Step daughter cries when given xmas gift

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So, my step daughter is 14 and when opening her presents on Christmas Day she started crying out of being overwhelmed. Is this normal, I don’t think it is

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  • chuy
    3 years ago

    Maybe she never got andything before...

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    • RoseIsabella
      3 years ago

      That's what I'm thinking! Also I've seem people who aren't underprivileged cry for joy, and in gratitude when they receive a really special present like a puppy, or a car... something very precious that the person really wanted, and wasn't expecting to get.

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      • chuy
        3 years ago

        Yeah...sounds like my lil cousins from Mexico when we go and tale them presents or gifts.

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  • Boojum
    3 years ago

    Were you ever a fourteen-year-old girl?

    I suspect not, and I also suspect it's been quite a while since you were fourteen. So, it's not surprising that you were bewildered by this response.

    It's probably hormonal to at least some extent, but just be glad that she didn't shriek that she hated the gift, hated you and ran off to her room to rage-post on TikTok and every other social media account she has for the rest of the day.

    Leave her alone, and don't try to get her to explain - because she probably hasn't a clue why she did it either.

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  • rocketdave
    3 years ago

    My parents bought toys for all my cousins (8 of them) but asked for money from my uncles and aunts and bought me school clothes.

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  • jethro
    3 years ago

    14. It's probably just hormones and puberty.

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  • RoseIsabella
    3 years ago

    Was your stepdaughter very underprivileged before you married her mother/father? It sounds to me like the child is very grateful, she is crying for joy!

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  • LondonGoldman
    3 years ago

    Depends how dramatic it was.

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  • Somenormie
    3 years ago

    Does she cry because of joy?

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    • RoseIsabella
      3 years ago

      That's what I'm thinking.

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    • Elroy7141
      3 years ago

      Yea I think so, if I ask she doesn’t answer

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      • Somenormie
        3 years ago

        I think she does it because she's happy maybe she is a bit shy when she doesn't answer.

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  • litelander8
    3 years ago

    That sounds painfully annoying.

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    • raisinbran
      3 years ago

      It really does.

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  • raisinbran
    3 years ago

    Materialistic, soulless people often get emotional when receiving gifts. For that brief moment, she feels alive. This person will grow up to be miserable.

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    • S0UNDS_WEIRD
      3 years ago

      Dude, what? No they don't. They just expect it. You have this ass backward.

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