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A mom described years of rising conflict with her stepdaughter, culminating in a day of screaming, slapping and broken belongings

After the chaos, the mom told her 12-year-old she couldn’t join the family dinner and should eat in her room instead

Unsure if she crossed a line, the mother turned to Reddit to ask if she was in the wrong

A mom of seven turned to the Reddit community for advice following a painful family blow-up that ended with her 12-year-old stepdaughter being told she could not sit at the dinner table.

The poster, a 37-year-old mother who has been raising a blended family for more than a decade, shared an emotional account of years of conflict, heartbreak and escalating behavior from her stepdaughter, whom she insisted she loved but no longer knew how to

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