I’ve been raising my stepdaughter for 15 years now. Helped her with school, bought her a car when she graduated. I’ve been there every step on the way. Next week Saturday is her wedding, she’s 27. We’ve planned this for a long time, the man is capable but I still gave them money to make the ceremony grand. She came to show the man to me, but her mother said since I wasn’t her biological father, she was going to get the dowry from her family for the man and I said okay. I’m just finding out that, she actually went for the dowry from the biological father of the girls’ family. As if that’s not enough, my daughter came to tell me last night that she doesn’t want me to be the one to walk her into her man’s arms that day, that her mom said her biological dad should do it. She also said she thinks that’s the right thing to do, adding that it would make her husband to be’s family respect her. I know she said all the things she said because her mother told them those things. She gave her those reasons, the daughter I raised is smart but wouldn’t think like that. Her mother put her to all these. A girl I watched through school because her biological father couldn’t. He abandoned them. When I met my wife (her mother), she had nothing but I gave her love and brought them to my home. I gave them comfort, today she drives out of my house in different cars. Her daughter drives her own car and is working with a reputable firm because I recommended her. I did all these things out of love. I loved this girl like mine, I never for once thought she wasn’t my child. It’s time for her to get married and her mother goes all the way to look for her father to come and walk her down to her husband? For what? To see that they’ve made it with my money? This is interesting. Can you believe I called her this morning to talk about it and she said it’s the right thing to do, that the child has a father so she won’t treat her like she doesn’t? Yes. This is my pay back for all I’ve done for them out of love. I’ve told them. I won’t be at the wedding. Once she’s married, her mother leaves the house. I gave her enough already, she doesn’t even have a child for me. She just came to help me take care of the two I had with my late wife. My own daughter would soon get there, she’s only 22 and studying abroad. I’ll get the opportunity to walk her, like someone would walk her’s to my son. (Join us on IG: Loveandpillsgh) If there’s any lesson I’ve learnt at 51, it would be to be careful with a woman who’s already got a child. Seems they never get over the men who abandon them. When I met this woman she was nothing, her child was older than mine, but I didn’t mind. I saw her to be someone who could love my kids like her own. Even with that, I saw several times that she didn’t fully love them. She’s the reason my kids didn’t have to study here, I initially wanted them at Lancaster but I flew them cuz I was scared of this same woman. She’s just proven that she never loved me that much. It was comfort she needed. #fyp #Kwaku #loveandpillsgh #trending