Imagine losing your mom when you’re barely older than a toddler. If she left a letter telling you items of hers that she wanted you to have, would you keep all of these things for yourself, or would you be willing to share them?

In this story, one teenage girl is furious at her dad for trying to force her to share some of her late mother’s jewelry with her half sisters.

Let’s read the whole story.

AITA for getting my mom’s things out of the house so dad can’t give any to my half sister’s?

My mom died when I (17f) was 5. Before she died she sold a lot of her things that held very little meaning and she wrote letters to me and dad saying what she wanted to happen to the rest.

In the letter to me, which I got when I was 13, she said she was leaving me her jewelry and all her childhood momentos and keepsakes. She had a small stuffy collection, some really old books that were handed down and some scrapbooks she made over the years.

Even before I knew what was supposed to be mine I asked for a lot of the stuff after she died but dad said I was too young and I get that stuff when I was older and more responsible.

But even though he thought I was responsible enough to read the letter he still said I wasn’t responsible enough to have mom’s things.

Her dad’s request is pretty weird.

When I was 7 my dad remarried and had the first of my two half sisters with his wife. I was 9 when my second half sister was born.

My dad used to talk about how much mom would have loved them and how he wished I’d share something of mom’s with each of them when we were older to show how much I love them.

I told him they weren’t mom’s kids so I’d never do that.

And he told me they might not be mom’s but they were my baby sisters and it would be a sweet and meaningful connection between them.

This would be infuriating!

My dad’s marriage has been falling apart the last three years. Right they’re separated but still living together and they fight every day still.

A few weeks ago dad announced out of the blue he was going to share a piece of mom’s jewelry with each of my half sisters. He said there was a piece each that he thought would be perfect for them.

At this point he still wasn’t willing to let me have mom’s things and he pointed out to me when we argued about it that mom only wrote it down in letters, she didn’t put those wishes in her will.

She explained why her mom didn’t think she needed to put it in her will.

I told him it was because she trusted him and clearly she was wrong because he wanted to give her things to someone else’s daughters and I said this because of the times he wanted me to give something to them.

He said she would have loved my half sisters because they were his and she would have wanted him to be happy.

I told him I would have always come before any other kids because I was her only and I told him it was creepy and weird and gross that he wanted kids he had with someone else, who never met mom and never would and were not a part of mom’s family to have her jewelry or sentimental items.

She was not going to let that happen.

After he made the announcement about giving them something I went searching when no one else was home and I found all the stuff.

He kept it so well hidden that I almost didn’t find it in time. But when I did I hid it in my room overnight and early the next morning while nobody else was up, because weekend, I brought it all to my maternal grandparents and asked them to keep the stuff safe from dad.

They were really disgusted with dad when I told them what was happening.

Her dad’s the thief. It’s HER jewelry. Her mom wanted her to have it.

It took another three weeks for dad to actually go look for mom’s things to give to my half sisters and when he couldn’t find it he confronted me and we got into a fight.

He accused me of stealing them and I asked him why he didn’t call the cops then and he was saying they’d dismiss it as a petty thing but I was a thief and I was punishing my half sisters through him.  He said they were so excited to get the jewelry he mentioned.

And I said because they wanted pretty things. He could go out and buy them their own jewelry.

We were fighting for like an hour or maybe even two and he kept calling me a thief and he demanded I bring the stuff back but I stood my ground and said no every single time.

She’s refusing to give him the jewelry.

He tried to make me feel bad for not wanting my half sisters to have the jewelry he promised. He said mom would have wanted me to share.

And I told him she wouldn’t. I said she wouldn’t have left it all to me if she had.

Then he said something about wanting to share the love I had for mom with my half sisters and I told him I wouldn’t ever want to and I said it was because of him.

He tells me to bring mom’s things back at least twice a week and I say no and I told him they will never get that jewelry.

AITA?

Her dad is clearly in the wrong here. Her mom wrote a letter telling her she wanted her to have all the jewelry. The jewelry is hers.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

The letter really is proof.

Another person agrees that the jewelry is hers.

This is a good suggestion.

Maybe he wouldn’t know the difference.

Thank goodness her grandparents are on her side.

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