Two incredibly close sisters have had a major falling out, after a wedding day pregnancy announcement. But there’s far more to this story than meets the eye.
The 32-year-old mum-to-be says she and her 28-year-old sister have always been very close.
“Point in case, she was the first person I told that I was pregnant, besides my husband of course,” the expecting mum explained on reddit. “I told her essentially a week after I got a positive pregnancy test, which was about three months before her wedding.”
The mum-to-be wanted to tell her parents and her in-laws about the pregnancy at around 10 weeks, but her sister insisted that she hold off until the wedding, and use the special occasion to announce the happy news.
“I’d be like four months along at that point, so I wouldn’t be showing really, and she thought it would be so special for her to be able to make an announcement about a ‘special guest’ at her wedding and it be her first niece or nephew, and my parents first grandbaby. I agreed, because it seemed like it meant a lot to her and, again, we were super close and I was happy to do that for her!
The first trimester ended up being a nightmare for the expecting mum, with terrible morning sickness and exhaustion. She says she would have loved to be able to tell her mum so she could have some added support, but wanted to honour her sister’s wishes not to say anything until the wedding day.
“Well, the wedding came along, and about halfway through the night, I asked her when the announcement was happening. She told me that she had changed her mind and that her wedding didn’t seem like a good time or place to announce my pregnancy. I was obviously super upset since I went through a really awful first trimester with only my sister and husband to lean on.
“I decided I wasn’t going to put the announcement on hold any longer just for her, so my husband and I pulled my parents aside and quietly told them, and told them to keep it private for the evening. They were thrilled, lots of hugs, a few tears, but a very touching and private moment. Literally no one else found out until I announced it on Facebook a week later.
“My sister found out around the same time as my Facebook post when my dad mentioned how we told him about it, and she texted me and called me a bitch who made her wedding about myself, and she hasn’t spoken to me since. I’ve messaged her and apologised probably a dozen times since then, but she refuses to talk to me, and now she refuses to come see her little nephew who is almost a month old at this point.
“My parents and partner think I did nothing wrong since she went back on her word, and that I should just wait it out and she’ll come around. I’m obviously unsure as clearly this has made her so upset with me, and we were so close before. Am I the a**hole?”
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