📝 AITAH for telling my mom that my I genuinely do not like my younger brother.

By bloopingaround1991 • Score: 5 • April 6, 2025 4:45 AM


Hello Reddit peeps,

Rant incoming, so 2025 has been so far an absolute crap year, I filed for Bankruptcy in January from medical and credit card debt, which in itself was hard enough to say to myself I'm screwed financially. Then in February my husband surprised me with divorce papers, stating that while he loves me he's no longer in love with me and wants me out with a 10 minute notice (his parents owned the house we were renting and asked me to leave to keep things civil). That night my dog and I slept in my car feeling that ive hit rock bottom, I called my mom asking if I could come home for a few weeks until I could get my bearings and figure things out, she happily agreed and welcomed me back with open arms and my dog as well. I stay with at moms for a few days and my brother also lives with her (29). My mom has always babied my younger brother, he's never held a full time job, he constantly takes money from her and belittles her (calls her names) I (35m) have an established career and goals. Anyway my dog and I get resettled in my old room, I ask my brother to use his pickup truck to get things from my exs place and he allows me to use his truck as long as I fill the tank up and wash it, I agree and get into the truck and it's on E. I fill it anyway and get my things and head back, all the while getting a dozen texts telling me that if the truck is not on full when I'm back were gonna have words, I tell him the truck was on E but that I will have it on full just to save face, he calls me a liar and I tell him I took a pic of the gas gauge before leaving and he abruptly hangs up on me. Then I get a call from my mom telling me that I really need to make sure the truck has a full tank because brother has a temper and we don't wanna deal with that. I tell her I did and have gas receipts, she thanks me and hangs up. Right when I get back my brother looks at the gas gauge and sees it on full, tells me he's glad that I did that or he wouldve keyed my car, I don't say anything as I'm to tired to deal with his crap, aftter a few days I go back to work, I'm working and I get a bunch of frantic texts from my mom saying I need to come home. I call her and she tells me that my brother does not like my dog being around and that she needs to go, I ask her did something happen and she said that brother saw her bite his dog, which is not like her at all, I ask did she see what happened, could it have been play, she said no she didn't see what happened but brother is angry and I need to get her and leave. I rush back to her house and get my dog all while my brother is shouting at me that my dog is "evil and a b word" I try to stay calm and ask what he saw and he said that he doesn't need to tell me anything and to get out of his damn house ( not his house it's my mom's) I leave and go and stay with a friend and his wife. Over the next few days I'm working out on now getting my stuff out of my mom's and she tells me to come whenever, I show up that day and find my desk busted apart, she tells me that my brother had an episode and that he took it out on my desk (it was a $400 desk) and that you know how he gets. I saw red, I'm going through a divorce (found out my ex left me for a 24yr old guy) Ive had to move not once but twice in a month but somehow I have to just chaulk it up that my brother is being "who he is" I tell my mom that my brother is a manipulative, evil ass hole whom once she dies can live in the gutter for all i care, I leave and haven't spoken since. Am I wrong to feel this way?

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