📝 AITAH for giving my mom the cold shoulder after she sent my sister away to live with my grandma?

By ThisAintAly • Score: 2 • April 19, 2025 10:46 PM


I (18F) have a younger sister, Nath (15F). Nath has had some trouble with my parents for vaping several times over the last year, and a week ago my mother decided to go through her phone to see if she was hiding anything, my sister got very upset because she thought they were over all that. She fought with my parents and my mother ended up saying very hurtful things. That day my sister sneaked out of the house and went to our grandma's, my mother didn’t realize Nath was gone until a few hours later but when she did she immediately went to grandma's to look for her. I don’t know the details because I wasn’t there but I was told they all (my parents, grandparents and Nath) sat down at the table to talk and my grandma offered to take my sister in, my mother said if she accepted my grandma's offer she wouldn’t be her responsibility anymore, she wouldn’t give her or my grandma anything. At the end my sister came back home on the condition that she wasn’t going to talk to our mom anymore only our dad. That lead to our parents fighting, my mother got angry at my dad because she said it’s his fault we hate her, she said if he wasn’t so soft we wouldn’t hate her.

Anyways the atmosphere was tense the rest of the week but it was tolerable, until yesterday. My mother checked my sister's instagram and found out she’d been borrowing a vape from a friend, then a little while later she also discovered my sister had been talking to a girl in a romantic context. At that point I was so uncomfortable being in the house that I left with a friend of mine to go to the mall and only returned at night. When I returned my sister told me what happened. Turns out she and our mother fought again and now she’s sending her to live with our grandma, she’s basically throwing her out, She also unenrolled her from school. That was yesterday night and my sister is leaving tomorrow afternoon. My mother hasn’t come out of her room since last night and when my dad asked what he should buy for lunch she said she didn’t want to eat.

I don’t know how to feel about my sister leaving. I always thought I’d be the one to leave first. I don’t want her to go, she’s the only person in this rotten house that listens to what I have to say. I am very angry at my mom, I actually feel a little violent. I am very angry because she is sad for something SHE caused. I am angry because she is a hypocrite and I hate her but I can’t stop loving her at the same time. I want to get out of here but I just cant, not yet. I am angry because I can do nothing to help my sister, because I want to scream and yell and throw things at my mom and I can’t, and I don’t know what to do with all this anger besides hurt myself.

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