Grandparents lie to 10-year-old granddaughter that he father doesn't love her, he cancels beach trip with them in retaliation: "I don't trust you alone around my children"

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Jul 6, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Hi there ladies and gentlemen of the internet. The fourth of July is a favorite for many Americans. It's a holiday of fun, friends, family, and fireworks. Some people have an afternoon backyard bbq, others wait until evening to enjoy the lurid and luscious fireworks under the darkness of the sky. The cool thing about the 4th of July is that it can be celebrated with friends or family, no one is obligated to do anything. 
 

With the addition of fireworks, accidents can easily happen. Fireworks are dangerous, and it's not talked about enough. They can scare animals, or even just explode before they reach the sky. When you're a teenager, there's always that one guys group that wants to buy them just for fun, and see them leap off into the sky. 
 

In the story below, the protagonist is a father who is just trying to have a nice time with his family. There's a family secret that shouldn't be revealed, but his in-laws don't exactly have the tact. 

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    AITAH for cancelling a beach trip with my in-laws after they whispered lies to into my daughters ear? (Long)

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    AITAH? I need to start with the background information. Last month, my wife, four kids and I moved halfway across the country to Texas, to a town where my
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  • This is such a complicated situation for a family. To be honest, I think it's better for the child to know initially about her real father. I couldn't imagine the pain, confusion, and betrayal to be an adult and have your family tell you that your father isn't your bio father. It's better to have it open at the beginning. 

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    family lives and my in-laws recently retired. We had a manufactured home set and have been waiting for the electric
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    company to make the connection and so we've been staying with my in-laws during this time.
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    My in-laws wanted to retire to Florida but when time came to purchase a home, they weren't happy with their options. They knew we had plans to eventually
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    move to Texas and so they figured they would go where we were going ahead of time to spend their retirement with their grandchildren.
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    They offered their home to us, our four children (10, 6, 3, 1), two cats and a dog.
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    There's a little more at play here- our oldest daughter, (10) is not biologically mine. She does not know that I am not her biological
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    father yet. We've been wanting to tell her but there never seemed to be the right time given the last few years have been rocky.
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    So we've been making an effort to spend more time with her as being the oldest of four is difficult and to ensure there are no doubts in her mind that I love her and care for her as much as her siblings.
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    One last thing- my mother-in-law planned a trip to the beach in a few weeks and has already paid for the AirBnB where we've all planned to go together.
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    That being said- The story begins July 4th. We bought minimal fireworks to enjoy in the in-law's backyard which was pitch-black at the time
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    (~21:30). I was standing in the yard and from my perspective, I could faintly make out everyone else's silhouette and the outline of the roof against the night sky.
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    I have these "adult poppers." Ive never seen these before- they're small cylindrical red tubes and give a loud pop when they hit the ground hard enough.
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    I was intending to hurl one at the roof of the house to give everyone a startle and I threw it as hard as I could. I guess I released the popper too soon
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    and, it doesn't matter.. It hit my wife in the shoulder and ricocheted into my oldest daughter's eye before popping.
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    Completely by accident and she thought her eye had been popped out all of a sudden and couldn't see. Debris got inside, we rushed her in. I could hear my
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    mother-in-law say "why would you throw a firework at her?" I ignored it because I was worried about my daughter.
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    We removed the debris, she calmed down and we gave her ice and ibuprofen. She was made comfortable and has since been checked out and is fine.
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    The next morning, my daughter wakes me at 9am (it was a late night) saying that both my in- laws had told her that I don't love her and that no one in this world would love her as much as them.
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    They told her that I was drink (which I hadn't had a drink) and thought it would be funny to hit her intentionally with the popper. My daughter asked "why would
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    they say that?" She said she knew I loved her and that it was accidental. I felt terrible for what happened but I'm glad she knows that I care for her.
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    Why would they say these things to her?During the struggle of the move and stress for a girl her age is going through after doing everything we can to foster her confidence
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    So I told my wife I appreciate what they're doing for us but they're going alone to the beach. I refuse to go anywhere with them and I don't trust them alone
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    around my children. Am I the a- hole here for this? The kids were looking forward to it, the wife was excited and now I'm being seen as the bad guy..
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    I realize I am the a h le for being irresponsible by throwing the popper which hurt my daughter but it wasn't intentional. Am I in the wrong for canceling
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    the beach trip for what was said to my daughter? I also do not want them alone with my children anymore. AITAH?
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