The death of a loved one brings immense emotional upheaval, but not everyone copes the same way.

After losing her father, one grieving teenager was crushed when she discovered her mother had already moved on with another man.

But when she confronted her about it, it only led to more confusion and hurt.

Read on for the full story.

AITA for confronting my mom after she started seeing someone 2 weeks after my dad passed?

I’m 17, and my dad passed away suddenly a month ago.

It’s been incredibly hard.

He and I were really close, and I still haven’t fully processed that he’s gone.

He and my mom were married for 20 years.

After he passed, we had him cremated and kept things quiet with just a small gathering of family, like my mom preferred.

But soon she made a discovery that changed everything.

Two weeks after he died, my mom told me she had started seeing someone new.

I was shocked.

It felt way too soon, and honestly, it hurt. I couldn’t believe she was already jumping into something that fast, while I was still barely able to get through the day without crying.

So she decided to tell her mother how she really felt.

So I confronted her.

I told her I thought it was disrespectful to my dad’s memory and incredibly hurtful to me.

I didn’t yell, but I was direct about how much it bothered me.

But her mother didn’t take this well.

She told me I don’t understand what it’s like to lose a spouse and said I was being judgmental and unsupportive.

She said this new person is helping her feel less alone and that she’s grieving in her own way.

Since then, things have been tense between us.

Now she feels conflicted on what to do next.

I feel bad for upsetting her, but I still think two weeks was way too soon to start something new — especially when we hadn’t even fully said goodbye.

So, AITA for confronting my mom about how fast she started seeing someone after my dad passed?

Her mother’s grief doesn’t erase her responsibility to consider her daughter’s emotions too.

What did Reddit make of this difficult situation?

Even if their mother did move on to a new relationship, she probably should have worked harder to keep it private from her grieving teen.

Maybe this relationship has been going on for far longer than anyone realized.

Everyone mourns in their own way, even if those ways turn out to be hurtful for those around them.

Grieving is complicated, and so are people’s reactions to that grief.

She wasn’t wrong to speak from a place of pain and love for her father.

A little more patience and empathy from her mother could have gone a long way.

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