How to tell my stepdaughter
Let me preface this by saying I love my stepdaughter very much and next to her biological mom, my wife, I am her biggest supporter. She’s 25, lives with us and is a great person. Doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, she’s not promiscuous, attends church (on her own volition, neither her mom or I are religious), and generally is just the best stepdaughter a guy could ask for.
She’s gained an awful, awful amount of weight in the last year and we’re both worried about her. Her mom had a heart to heart with her about it, she acknowledges it, but she literally still came back into the house today with bags of junk food under her arm.
I was about to confront her about it until I stopped myself and first had time to talk to my wife about a game plan for how I should be discussing it with her.
She’s very head strong but also tends to be fragile and I was worried that if I was as blunt as I wanted to be, it would just be the wrong approach. I really wanted to look her in the eye and just plainly tell her she has no right to be eating that junk food in her condition. I had to stop myself and I ended up talking to my wife first about how we together need to approach the subject. But I also come from the school of hard truths and sometimes I think being openly honest, as painful as it might be, is the only option when nothing else is working.
Any dads, or stepdads, out there that can give me some advice I would really appreciate it.