A mother child relationship is a unique and a pure bond. However not all children have a great bond with their mom. Read the story and help this daughter out who wants to put a point in front of her mother without cutting her off completely.
Source: Reddit
About 4 years ago when I was 14, I found out that my mother cheated on my father. I immediately told him and this basically led to their divorce.
My mother was self-centered and abusive towards my father during their marriage. She also was barely involved in my life as a mother. My father was with me every step I took and was always there for me in my upbringing. Her infidelity basically crossed the line for me. She destroyed whatever was left of us as a family. I didn’t want her in my life anymore. My father was granted full custody by my request in the divorce. I pretty much cut my mother out of my life and apart from some texting, she isn’t involved in my life and that’s how I want it to be.
About a year after my parents separated, my father met his current fiancé. I was fully supportive of this relationship because it was great to see my father happy with someone who cared just as much about him as he does about her.
For the past 3 years my dad’s fiancé pretty much grew to be my best friend. She has been involved, supportive and helped me so much from the start. She has been able to support me in different ways than my father and has helped me greatly. She has definitely been my female role model in my life and I can say that I have true love for her.
She and my father are having their wedding this summer. She asked me to be her maid of honor and I love it. But out of nowhere my mother found out about this.
I still have low contact with my mother but we do text a bit. I did not tell her anything about this but somehow she found out. She called me crying saying that it would break her heart if I were to be the maid of honor at their wedding. She went on a rant that she will always remain my mother and that nothing is going to change about that. I just told her that I didn’t know what to answer.
I 100% support my dad’s fiancé and want to be her maid of honor. I want to make it clear to my mother that she has no say in what I do but don’t really know how to go about this. How can I make it clear that she has no say in my life without necessarily cutting her off completely?
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