When you have separated or divorced parents who have a lot of resentment toward each other, you’re often caught in the middle of their drama and put in difficult positions.

One teenager wants all of his parents, including his dad, Stepmom, and mom, to be at his upcoming high school graduation, but they’re making it incredibly hard for him.

He’s 18-years-old and getting ready to graduate from high school. While he wants all his parents there, they’ve made it clear they don’t want that to happen.

When he was three, his mom and dad divorced after it was discovered that his dad was having an affair. To make matters worse, he was having an affair with his mom’s coworker and nemesis, whom she had a lot of tension with.

“There has always been speculation that this is why my stepmom willingly became the other woman; she disliked my mom,” he said.

“I was aware of this, and not because of my parents, but because of drama that would kick off with my dad’s side of the family. My parents did not get along after the affair, and tensions were high whenever my mom and stepmom were in the same room.”

Unfortunately, his mom and stepmom have never been able to form a civil relationship, especially concerning co-parenting him. After his parents divorced, his stepmom and dad tried desperately to have another child, but she lost three pregnancies. 

When it became more apparent that he would be the only child his stepmom would have, she and his dad asked his mom for more time with him, and his mom refused and was unsympathetic.

Since then, his mom and stepmom have refused to be in the same room with each other. They’d even have to arrange ways for other people to get him back and forth to his mom and dad’s houses, as they couldn’t even handle the drop-offs.

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His dad and stepmom have become especially hateful towards his mom after she showed no sympathy towards their fertility struggles.

They’ve tried to turn him against his mom for years, but he’s tried his best to remain neutral and has even become closer to his mom.

While his parents have gone years without interacting with each other for more than a few minutes, they may have to at his graduation.

“I’m graduating from high school in a couple of months, and my dad and stepmom brought up that my stepmom doesn’t feel like she should be around my mom and does not want to be there with my mom,” he added.

“They told me they feel it would be best if I make it clear to mom that she can’t be there. I told them my mom [would] be there.”

When his stepmom continued to say she wouldn’t be in the same room as his mom, he told her she shouldn’t go to the graduation and that he wouldn’t beg for her to go. He firmly said his mom would be there, and his stepmom would not make him change his mind.

Should he feel bad for telling his stepmom not to come to his graduation, or is he being reasonable?

You can read the original post on Reddit here.