My Dad Gave Everything to My Greedy Stepmom and Her Kids, So I Left to Live With My Rich Aunt

My 18, female, mother died when I was born, and my dad remarried when I was three. I have a stepsister who’s the same age as me and two half-siblings.

My mom’s sister and her wife raised me after my mom died. I only started living with my dad after he remarried.

He often favored my stepsister and half-siblings. He would routinely miss important things in my life for them and never did anything with me unless my stepsister was there.

My stepmom would also make me watch my siblings and do more chores while my stepsister did almost nothing. As I got older, I started spending more time at my aunts’ house.

As soon as I turned 18, I moved in with them. They’re pretty wealthy, while my dad is lower middle class.

They often buy me things that my dad and stepmom can’t afford for their children. My stepsister’s always been jealous because I have nicer stuff.

Both of us graduated this year. Our graduation ceremony was last Friday, and our prom was the Saturday before that.

I’ve been living with my aunts for a few months now. They bought me a pretty expensive prom and hosted an after-party, which my stepsister was at because my aunt asked me to invite her.

They also threw me a graduation party that none of my dad’s family came to, even though they were invited. My dad hosted a party for both of us today and asked me to stay the weekend.

As I expected, the party was completely about her. I was told that it was for both of us.

My dad gave a long speech about how proud he was of my sister. He mentioned me once, but the rest of his speech was completely about her.

He went on about how she worked so hard to be a valedictorian and didn’t even mention that I graduated summa cum laude. I was visibly upset during dinner.

Afterward, my stepsister asked me to talk. We went to her room, and she started talking about how I’ve always had things a lot easier than her.

“It’s not fair that I always get the best things and she doesn’t,” she said.

I told her that life isn’t always fair and she should be grateful for what she has. My mother is literally dead, and my father loves her more than me, while she has three loving parents.

She was also mad because I got into a prestigious private university which is pretty expensive, and my aunts are paying my tuition. She may have been able to go to a similar college but decided to only apply to our local state school because she knew that was all she could afford.

We have basically the same friend circle, and a bunch of us decided to go to Europe this summer. My aunts are paying for me to go, but my dad and stepmom couldn’t afford it.

She also said that I purposely humiliated her by inviting her to my prom after-party so I could show off my fancy dress. Our argument got pretty heated, and I called her a dumb witch and left the party early instead of spending the night.

I’m at my aunts’ house right now, and my dad and stepmom are calling me and accusing me of making my stepsister cry at her graduation party. Am I the idiot?

Edit: some people are confused about her being valedictorian. At my school, everyone who has a 4.0 plus is considered a valedictorian, and I was the highest-ranked student.

Not the idiot. Your stepsister and your dad, on the other hand, are.

Usually I’m anti-gendered insults, but what an entitled, petty little witch. She literally wanted to tell a girl who lost her mother at birth about how she’s had life so easy.

I love that it also said that her dad and stepmom are calling her, telling her she’s an idiot for making her sister cry at her celebration, not their celebration. So seriously, this wasn’t even meant for OP to begin with.

I think they honestly invited her to belittle her. I’d feel slighted if I were OP, and I’d want nothing more to do with them if they were going to continue to treat me that way.

Everyone’s the idiot here, cards on the table. I think you need to acknowledge that your aunts’ financial position has made your life significantly easier than your stepsister’s in many ways.

Sorry, but it has. You have access to the kind of opportunities and luxuries that she could never dream of.

When you leave college, you will have no debt; that’s a pretty exceptional thing, especially in the U.S. Calling her a witch was out of line and felt disproportionate to the situation.

Stepsister has three loving parents, while OP’s mother is dead and her own father ignores her existence for years. OP grew up being excluded and parentified in the family.

Sorry, but no; the stepsister is an entitled brat and the parents are idiots. The beauty of being 18 plus and going off to college is you don’t have to associate with them anymore.

Love the people who love you back, in this case, obviously your aunts. Let dad and his wife plus “perfect family” figure their own crap out; enjoy your trip to Europe.

My boyfriend and I were on a plane, and there was a small family sitting close by. The kids were young and the parents seemed pretty young as well.

As far as kids go, they were pretty well behaved. You could hear the older one talking and the younger one squealing happily from time to time, but nothing irregular or bothersome.

My boyfriend just has an issue with being woken up. He’s very sensitive to sound and will wake up over anything, then get moody because of it.

In this case, he hadn’t slept because he was stressed out about missing the flight and was trying to sleep on the plane. The younger kid started making loud happy kid noises which woke my boyfriend up.

“Shh,” you could hear the parents go.

The kids stopped after a couple of seconds, but the damage was done. My boyfriend was up and bothered.