17-year-old attends family therapy with dad and stepmom, faces pushback for expressing true feelings: ' My dad decided seeing my family wasn't okay'

In this story, a teenage boy had experienced problems with his family ever since his dad married his stepmom after his mother's passing. The pair cut him off from his mom's side of the family and did not allow him to mourn her properly, while also expecting that he do that for the relatives of his stepmom. It had led to a lot of resentment and anger from him.

Eventually, his dad and stepmom decided that family therapy would be a good idea to resolve some issues. Although he was silent at first, he decided that it was time to explore his true feelings. He didn't hold back, and this upset his dad and his wife. He wanted validation that he wasn't doing the wrong thing.