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A dad has been accused of \u201cplaying favourites\u201d by people online after he openly admitted to refusing the request from one of his daughters to walk her down the aisle at her\u00a0wedding\u00a0\u2013 but agreeing to do so for his other child. <\/p>\n
Sharing his story anonymously on\u00a0Reddit, the dad\u00a0explained\u00a0he has two daughters, 27-year-old Marie and 23-year-old Julie, but Julie is not his biological daughter and instead he adopted her as his own when he married her mum.<\/p>\n
Julie is set to get\u00a0married\u00a0in October and the dad has agreed to walk her down the aisle, but when Marie announced that she would also be\u00a0tying the knot\u00a0this year, he wouldn\u2019t accept the same honour from her.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI have two daughters, Marie and Julie. For context, Julie is not my biological\u00a0daughter, but I married my current wife when Julie was only two, and since her dad was absent I adopted her as my own. I love both my daughters the same.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n \u201cThis being said, I am closer to Julie since she currently lives with us and we do almost everything together. Marie is closer to her mum, mainly because her mum got full custody of her when we divorced, and she has never lived with me.<\/p>\n \u201cNow, to the main issue. Julie got engaged about a year ago and immediately asked me to walk her down the aisle. I of course agreed and have actively helped her with the planning of the wedding, which is scheduled for October 2022.<\/p>\n \u201cA couple of weeks ago, Marie asked me to go grab some coffee with her and let me know she\u2019s currently pregnant and will soon get married. To be honest, this got me off guard since I didn\u2019t even know she had a boyfriend. <\/p>\n She apparently will have quite a fast wedding since she doesn\u2019t want her baby bump to show too much, meaning her wedding will be in three months.<\/p>\n \u201cShe says it\u2019ll be a small ceremony and asked me to walk her down the aisle. I felt weird about it since I don\u2019t even know her fianc\u00e9 and it was all so sudden, so I asked her to let me think about it. It seemed like this answer surprised her but she understood.\u201d<\/p>\n The dad then said he spoke to his wife and Julie about what he should do and was encouraged to turn Marie down because Julie had \u201casked first\u201d and wanted to be \u201cthe first to be walked down the aisle\u201d.<\/p>\n So he sent a text to Marie telling her he wouldn\u2019t be walking her down the aisle, but she branded him a \u201chorrible father\u201d.<\/p>\n He added: \u201cI then went home and let my wife and daughter know, and Julie asked me to please decline. She wanted to be the first to be walked down the aisle and since she asked first, thinks that I have a stronger commitment to her. I agreed since this is more of an \u2018Us\u2019 thing rather than an after-thought like Marie\u2019s wedding.<\/p>\n \u201cI then sent a message to Marie letting her know of my decision with a brief explanation, and even offered options like getting her mum or step-dad to walk with her. I also reassured her that I\u2019d still be with her there and support her with anything.<\/p>\n \u201cShe almost immediately called me crying and telling me how much of a horrible father I am, and how I apparently have always played favourites, which hurt me since it\u2019s simply not true, I love them both. I tried to explain my reasoning but she said it doesn\u2019t matter and doesn\u2019t care about my excuses.\u201d<\/p>\n Reddit commenters were quick to slam the dad for bending to Julie\u2019s \u201cridiculous\u201d request and urged him to see what he was doing to his eldest daughter.<\/p>\n One person said: \u201cYou should be walking them both down the aisle instead of just picking one over the other. Julie wanting to be the first to be walked down the aisle is frankly a ridiculous request.\u201d<\/p>\n While another added: \u201cYou are, quite obviously, playing favourites.\u201d<\/p>\n The dad later returned to the post to admit he was wrong and said he was planning to reach out to Marie to apologise.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cThese comments have really opened my eyes to how horrible I was to my daughter. I feel like I\u2019ve been oblivious to several things I did and allowed to happen. I\u2019ll try to reach out to her but after reading your opinions, I doubt she\u2019ll accept and I\u2019d totally get it.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0_Bride-And-Father-Walking-Down-The-Aisle-During-Outdoor-Wedding.jpg\")