Losing mothers to tragic incidents can really tear anyone’s world apart.

These girls lost their mother young ,and things seem to have been hard for them through the years.

Now, they know she left them letters to be opened later, but they’re angry because reading them sooner might have helped them cope.

Check out what happened!

AITA for following through with my late wife’s wishes?

I (49M) was married to my wife for 20 years. I lost her in a car accident 8 years ago.

We had two beautiful daughters together, Maeve (18 now, 10 when her mother passed) and Alex (16 now, 8 when her mother passed).

I am very close with my daughters but they were both definitely mama’s girls.

My wife was a magnetic woman. She was beautiful, intelligent, kind, and people were drawn to her.

She had things she loved…

An important thing to know about my wife is that she had a passion for writing.

She was unfortunately in a profession where she didn’t write much, so she did a lot on her own time.

One of her favorite things to write was letters. She wanted people to know that she cared about them.

She wanted the daughters to have a lovely moment.

After she had each of my daughters, she wrote them a letter.

She wrote each within days after their births and wanted to give them away on their graduation days.

She put them in the fire box in our basement to avoid losing or forgetting about them.

She wrote the letters with the intention of giving them to our daughters herself 18 years later as a sort of time capsule type of thing.

Both letters contained mostly words of wisdom and information about what was going on when they were born.

He gave his daughter the letter…

Maeve graduated from high school today and I went to her room with the letter tonight. I let her cry on my shoulder as she read it and at first she seemed happy to have her something directly from her mother.

However after she read it she turned to me looking surprisingly angry.

She asked why I had waited so long to give it to her.

She didn’t receive it well.

She had so many rough moments and heartbreak in the last 8 years where all she wanted was her mother’s wisdom and I withheld the letter.

I told her that I was just doing what her mother had said she wanted and Maeve shot back that her mother also hadn’t planned on being in the accident.

Alex heard the shouting and came into the room and Maeve told her about the letter.

They had their reasons.

Now they’re both upset and don’t want to talk to me. I feel so awful about this whole situation.

I was raised by my single mother after my own dad took off so on one hand, I’ve always wanted to be the best father I can and I feel terrible that I withheld something that would’ve brought them comfort.

He just wanted to do the right thing!

On the other hand, my wife had very specific instructions about her intentions with the letters and I just wanted to follow through with that.

So now I’m very conflicted and I just want to know, AITA?

Why couldn’t they talk it through? Their father seems loving enough to have helped them through the hard times…

Let’s find out what the Reddit family thinks.

This person knows the daughters were supposed to have the letter on their graduation.

This mother knows what it must be like.

This person stands by the husband.

This person knows everything has a right time!

This person adores how this man still loves his wife.

It must have been hard for this family!

Let’s hope they find peace amongst each other!

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