I am extremely unhappy and depressed. It’s almost like a recurring theme in my life and I am constantly complaining about it.
My doctor just told me a couple of weeks ago that diabetics are very prone to depression but I know the one sole reason to my unhappiness and depression isn’t due to the easy proneness of it due to diabetes. Its my father.
I need to get away from him as soon as possible. I need to cut all ties with him and forget he ever existed. I need to pretend I an orphan that grew up parent-less.
At the moment, he’s trying to control me through my wedding. He keeps changing the dates and his mind. He offers to pay for the reception then changes his mind.
I only have one choice now. Just to marry James without him at the wedding.
To tell you the honest, sincere truth, I don’t want him there. I honestly wanted to see if he would treat me, his daughter, for once, better or the same as his niece and nephew. He each gave them $40K as wedding gifts. He puts his highest value in money. I wanted to see if he valued me enough to say “congratulations” and hand me a wedding gift out of his own heart. Even if it was $40K worth of grass or for the wedding, or $40K worth of free rent at the house I’m staying in, it would show he values me on level with my cousins.
But I need to wake up from my dreams. He has the means x 100 but he send me off in a decent wedding. Not even a wedding, an exchange of vows that James is paying for. Just the food. He won’t pay for the food that Dennis and James will be grilling themselves. The food that my aunt will be preparing herself.
My stepmom already told me that my dad won’t be giving us a wedding gift. He also is going to contact any guests and tell them not to gift me and James money or gifts. Why?
I find this out on my birthday where my stepmom hastily shoves a $100 bill into my pocket before she gets out of my car. The same as James’ parent got me but they went through with the effort of also making me an awesome dinner and good cake (even though poor Mrs. Yordy was feeling guilty because she was feeding sugar and refined carbs to a diabetic) and finding me a really nice Hello Kitty card.
The dinner beats getting money anytime. (But I did end up using the money to buy food for the week.)
I need to make a serious decision here. Should I just call my family members and friends and tell them the situation and apologize that there can’t be a wedding and just have a simple exchange of vows (no dad invited)?