Am I Wrong for Kicking My Wife and Her Daughter Out of My House in the Middle of the Night?
A man opened up about how his marriage went south after his wife and her daughter moved in.
Although he found it difficult to adapt to living with his stepdaughter, their relationship continued to deteriorate.
After a Redditor saw his wife and her kid damaging an important asset, the internet quickly came together to assist him in getting rid of them.
The man took his predicament to social media in an attempt to get better advice, even though his mother disapproved of him despite listening to him.
The 32-year-old Original Poster (OP) initially discussed his relationship with his 34-year-old wife, Andy, in his article.
OP’s only grievance, despite their good relationship, was with Carrie, Andy’s fifteen-year-old daughter from a previous marriage.
OP made the decision to brighten the lives of the two women after learning that Andy had lost her spouse in a vehicle accident five years prior.
The pair proceeded cautiously, with Andy delaying introducing OP to her daughter until they were certain of their shared future.
After OP married Andy and extended an invitation for them to move in with him, the conflict in their relationship intensified.
Even though OP never intended to take the place of her father, he gave the daughter additional time to adjust to the new circumstances.
He secretly hoped that Carrie would accept him into her family at some point, but to his dismay, that was not going to happen.
Carrie would frequently pick fights with his neighbours, thus twice a week OP had to settle disputes with them.
She would sabotage the kitchen, toss costly items from the window, and do anything to let her stepdad know how angry she was.
OP persisted in his attempts to garner her affection, but when she went too far, he snapped.
Although OP acknowledged having a short fuse, he never touched the girl. He thought Andy could do the punishing better, so he left it to his wife. Not surprisingly, nothing made Carrie change her ways.
OP wrote that after putting up with her unpredictable behaviour for a year, she went above and above in a recent incident of deliberate property damage, which led him to kick her out of his home right away.
After supper with Andy the night of the event, OP came home to find his garage door wide open.
Upon entering, the pair discovered Carrie wrecking OP’s pricey BMW X5, which he had acquired eight months prior.
Watching Carrie demolish it as if it were nothing stopped him cold. She had damaged the automobile with her keys, slashing the tyres and costing an astounding $6,000.
OP shouted at the girl to get out in the heat of the moment. To his dismay, his wife took her side and gave him a hard time for being a jerk and swearing.
OP had had enough and threatened his wife to leave if she continued to allow Carrie to ruin his pricey possessions.
Then, if the girl didn’t pay for the damages, he threatened to sue her.
OP refused to listen to Andy’s attempts to persuade him out of it, and around fifteen minutes later, he saw her and the girl leave his house at midnight.
A little while later, OP came to his senses and realised he could have handled things far more skillfully.
Despite his unwavering determination to file for divorce from his wife and sue Carrie for damaging his car, he turned to the internet to ask strangers if he was at fault in this situation.
While many came out in favor of OP, some said he couldn’t sue a 16-year-old and that, being married, he would ultimately sue himself.
“Suing your own family is not permitted. The girl is sixteen and cannot be held accountable, thus the mother, who is her guardian, will take responsibility. You’re essentially suing yourself because they’re married, a Redditor said.
OP countered, saying, “Yes, I could sue a 16-year-old because I live in Central Europe and my country’s law says that you can be held accountable for your actions legally after the age of 15. I’m not sure whether Carry’s mother will have to foot the bill for the damages if I sue her.”
OP’s ardent fans condemned his wife as the debate heated up, but they also held her accountable for her failure to rein in her adolescent daughter’s misbehaviour.
OP said that the terrible event had damaged his marriage and his bond with her daughter.
“We signed the divorce papers at the lawyer’s office…Carrie will have a criminal record as a result of my reporting her to the police, and in a few weeks, she will likely appear in a civil rights court,” he said.
