📝 AITAH for telling my mum that my sexuality isn’t because a lack of father figure

By Ok_Pomelo9564 • Score: 1 • April 11, 2025 7:46 PM


For context, my parents divorced messily when I was quite young, maybe 10. I landed in the custody of my mum as she was the breadwinner of the family. My dad drunk himself to death and my mum refused to date anyone after, so I never really had a father figure. Me and my sister both grew up differently, as she decided to go to a day school whilst I got a scholarship to a boarding school and went. It was there I realized I was gay and frolicked about with a boyfriend for a bit before leaving after my GCSEs. I returned home and then came out to my mother, who wasn’t surprised but still didn’t like the idea of me loving a man. Two years go by, and I visit her from where I live, and because I stupidly forgot to turn on notifications, a Grindr notification came up. She started to cry, and said she blames my lack of father figure in my life for this. I got really pissed off and left, and she has been ignoring me ever since. So, AITAH?

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