WIFE HAD KEPT THE LETTER AWAY AFTER SHE HAD READ IT, THAT HER LATE HUSBAND HAD WROTE FOR HIS DAUGHTER

A husband, and a father, had a last wish from his wife, which he wanted to give his daughter a letter that he wrote for her. The woman had read the letter, and decided to keep the letter away from his daughter. She had shared her story on Reddit’s r/AITA subreddit, and wanted to ask that if she is wrong or right in her doings.
She had stated that in 2019, her husband was diagnosed with brain tumour. “In January of 2019, my husband was diagnosed with a brain tumour. It was in a completely inoperable part of the brain, and was told me had six months to live. He stuck it out and died in October, three months longer than he was expected to. He was always positive, and decided a few weeks after his diagnosis that he would write letters for our daughters for significant events in their lives. My husband was my soulmate, and the past few months have been difficult knowing I’ve lost him”
Then she had said that they had two daughters with her husband. “We have two daughters, Mia who is 21 and Imogen (Immy) who is 19. All three of us have become a lot closer since their dads death, and we’ve all really struggled. My husband and I were together since we were children, got married when we were 18 and we were approaching our 20th wedding anniversary when he passed.”
Then she explained the letters her husband had wrote for their daughters. “In February of this year, Mia got married to a boy she’s been with for about 6 years. I absolutely love her husband and he’s been incredibly supportive during all of our grief. My husband wrote a letter for Mia to open on her wedding day. It’s worth noting that my daughters were unaware of these letters, it was my job to give them to our daughters.”
Then she had read the letters, as she wanted to feel her husband’s presence with his handwriting. “Her wedding day comes around and I just can’t bring myself to give her the letter. I read it and just wanted to keep it to myself. I had his handwriting and his words and it felt like he was there, and I couldn’t bare the thought of giving that up yet. I was fully intending on giving her all the other letters as the events happened.”
Then they got their own house, her daughter and her spouse, which she wanted to look for her own belongings like her passaports and stuff. “Last week Mia and her husband bought their first home together. They’d been living at our home since they got married, and so had a lot of stuff to pack and move to their new house. Mia asked me where her important documents were, passport, birth certificate etc, so I told her they were in my top drawer of my dresser in my bedroom. The only letter that was in there was the one I was meant to give her on her wedding day, the rest were hidden away.”
As she found the letters, she had recognised the handwriting of her father. “She immediately recognised his handwriting and of course it was addressed to her, so she read it and broke down. She came and found me and started screaming at me asking how I could be so selfish. I didn’t really know what to say apart from the fact that I wanted to keep it and she could take a picture of it. Both my daughters called me an asshole and are convinced I’m keeping them from a load of their dads stuff. AITA?”
Here are some of the comments of Redditors.
“YTA and she’s right, you are selfish, and a thief. That wasn’t yours to keep. My dad died when I was 17. Do you have any idea how hard it is to marry a man my dad never got to meet? To walk down the aisle without him? My wedding day was supposed to be one of my best memories and instead it was just so hard. A letter would have meant the world to me. What you did was rotten. And the fact that you still haven’t realized that speaks volumes. This wasn’t only your loss. Do you not realize that?”
“Even after her daughter found the letter she still didn’t want her to have it and was only willing to let her take a photot of it. The lack of self awareness needed to even be questioning if you’re not the asshole in this situation is astounding. YTA.”
“My dad passed away 5 years ago. I was 20 at the time. It was a heart attack. We didn’t even know he had issues. He met my boyfriend only once, and it’s killing me. I remember after my boyfriend left that night, my dad was so happy that I had found such a good person to share my life with. It kills me to know that he will never see us get married. He’ll never see us get engaged. He never saw me get a wonderful job. He never saw us get our first house. Receiving a letter like that from my dad would be so special. But it can never happen. What OP did is absolutely despicable. I can’t believe the selfishness of some people.”
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