📝 Blamed 10 year old grandchild

By jpeg557 • Score: 0 • April 13, 2025 4:39 PM


Hey all,

My wife and I are currently living at my parents house wirh our 10 year old and our dog. This only being temporary until the residence we are moving to finishes the renovation. The other night my daughter was walking to her room after my wife got her a bowl of ice cream. She has to walk by a 400+ pound wooden dresser to get to her desk where she was going to grab pencils to start coloring. All of a sudden we hear this loud thud that shook the entire house. We ran to see my daughter pinned under part of the dresser. Luckily her bed was there to stop the dresser from completely flattening her. Her "grandma" walked in (grandpa just sat there couldn't care less abiut what happened as he's acting full blown alcoholic) and instantly started accusing my 10 year old of climbing on it or messing with it bevause "dressers just don't fall." My daughter has never been a climber, confirmed by many other sources, as well as us (shes also taller than the dresser so no reason to climb.) My daughter told her what happened, but she didn't believe her and continued to tell her she's lying and was now mad the bed caused a little damage and one of the drawers doesn't work all the way. I blew a gasket at them, as they will never talk or treat my daughter like that...After things calmed down I went to go look at the dresser. Come to find out the dresser is on an uneven floor, one of the feet of the dresser isn't even attached, and I noticed 1 little bump causes the dresser wobble uncontrollably. Once I addressed this wirh them they continue to deny that dressers cant just fall (it was also very top heavy) and that she climbed it. I will also add, this is my step daughter I've raised her since she was 6 months old, and my family is the type that treats her different than others because she's not biolocally mine. I told them after witnessing this, you don't ever deserve to be called grandma or grandpa by her and now they treat her like she's no better than the liquid at the bottom of the garbage can. Did I overreact or should we get out ASAP. Her getting belittled by them is almost a daily occurrence as well. To the point where my daughter doesn't even want to leave her room to eat breakfast or dinner if they are anywhere near there. This is just 1 of several different. We appreciate them giving us temporary housing and are very respectful and help out any way we can, it's just tough living with full blown alcoholics that go out of their way to pick on my daughter while you see them praise and laugh at the same things her cousins (their bio grandkids) do. AITAH for saying that?

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