One of the biggest days we will ever have in life is the day of our wedding. It’s a day that we want to share with others and often, there is a lot of fanfare that surrounds it.
Along with the fanfare, there are also some rules that must be followed. Some of these are relatively standard to all weddings but others are specific to a wedding because of the choice of the bride and groom.
That is what happened in this wedding, but things got strange very quickly. He thought that his sister was having a wedding with no children because she didn’t want any children, but he found out something much more sinister when he showed up.
My sister (30f) got married yesterday. I (32m) was so happy for her and agreed to help her out. She told me that the wedding was child free, which I understand, so I asked my best friend if there was anyway he could watch my son and he agreed.
I arrived at the wedding and found that it was not child free. There were probably 15 children there. I was confused but I didn’t want to make a scene so I waited until my sister came over to me and I asked her what the deal was.
What she told me broke my heart and I don’t know how I can look at her the same way again. She confessed that my son (12m) was excluded because he has an amputated leg. She said that it would draw attention to him at the wedding.
I almost lost it. I could understand if he was going to be disruptive or something, but because of that???? I didn’t trust myself in that moment, so I just walked out and went home. When I got home my son asked me why I was back so early so I made up some excuse and then spent the rest of the day having fun with him because it was the only thing keeping me sane.
Since then I’ve been getting dozens of messages from people saying how me leaving caused my sister to start crying and the whole wedding was ruined, but I honestly don’t care right now. I’m a mess. I’m a single dad so I don’t have someone to help me right now. But these messages are actually making me wonder: am I the a**hole?
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