📝 AITA for telling my grandma to butt out and let me take care of my sister?

By cattyeclipse_ • Score: 1 • April 16, 2025 7:04 PM


I (19f) am staying with my grandma as my parents are traveling with my little brother due to medical reasons. They've left me with my baby sister (6), and since I have university, we've been staying with my grandma so she can help look after my sister when I'm not home.

My grandma is a loud, angry woman. She asks a lot of questions, and will ask them very loudly and angrily. If I'm in my room just studying, she'll barge in yelling at me about lying around all day. If I am crying because I'm worried about my brother, she'll be like "oh so you care?" and its very very frustrating.

Also, she disagrees with EVERY LITTLE THING I say. My sister was meant to hangout with my cousins the other say, so I picked a nice dress for her to wear when I dropped her off at my aunts, and my grandma just goes "Are you sure she should wear that? Let's call your mother!" even though I bought the fucking dress myself, so I got angry because my mother is already busy enough.

I've been exhausted this past month, I'm grieving, I'm worried over my brother, and I try my best with my baby sister. Plus, with university and exams, I'm constantly stressed.

I mean, I'm 19 and my grandma takes my phone away at night 'to make sure you get some sleep'?????

My uncle lives here as well, and he's really sweet to me. I went downstairs to have lunch, and my little sister was on the sofa on her iPad, and I said, "hey, do you mind getting me some water?" because I was trying to get her food ready as well.

My sister got up, but then my grandma said "don't be lazy, why are you asking her?" so my sister sat back down and said "yeah, why are you asking me?"

I said, "grandma, I'm busy, and she can get some water, she's not doing anything." and my grandma kept going "no, she doesn't know how!"

So my sister said, "i dont know how." even though i've asked to get me water before, so i told my grandma to not tell my sister what she does and doesn't know, because my sister is very smart. My grandma started yelling calling me lazy, and I was just so tired I yelled back and told her not to get involved.

I yelled and said, "she's my sister! I'm in charge of her! She's my sister!"

My grandma kept telling me what a horrible sister I am because I barely give her the time of day, to which my sister kept crying and came up to hug me and yelled "no she's a good sister! I'll get water!"

I told my grandma to butt out and leave me alone, and tried calming my sister down, and my grandma just started trying to get my sister off of me and my sister kept crying.

I try my best to take care of her, but I have exams and I have university, and its hard, but I am trying. i try to spend at least an hour a day with her before I let her go to my aunts house. I would move out of this stupid place, but I dont want to leave my sister.

My uncle ended up walking in and told my grandma to stop getting involved, and came to calm me down, and my uncle said he'd talk to her but I shouldn't have yelled.

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