📝 AITA for cutting contact with my mother's family

By Crazy_Ad7196 • Score: 4 • April 13, 2025 11:00 PM


This is my first time posting, but I just want to know if I'm in the wrong. So I'm 17F, and I have been living in the US for 4 years. I'm from a Latin country, and my family is traditional (only in the things that benefit them). My family has always tried to control my life, but after I moved I kinda cut contact with them. Well this problem started in my sweet 16, I wanted a car but my mom and my mom's family pressure me to have the party. I could only choose small things,but my family had the last say. It was one of the worst days of my life , everyone was smiling and happy, but I just wanted to get back home and cry with my pets. That entire year I kept thinking that I was wrong for feeling that way, and that my family was trying the best to reconnect. Inside me I forgave them for going against my wishes but after they created the lie that my dad's side of the family were the ones who force me to had the party I just couldn't take it anymore .My dad's family have always being there for me, the problem is my mom; when I was younger I couldn't spend a lot of time with them but after I move, I reconnected with them. They were the only ones who supported me in all my dreams and they were the only ones who supported me when I told them that I did NOT want the party. But this problem got worse this year during New Year when we traveled back to celebrate with the family. I left the problems behind and I just wanted to have a great time with my family and I just wanted to celebrate as we used to do before we moved. So when we were talking about school they asked me what I was going to study in college, I just said that I wanted to become an Architect and an Interior Designer. I saw in the face that kinda smile like if they were trying to tell me that I was an Idiot, a brat, and a spoiled girl who doesn't know anything about life  (I have seen that smile and I have heard those words really often). What they said was true. I know that maybe it is a hard career and something not that common in my country, but it is what I like and for me studying it is not a chore, it is really fun and I like it. (I just wanted to share something that I like with my family because they don't even know my favorite color even when I wore it in my clothes almost everyday). They kept talking about how dumb my dream was and the same words that I have heard all my life; they asked me for a backup plan and I said that I would like to open a floral shop and that I'm taking classes for it. Y'all, I'm not lying when I say that they started to laugh like if I had said the funniest thing in the world, I just stared at them because I was really F confused. They said what I would do when there were no more flowers on earth, go to another planet to get more, I just said that I can use other material or dried flowers, or ribbon, or even paper, but they basically destroyed my dreams. I got really upset because the one who was mocking me the most was a cousin (21F) who dropped highschool, started to study makeup and all that kinda stuff, just to drop all of that a year later and started to work in a food factory. I started crying and my family called me "another emotional brat like people of my age",they called me immature and other words that hurted me deep because I have try to become a more independent person from them, but their words really make me feel what I felt a year ago and all my life. Now I'm back home thinking of cutting contact with my family because I really love them but I feel that they don't support me. So I'm in the wrong, because for my other cousin I'm just overreacting, but for my grandma of my dad's family I need to do the best thing for me. I just need an exterior opinion .

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