Seeking advice from the Reddit community, a mother shared her experience of being turned away by her daughter after being unable to provide the child with a lavish lifestyle. Instead, her daughter lived with the woman’s ex-husband and grew up spoiled. Years later, the daughter knocked at the woman’s door, asking to be taken in after her father kicked her out. Like many relationships, a woman ended hers with her husband when their daughter, Maria, was ten years old. It was an unfortunate circumstance but something she had to deal with. The woman was awarded their house during her divorce but faced financial struggles as a stay-at-home mom. Fortunately, she reached stability when she landed a job in her field. Still, she had to budget her expenses and did not spend lavishly. A man and a woman arguing. her husband had no problem with financial resources and made sure his daughter knew it. Maria’s father indulged her in material things, so the child grew up without financial restraints. Eventually, this strained the mother-daughter relationship.

Once, the woman couldn’t afford to buy her daughter a $1000 laptop, resulting in Maria telling her mother that her father was better than her. In another instance, Maria’s mother tried to get her a job, but it only resulted in another argument. A girl screaming at her mother. When she turned 17, Maria decided to drop out of high school, which sparked a heated conversation between her and her mother. “She told me it was her life and she can do what she wants,” the woman said. Eventually, the argument led to Maria leaving her mom and moving in with her father permanently. A girl screaming while holding her hair. Although the woman tried to contact her daughter, Maria refused to reconnect and said she no longer had a mother. However, at 21, Maria decided to reach out to her mom. The woman narrated: “Her dad has gotten remarried and basically kicked her out. She called me, and we met up. She wants to move back in.”