38-year-old stepmom plans a 10-day family vacation without 16-year-old stepdaughter Kayla, dad grows furious and refuses to exclude daughter: "She'll spend the whole trip sulking"

You can't help who you fall in love with, but you do have a say over who you choose to commit to. Sometimes a person who seems perfect for you on paper isn't actually as compatible with you in practice. Perhaps, in a vacuum, you could work out together, but that's just not how life works. Once you commit to a person, you also accept them as a complete package – not just who they are with you in private. That means that their boundaries, their priorities, their values, their family, and their baggage are their own; you can't change that. You cannot be in a relationship with a person that is removed from the context of their life.
In our story today, a woman finds it oddly surprising that her husband prioritizes his daughter from a previous marriage over her. Instead of agreeing to go on a 10-day couples vacation, he becomes furious at the suggestion of excluding his daughter from the trip. It's like he forgot that she chose to marry a committed father. Scroll down to read the full story.

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AITA for not wanting my stepdaughter to come on our vacation because she's made it clear she can't stand me?

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If they want to plan a couples getaway, they can. But it sounds like this vacation was supposed to be for the family.
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Needless to say, excluding her from the trip will certainly not engratiate her to Kayla by any means.
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