📝 AITAH for telling my mom I won't text her?

By Lazy_Cartoonist_6864 • Score: 159 • April 11, 2025 9:14 PM


My (18) mom told me to text her when my brother gets home, but the thing is he has a phone, and he is 16. Her excuse was that he might not see it, but she had no problem before today, and she recently got a lock that has a code on it, and we all have separate codes so she gets pinged whenever anyone enters it.

I told her he's 16, and he can text her himself. She also decided to text me a few nights ago telling me to ask him if he's hungry (she only takes care of him and not me. It's been like that since I was 17. The only thing I have from her is electricity), which I found weird because she usually texts him whenever he needs something, so why go to me?

It seems simple and I might seem insufferable, but that woman doesn't do anything for me and constantly threatens to kick me out. She doesn't buy me food or pay my tuition. Her mother does everything and I barely have a place to sleep (my mother constantly orders stuff and leaves it all over the space that I sleep in so I have to constantly move the boxes so I can walk). So my thing is, that's your kid. I am not your daughter according to you. You chose to take care of him and not me. He is 16, so he should be more than responsible enough to text you or you can check your phone to see who entered the code. I am not your messenger.

I don't get it. It's not like she doesn't have his number... I think she wanted to get mad because when I told her that she was like "then I'll change your code and you can't get in". ugh... She was itching to find a problem because I literally mind my business, BUT maybe I am TAH? Idk.

And tbh, I cannot work at the moment, but as soon as I can (which she dreads, but also wants me out at the same time?) I will, and I will be leaving.

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