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Hey, hey, waffle gang. I do hope you are well.

My name is Mark. And today we're checking out some more relationship stories and if you do love a Reddit story, why not consider hitting that like, subscribe,

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Now today's first story is one that we've covered in the past. So as always, I'm going to put the original post in there as well, but timestamps are always in the description and on the timeline below. So feel free to use them if you'd like to skip certain parts and let's crack on with it. So the story was from Hopeful Picture 586, who asks, am I the asshole for refusing to go to my daughter's graduation ceremony?

I, 40s female, have a daughter 18 female, who I'll call Bev.

When she was younger, her father broke up before she was born, was very involved in her life and she was admittedly a dad's girl. But this all changed when

she turned eight and he got married. He barely called and just abandoned her for his new family.

This was obviously hard on her and she rebelled a lot, but she went to therapy and seemed good.

She has been in therapy for the past 10 years. She still goes. Bev has not seen him since

she was 12 and he speaks to her maybe three times a year maximum. When he calls, she believes he is

now back in her life for good and then goes her for the remainder of the year. This being said,

Bev and I have a great relationship. We do everything together. She even

refers to me as her best friend, so I'd say we have a good relationship. Recently was her graduation

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