I Made My Teen Daughter Do All the Post-holiday Celebration Cleaning Because of the Gift She Gave My Wife

A man sought advice on Reddit after his daughter’s ill-intentioned holiday gift to her stepmother led to tensions in the family.

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I’ve been with my wife for 4 and a half years. She suffered from breast cancer and we got married after she completed her treatment. This is also our first Christmas together as a married couple.

I have a 16 y.o. daughter who can tolerate but not accept her stepmom and can be passive aggressive towards her sometimes.

She’s done somethings in the past that warented a number of punishements but my wife has been graceful and forgiving saying my daughter is being a typical teeanger and trying to adapt but in my opinion she has gotten out of control especially with lack of consequences.

There’s been tension around the holiday and suprisingly my daughter decided to spend Christmas with us saying her mom went to visit her futur stepdad’s family few towns over.

My wife was thrilled with my daughter staying with us. She prepared everything and I helped here and there while my daughter was on her phone the entire time. I welcomed my inlaws and we had a great time throughout the day.

Christmas dinner went fine though my wife seemed a bit upset. She refused to say what’s wrong til I pressured her. She then opened the box my daughter got her for Christmas and there was a bra inside it.

My wife broke down crying in the kitchen. I was fuming I called for my daughter and confronted her about the gift and she tried to explain it wasn’t malicious but I disagreed and said yes it was and it was purposfully done to offend her stepmom and mock her illness.