Blended families can be a little tricky to navigate, but one woman has thoroughly ticked off people on the internet with the way she’s decided to handle her future 4-year-old stepdaughter. That’s because she doesn’t want to deal with her at all. In fact, she recently sought out advice on how to “get rid” of the girl. People online had feelings about her letter.
It all came tumbling out of the stepmom in a letter to the Talkswithmee Instagram account.
The account is run by life coach Miriã Mercédes Valentin, who uses the account to connect with and mentor young women. Recently, she shared an anonymous letter sent to her, and it was reshared on the Reddit forum r/bridezillas.
“My fiancé has a 4-year-old daughter, her mother passed away when she was born,” the letter started.
Ever since her fiancée became a widower, he’s been raising his daughter on his own.
Until the Letter Writer (LW) came into the picture.
“We are set to get married in 2022,” she explained. “I am also 7 months pregnant with a precious little girl.”
The LW is “not the stepmother type,” she explained.
She already knows she won’t treat her stepdaughter the same as her biological one.
“To be quite honest, she gets on my damn nerves,” she wrote. Not only does her stepdaughter have the audacity to look like her deceased mother, but she’s also “very attached to her daddy.”
“I’m afraid she’s going to take away from my child's bond with her father,” she wrote.
So the LW has boiled her problem down to one solution: The 4-year-old has got to go.
She can either live with her grandparents “or we can find her a nice family that’s looking to adopt a child,” she wrote.
“I don’t know how to approach the situation, but I need to convince my fiancé to let her go,” she added.
The LW swore she wasn’t a “bad person.”
“I’m just trying to look out for my child and make sure she receives all of her daddy’s attention without having her ‘older sister’ intervene,” she continued. “Please help!”
People in the comments had four words for the LW:
“What. The. Actual. F–k.”
“This belongs under r/iamatotalpieceofshit,” one commenter wrote. “I hope this dude finds out how shitty this chick is before they get married. Unfortunately he got her pregnant so he’s stuck with her for the next 18 years in some shape or form. As a step child I feel for that poor little 4-year-old.”
“This has got to be one of the worst, sickest things I've ever read on bridezilla,” another commenter agreed. “She met him with a daughter & now she wants him to just get rid of her, what the f–k. Hope buddy smells the coffee, wakes up & tells her to take a flying leap.”
“I couldn't even imagine someone feeling this way about their SOs child,” a third commenter agreed. “My girlfriend is pregnant with our baby and has a two year old son. I love her son like he's my own, and I would never wish any bad thing like this on him. It's a package deal. Always. Either accept it or move on before you're in too deep.”
“This poor man needs to dump this horrible POS. If not, the little girl could be abused by the witch every time he is away. I am disgusted beyond all comprehension,” added another commenter.
It’s not clear what Talkswithmee’s response was, but let’s all hope that the LW’s fiancé saw her post and is rethinking their relationship — BIG TIME.
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