Please tell me if my reaction to this is unreasonable:
My father is in his 90s and still lives in his own home but is alone there since his wife developed dementia and she now lives in a care home. She is not my mother but he has been married to her since I was 10 so I have known her for almost 50 years.
My step-mother has only one blood relation, a cousin who comes to see her from time to time and he also visits my father at his house. On a recent visit the cousin asked if he could have one of the paintings in the house and indicated another framed item which his wife had always liked and asked if she could have that? My father knew that this second item was something that I had had made for my step-mother as a special gift for her 80th birthday and so told the cousin that he would have to check with me as I might like to have it. I don't think my father would have told me about the cousin asking for these pieces if it weren't for my particular connection to the second item.
AIBU to feel that there is something unseemly and quite predatory about the cousin doing this, when the two of them are still alive?
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TheFirstMrsOsmond · 20/05/2018 18:12
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