Mother Cancels Stepson’s Birthday Party For Facepalming Her, Causes Drama

Step relations have their own complexities and I don’t think I have heard of many success stories revolving around these relationships working out and remaining gelled. Kudos to those who make it work out as it requires efforts from all ends, but mostly they don’t and that is the reality.

Reddit user u/MissBarker93 has a stepson and the two have a terrible relationship. She tries to engage with him but he just does not like her. OP celebrates his and her daughter’s birthday together on the same day because their birthdates are only 10 days apart. While OP was preparing everything she asked her stepson who he was inviting to the party. He reacted by facepalming as he didn’t want to answer the question and she did not like that at all. So much so that she canceled his birthday party as a punishment for facepalming her.

The matter was taken to the courts of “Am I The A$$hole?” community members as she wanted to know if canceling her stepson’s birthday party was the right punishment to put his attitude in check on not.

Scroll down below to read how it all went down!

1. An entire party canceled on a facepalm? Let’s see what happened.

2. OP’s relationship with her stepson is terrible.

3. The stepson’s birthday is coming and usually the family celebrates his and his stepsister’s birthday together because they are only 10 days apart.

4. OP asked her stepson who out of his friends had he invited to the party and he facepalmed saying he is done answering this question.

5. OP lost it and told him she is canceling his birthday party. He thought it was a joke as she had threatened him in the past to improve his attitude.

6. But she wasn’t playing around this time as she actually canceled her stepson’s birthday party.

7. Stepson’s grandparents did not like this decision of OP’s and showed their anger.

8. Grandparents still wanted to come but OP said she wouldn’t open the door.

Here’s what the internet had to say about this:

9. Terrible sounds too polite.

10. Yeah, she probably combines their birthdays to save money.

11. The irony.

OP shared an update trying to clear her name as everyone had declared her an AH for what she did.

12. OP realized she was too harsh on her stepson. That’s progress.

13. Internet suggested OP she should use some other, less harsh, punishments to sort his attitude if he remains stubborn.

14. Now this is lowkey foul on OP’s part.

15. The next morning stepson cried that his birthday party won’t be happening. She told him it will happen if he behaved.

16. To OP’s surprise, it worked. Her stepson stopped being rude and facepalming her.

17. But the grandparents were still really upset that she delayed her stepson’s party while still having her daughter’s on time.

18. Stepson’s birthday party took place and it was a consecutive success after her daughter’s party. OP was really happy that her stepson had finally started behaving nicely with her.

OP tried her best but she failed to change the view of the AITA community members. Here’s what they said:

19. OP’s way of parenting is the worse.

20. She is the standard we all hear about in stories…oh wait, this is a story.

21. Everyone should send a virtual facepalm her way.

22. No matter how hard you try, OP, you will still remain the meanest step-parent ever.

What do you think?

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