📝 [AITA] for refusing to salvage my relationship with my mother, Update 2

By Realistic_Jelly_5376 • Score: 47 • April 11, 2025 9:59 PM


Link to the original post I made; https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/s/0Cw7kqZhek

Stuff is only getting worse. My mother had another episode, surprising no one. She got mad after I took my sister to see a movie; ended up calling our aunt and going full psycho mode. I mean screeching at the phone, barley making sense, completely hysterical.

Called my dad, told him what was going on, he completely shrugged it off. I tried to explain just how bad it was getting but he snapped at me- at which I lost my patience and completely unloaded at him. Mom had been shitty to me all week, making snide comments calling me names, her usual shit. I told dad how just how horrible it was living here, how I was walking on eggshells, how scared my sister was.

I called him a horrible parent for not leaving her and for letting my sister live in an environment where I’ve had to teach her how to hide in the closet because “mommy’s sick and she might hurt you”. I told him how fed up I was with not being able to be a teenager because nobody’s allowed to have feelings in this house expect for my mom- how if I tell her anything, I’ll get my ass whooped because of how emotionally immature she is and how mentally unstable she continues to be.

Everything I had bottled up I just let it all out.

I’m staying at a friends. I feel horrible about leaving my sister behind, but my mom literally refuses to let my sister leave the house under the excuse that “my sister’s traumatized”. Which yeah, no shit.

I don’t know. This will probably be my last post. No adult is stepping up in my life, I feel like I’m stuck raising a kid which I know I can’t do, at least not well. It’s all just gone to shit. I wish my school had done more when I told them, I wish my dad would take responsibility and get us out of this house, I wish literally anyone would intervene; but nobody does anything.

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