A concerned stepgrandmother writes in, worried that her daughter and new son-in-law have forgotten about his 8-year-old daughter during their wedding celebrations. The stepgrandmother details several instances where the stepdaughter, Grace, was seemingly overlooked and left feeling unimportant.
My 35-year-old daughter recently married a man she met online about a year and a half ago. He has an 8-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. My daughter has never wanted to have children and doesn’t particularly like kids in general.
I kept my thoughts on her becoming a stepmother to myself because I figured she and her now-husband were both adults capable of their own decision-making, and also that her husband would have the best interests of his daughter in mind in all of decision-making. Apparently, I was wrong, and after the wedding last weekend, I’m not sure I can keep my thoughts to myself anymore. Throughout the wedding and all the associated events, it was clear that Grace was a complete afterthought for both Laura and her new husband. They didn’t know when/where she would be walking/standing during the ceremony, left her out of 95 percent of the various family photos, didn’t have plans for who/where she would stay on the wedding night (and when I asked, I was told, “Oh, one of my siblings will just keep her overnight”), and hadn’t told her she would be staying with her grandparents for a week after the wedding while they went on their honeymoon. My heart was breaking all weekend for this child that I’ve met exactly twice. How do I bring this up to Laura and her husband? I bring it up? Is it too late to say anything? (And, if I do, will I damage my relationship with my daughter?) I feel like they’ve gotten so wrapped up in their relationship, that they’ve forgotten there’s someone else to be thinking about too. Your daughter and her new husband have to decide whether you are Grace’s stepgrandmother in more than name only. It doesn’t sound like anyone was thinking about Grace before now (and now, it seems—if I am to take your account at face value—it’s only you)
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