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<p>When this mom is conflicted, she asks <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/x0s2ls/aita_for_telling_my_exs_wife_to_stop_forcing_my/">Reddit: </a></p><h2>&quot;AITA for telling my ex&rsquo;s wife to stop forcing my daughter to be something she&rsquo;s not? And drawing the line at crystals &amp; sage?&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>I (30f) have an 8 year old daughter Ryan with my ex boyfriend Greg (30m). His wife Olivia (27f) has been with him for about 4 years and Ryan seems to like her.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Olivia is into a bunch of weird things. She&rsquo;s an actress and was a competitive cheerleader so now Ryan does those things. She does yoga so now Ryan does yoga.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Shes all about pink and rhinestones (even her car is like a Barbie car but shes almost 30) and now my daughter is walking around with sparkles and JoJo Siwa bows.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>They go to the spa every week. She&rsquo;s weird about food and they only buy organic products with the occasional treats thrown in &amp; food outings. Ryan comes home (2 weeks on 2 weeks off) always talking about how this is healthy and that isn&rsquo;t, Olivia said this &amp; Olivia said that.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>It&rsquo;s weird it&rsquo;s like Olivia thinks she&rsquo;s her little doll. Ryan was never into these things before Olivia and now it&rsquo;s like she&rsquo;s a completely different person. She even wants to lock her hair like Olivia&rsquo;s (we&rsquo;re black). I don&rsquo;t want my daughter to turn into a snob.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Now Olivia is getting Ryan into crystals, sage, meditation &amp; things like that. I feel like as her mother I should have a say in what she does when it comes to something like this.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>She brought her to a crystal shop &amp; let her pick some &ldquo;protection stones&rdquo; to put in a necklace that they &ldquo;blessed&rdquo;. They sage every Sunday &amp; she even has tarot cards and &ldquo;chakra&rdquo; candles.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>They go to the beach and &ldquo;thank the water&rdquo; or go to the woods and &ldquo;thank the trees&rdquo; It&rsquo;s really bizarre I could go on forever.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I spoke to Olivia and told her for the 50th time to stop trying to make Ryan into something she&rsquo;s not and that forcing a spirituality on her is not happening full stop. She claims she&rsquo;s been doing this forever and Ryan was curious, so she asked Greg and he said it was okay.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I told her this stuff isn&rsquo;t even real and I refuse to have my daughter involved in yet another one of her BS hobbies.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>She claims she&rsquo;s teaching her to appreciate life and to be more giving to others, not be ungrateful etc etc but I don&rsquo;t see how that applies.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Greg said I was out of line and told me if I paid more attention Ryan has always been into all these new things and Olivia is just someone she&rsquo;s really connecting with because they are into the same things.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I know my child and he&rsquo;s just defending Olivia as usual. AITA? I feel like the spiritual stuff is crossing the line. Who knows what kind of weird energy that could bring? Or weird mindset?</p> </blockquote><h2>Let&#39;s see.</h2><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fast-and-ugly/">fastugly </a>writes:</p><blockquote> <p>Soft YTA. You sound jealous. But it cracks me up that &quot;this stuff isn&#39;t even real&quot; yet &quot;Who knows what kind of weird energy that could bring&quot;. I have a feeling that the more you try to control your daughter the further she will drift from you.</p> </blockquote><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Stranger0nReddit/">strangeronreddit</a> writes:</p><blockquote> <p>YTA. I think you&#39;re making a lot of assumptions that Olivia is &quot;forcing&quot; all of these things on Ryan. Maybe Ryan just looks up to Olivia and wanted to try stuff she&#39;s into, not uncommon for an 8 year old.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>You&#39;ve seen a change in Ryan since Olivia entered the picture? Of course you have. She&#39;s got a new person as part of her family who she likes and clearly has an interest in having a good relationship with her and bonding on things they can both enjoy.</p> </blockquote><h2>Well, seems like Mom is TA. What do YOU think?</h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Mom tells 8 yr old daughter to stop meditating, says father's 'kooky' wife is to blame.

When this mom is conflicted, she asks Reddit: &quot;AITA for telling my ex&rsquo;s wife to stop forcing my daughter to be something she&rsquo;s not? And drawing the line at crystals &amp; sage?&quot; I (30f) have an 8 year old daughter Ryan with my ex boyfriend Greg (30m). His wife Olivia (27f) has been with him for about 4 years and Ryan seems to like her.  Olivia is into a bunch of weird things. She&rsquo;s an actress and was a competitive cheerleader so now Ryan does those things. She does yoga so now Ryan does yoga.  Shes all about pink and rhinestones (even her car is like a Barbie car but shes almost 30) and now my daughter is walking around with sparkles and JoJo Siwa bows.  They go to the spa every week. She&rsquo;s weird about food and they only buy organic products with the occasional treats thrown in &amp; food outings. Ryan comes home (2 weeks on 2 weeks off) always talking about how this is healthy and that isn&rsquo;t, Olivia said this &amp; Olivia said that.  It&rsquo;s weird it&rsquo;s like Olivia thinks she&rsquo;s her little doll. Ryan was never into these things before Olivia and now it&rsquo;s like she&rsquo;s a completely different person. She even wants to lock her hair like Olivia&rsquo;s (we&rsquo;re black). I don&rsquo;t want my daughter to turn into a snob.  Now Olivia is getting Ryan into crystals, sage, meditation &amp; things like that. I feel like as her mother I should have a say in what she does when it comes to something like this.  She brought her to a crystal shop &amp; let her pick some &ldquo;protection stones&rdquo; to put in a necklace that they &ldquo;blessed&rdquo;. They sage every Sunday &amp; she even has tarot cards and &ldquo;chakra&rdquo; candles.  They go to the beach and &ldquo;thank the water&rdquo; or go to the woods and &ldquo;thank the trees&rdquo; It&rsquo;s really bizarre I could go on forever.  I spoke to Olivia and told her for the 50th time to stop trying to make Ryan into something she&rsquo;s not and that forcing a spirituality on her is not happening full stop. She claims she&rsquo;s been doing this forever and Ryan was curious, so she asked Greg and he said it was okay.  I told her this stuff isn&rsquo;t even real and I refuse to have my daughter involved in yet another one of her BS hobbies.  She claims she&rsquo;s teaching her to appreciate life and to be more giving to others, not be ungrateful etc etc but I don&rsquo;t see how that applies.  Greg said I was out of line and told me if I paid more attention Ryan has always been into all these new things and Olivia is just someone she&rsquo;s really connecting with because they are into the same things.  I know my child and he&rsquo;s just defending Olivia as usual. AITA? I feel like the spiritual stuff is crossing the line. Who knows what kind of weird energy that could bring? Or weird mindset? Let&#39;s see.fastugly writes: Soft YTA. You sound jealous. But it cracks me up that &quot;this stuff isn&#39;t even real&quot; yet &quot;Who knows what kind of weird energy that could bring&quot;. I have a feeling that the more you try to control your daughter the further she will drift from you. strangeronreddit writes: YTA. I think you&#39;re making a lot of assumptions that Olivia is &quot;forcing&quot; all of these things on Ryan. Maybe Ryan just looks up to Olivia and wanted to try stuff she&#39;s into, not uncommon for an 8 year old.  You&#39;ve seen a change in Ryan since Olivia entered the picture? Of course you have. She&#39;s got a new person as part of her family who she likes and clearly has an interest in having a good relationship with her and bonding on things they can both enjoy. Well, seems like Mom is TA. What do YOU think?

When this mom is conflicted, she asks Reddit:   &quot;AITA for telling my ex&rsquo;s wife to stop forcing my daughter to be something she&rsquo;s not? And drawing the line at crystals &amp; sage?&quot;   I (30f) have an 8 year old daughter...