She Disappeared and Her Parents Filed a Missing Person Report. Is She a Jerk?

It’s never funny to make your family members worry about you…especially if they think you are missing for some reason.

And a woman shared her story on Reddit’s “Am I the A**hole?” page and she wants to know if she acted like a jerk for scaring her parents.

Let’s see what the heck is going on here…

AITA for disappearing and causing my parents to lodge a missing persons report?

“I (F27) have been married to my wonderful husband (M30) for five years but we have been together for seven years in total.

In all that time, my parents (F58 and M60) have never really taken a shining to him, but everyone has always been amicable. That is, everyone except my sister (F22) who seems to think that the world revolves around her. She is the light of my parents’ lives, and can do absolutely no wrong in their eyes. Simply put, my husband and I generally keep our distance from her.

Last weekend was my dad’s 60th birthday, and everyone was invited. My husband and I went knowing that my sister would be there, but we didn’t think too much of it. We expected a pleasant evening celebrating my dad.

It is important to note before we go further that my husband follows certain dietary restrictions as part of his religion, which I am keeping vague, but everyone in the family knows and has been accommodating thus far.

Unfortunately, after everyone had eaten dinner, my sister announced that she had specifically asked the caterers to add in some of the restricted food items so that she could test “if [my husband] would even know the difference.” To say the least, I. WAS. FURIOUS.

Just for clarification purposes: The restricted ingredients were added into sauces and there were no noticeable pieces.

My husband and I were both absolutely appalled, and just walked out while my sister yelled that she “didn’t get the big deal” and we need to take the sticks out of our butts. My parents had absolutely nothing to say and just watched. They later texted me that I should consider the fact that my sister is young and didn’t know better. I did not respond.

I guess that leads me to the title, I have absolutely gone no-contact with everyone since the party and have not responded to a single message or phone call. Nor has my husband. When my parents showed up at the house, we did not open the door. When they showed up at my work, I did not go to reception. I have not laid eyes on them at all.

Today, some cops knocked on the door saying that they had received a missing persons report and were looking for me. Fortunately that was all solved quite quickly in that I never actually went missing, but now my friends are saying that I wasted police resources when I could have just texted my parents back saying that I didn’t want to hear from them. I just feel like a grown woman should not have to justify where she is to her parents.”