Dad Ditched Me for a Vacay with His New Family-Now He Expects Me to Give Step-Sis a Boost!

[@mimiwhite1963]

Leaving a 9 year old alone for 3 days is child abandonment and your Dad could have gone to jail for that. Not sure why you even speak to these people. You need to be No Contact with your Dad and Jane. Get a restraining order if necessary. There is no benifit maintaining any contact.

[@gamerkat1492]

SCREW THEM I WOULD HAVE CALLED THE POLICE

[@thomasjoseph5876]

These fake A.I. stories suck. How is it that Betty is 8 years older than the OP but yet they are the same year in college??? Timelines are always a mess with these garbage stories.

[@maigrande-wang696]

Boomies falls of AI stories. 🤣

[@snidecommenter7117]

As soon as the father played the 'family' card, OP had a grand opportunity to shit in his cornflakes. "But Dad, we both know that 'family' treats 'family' like shit. You wouldn't want me to break 'family' tradition, would you?"

[@VickiDrake-i4c]

The aunt should have called Child Protective Services (CPS) when she realised that OP had been left behind to watch the house and the stepsister`s dog. To go on vacation and leave a nine year old child alone is a criminal act. While it would have been a first offence, it would have resulted in a report being started on the couple and ,perhaps, some monitoring. Once enough evidence was collected, Aunt Sarah could have stepped up & acted as a guardian.

[@panetapes]

And Ops life would have gotten worse and the aunt would have been cut off.

[@shells500tutubo]

@@panetapes Yep, thank you!

[@rogueshark23]

CPS wouldn't do shit since there are thousands of other cases I highly doubt OPs childhood would improve.

[@alexguzman5547]

Yeah but if that happened, the creative writing exercise would have ended much sooner. 😏

[@TheVeggiekat]

@@panetapes the story is fake. AI generated. Look how OP and Betty age.

[@krazzygranny7032]

I mean, how many years has Betty been in college considering she’s wet 5 to 7 years older than the OP?

[@stevewilson6723]

the OP is 9 and the step sister was 17 so that would be 8 years.

[@shells500tutubo]

I have known people like this, bouncing between partying and attending school. They keep that up as long as there is someone to fund their lifestyle. When I started a state school there was a guy, let's call him John, who was sitting in the quad when I arrived on campus. He had graduated from high school with my sibling four years earlier. He greeted me and said there was a party at X frat house that Friday, and I should be there. When I graduated six years later with two separate majors, he was still there, talking about frat parties. This was during the Vietnam War, but he was never drafted and never enlisted, so there was no good explanation for him to be there for ten years and counting. For all I know he is still under that tree in the quad, talking to the freshmen girls. Not creepy though, just sad.

[@rogueshark23]

I want to say that there's no way a nearly 30 year old woman can't take responsibility but I digress. Since, there are posts about men and women acting like children in their 30's or 40's.

[@jmcega9005]

I would like to say it's irreal, but it isn't, while there's someone there to support them they don't really grow up. Just a few weeks meet a 40 yo woman who was daddys princess and her parents were pressuring the brother to take care of her because they were too old.

[@floggednflankednfl.3277]

AI.

[@natedablack7857]

You'd think that once she got away from them she'd have blocked 'em...SMH

[@phillipschwoerke8374]

I kept waiting for the OP to tell her dad "that isn't always fair" or whatever he said. When she kept asking for help for Betty

[@Lippy-f9w]

Why didn't the aunt call cps

[@stevewilson6723]

CPS only comes out for physical and sexual abuse cases. They are too busy to really handle the emotional abuse cases for the most part. It would have been a waste of time to call them.

[@mimiwhite1963]

Abandonment is serious. You dont leave a 9 year old child alone for 3 days. Sarah was neglectent not calling CPS. They could have gone to jail for that.

[@shells500tutubo]

@@mimiwhite1963 We don't know that she didn't. This is all told by Op.

[@jessdeeschulthz2427]

Probably a fake story. How can Jane be 32 now, 12 years younger than op dad and had a 17 year old?

[@Kangstor]

For one not every country has a dedicated cps and not every countrys equivalent of cps works sameway the story does not indicate it is in states or in any countey speficially

[@wplains]

They left a nine year old home alone? That’s illegal in most countries. Is this story even real? Because if OP was a couple of years into college and she left at 18 it means she was 20 and Betty 28. How is a 28-year still in college? What a ridiculous story!

[@justmepercy720]

Oh boy, could I have written Betty’s assignments! She was obviously dumb enough not to spot sabotage. And getting someone else to do your work is cheating, and unis treat that seriously.

[@treehouse2902]

The bigger question is, why are you still in contact with them? Also, at 12 and later, OP was old enough to seek legal help. She was old enough to demand to go live with her aunt. The abusers were butt hurt their victim got away. Also, trying to trap the OP in academic dishonesty is just a criminal act. The OP should have changed her phone number.

[@rb5174]

All the story was missing was a glass slipper

[@sirmatsdubois2509]

To be honest I think the father really needed that reality check at the end. he pretty much made his own biological daughter feel like she was nothing but a maid in the home. right after she lost her mother! there are consequences for your actions and these are the ones for the father. his own daughter doesn't want to have anything to do with him anymore and his other daughter is pretty much useless! also the really think after treating her the way they did that you would just jump to the opportunity to help them? and like op said if they want to help their favorite daughter they should do it themselves. because at the end of the day they treated her like a princess and now she can't do anything without them. I applaud op for just willing to move on and not fix something that's been broken beyond repair. and now her father will have to take it to the grave that his own biological daughter doesn't want anything to do with him I will most likely never accept him as a father again. also no kid owes their parents for raising them. that is literally their legal obligation by law. an obligation isn't the same thing as a favor. a favor would have been doing stuff like buying her expensive toys, Going on really luxurious vacations and so many other things. but just giving a kid a home and food to eat it's your legal obligation along with education. they treated their maid like crap and now they don't have any control over her. I hope they rot with their favorite child. because quite frankly they've destroyed whatever possibilities they have for future.

[@rogueshark23]

At this point he should be known as sperm donor and the only real biological parent OP had was her mother.

[@dlc563]

Agreed, but OP didn’t go far enough. She needed to point out how he let them treat her like a slave , how he never once was her dad after he married Jane. How he didn’t keep in touch except when Betty needed help. How he wasn’t a man but Jane’s btch boy. Tell him how neglected and abused her. She needed to point out everything.

[@rhiarebecca2000]

Absolutely can’t stand any parent who gets with a new partner and then prioritises that person and that persons kids over their own kids.. it’s sickening and cruel

[@Ahalaia]

So Betty is like 6-8 years older than OP so that means that Betty was in college in her mid 25s, why'd she wait so long to go to college? was it just to get OP to help her? OP should of blocked them all and went no contact as soon as she left for college.

[@quitenerdy1]

So betty was 9 years older than op but they are both going to college together at the same time 🤔

[@Ahalaia]

Glad OP stood her ground and told them whats up

[@whatsthepointanymore]

Maybe Betty was seven and not seventeen when they moved in. Typical story sayings and plot scenarios... evil step mom, spoiled step sibling, so & so is my rock, fmaily takes care of family, a academic over achiever, savior family member, final meeting at coffee shop, etc... nothing unique.

[@shells500tutubo]

Correct, and unfortunately these scenarios are very common. This story didn't have any of the embellishments that make most of the other stories sound fake.

[@rogueshark23]

​@@shells500tutuboI think they are based on some real events but are dramatize. Sadly though there are bio children being neglected because their parent are choosing their new family over them. Then there are stories of either the father or mother tried to get their bio kid to blend in with the step family.

[@Ahalaia]

I'm confused didn't he say his dad was in his mid 30s when OPs mom died yet he later married a woman 35 who was 12 years younger than him? The narrator says OP was 9 both times so not sure what is up

[@Rorschachqp]

Let’s face it, this is just a rage bait story.

[@kaseysmama1]

These types of parents need their kids to tell them the cold, hard truth.....that the wrong parent died. And that parent would be so disgusted and ashamed of them.

[@KKOPPONG]

Imagine being expected to do someone’s essays & assignments😂

[@AgnesC1111]

Maybe they should have taught her to clean up her own messes when she was a kid.

[@Permenantlyexhaustedghost115]

It’s not Ops responsibility to clean up Betty’s messes. The dad and step mom were the ones enabling her entitled behavior and encouraged her to act like the world revolves around her. They created this spoiled brat: they get to deal with it.

[@DCD762]

People say that blood is thicker than water Well, whoever came up with that saying had a very sheltered life My family has 0 blood relation with me, yet they are more my family than my blood family ever was

[@themuss2009]

Funny how these stories involved a minor being left all alone but no mention of CPS?

[@jasonwolf8841]

this story is so fake

[@toomuchsauce5599]

If you’re gonna make up a story, at least have a satisfying ending. Spoiler Alert: she never learns her lesson. They contacted 3 or 4 times in however many years she’s been in college. And every single time its for favors for her stepsister. Her catchphrase should be “maybe just maybe they wanted to apologize this time”.

[@TheVeggiekat]

So daughter was 9 when mom died and never aged? She stayed nine through it all. Oh age jump. OP is 12 but Betty stayed 17. AI can’t handle people aging

[@youmadhuh6375]

I've neve heard of a parent picking the stepchild over their own child.. it's usually the other way around..." dad" should be ashamed of himself.. he didn't even notice or cared his own flesh & blood was distancing herself from him... its like betty became his daughter and his daughter became just the seevant.. it's sad he took their side over hers.. he actually let this woman and her train wreck of a daughter treat his own child like crap.

[@livdawson4216]

What parent leaves their child home alone for Christmas? No pun intended, but these people don’t deserve children or the title of “parent”… This is just disgusting behaviour 😢

[@bethanderson7467]

I would have written the papers with massive fake facts.

[@califdad4]

Dad is totally under his wives control and we all know what that's about, he's blinded by the nooky. What a worthless Dad

[@gamerkat1492]

I woild have had Aunt Sarah Call the Police during the Christmas incident & tell them the TRUTH about what happened & say you want to live you want to live with your AUNT beacuse you are being treated like a SLAVE at home

[@aissamamatoua.1194]

They are 8 years appart , how are they in collège at the same time ?

[@hjacobsen27]

Going to call Fake! On this one.

[@thomasjoseph5876]

Don't waste your time with this fake A.I. story. The ending is.... "I don't know what happened to....." So basically it is a hollow ending where after almost 30 wasted minutes WE are supposed to guess what happened. Down Vote and no subscription.

[@dna1234able]

😂 really she escaped from a abusive family why would she keep talking to them? And entertain their delusions that she was part of the family! She's old enough to have her own kids and start her own family never talk to those people again

[@grahn3878]

1 story dad was lead by his dk. Sadly this is norm for stepfamily’s . Father bio kids being neglected and emotionally abused

[@shells500tutubo]

I have to say this is not a gendered thing. Many of the bio moms are also chickensh*t parents once they get a man to share a bed with, especially if he has a little money.

[@kyrietolliver7284]

It's time for Betty to get a job or a rich husband.

[@jmcega9005]

They treat you like crap and still you have comunication with them? Maybe you like drama.

[@onlyget1]

This is one of those stories that I know was made up as there is no way that a 9 year old would be left in the house alone for 3 days and the child not be taken away & the parents jailed for abandonment & endangerment. Just insane and then all these years of treating her like shit and she hadn’t already blocked & gone NC? Just to unbelievable

[@shells500tutubo]

I know personally two friends who were left at ages nine and ten to take care of their younger siblings while the parents went god knows where. Probably to get high. You know what those friends were afraid of? That THEY would get into trouble if they didn't keep the house clean and the siblings fed and taken care of. I doubt they even knew of anything like CPS. Children often keep things like that secret, and one of these friends' mother told her if she didn't keep everything together the police would come to the house and arrest HER, a nine year old, and this friend, now in her sixties, believed her. None, and I mean NONE, of this story was unbelievable, unfortunately. Op was one of the lucky ones who had extended family who saved her.

[@onlyget1]

@@shells500tutubo Ok but the Aunt & Cousin came over and I know the Aunt knows CPS that’s why it makes no sense to me why she didn’t call the authorities

[@lynettephillip2412]

How can OP be in college with Betty and Betty is eight years older than OP?

[@shells500tutubo]

Who said she was in college WITH Betty? I get the feeling Betty was screwing around and partying until her mother told her she had to get a job or go to school, especially when Jane saw how Op was doing well.

[@lynettephillip2412]

@@shells500tutubo OP said that they wanted her to help Betty with school work. They don't have to be in the same school but she infers that Betty was in school and they wanted her to help.

[@marycarlin1911]

Nope, tell her to get down the road and never come back!!!

[@SlideRulePirate]

Fake and not even original. Just a loose rewrite of 'Cinderella'.

[@mspinelli6520]

YOU DONT OWN SHIT TO ANYONE

[@michaelmccurry2314]

Why won’t you leave and go stay with your real family?

[@shells500tutubo]

What makes you think her father would have let her go? No way! They would lose their housekeeper. And it takes money to go to court to get custody, and aunt is not the mother. Also, at that age Op would not be a reliable witness for herself, meaning she would not want to make her father look bad, in some twisted sense of loyalty and hope for him to step up for her.

[@mimiwhite1963]

She should have gone NC at 18. They were abusive.

[@shells500tutubo]

It takes a while to disentangle. Many of the Ops in these stories will explain that.

[@cornbread12987]

Yeah. This is a compoite of the multitude of other cinderella stories told on reddit. Its bland and repetitive. Its ai

[@shells500tutubo]

This is one that actually sounds real. No AI phrases like, "for the first time in a long time", "a lot has happened since the last update", etc. And no tidy ending either, although it was very hopeful. It's more like this is a real story and the others have embellished this one with a lot of ridiculous scenarios.

[@johnchen997]

The most selfish people are the ones that call other people selfish