A woman who lost her own mother very young says she decided to keep her pregnancy secret from the majority of her family - a decision they did not take well at all. Opening up about her unconventional choice, the woman explained her stepmother had become 'too pushy' about filling the mother role after their mum died, leaving her and her sister feeling very uncomfortable. Her sister came to 'despise' their stepmother during her own two pregnancies, as she had 'tormented her with talk of how she'd need her, as her mum, she needed to be there for her baby'. The stepmother even told her becoming a mother would bond them closer together, an idea her sister just wasn't keen on at all. She and her sister lost their mother very young (Stock Photo) ( Getty Images/iStockphoto) Taking to Reddit, where she goes by the username u/Greedy_Cranberry_19, the conflicted mum stated that, although they'd never really been 'big fans' of their stepmother, her behaviour during the sister's pregnancies intensified their dislike. She recalled: "She even told our sister she was being dramatic when she said she missed mum and hadn't got the patience for her trying to force her way in. She said pregnancy makes women irrational and there's no reason to miss a ghost. "My sister has not allowed our dad's wife to be known as grandma to her kids ever since. She had considered allowing it before the pregnancy stuff but after the chance was gone and my sister would not hear arguments for it." Her sister began to 'despise' their stepmother during her own pregnancies (Stock Photo) ( Getty Images) The new mum has previously had a positive pregnancy test result, which turned out to be a medical issue, not a pregnancy. She'd been open about the result at the time, and hadn't){kind=link}
A new mum claims she decided to keep her pregnancy under wraps until after giving birth, as she knew she wouldn’t have been able to deal with her ‘smothering’ stepmother
A woman who lost her own mother very young says she decided to keep her pregnancy secret from the majority of her family – a decision they did not take well at all. Opening up about her unconventional choice, the woman explained her stepmother had become ‘too pushy’ about filling the mother role after their mum died, leaving her and her sister feeling very uncomfortable.
Her sister came to ‘despise’ their stepmother during her own two pregnancies, as she had ‘tormented her with talk of how she’d need her, as her mum, she needed to be there for her baby’. The stepmother even told her becoming a mother would bond them closer together, an idea her sister just wasn’t keen on at all.
Taking to Reddit, where she goes by the username u/Greedy_Cranberry_19, the conflicted mum stated that, although they’d never really been ‘big fans’ of their stepmother, her behaviour during the sister’s pregnancies intensified their dislike.
She recalled: “She even told our sister she was being dramatic when she said she missed mum and hadn’t got the patience for her trying to force her way in. She said pregnancy makes women irrational and there’s no reason to miss a ghost.