A father had shared a story on Reddit’s “AITA” subreddit. The father had explained that he punished his daughter with cleaning the whole house, before the Christmas celebration, after the gift she gave to her stepmother.
OP explained that he is been together with his wife for four and a half years. He shared that his wife had won her battle with breast cancer before their marriage, and after she finished her treatement, they had married.
The Christmas the story happened was their first Christmas as a married couple. OP said that he has a 16-year-old daughter, who was treating badly her stepmother. His daughter had numerous things to her which she received many punishments from her father.
But his wife was great towards his daughter no matter what she did, as his wife explained that his daughter was a typical teenager who is trying her best to adapt to a different situation. But OP was thinking different, as he shared, “but in my opinion she has gotten out of control especially with lack of consequences for her actions.”
As there were some tension before the Christmas, his daughter surprisingly wanted to spend the Christmas with her stepmother and father, after her mother, ex-wife of OP went to her future husband’s family for the Christmas.
OP shared that his wife was thrilled to have his daughter for Christmas. Together with his wife, they had prepared their house for the Christmas dinner, while his daughter touched nothing as she kept interacting with her phone.
Later, OP’s in-laws had arrived and they had a great day together. At the kitchen, he noticed that his wife was sad, and he pushed a little to learn what happened. After a little convincing, his wife showed the box her stepdaughter had gifted her. She gifted her breast cancer survivor stepmother a bra.
As his wife started to cry at the kitchen, OP went livid and confronted his daughter. As his daughter tried to explain that she didn’t mean any disrespect to her stepmother. But OP was sure that his daughter tried to mock his wife and offend her.
Then he had punished his daughter with the cleaning for the whole house after the guests left. As she accepted, she called her mother to come and get her. Then her stepbrother came to take her, but OP caught his daughter at the door, and told her to start cleaning. Then his daughter started to yell at the OP as he was wrong for making her clean the house in Christmas.
After some time, OP’s wife came and said to her husband that she had done enough of cleaning, as she should stop. The wife was still thinking about OP’s daughter, even after her terrible “gift.”
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