Imagine having stepdaughters who are single moms and still live with you.

Would you be upset if they treated your daughter like a babysitter? What if they even wanted to exclude her from a family vacation so she could babysit?

In this story, one man is in this exact situation, and he’s furious at his stepdaughter, but his wife’s reaction is making him wonder if he overreacted.

Let’s read the whole story.

AITA for cancelling the entire vacation when I found out that my stepdaughters deliberately hid my daughter’s passport to get her to stay home?

I’ve been married to my wife Beth for 5 years. I have a bio daughter named Jessica (she’s 18). And I also have two stepdaughters named Monica and Leah. They’re 25 & 28. Both are single moms and live with us currently.

there’s been issues about my stepdaughters asking my daughter to babysit the kids.

Jessica didn’t have a problem with it at first since this is what she does to earn money but since her stepsisters don’t pay her much, she’d just refuse to babysit.

We worked this out by having my wife take care of paying for the babysitting.

His wife and stepdaughters had a really inconsiderate idea.

I planned a family vacation for 3 days and everyone wanted to go.

However, Both Monica & Leah suggested that Jessica stay home and watch the kids since Beth doesn’t want her grandkids to come. They said it’s because the kids are used to Jessica and hiring another babysitter would cause issues. And also said that Jessica isn’t too “fond” of our destination.

But it was obvious that Jessica wanted to go.

They insisted and Beth offered to pay her double and there was just..a lot of back and forth on this til I demanded they stop bringing it up.

There was a problem at the airport.

We were supposed to go last week but when everybody had bagged their bags and was time to go, Jessica found out that she didn’t have her passport on her.

We searched her bag then went home and searched there.

Beth and my stepdaughters kept insisting that we go back to the airport or else we’d miss our flight. They insisted that Jessica stay at home with the kids. They even told the new babysitter to go home cause she was no longer needed.

I refused to go and kept searching for the passport til Monica admitted that she helped Leah hide Jessica’s passport to get her to stay home with the kids.

The trip’s off!

I was livid.

I tried to get her to tell me where it was but she said Leah had it, Leah denied so I threatened to cancel the vacation. That’s when they gave it back.

I decided to actually cancel the vacation and blew up at both of them and berated them.

They stayed upstairs for a while and Beth refused to speak to me and said that I punished my stepdaughters for worrying about their kids and wanting them to stay with someone they know. I got told I overreacted and ruined the trip for everybody.

He made the right decision. Actually, an even better decision would’ve been to take just Jessica on the vacation.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

This person would’ve taken Jessica on vacation.

This is a good suggestion.

This person would’ve made the consequences even more extreme.

That was a cruel trick.

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