📝 AITAH if when I move out, I go completely NC with my parents?

By NoTough8868 • Score: 3 • April 16, 2025 9:04 AM


So this isn't so much an AITAH post it's more a WIBTAH. I'm (17F) and have a daughter (1F). I'm not looking for comments regarding that though, yes teen pregnancy, no not planned.

I want to move out as soon as I am 18 and the reason why is because my dad is the biggest narcissist ever. He regularly has conversations behind my back about how he thinks I have autism because I "lack empathy" and I'm "selfish". Which is basically his view on me as a whole. All of my other family members were really confused because I do genuinely have empathy just not towards him due to his bad treatment of me.

I have been thinking of going no contact for a while now but the only thing is that I love my mum, my mum isn't an angel or anything but I have a bond with her. I also don't want them to force my sister not to talk to me again because the last time I moved into a family members, my dad told my sister she couldn't talk to me because I'm a narcissist.

My dad yells everyday about the house being tidy, I am scared to eat most of the time because he yells about cooking, he frequently says that he wants his house to look like a show home and says if it doesn't then we are doing something wrong, the only thing that's wrong with wanting it to look that way is that there is 9 people living here. I get wanting to have a clean home but everytime you are down there he takes your phone, yells at you and keeps you there the full day. When I mean full day it's usually 9am-8pm of just cleaning, he takes out all of the cupboards and puts it on the floor for everyone else to sort out and basically just gives everyone else tasks to do while he yells about how we aren't doing it right. He once grounded my sister for a month for not knowing how to wax the table, it wasn't like she was unwilling she just asked him how to do it.

I don't want to leave my sister behind though, she's 16 and I don't want her having to live in that type of environment if I leave, I feel cruel leaving her behind. My brother's stand up for themselves but my sister is the biggest people pleaser ever, she literally does everything for my dad including making him cup of teas and bringing them up, getting anything he wants, she does the brunt of the chores and cooks for all of the kids. She is basically a work horse and I would feel guilty for leaving her behind. I have 6 months until I'm 18 then I am moving out, even if I can't afford all of my furniture straight away.

So WIBTAH if I went no contact with my dad and left the rest of my family behind?

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