📝 AITAH for not working for my grandma?

By Material_Ad_1283 • Score: 1 • April 17, 2025 7:06 PM


I (15f) am being held back for my freshman year possibly till September due to working for my grandma all of October till January. While working there i would get 200 a week and look after her 13 dogs and 8 puppies. My grandma (63f) is a dog breeder and had a surgery in late October where they installed metal plates into her skull and she uses it to her advantage, guilting me and my mom anytime we have other things to do than take care of her, mind you she isn't widowed and has a husband and more children/grandchildren. I recently got to leave due to an argument back in January which was heaven since i didn't get to see my friends at all throughout the months. Now she has had another surgery for her spine in march and i had to go back the day after my birthday, now only being paid 100 a week now since i didn't want to mop or vacuum and since i was getting to leave on the weekends. I would work all day and when i would try and get onto my computer to do school just like the last time i was there, she would find a chore to do like scoop dog poop or clean her pool. She was asking about my school work and i freaked out on her since she was saying i need to just go back to public school since i wasnt doing my hours even though she treated giving me chores during my designated school hours like a mission. For background on public school i live in a small town and i was bullied and sexually harassed. We had a screaming match and i cried the whole time which made her even more aggravated, calling me a narcissist and bipolar, even a gas lighter and lazy. I ended up getting kicked out and she took my phone which was on her plan but my mom paid for its phone bill and the whole phone itself. I had it taken for 4 weeks and finally got it back so now i find myself texting in-between my lessons causing me to have only 4 to 3 hours of school a week instead of 6 to 8 (Me and my mom agreed on 4 back in the beginning of the year). She called me today screaming over the phone saying i was lazy and sleeping in instead of being at her house earning money and taking care of her and how she barely made it through yesterday due to the pain and taking care of her dogs. My grandpa wants her to retire the dog breeding business but she recently had her dogs have puppies again and is buying 3 for breeding now at 10 puppies and 10 adult dogs. I told her she was guilt tripping me and started crying and she started yelling saying i was gaslighting her and ranting about how she's helpless and in pain and barely being given any pain killers for her neck and back and head. I'm starting to feel guilty about not going back per her request am i the jerk?? (sorry for the jumbled mess this is my first time posting something like this)

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