{"id":14784,"date":"2025-10-29T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=14784"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:15:58","slug":"my-dad-remarried-someone-my-age-and-expects-us-to-be-friends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=14784","title":{"rendered":"My Dad Remarried Someone My Age and Expects Us to Be Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, I lost my mom. I knew that my life wouldn\u2019t be the same anymore, but I didn\u2019t expect it to flip that much. My name is Bella, and I\u2019m 24 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, I lost my mom. I knew that my life wouldn\u2019t be the same anymore, but I didn\u2019t expect it to flip that much. So, my dad (59) married Lucy (27) and keeps forcing me to \u201cbe friends\u201d with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel sick. At dinner, my dad started again, so I snapped: \u201cShe\u2019s closer to my age than you, and she\u2019ll never be family to me.\u201d Lucy just smirked. The next day, I froze when I saw that Lucy had taken down all my mom\u2019s old photos from the living room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I confronted her, she said, \u201cSince we\u2019re not family, don\u2019t expect me to treat you like one. Your mom isn\u2019t my family either.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I told my dad, but he brushed it off, saying I needed to move on. He added that I needed to understand that it was his life now, and I should respect his choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m really struggling with this. I\u2019ve tried to make peace with it, but I just don\u2019t think I can accept Lucy as part of my life. I feel like I\u2019m losing both my mom\u2019s memory and my dad in a way, and I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m being unreasonable here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I lost my mom. I knew that my life wouldn\u2019t be the same anymore, but I didn\u2019t expect it to flip that much. My name is&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":306,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14786,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784\/revisions\/14786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}