Do you have a favorite picture from your childhood? Pictures can bring back so many memories. Maybe there’s a picture that when you look at it you remember the whole circumstances surrounding that moment and think fondly about that time in your life.

In this story, one teen had a picture like that. He liked the picture so much that he thought enlarging it and framing it would make a great Christmas present for his dad.

He was right, but the moment was immediately ruined when the dad’s girlfriend saw the picture. Now, the teen feels awful and doesn’t even want to face his dad or the dad’s girlfriend in the morning.

Is he overreacting, or are his feelings about this situation completely rational? Let’s read the whole story to decide.

AIO Dad’s GF PO’d about my gift to Dad

I’m so mad, I cussed my dad’s girlfriend out and stormed out of her parents house.

I’ve been sitting at home crying and I’m so mad at my dad too.

OP has a favorite picture from childhood.

My mom died by suicide fairly recently. My parents were divorced but there’s this picture that I always loved where I’m about 3 or 4 and I’m swinging at a park, my dad is pushing me and we’re both laughing.

My mom is also laughing but she’s barely in the picture, on the edge and in the background.

My grandpa (Dad’s dad) who is dead took the picture.

For Christmas I had it blown up in black and white and framed, I literally spent over $150 on it.

The girlfriend hated the picture.

I had him open it tonight at a Christmas Eve dinner at his girlfriend’s parent’s house. I was so excited for him to open it.

He really loved it but his girlfriend made this awful face when she seen it.

When I seen her reaction I apologized that my mom was in it but immediately regretted it, like that’s my childhood and it happened.

Then she said that she didn’t think my dad would want to hang it up unless we put it in a different frame that covered my mom.

It ended pretty dramatically.

I cussed her out, told her that she had no right to try and erase the only good years of my life, and asked her if she didn’t let her son have pictures of his dad (they’re divorced).

My dad told me to calm down.

I told him to go himself and I stormed out and drove home.

He hasn’t tried to call or anything.

I’m just seething but also feeling guilty, and her parents gave been so nice to me I am ashamed, embarrassed, but also ticked off and just don’t want to face them in the morning. Am I overreacting?

I can completely understand why OP is upset. I can also understand why the girlfriend doesn’t like the picture nearly as much as OP does. It’s too bad he didn’t give the picture to his dad when the girlfriend wasn’t around. It would’ve ended much, much differently.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a teen who is being called ungrateful because he’s not overjoyed his parents bought him a gift they did not discuss.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

This person thinks the girlfriend should’ve kept her thoughts to herself.

Another person calls the girlfriend insecure.

OP is grieving.

Another person knows the girlfriend is insecure.

Here’s my best case scenario hope for what happens next. I hope that the dad dumps the girlfriend and proudly hangs the picture on the wall, apologizing to his child for not standing up for him in the moment and thanking him for such a wonderful and thoughtful gift.

At the very least, hopefully the girlfriend or the dad at least apologize. They have to understand that OP is grieving, and it’s cruel to try to erase his mom from his memory by suggesting she needs to be cropped out of a photo.

What should’ve been a sweet moment was destroyed by a few heartless words.