Hey, Hey Waffle gang, I do hope you are well. My name is Mark and today we're checking

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first story. Much love guys. Now today's first story is from another throwaway

account and does come with an update as well. That's titled, How Do I 24 Mail? Get my dad 52

male to realize his wife 38 is not my mom and to quit pressing a relationship. My mom passed

when I was 14. I was always closer with her than

my dad, so I took it very hard and still missed her every day. My dad moved on extremely quickly.

I'm talking about one and a half months later, and he was openly dating his current wife.

I suspect he was cheating on my mom. She moved in four months after my mom's death.

Then nine months after her death, they announced their engagement on my birthday as one of my gifts.

I obviously didn't take it well. Made a scene and dumped the cake they got me and walked out.

I disappeared for a few days until they were about to put out a

missing person slash runaway report. I was forced to go back. They tried to get rid of all

the evidence of my mum, pictures, personal effects, memories and others. I kept what I could and

hid some others. They wouldn't let me celebrate her birthday or anything to do with my mom.

They tried to force me to call her, my dad's wife, mum, and I never did.

They would ignore me when I called her by her name.

She would introduce herself as my mom, and I would correct her every time.

It got to the point that I stopped talking to her unless absolutely necessary or if I was correcting her.

These talks were usually one-word answers. My dad got angry every time I didn't call her mom,

use her first name or introduce her as dad's name's wife. I once spent two weeks not talking to either of them when I was 16 because I was ruining their family dynamic. Until I could be a part of the family,

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