My Dad’s New Wife Tried to Sabotage My Mom Every Chance She Got and Call Herself My ‘Bonus Mom’ — But Her Behavior at My Wedding Crossed the Line

 

I’m 24 now and an only child.

When I was a junior in high school, my parents suddenly split up. There was no big fight, no warning signs—just a normal family dinner one day, and divorce papers the next.

My dad later called it “empty nest panic,” as if they had simply drifted apart. Maybe that was true. But what happened after the divorce made me question everything.

By the time I was graduating from high school, Dad was already dating a woman named Debra.

She was bold, flashy, and always acted like she was putting on a show. At first, I thought maybe she was just trying too hard to make a good impression.

But it didn’t take long for me to realize Debra wasn’t trying to get along—she was trying to replace my mom.

Debra made her first power move at my graduation. She arrived in a floor-length glittery white dress that screamed for attention, while my mom wore a tasteful navy wrap dress—quiet, proud, graceful.

Debra, meanwhile, clung to my dad’s arm and kept pulling me in for photos, excluding my mom like she didn’t exist.

At one point, she even physically moved my arm away from my mother’s so she could stand between us for a photo.

I didn’t even know how to react. I just smiled tightly, desperate for the whole thing to end.

A few days later, my mom told me Debra had called her.

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