📝 AITA for refusing to go back home?

By OkWinter8409 • Score: 2 • April 14, 2025 2:23 PM


So, when I (21m) was finishing high school and turned 18, I started having tons of fights with my parents, they refused to acknowledge that I became an adult, kept harassing me with curfew, tried to ground me, piled fuckton of chores on me, kept complaining that I was playing videogames, et.c., the usual BS cause "their house, their rules". Ok, fine, whatever, they didn't want to deal with me, I literally packed a duffel bag and left.

NGL, next couple years were super rough with trying to make it on my own, but I got lucky with a job, met my current partner, got promoted, we rented out a studio together, I managed to get enrolled in a program that lets me combine working with studying, it's all good.

So recently I randomly ran into my father, and at first I was like "Ok, maybe he'll respect me now" and wanted to give him a chance, but he started spouting that BS how he forgives me and I should come back home, live with him and mom again, and that he hopes I learned my lesson about respect. And I'm like "WTF, what lesson, you complete delulu?", so he went off again how I am ungrateful for running off and abandoning the family. These three years, I kept contact with the family through my sister, so they knew I wasn't dead in a ditch somewhere, but they were what, expecting me to crawl back? So I laughed and left.

Sister called me back and told me dad was mad AF and mom was crying and blaming him that evening, and that I was being an AH for cutting him off like that. So, Reddit, AITA? Should I come back home? I don't want to abandon the life I've built, plus I'm still on the lease and it'd be a rotten thing to do to my partner.

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