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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your wife isn’t entitled to have her children taken on trips by your brother.

But you’re truly naive to think that one child in a household being raised as the princess is going to go without comment by the other children/adults in the home.  Your wife’s daughters are going to expect to be taken on trips— on your wife/your dime— that their stepsister is excluded from. I hope you have budgeted accordingly.  I hope you are ready to answer to your daughter as to why she’s not welcome to go on your next family vacation.

You should have waited a few years until all of these children were in college before marrying. [/quote]

Kids are only entitled to room , board, tuition expense for 4 yrs in in state public college. That is all. They are not entitled to anything that their parents do not want to give them.

A trip is a reward. Neither the mother, nor the kids are deserving of a reward. [/quote]

It doesn’t sound like his daughter is getting this because she’s “deserving”.

Kids are people. Raising three daughters as less-than their stepsister without taking steps to make sure they get similar if not equivalent experiences is setting up a lifetime of resentment, and the mother is probably aware of this. Hope OPs daughter is planning to take care of her dad and step mother in their old age because I foresee a lot of missed holidays and visits from the daughters being left behind.[/quote]

Nope.  We are talking an adult (18). Not kids.

She doesn’t have to play “sister” to them.[/quote]

Of course she doesn’t. But OPs wife was foolish to have her kids raised as the poor relations. When they got married and the youngest was 7 and the princess was 9 this probably didn’t seem like a big deal and the parents thought oh this is cute, so now the disparity is going to show and the stepdaughters are going to resent it. [/quote]

They've been married for 6 MONTHS.  Entitled brat was not 9.

Some people don't like hearing the truth.  Not everyone has to like everyone else.  It's ok to say that too.

Some of you need some thicker skin. [/quote]

I missed the six months and saw the seven years.

I still think the wife was a bad mother to let her kids be raised like this. She could have waited four more years and her kids would have gotten financial aid. Now they’re screwed, and expected to watch their stepsister live a completely different life from them. Divorce would benefit the kids. [/quote]

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