Mad At Sister's Fiance

United States
July 30, 2012 5:50pm CST
Okay so here's the situation in a nutshell. My nieces loves baby dolls, carries them EVERYWHERE. She is 11 now (will be 12 in Jan.). So last week my sister's fiance offered to give my niece his old phone, but she had to get rid of her baby dolls. He made her believe that she would be able to use the phone (texting, calling, games). So my niece gave up her baby doll and got the phone. But guess what! The phone is USELESS! You can't do anything with it! The service on it was canceled, and there are no games. I think that was a mean trick he played on her, and it's not the only thing he's ever done to upset me. What do you think about this situation? *Funny story about this to follow soon*
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
5 Aug 12
Lying to a child is a horrid thing to do and it's stupid too because eventually the child will realise they have been lied to. The trust goes right out the window. Just because kids are little and young doesn't mean they are stupid. An adult who thinks this way is the stupid one.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
5 Aug 12
That's just too sad. What a jerk. What's wrong with your sister that she can't see what a jerk he is??
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• United States
6 Aug 12
I think she was just as desperate to find someone as my niece was for a father. She doesn't see what we all see, she loves him. My sister was a single mom for about 10 years, it was hard for her. She probably just doesn't want to be alone anymore.
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• United States
5 Aug 12
My niece seems SOO desperate for a father figure, she acts like he's the best thing that's ever happened to them. She's even started calling him her daddy. Gag me with a spoon!!!!
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@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
31 Jul 12
That is mean indeed. She would have more fun with the dolls. No one really needs a phone!
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• United States
31 Jul 12
Come on now! Adults need phones Like when your car breaks down, or your lost, or you really really want a pizza! Haha But yeah, my niece doesn't really need a phone at her age...and hey, I guess she didn't get one!
@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
31 Jul 12
i could do without one to be honest! But yeah the Pizza is a valid reason lol.
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
31 Jul 12
Funny story is your sister dumps the creep..._
• United States
31 Jul 12
Explain what? What other things this guy can lie about? Oh take your pick, another woman, making promises to get his own way,cheating on taxes and then get caught, with Lilies sister in the crossfire, etc.....
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@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
31 Jul 12
ok I guessd I missed that
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@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
31 Jul 12
Explain?
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
31 Jul 12
hi lilyofthethorns my goodness at 11 she should be allowed to play with dolls, shes a child yet,. I agree your sister's fiance is being cruel to her.Yes hes a jerk for lying to her and meddling with her love of dolls. let the child be a child as they grow up soon enough.
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• United States
31 Jul 12
Haha okay! I'll go post the funny story right now...and I'll try not to ramble. I tend to do that when I'm telling a story.
@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
31 Jul 12
Ahh there you are. Take your time Lily. mylot never sleeps
@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
31 Jul 12
Hey Hatley. I think Lily is teasing us. I want the funny story that was promised!
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
31 Jul 12
And what is his point of fooling the little girl? I guess he needs a good lesson to stop this. It's not good to fool little kids, for they tend to follow what they have learned from the adults...duh :xxx
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@BabyCheetah (1911)
• Australia
31 Jul 12
Yeah I don't approve of dirty tricks like that. I think that was a horrible thing to do and if she loves baby dolls is there really anything wrong with that? Besides he isn't even family so what right does he have to trick your niece? Or is the child his? Anyway I don't approve!
• United States
1 Aug 12
No my niece is not his, but he does have 2 of his own kids. He'll be family soon enough, when my sister marries him. I just hope he changes the way he acts!
• United States
1 Aug 12
You're right, her child SHOULD come first, but unfortunately that doesn't happen...I think jerky murky face would work too! Haha
• Australia
1 Aug 12
Well he better. I wouldn't allow such a thing if it were my child and I know it's my opinion but your sister shouldn't either. First and foremost her child comes first. I feel like calling this guy jerky mcjerk face but I guess I don't really know him besides what you have said here
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• Canada
31 Aug 12
That guy is such an diot. First of all, that the mother approved was bad enough, but if she didn't approve of his behaviour and he did it anyway, that's even worse, because the door's just open for him to manipulate a child. I would have kicked him out of the house had he acted like that with my kid!
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
31 Jul 12
I'd tell her to take her dolls back since he didn't provide up to expectations.
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• United States
31 Jul 12
She wouldn't be able to take her doll back from him if she wanted to. He would just throw it out. But I told her to bring it to me and I'd donate it for her (that was before I knew the phone she got didn't work). Now my mom is going to keep it here and give it to her when she's older (a fun memory for her when she grows up).
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• United States
29 Sep 12
I would have told my niece that she doesn't have to give up her dolls and when he asks about it kindly hand him back his bootleg phone. That is a very mean trick to play on a child and I hope he doesn't have any good luck following that one.
• United States
29 Sep 12
Well if she had kept her doll at her house he would have just thrown them out. So we have the doll here at our house. Not sure my niece knows that, but my mom said we'll keep it for her until she's older...and she'll be able to look back at her favorite toy when she was little.
• United States
31 Jul 12
That was actually cruel. Why would you play a trick like that on a eleven year old girl? He isn't acting any older than her. If it's not the only trick he played on her that you didn't like I would watch out. Something doesn't sound right and he doesn't sound like he'd make a good father. Tell your sister to beware, she's got some problems ahead of her. What happened to the dolls? Can she get them back?
• United States
31 Jul 12
My sister would just get mad at anyone that said anything about him. It's happened before. If she brought the doll back home it would just get thrown out. So my mom is going to keep it here for safe keeping, and give it to her when she's older. For a fun memory when she grows up!
@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
4 Aug 12
That is extremely mean to do to his niece. She is never going to forgive him for playing such a mean trick on her. I find it very inmature of him and he needs to give the baby doll back to her and she give him the useless phone back. Unless of course if he makes it a working phone for her. That is just so not right. She will grow up remembering this and he will never be her favorite uncle thats for sure.
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@Paper_Doll (2373)
• Philippines
31 Jul 12
I think that what your sister's fiance did is kind of mean. Although his intention is good and that is to stop your niece in playing baby dolls, I don't think that it is right to trick and disappoint her. I think that the kid is upset not only by the fact that the phone isn't working but that someone lied to her. We, adults, should be a good example for them. If this thing continues to happen, she will eventually think that lying is not bad. My sister also loves playing dolls. She has this rug doll I bought when she was 8 and she has been playing it until she is 16. The problem is she always bring the doll with her even at school. She always carry that doll wherever she goes. She feeds her, she changes its clothes, she sleep beside it and she even gave the doll a name and talks to it everytime. Some would really make fun of her because of it so what my mother did to stop her is she gave the doll to other kid. My mom told her that the little kid has no toy so that my sister would not take the doll back. But what my sister did is gave the kid another toy and took back the doll. She said she aren't giving away a friend.
• United States
31 Jul 12
Before I express my opinion no this, let me first say that I would NEVER make fun of someone for something like this. I don't believe bullying is EVER okay! Now, I do think it is a little odd for a 16 year old to still be changing and feeding her baby doll, but I don't think that just having the doll is weird. I think girls have stuffed animals and things like that all their lives, my mom still likes having stuffed animals, and so do I. But we don't play with them or anything like that. They are for adding character and warmth to the house/our rooms.
• United States
31 Jul 12
My comment to this is there really isn't nothing wrong with the doll. So be it kids tease her -- my son brought home a girl friend one year when he was 14 and she had a teddy bear and all kinds of colorful kandi jewelry -- she was into the rave scene I thought it was sweet and cute and to each their own. Now being from the psychology arena we use dolls in therapy. We have a Lucy doll and a Larry doll and it works well for kids of all ages. They can talk to their dolls and tell them things that they can't really tell anyone else. If someone has hurt them or if they are having a bad day at school they can turn to their dolls for comfort and that maybe what is happening with the 16 year old. Kids are bullied and made fun of all the time and if you're not accepted it can be rough not having any friends to eat lunch with I know I was one who was bullied but I fought back and protected other kids from bullies and so all my friends were kids that I protected.
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• Philippines
31 Jul 12
I forgot to say that my sister is a special child. But although she is, she can actually communicate with others. She is already a teen but she thinks and acts like a child. Yes it is true that she was bullied when she was still in primary school. Some of her classmate usually boys would take her money and would make her buy something. My brother actually saw some boys hitting a stick on her table and she was crying. So we never enrolled her in regular class again.
@Raine38 (12250)
• United States
31 Jul 12
I think he needs to get his head examined. Who would do that to an 11-year old girl? Girls normally play baby dolls, girls normally believe to whatever the adults tell them. No grown man would ever trick a little girl out of her own dolls in exchange for crap. Sorry for the words, but this is so unheard of. What was he thinking? Does your sister know this? And what was his reason for wanting your niece to get rid of his dolls?
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• United States
31 Jul 12
I'm sure my sister knew about the deal. Both she and her fiance want my niece to stop playing with baby dolls. She is a bit obsessed with them, and I'm okay with them trying to "ween" her off the dolls, but not by lying and trickery.
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• Canada
31 Aug 12
When I was 11 years old I was "way above baby dolls" but that was E, and no one else. When someone else I know was 12 years old, she was secretly daing a guy 5 years older than her, and probably more inolved with him than I care to imagine. If given a choice between the two, dolls, all the way!! And with the "parents" she has, the dolls may be the only innocent thing in her home. Could these dolls be a way for her to hold ono her innocence, in a world that she knows is crumbling in a wrong way? Personally for me, it's music! I love all the old stuff, by which I mean music from about 1880-1550. I mean REALLY OLD STUFF!!! Of course people don't befrudge me my music, because I can't out-grow that. True it would be "nice" if she had a more adult obsession, but at this point, I'd just be happy that she was attempting to hold onto her innocence. How do we know that this unstable environment isn't going to put her in a situation that'll rip her innocene apart?