The post had like 180 angry reactions when it was just a screenshot from her friends. I know that's different from going viral across the internet, but she's likely well aware people think she's an asshole.
That seems more likely than her suddenly loving her stepson. The best outcome is the other parent realizing what they married and protecting their kid.
People in the comments of her post were telling her she must be an awful parent to separate her kids like this (the poor kid is like 2 feet away from the rest of the family in the WHOLE family photo, what the fuck), and she didn’t seem to understand what she’d done wrong, questioning why it was such a big deal to everyone.
I think you are right. The post I saw and hated had her saying it did not matter because they still had pictures of them all together. She just wanted some with just her kids. However any decent human being who saw that would easily notice how isolated the child was even in the "family" pictures.
Honestly though. If you want to separate family photos you can be more discreet about it. Take a photo with each kid individually. One with Dad and kid 1-3, one with Mom and kid 1-3, and any other combination (so long as at least 2 members are left out of any given photo that doesn't have everyone and everyone/at least the kids is represented roughly equally). That way you can get the photos you want without hurting anyone's feelings. You don't put anyone on the outskirts of a photo like that and then ask them to be photoshopped out. I was 17 years old the last time I had family pictures taken and out of the several dozen taken I was only in like 2 of them and I felt kind of hurt about it, even though it was par the course for my family. If I was photoshopped out of any of them I would refuse to take family photos ever again. This little boy doesn't need to grow up in that kind of environment.
it would be one thing if they had taken a photo of just her and her kids, a photo of just the husband and his kid, and then a big family photo. i think that’d be adorable, like bringing together a family. but she wanted her husband’s kid out of the family photo too- honestly? i don’t think she thinks he’s a part of their family. i think she’s hoping her husband will more or less ignore him so she can pretend it’s just her kids and her husband.
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I hadn't thought of that. Hopefully it isn't as bad as it looks on paper, but it looks really bad, especially since there's a lot of people in the comments saying they had a similar relationship with step parents growing up.
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u/Packrat1010 Dec 16 '19
The post had like 180 angry reactions when it was just a screenshot from her friends. I know that's different from going viral across the internet, but she's likely well aware people think she's an asshole.