friends says how I'll punish others when my feelings get hurt. AITA?
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    Xtraspicyramen • 18h ago NTA - he went back on his word, lied to you, and is clearly being unfair and
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    showing partiality. Prioritise urself and ur respect from now on. Don't depend on him.
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    timecity 18h ago NTA. You know what to do now. Set your boundaries, do the bare minimum needed to maintain a relationship with him.
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