To My Stepmother | The Odyssey Online
Start writing a post
Relationships

To My Stepmother

Instead of flipping us the right way, you flipped us the wrong way up.

114
To My Stepmother
Letitia Hatch

I wanted to start off by saying that I tried. I tried to go into this relationship with an open mind. I let you in. I gave you a chance even though I had no real reason to bother. To me you are just another person pretending to be someone who "cares" when you clearly don't. You "tried" to be my "friend" but I think it was just so you could get close enough to see if I would accept you in my life. At first I did, but then I realized how foolish I was to let you in. You are just another number to me.

You started out better than the last one at first. You seemed like you cared and you treated me like I was someone you considered family but I see now, how wrong I truly was. You are just another number to me, and I was just a toy in your game. I should have noticed all the signs right away. But I failed to do that. I failed to notice the same things that I failed to notice about the last one, the trying. You are just like the last one. You sat there and tried so hard, to hard in fact, just like she did. I didn't want to see it at first. I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt. I was trying to let you be someone other than what she was. But I was wrong and naive to think that he would pick anyone different than the last one.

I finally started to realized that you were changing. At first it was slow but then you let down your guard and your true colors showed. From having a birthday party for MY father without inviting my siblings and I, to not having your future stepdaughters in your wedding, but instead having your stepson and your own boys in the wedding, and not even inviting your step daughters to the rehearsal dinner, it was like we didn't matter to you, my sister and I. You even refused to take a picture with us, well until my father forced you to. I feel like you say you "tried" when my father asks about us kids but in reality all you have done is push us away. You don't want us in your life. You are just like the last one.

You will never be my stepmother. You will just be a person that married my father. You are just someone that exists. I don't love you and I probably never will. I feel like instead of trying to rebuild bridges between our family, you've just burned them even more. You pretend you care but really you don't. I know this because I can see right through the vale you have put up. Instead of making our world right, you've flipped us upside down again. We never deserved this, and I hope one day you realize your mistake, but of of course, you probably never will.

Report this Content
This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.
Student Life

8 Things I Realized After My First Semester In College

Actually, Kylie Jenner, 2018 is the year of realizing things.

155
Friends

The first semester of college is famous for being one of the most difficult transitions of one's young adult life. You're thrown into a completely new area where the majority of the people surrounding you are strangers in an academic environment that's much more challenging then what you've grown accustomed to for the past twelve years. On top of that, you probably share a room with another person (or even multiple people) on the lumpiest "mattress" you've ever slept on.

With this change comes a lot of questions: what do I want to major in? What am I passionate about? Is what I'm passionate about something I'm actually good at? Why does the bathroom smell like cranberry juice and vodka? What is that thing at the bottom of the shower drain?

Keep Reading...Show less
girls with mascot
Personal Photo

College is tough, we all know. Here are 8 gifs you will 99% relate to if you are in college.

Keep Reading...Show less
Student Life

7 Things College Has Taught Me

Other than knowledge and all those important things

474
7 Things College Has Taught Me
We Know Memes

So, college is the place where you're supposed to learn all of these amazing life skills.

Here are the top seven skills I have learned thus far.

Keep Reading...Show less
college

College is some of the greatest years of anyone's life. Its a time to be outrageous, different and free; a time to do everything you were afraid to do. Here are 38 things you will learn during your four (maybe, five or six) years in college!

1. As a freshman, one does get to be called “freshman” by upperclassmen when they walk to parties in a mob of people.

Keep Reading...Show less
Adulting

6 Unrealistic Expectations Society Has For Young Adults

Don't let the thesaurus-inspired vocabularies in our résumés fool you. We're actually just big kids.

3106
boy in adult clothes

Well over four feet tall and 100 pounds in weight, many of us "young adults" of the world still consider ourselves children. Big, working, college-attending, beer-drinking children. We may live on our own, know how to cook noodles, and occasionally use a planner, but don't be fooled; the youthful tendencies that reside within us still make their way into our daily lives. From choosing to stay up until 3:00 a.m. playing video games on a school night to going out in 30 degree weather without a coat, we still make decisions that our parents and grandparents would shake their heads at in disappointment. So why are we expected to know exactly how to be a wise, professional, sensible adult? It's not that we're irresponsible (for the most part, anyway). It's that we are young, inexperienced, and still have the sought-after, enthusiastic mentality that we can do and be whatever we want, which has not yet been tarnished by the reality of the world. These are just a few of the unrealistic expectations that society has for young adults.

Keep Reading...Show less

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Facebook Comments