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story. Much love guys. Now today's first story comes from the Am I the Asshole subreddit and says,

Am I the Asshole for not letting my stepmother meet my daughter.

Myself, 33 female and my husband 38, have a three-month-old daughter.

My stepmother is strictly prohibited from approaching me and my baby,

and consequently my father refuses to see his granddaughter without his wife. For context, my stepmother

had a clandestine abortion in her youth, and had severe complications, which left her infertile.

When she married my father, she immediately came to see me and my siblings as her children,

being very pushy and invasive and wanting to outdo our mother, who is alive and present in our lives.

Even when we were kids, the situation made us uncomfortable, and her obsession with motherhood

and being our only mother scared us and drove us away completely. My father wanting

her to be happy, started trying to force us to call her mummy. Eventually our mom got our custody

and we moved across the country. Over the years in the physical distance, my relationship with

them became more tolerable. There were occasional problems

such as the fact that she wanted to be mentioned as a mother in the wedding invitations,

or when she tried to adopt my niece after my sister-in-law's death, declaring that my brother

was unable to raise his daughter. Before the pandemic, she and my father moved to my state, something common for retirees.

She started posting photos of my ultrasounds and baby clothes with captions like, looking

forward to my baby's arrival, or at last entering the journey of motherhood.

I scolded her and demanded that she delete the posts. And then the physical

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