'I won big in Vegas - but I refuse to spend winnings on stepdaughter's surgery'
A stepmum has divided opinion over her refusal to pay surgery fees for her husband's young daughter from a previous relationship, despite winning a huge amount of money during a Las Vegas gambling trip. The 30-year-old defended herself by reasoning that she had put the money - the amount of which was never revealed - into a trust for the couple's even younger daughter, seemingly unbeknownst to her partner, and so couldn't access it regardless.
The woman explained her situation in a recent Reddit post: "I, 30, am married to my husband Tony, 35. We have one biological daughter together Claire, five, and he has a daughter Ana, 10, from a previous relationship. Right before Tony and I got married I went on my bachelorette trip to Vegas and won a significant amount of money. The money was a pre-marital asset so it went into my account and I paid off some debt and then took the remaining money and put it into a trust for Claire."
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Since then, it transpired that Ana needed surgery and Tony's ex-wife asked for help paying it as it is expensive. She went on: "Tony talked to me about it and asked if we could use some of the money I won in Vegas. I explained the money was in a trust for Claire and we couldn’t take it out.
"Tony got upset I only thought about Claire and never put anything aside for Ana especially since it happened right before her becoming my stepdaughter." The couple ended up in a major argument over the money, resulting in the husband refusing to speak with his current wife. While she wonders if she has done anything wrong in the first place.
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More than 2,500 people replied to the post in just 48 hours, with many calling her out for not thinking about Ana. One ranted: "It was wrong of you to not think of your stepdaughter when it can to what to do with it. Don’t become a stepparent if you don’t want to treat another kid equally to your bio kid," and another agreed with: "I'd be very upset too."
Others sided with the stepmum, however, as one person wrote: "It makes complete sense that you wouldn't have considered putting aside any of your winnings for Ana's benefit." Someone else noted: "You set up a trust for your child. Good job you did because you would have been pressured into using this money for something at some point."
Quite a few people were on the fence about it and called it "hard to judge" without knowing the whole story. As one user added: "I am always fascinated when I read stories involving step parents/parenting, and relationships within combined families. In this case, there is so much information missing regarding the above matters."
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