Fox News host Trey Gowdy discusses his friend Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott’s wedding. A bride-to-be was perfectly within her rights to extend "father of the bride" duties only to her biological father and not to her stepfather as well, Reddit users assured the distraught woman.
"AITA for not giving the role of father of the bride to both my dad and stepdad?" Reddit user "Mindless_Diet_5123" wondered in an Aug. 19, 2024, post on the "Am I the A--hole" (AITA) advice forum. In the post, the writer said she's a 27-year-old woman and the youngest of four siblings.
COUPLE HOSTING LUXURY WEDDING AT FAMED CATHEDRAL ASKS GUESTS TO FORK OVER $333 EACH "My parents divorced when my siblings (32m, 30f, 29m) and I (27f) were young," she wrote. "I was a newborn when they separated, for context." While her father never remarried, the woman said her mother married her stepfather when the girl was just 5 years old.
Although her parents had equal custody, "we were closer to our dad than our mom or stepdad," the woman wrote — as her father was "more of a nurturer and we had a closer relationship with him." The Reddit user said her parents separated when she was an infant, and her mother remarried when by the time the girl turned five years old. (iStock) "We still loved Mom, but it wasn't the same," Mindless_Diet_5123 said, adding that "there were times we felt some jealousy and maybe even resentment about it" from her stepfather.
"As an adult, I can sort of understand, espe.