‘Can Anyone Remove The Center Kid?’: Woman Horrifies People After A Photoshop Request To Remove Her Stepson Goes Viral
Having a stepfamily, or becoming a part of one, has become a part of our lives since many American families divorce, remarry, or form other relationships. A Pew Research Center survey showed that 42% of American adults have at least one step relative. Of this group, 30% have a stepsibling, and 13% have at least one stepchild.
And while for most families, raising a stepchild is no different than their own child, sadly, it’s not the case for everyone. One mom faced major backlash online after posting a request on the Facebook group “Photoshop Fairy Connection,” where she asked people for a very controversial favor. “Can anyone remove the center kid?” she asked, pointing at her stepson in a family photo. The woman was also ready to pay a $10 fee, but people on the internet were not buying it.
The Twitter user @WadeCross reposted the screenshots and it amassed 5.6K retweets, 6.1K quote tweets, and 36.8K likes. The case infuriated people and no one could stay silent.
Unfortunately, a similar case has happened before and caused a huge stir online. Read about it in our previous article right here.
One Twitter user shared the screenshots of a mom’s request to edit out her stepson
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The author of the family picture didn’t seem to mind the woman’s request
So she confidently posted her request on a Photoshop group, offering $10 pay
These days, when every bit of information spreads so fast on social media, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the woman’s request to remove her stepson from a family photo would go viral. Except it’s all for the wrong reasons, since many people felt genuinely enraged by such behavior.
But people online just couldn’t stay silent
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Bored Panda reached out to one Twitter user who shared screenshots of the post with the caption “Kids deserve better,” which gained a lot of reactions, including 338.8k likes, 80.6k retweets, and 2.2k quote tweets.
The woman who’s also a mother to little girls and wanted to remain anonymous told us that her initial reaction was “disgust because the stepson is going to see it eventually and know he was deliberately erased from ‘family’ pictures.”
She also stressed that “it is morally wrong to treat stepchildren differently than biological children.”
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When asked what we can all learn from this heartbreaking case, the woman said that “we need to take a step back and look at things from a child’s point of view and choose our partners wisely,” she added, “especially when we already have children from a previous relationship.”
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The husband shoud respond by making the same picture with HER removed his profile pic.
At 33 I'm still tolerated my by step parent and not loved. At 33 it still makes me cry.
Gemma - I'm so sorry that you have to feel like that. I have never had step-parents (just biological), but they haven't been in my life since 1997 as they were always reminding me that I was a mistake in their eyes, even though I spent my entire childhood doing anything they wanted, just so I could try to feel loved. In 2003, I became a mom. My daughter is the family I deserve. I shower her with love daily and always remind her that she's my best friend in the world. I never want her to feel like I did (and sometimes still do.)
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My mother's youngest sister is fourteen years younger than her. When my aunt was eleven, her father died and then my grandmother had a stroke that put her in a nursing home. Without hesitation or even a second thought my parents took her in and raised her alongside my sister and I. My dad never treated her less than or like she was unimportant. He treated her with the same love that he showed us. Blood doesn't make you family, love does.
If people have no problem saying “Love me, love my dog”, why do they seem completely incapable of saying “Love me, love my kids”—-and making that a real dealbreaker?
Where was the boy's father when this was going down? Did he approve? The situation makes me want to cry.
He has his son in the shoot, I doubt he was involved in the photoshop request tbh.
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As a teacher, I see unloved kids all the time. I do what I can, and I tell each and every one of my students I love them and care about them. If they need food or clothes, we try our best to get them clothed and fed. There are people in this world who care more for animals than they do for children. Children are people, and adults of the future!
WAIT! Do we know why she wants the kid removed? What if she wants to post it to Facebook but his real mom doesn't want him on Facebook. She might be awful or we might just not know.
True. I wish people would ASK before they judge. If they did and this was the outcome - hell yes, go judge! But not asking is just assuming, and we all know what happens if one assumes.
Load More Replies... Just like the new wife of my daughter's father asked him. And he served.
Read this about six times and still have no idea what you are trying to say.
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WOW. I can't even - My stepmother was the epitome of what step parenting should be. She didn't try to act like my "other mother", she was just "hey, we live together, so let's just live together". She was married to my Dad for 42 years. He died six years ago and some people act like it's weird that we are still the best of friends. Hello? We've known each other for 42 years?
The dad is no price either. If she’s removing this child from the picture this is not the first time she has shown rejection.
EXACTLY THIS. They’ve been together long enough to have two children. There is no way this is the first time she started showing her true colors.
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These people make me sick. I have a blended family my hubby raised three boys in his last relationship that weren't his and then had a bio baby with her, so he has one bio son and 3 that he considers his. So when I got with him they were still close and I immediately chose to be there as well so even though I didn't get to raise the other boys I still consider them "mine" we tell everyone we have 7 kids (I have 3) his bio son lives with us, the other three are 18-23. But no one would know the difference. They are all my kids and I love all of them. I tell them all the time I couldn't love you more if you DID come from my uterus. His mom asks me all the time, how come I cant get a grandchild from you? I'm like ummm I came preloaded with three, take it or leave it. I can't stand people seriously.
I love the internet. Everything you do is now the world's business to judge. And yes, this woman sucks and I hope she sees this has made the rounds and feels ashamed of herself, but she probably won't and is feeling like the victim instead of reflecting on the awful thing she did.
id row: I dunno. You don't think gossip existed before this? I know people who grew up in small towns and/or in a church system where everybody knew everybody AND their business. Sure, social media is that on steroids, but c'mon. This is no different than a lot of family get togethers.
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My oldest sister is 75, I'm 72. Mary was 4 years old when Dad adopted her. It was after I got married that I learned Dad had adopted her. Dad treated all 4 kids as his own. Dad truly treated her as his own with all the love she deserved. After 68 years I still call her sister, and she calls me sister.
Okay FATHER, you're up. The boy's mom should never let him visit when the evil stepmother is around.
We have a little different take on the stepchild. My daughter's now ex had a surprise child before they got married that they learned about when she was a few months old. Fast forward 15 years, ex has been out of the picture completely for 10 years, child never hears from him, she's still our kid. She spends time with her birth mom and my daughter and calls them both mom. I can't imagine not having this grandchild in our lives.
I have stuff like this happen to me so I know if something like this happens the step mom would be even more mean to the poor kid because people like that step mom just don't learn very easily
I’m just besides myself at this woman’s request! I truly can’t believe that she had the nerves to utter such a request. I hope that SON never knows how she feels about him, also I hope she doesn’t treat him different from the other children. Shame on her!😡
When I knew my second wife I had one kid, and she had two. We're now 25 years together, and the three of them are OUR kids, they're brothers, and we're their parents and their children's grandma and grandpa.
She seems to think that when you marry, you only marry part of a family. Hard to understand. My oldest stepson is in the Army, currently serving in Korea with the same unit I served with in Korea, and I couldn't be prouder.
I want to know what asshole decided to take her request? This is disgusting.
My mother took in my cousin, his mother had an affair and wasn’t even sure if he belonged to my cousin, we ( I) raised him as my brother. I was 7 when he (2) came to live with us.
All my 4 grandparents raised "step children", all the children refer to the "step parents" as mom or dad. My uncles are over 60 and still talk about their "step parents" as their biological ones... I have a 3yo and a relationship with this amazing guy, who is not the father of my child, we are not even living together. Yesterday we spent the day together, all 3 of us, and my son told my partner he loved him... I saw so much love and happiness there I cried. No child deserves the kind of treatment this woman is doing. I hope he will feel all the love he deserves.
I've encountered one step-mom who favoured her biological child. It was very damaging to her step-son whose biological mother had died. At the other end of the spectrum, I've encountered stepchildren who've been blessed with wonderful step-parents -- to the point where they took after them. For example, I know a teenager who wants to go to law school, just like her stepmother.
I photoshop and this kind of request is made often. I dont make assumptions about why people want something shopped....because it may not be sinister...I truly wish people would mind their own business and since this site is a private group, I personally would be suing the ass munch that posted it on twitter....
Also, my partner became really depressed when his kid started calling his ex new partner "daddy" and calling her father by the name. He could not spend much time with his kid physically, so he felt like he was loosing the kid. And "daddy" was there everyday. So we should not try to be moms and dads to the kids, that are raised by their real moms and dads. I don't think it's healthy! Especially when there are so many breakups these days. You take care of the kid, you are his friend, but not a 2nd mom or dad, and you can't force yourself to love them as your own. This is asking too much!
Cmon! I'm not going around showcasing my stepkid as my family, because she has her own family and her own mom! I cannot post her pics or experience with her, because her mom does not want. And I don't feel she is my own child, and cannot force myself to love her. I can only be her friend. Stop demonizing people! There are many people who feel this way! You cannot force to love someone! Kid or not! Also it's not f**in healthy, when she calls her mom's new partner "daddy", she has her own dad! One and only! And what will happen when that "daddy" whill disappear? New daddy will come? And what if I leave? She won't be my child anymore? This is absurd!
Why you all so quick to judge her? The kid has his own mom, who also have her rights. Maybe she did not want her son to be featured with a stranger stepmom family on facebook. That woman wanted to show her own family to friend and relatives, and she by no means is required to display and love all the kids from previous marriages! Tell me, why a woman is required to LOVE and raise all the kids that are not hers? The kid HAS his mother! He is not orphan.
You know, when you read stories like this, you wonder: "who could possibly believe this is okay? What is their thinking process?" Thank you for answering that question.
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3/3 She proceeds to yell at me to speak up and the look my father gave her told me that the day was gonna go downhill. He looked at her and asked why she was yelling at me for asking a question. In which she had no response and that led to a screaming match and her and my step brother storming out of the house ( my step brother is a momma's boy and doesn't any and everything that his mommy wants) She left for 3+ hours and finally came back but still in a very bad mood still being a brat and throwing a fit. Didn't talk to em or my father the whole night and continuing int the next day she still has not uttered a single word to me other than sly snarky remarks. Sorry for blowing this feed's comment section up, just wanted people to know that this is something happens everyday and I just had to get this off my chest.
2/3 (considering he "cheated" on her when he was with my mother, even though they were separated for a year prior) and normally when she threatens him with divorce she will tell him to thank me for it. She reminds me every single time I do something that no matter what I do I always mess it up. In fact yesterday we had the family over for an early Thanksgiving and a few days earlier I put the turkey in the fridge on a plate like I was told well when she pulled it out it was still frozen and in her mind it was my fault (my dad was at work but was to come home shortly so I knew I wouldn't have to deal with her for very long on my own) I was given the job of cleaning the dining room which I did. My dad came home 10 minutes into me doing that and the second he sat down he brought up the turkey. In which he just bit his tongue (like normal) Then I asked her TWICE loud enough for my father to where she wanted something to go and she ignored me. So I waited until she looked at me.
1/2 Hello, as you may known already my name is Maddie (referring to my username) and I currently live my step mom and father along with my step brother and half brother. I constituently reminded nearly on a daily basis that I'm not her child and that I"ll never be her child or referred to as so. When we meet new people I'm referred to as her stepdaughter and nothing more. I'm also not allowed to talk to new people about my real mother. I tell my father about such matters and he normally just walks on eggshells around her. When she's around he's not allowed to tell me he loves me or show me any affection. We are also not allowed to have daddy daughter time unless he asks her first. He's sometimes brings up how she treats me different and it normally leads into a screaming match of her expressing how much of a disappoint I Amanda pointing out all my short coming and let's not forget to mention how I was an accident since I was the I was conceive
The three step kids in my family are family, period. I always did things with my sister's stepsons when they were younger just like I did with my brothers' boys. A few years ago, my sister decided to go through an online program and finally get the BA she stopped working on when her daughter was born in 1997. When she graduated last summer, those two stepsons were there for the whole ceremony and were very proud of her. I recently talked to one of my brothers, who was so excited that his stepson is moving into their city from out of state with his wife and kids. Those babies are his grandchildren as far as he is concerned. Family isn't just blood. Family are the people who you care about and support, and who give that back to you. I feel sorry for kids who have to put up with nasty step parents. I will say this too: Step parents who treat the "step" part like it doesn't exist have all my admiration. My sister-in-law's stepmother is an absolutely magnificent woman, and is adored.
It was my aunts wedding. I was to be included in the family photos, I think I was 4 or 3, someone pinched me so hard at first and I reacted and the photographer said the middle child is moving, I am not sure if it was my cousin or my aunt. The second time was so hard, I had to move out since she kept doing it over and over and yeah they put the picture of me crying and the other of them being alone. I wondered why they hated me so much. My mother also never protected me from them so she detests me and abandoned me for them. They are white and rich, I am not. My mother even sent someone to kill me so she could be rich like them, ( I lied make more money so she would love me but I guess she had other ideas ) and as of today I am a new logo, who so far has to other logo blocks, which will one day make a healthy, loving, respectful family. God is good. He has his ways. And as I write this, I seem to have an inkling of some past. Stay safe everyone. :-) God bless.
RUN! DON'T WALK! RUN AS FAST AS HELL AWAY FROM THAT BITCH! SHE'LL MAKE YOUR SON'S LIFE A LIVING HELL! LOVE YOUR SON MORE THAN THIS!
TO THE HUSBAND: RUN, DON'T WALK, LIKE HELL AND NEVER LOOK BACK AT THAT BITCH!
Didn't we see the exact same “situation“ just with a different family photo last year here on Boredpanda? I'm choosing to believe someone made this up to get attention on Twitter.
@Martha Meyer: I wouldn't be surprised if it is still genuine. It's more common that you think - to have a step-parent give their own kids priority over there step-kids, even to the point of having very little to do with them.
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This is private family business. Blowing this up is only going to make sure the kid sees it. Outrage culture at it's finest. We don't know her relationship with this kid. She could be a great stepmom for all we know. I see nothing worth ruining someone's life here for. We don't have the full story, but people love to be outraged.
It’s her profile picture. The kid is going to see it either way 🙄 We don’t know the full story and we don’t have to. That child will never forget what she did and it will hurt for a long time.
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Maybe her family is unaware that she married a previously married man. Maybe they have warped issues about that, so she removes the kid to send her mother a family photo? Or maybe she needed a photo that included only her own biological children, for some stupid thing. This doesn't have to mean she has evil thoughts about her step son. It's an odd request, but that doesn't mean she's heartless.
It means she isn’t thinking of her stepson. Aka, heartless. It doesn’t matter what the circumstances are, that kid will NEVER forget this. It will sting for years to come.
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So glad you were not my step mother....imagine how that little boy will feel when she announces she "only wanted pictures with HER OWN children, not him". Hope you never marry someone with kids....
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Except you can clearly see from the screenshot of her profile pic; she wanted a photo of "her" family... minus the unwanted step-kid.
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Nope. We don’t allow abuse to hide in darkness. When it involves cruelty—-and not just physical—-to vulnerable people (children, old people, or any others who can’t defend themselves) or all animals, we SHOULD call it out—-and loudly denounce it. Abusers fully deserve public shaming. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
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Then she should have taken a picture of just her biological sons. The issue we have here is that she's discriminating against her stepkid because he doesn't share any DNA with her.
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The partners sister, brothers or parents don't live with you, and stepchildren do, either occasionally or part time. It's far different to not like an adult than to be cruel to a child.
Load More Replies... The husband shoud respond by making the same picture with HER removed his profile pic.
At 33 I'm still tolerated my by step parent and not loved. At 33 it still makes me cry.
Gemma - I'm so sorry that you have to feel like that. I have never had step-parents (just biological), but they haven't been in my life since 1997 as they were always reminding me that I was a mistake in their eyes, even though I spent my entire childhood doing anything they wanted, just so I could try to feel loved. In 2003, I became a mom. My daughter is the family I deserve. I shower her with love daily and always remind her that she's my best friend in the world. I never want her to feel like I did (and sometimes still do.)
Load More Replies... My mother's youngest sister is fourteen years younger than her. When my aunt was eleven, her father died and then my grandmother had a stroke that put her in a nursing home. Without hesitation or even a second thought my parents took her in and raised her alongside my sister and I. My dad never treated her less than or like she was unimportant. He treated her with the same love that he showed us. Blood doesn't make you family, love does.
If people have no problem saying “Love me, love my dog”, why do they seem completely incapable of saying “Love me, love my kids”—-and making that a real dealbreaker?
Where was the boy's father when this was going down? Did he approve? The situation makes me want to cry.
He has his son in the shoot, I doubt he was involved in the photoshop request tbh.
Load More Replies... As a teacher, I see unloved kids all the time. I do what I can, and I tell each and every one of my students I love them and care about them. If they need food or clothes, we try our best to get them clothed and fed. There are people in this world who care more for animals than they do for children. Children are people, and adults of the future!
WAIT! Do we know why she wants the kid removed? What if she wants to post it to Facebook but his real mom doesn't want him on Facebook. She might be awful or we might just not know.
True. I wish people would ASK before they judge. If they did and this was the outcome - hell yes, go judge! But not asking is just assuming, and we all know what happens if one assumes.
Load More Replies... Just like the new wife of my daughter's father asked him. And he served.
Read this about six times and still have no idea what you are trying to say.
Load More Replies... WOW. I can't even - My stepmother was the epitome of what step parenting should be. She didn't try to act like my "other mother", she was just "hey, we live together, so let's just live together". She was married to my Dad for 42 years. He died six years ago and some people act like it's weird that we are still the best of friends. Hello? We've known each other for 42 years?
The dad is no price either. If she’s removing this child from the picture this is not the first time she has shown rejection.
EXACTLY THIS. They’ve been together long enough to have two children. There is no way this is the first time she started showing her true colors.
Load More Replies... These people make me sick. I have a blended family my hubby raised three boys in his last relationship that weren't his and then had a bio baby with her, so he has one bio son and 3 that he considers his. So when I got with him they were still close and I immediately chose to be there as well so even though I didn't get to raise the other boys I still consider them "mine" we tell everyone we have 7 kids (I have 3) his bio son lives with us, the other three are 18-23. But no one would know the difference. They are all my kids and I love all of them. I tell them all the time I couldn't love you more if you DID come from my uterus. His mom asks me all the time, how come I cant get a grandchild from you? I'm like ummm I came preloaded with three, take it or leave it. I can't stand people seriously.
I love the internet. Everything you do is now the world's business to judge. And yes, this woman sucks and I hope she sees this has made the rounds and feels ashamed of herself, but she probably won't and is feeling like the victim instead of reflecting on the awful thing she did.
id row: I dunno. You don't think gossip existed before this? I know people who grew up in small towns and/or in a church system where everybody knew everybody AND their business. Sure, social media is that on steroids, but c'mon. This is no different than a lot of family get togethers.
Load More Replies... My oldest sister is 75, I'm 72. Mary was 4 years old when Dad adopted her. It was after I got married that I learned Dad had adopted her. Dad treated all 4 kids as his own. Dad truly treated her as his own with all the love she deserved. After 68 years I still call her sister, and she calls me sister.
Okay FATHER, you're up. The boy's mom should never let him visit when the evil stepmother is around.
We have a little different take on the stepchild. My daughter's now ex had a surprise child before they got married that they learned about when she was a few months old. Fast forward 15 years, ex has been out of the picture completely for 10 years, child never hears from him, she's still our kid. She spends time with her birth mom and my daughter and calls them both mom. I can't imagine not having this grandchild in our lives.
I have stuff like this happen to me so I know if something like this happens the step mom would be even more mean to the poor kid because people like that step mom just don't learn very easily
I’m just besides myself at this woman’s request! I truly can’t believe that she had the nerves to utter such a request. I hope that SON never knows how she feels about him, also I hope she doesn’t treat him different from the other children. Shame on her!😡
When I knew my second wife I had one kid, and she had two. We're now 25 years together, and the three of them are OUR kids, they're brothers, and we're their parents and their children's grandma and grandpa.
She seems to think that when you marry, you only marry part of a family. Hard to understand. My oldest stepson is in the Army, currently serving in Korea with the same unit I served with in Korea, and I couldn't be prouder.
I want to know what asshole decided to take her request? This is disgusting.
My mother took in my cousin, his mother had an affair and wasn’t even sure if he belonged to my cousin, we ( I) raised him as my brother. I was 7 when he (2) came to live with us.
All my 4 grandparents raised "step children", all the children refer to the "step parents" as mom or dad. My uncles are over 60 and still talk about their "step parents" as their biological ones... I have a 3yo and a relationship with this amazing guy, who is not the father of my child, we are not even living together. Yesterday we spent the day together, all 3 of us, and my son told my partner he loved him... I saw so much love and happiness there I cried. No child deserves the kind of treatment this woman is doing. I hope he will feel all the love he deserves.
I've encountered one step-mom who favoured her biological child. It was very damaging to her step-son whose biological mother had died. At the other end of the spectrum, I've encountered stepchildren who've been blessed with wonderful step-parents -- to the point where they took after them. For example, I know a teenager who wants to go to law school, just like her stepmother.
I photoshop and this kind of request is made often. I dont make assumptions about why people want something shopped....because it may not be sinister...I truly wish people would mind their own business and since this site is a private group, I personally would be suing the ass munch that posted it on twitter....
Also, my partner became really depressed when his kid started calling his ex new partner "daddy" and calling her father by the name. He could not spend much time with his kid physically, so he felt like he was loosing the kid. And "daddy" was there everyday. So we should not try to be moms and dads to the kids, that are raised by their real moms and dads. I don't think it's healthy! Especially when there are so many breakups these days. You take care of the kid, you are his friend, but not a 2nd mom or dad, and you can't force yourself to love them as your own. This is asking too much!
Cmon! I'm not going around showcasing my stepkid as my family, because she has her own family and her own mom! I cannot post her pics or experience with her, because her mom does not want. And I don't feel she is my own child, and cannot force myself to love her. I can only be her friend. Stop demonizing people! There are many people who feel this way! You cannot force to love someone! Kid or not! Also it's not f**in healthy, when she calls her mom's new partner "daddy", she has her own dad! One and only! And what will happen when that "daddy" whill disappear? New daddy will come? And what if I leave? She won't be my child anymore? This is absurd!
Why you all so quick to judge her? The kid has his own mom, who also have her rights. Maybe she did not want her son to be featured with a stranger stepmom family on facebook. That woman wanted to show her own family to friend and relatives, and she by no means is required to display and love all the kids from previous marriages! Tell me, why a woman is required to LOVE and raise all the kids that are not hers? The kid HAS his mother! He is not orphan.
You know, when you read stories like this, you wonder: "who could possibly believe this is okay? What is their thinking process?" Thank you for answering that question.
Load More Replies... 3/3 She proceeds to yell at me to speak up and the look my father gave her told me that the day was gonna go downhill. He looked at her and asked why she was yelling at me for asking a question. In which she had no response and that led to a screaming match and her and my step brother storming out of the house ( my step brother is a momma's boy and doesn't any and everything that his mommy wants) She left for 3+ hours and finally came back but still in a very bad mood still being a brat and throwing a fit. Didn't talk to em or my father the whole night and continuing int the next day she still has not uttered a single word to me other than sly snarky remarks. Sorry for blowing this feed's comment section up, just wanted people to know that this is something happens everyday and I just had to get this off my chest.
2/3 (considering he "cheated" on her when he was with my mother, even though they were separated for a year prior) and normally when she threatens him with divorce she will tell him to thank me for it. She reminds me every single time I do something that no matter what I do I always mess it up. In fact yesterday we had the family over for an early Thanksgiving and a few days earlier I put the turkey in the fridge on a plate like I was told well when she pulled it out it was still frozen and in her mind it was my fault (my dad was at work but was to come home shortly so I knew I wouldn't have to deal with her for very long on my own) I was given the job of cleaning the dining room which I did. My dad came home 10 minutes into me doing that and the second he sat down he brought up the turkey. In which he just bit his tongue (like normal) Then I asked her TWICE loud enough for my father to where she wanted something to go and she ignored me. So I waited until she looked at me.
1/2 Hello, as you may known already my name is Maddie (referring to my username) and I currently live my step mom and father along with my step brother and half brother. I constituently reminded nearly on a daily basis that I'm not her child and that I"ll never be her child or referred to as so. When we meet new people I'm referred to as her stepdaughter and nothing more. I'm also not allowed to talk to new people about my real mother. I tell my father about such matters and he normally just walks on eggshells around her. When she's around he's not allowed to tell me he loves me or show me any affection. We are also not allowed to have daddy daughter time unless he asks her first. He's sometimes brings up how she treats me different and it normally leads into a screaming match of her expressing how much of a disappoint I Amanda pointing out all my short coming and let's not forget to mention how I was an accident since I was the I was conceive
The three step kids in my family are family, period. I always did things with my sister's stepsons when they were younger just like I did with my brothers' boys. A few years ago, my sister decided to go through an online program and finally get the BA she stopped working on when her daughter was born in 1997. When she graduated last summer, those two stepsons were there for the whole ceremony and were very proud of her. I recently talked to one of my brothers, who was so excited that his stepson is moving into their city from out of state with his wife and kids. Those babies are his grandchildren as far as he is concerned. Family isn't just blood. Family are the people who you care about and support, and who give that back to you. I feel sorry for kids who have to put up with nasty step parents. I will say this too: Step parents who treat the "step" part like it doesn't exist have all my admiration. My sister-in-law's stepmother is an absolutely magnificent woman, and is adored.
It was my aunts wedding. I was to be included in the family photos, I think I was 4 or 3, someone pinched me so hard at first and I reacted and the photographer said the middle child is moving, I am not sure if it was my cousin or my aunt. The second time was so hard, I had to move out since she kept doing it over and over and yeah they put the picture of me crying and the other of them being alone. I wondered why they hated me so much. My mother also never protected me from them so she detests me and abandoned me for them. They are white and rich, I am not. My mother even sent someone to kill me so she could be rich like them, ( I lied make more money so she would love me but I guess she had other ideas ) and as of today I am a new logo, who so far has to other logo blocks, which will one day make a healthy, loving, respectful family. God is good. He has his ways. And as I write this, I seem to have an inkling of some past. Stay safe everyone. :-) God bless.
RUN! DON'T WALK! RUN AS FAST AS HELL AWAY FROM THAT BITCH! SHE'LL MAKE YOUR SON'S LIFE A LIVING HELL! LOVE YOUR SON MORE THAN THIS!
TO THE HUSBAND: RUN, DON'T WALK, LIKE HELL AND NEVER LOOK BACK AT THAT BITCH!
Didn't we see the exact same “situation“ just with a different family photo last year here on Boredpanda? I'm choosing to believe someone made this up to get attention on Twitter.
@Martha Meyer: I wouldn't be surprised if it is still genuine. It's more common that you think - to have a step-parent give their own kids priority over there step-kids, even to the point of having very little to do with them.
Load More Replies... This is private family business. Blowing this up is only going to make sure the kid sees it. Outrage culture at it's finest. We don't know her relationship with this kid. She could be a great stepmom for all we know. I see nothing worth ruining someone's life here for. We don't have the full story, but people love to be outraged.
It’s her profile picture. The kid is going to see it either way 🙄 We don’t know the full story and we don’t have to. That child will never forget what she did and it will hurt for a long time.
Load More Replies... Maybe her family is unaware that she married a previously married man. Maybe they have warped issues about that, so she removes the kid to send her mother a family photo? Or maybe she needed a photo that included only her own biological children, for some stupid thing. This doesn't have to mean she has evil thoughts about her step son. It's an odd request, but that doesn't mean she's heartless.
It means she isn’t thinking of her stepson. Aka, heartless. It doesn’t matter what the circumstances are, that kid will NEVER forget this. It will sting for years to come.
Load More Replies... So glad you were not my step mother....imagine how that little boy will feel when she announces she "only wanted pictures with HER OWN children, not him". Hope you never marry someone with kids....
Load More Replies... Except you can clearly see from the screenshot of her profile pic; she wanted a photo of "her" family... minus the unwanted step-kid.
Load More Replies... Nope. We don’t allow abuse to hide in darkness. When it involves cruelty—-and not just physical—-to vulnerable people (children, old people, or any others who can’t defend themselves) or all animals, we SHOULD call it out—-and loudly denounce it. Abusers fully deserve public shaming. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
Load More Replies... Then she should have taken a picture of just her biological sons. The issue we have here is that she's discriminating against her stepkid because he doesn't share any DNA with her.
Load More Replies... The partners sister, brothers or parents don't live with you, and stepchildren do, either occasionally or part time. It's far different to not like an adult than to be cruel to a child.
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