So for about an hour today, my step mom forced me to play this childish card game with my brother's girlfriend he brought home...to...I don't know, help her feel welcome in the family.

Now, I'd be ALL for this, however, I was in the middle of studying for a huge final I have coming up and wasn't really in the mood or had time to play card games.

So when I was forced to play, I didn't complain (because his gf was there) and because I knew I'd get in trouble.

Then she told me to "Cheer up!" and "be happier!" and of course I replied with, "But I'm not sad. I feel fine." So this resulted in me being called a liar and she talked about how disappointed she was in me because I didn't act appropriately in front of our guests.

However, if I were to have pretended to "smile and be happy" I would've gotten in trouble for sarcastically smiling. So either way would've been bad. I still played the game and won a couple of times, but I never "laughed." Therefore, according to her, I wasn't having a good time.

No matter how many times I tried to explain it to her that I was just thinking about my finals and that I wasn't mad/sad and that I just can't pretend to laugh when there's nothing to laugh about, she yelled at me. Then she sent me downstairs and now here I am typing this.

Does anyone else's parents do things like this to them? Like idk how to even feel about this. What's ironic is that I walked downstairs and actually laughed due to her stupidity.