In a shocking incident, a step mom was strongly reprehended by the online users. The criticism came after the woman claimed that she did not have the time to learn sign language to communicate with her step daughter as she was running out of time.

A woman was maligned by the online users after she claimed that she had no interest in learning sign language to communicate with her deaf step daughter. The woman was married to a man named Buford in her thirties around a year ago. Along with her husband, she had two children from her previous marriage who came together to form a family. The kids were eight-year and five-year-old named Jay and Juniper respectively. 

Buford and her wife were optimistic about the fact that Buford had no children. They were also sure of the fact that they did not want to have children anymore. However, to their shock, they realized that Buford had a fifteen-year-old girl named Markita about whom he was never informed of. Markita’s mother never informed Buford about her pregnancy and the duo moved to the states. Buford came to know about the matter when Markita’s mother reached out on Facebook.

The couple was uncertain about the matter but she turned out to be the right one. Markita’s mother and Markita finally moved to their state and were living close by which took around 40 minutes to reach. Markita’s mother wanted visitations from Buford which he had complied with. There was no formal agreement between the mother and Buford so it was always the random weekend and irregular school holidays. The event happened only between the father and the daughter but Markita would visit the house and even slept for a few times.

However, the core problem was the fact that Markita communicated via sign language which was a totally new concept for the family. No doubt about Buford who was making tremendous efforts to understand the language in order to communicate with his long-lost child. Buford’s wife explained that he pitched her the idea of learning sign language as a family. Unfortunately, the woman doubted that was it really worth learning the language. Markita visited their house once a month. The woman told she would consider learning even if she would have come more often.

However, she presented the argument that she worked forty-eight hours a week and she did not have time for something like that to learn. The woman further told that she knew three different languages. She told that learning a language wasn’t easy for her and it was difficult to add that into her life. The woman did not mind if her kids or husband wanted to learn the language if they were curious to learn.

However, the kids were not interested as their mother was not and Buford thought that her wife was being rude since the woman did not have any alternative communication channel with Markita. The woman further told that she offered him other alternatives but he was not ready to hear it out. Even Markita thought that the woman should learn sign language between her work.

The dilemma took her to turn to social media where she questioned the users whether she was wrong on her part for not wanting to learn the language and the majority of them pointed out that she was wrong. One of the users even asked her to put herself in Marika’s mother’s situation and forced her to think about how she would have felt.