Girl Desires to Divorce Husband Over ‘Merciless’ Punishment of His Daughter

A lady was left conflicted about how her husband wished to punish his daughter for her actions at college.

The Reddit person shares that she has a 10-year-old daughter from a earlier relationship and a 13-year-old step-daughter from her present marriage along with her husband. The girl notes that her step-daughter has “been the near-perfect little one” and has by no means “wanted to be punished” for unhealthy conduct, “till just lately.”

“She had an issue with one other woman (13f) at college. The opposite woman made enjoyable of my stepdaughter’s ‘lesbian’ mother and my stepdaughter made enjoyable of the opposite woman’s ‘poor’ mother,” the person explains

The poster says the opposite mother and father grounded their daughter for 3 weeks, and her husband has been making an attempt to determine easy methods to self-discipline their teenager.

“My husband wished his daughter’s punishment to match the crime. Since his daughter makes enjoyable of the opposite woman’s monetary scenario, my husband needs his daughter to really feel like how it’s to be extraordinarily poor,” the lady wrote in a post on June 2, noting that the “different household is not extraordinarily poor, by the way in which.”

“His plan for his daughter is to go to high school with poor hygiene, for 3 days,” she provides. “No bathe, no deodorant, no brushing of tooth, and reused garments. I advised him if he goes by way of with this plan, I’ll divorce him.”

Many individuals within the feedback had been fast to query his thought course of, noting that “humiliation shouldn’t be punishment, it’s cruelty.”

“Why not make her volunteer at a shelter/meals financial institution?” one other person questioned, which the poster mentioned she would “counsel” to her husband.

“Both that and/or grounding his stepdaughter for 3 weeks,” the poster replied. “I nonetheless keep in mind in the future in highschool after I forgot to put on deodorant and I had fitness center. I am 41, and I nonetheless keep in mind. I can not think about additionally having no bathe, unhealthy breath, and reusing garments.”

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Different individuals shared their very own experiences rising up financially unstable, and implored the poster to query her husband’s “prejudices.”

“Uhhh…your husband is means off base. Offensively so,” one person wrote. “Poor ≠ poor hygiene. He ought to actually discover his personal inside biases.”

“Being poor doesn’t routinely equal lack of hygiene, and utilizing that as a punishment is diabolical for a myriad of causes, as a substitute of humiliating his child, why not have her volunteer a few of her time serving to the individuals she’s mocked? That might be a way more helpful and helpful type of ‘punishment,’” one other particular person added. 

“If I used to be her college nurse and she or he got here to me with that state of affairs, it will’ve been my obligation to name CPS. That’s little one abuse, not instructional. That is very disturbing….. Beware,” another person wrote.

In an replace to the post, the lady reassured commenters that each her daughter and stepdaughter had been “secure.”

“I am secure, and I’ll divorce my husband,” she concluded.