Well, this is a sad story if I’ve ever seen one.
It concerns a teenage girl who is dealing with the passing of her mother and she wants to know if she’s wrong for something she said to her father.
Read on to see what went down.
AITA for telling my dad that I’m not his replacement wife?
“My (f16) mom passed away recently. my brother (m14) and dad are so devastated by this tragic loss and we are struggling.
I’ve basically found myself handling all chores and work around the house – my brother is too traumatized he hasn’t been talking since the funeral and my dad hasn’t been lifting a finger and do a single thing. He started making requests from cleaning the messy living room (he sleeps on the couch) to picking up dirty laundry to doing dishes, cooking or ordering food, walking the dogs, vacuuming, doing repairs, mowing the lawn, washing the car since my brother stopped doing it.
I’m too exhausted often times. Mom used to do the chores and I used to help but I have school and after school commitments and my dad keeps negatively commenting on how I get things done and compare me to mom like how much time I take to make breakfast etc.
Yesterday he woke me up at 6am even though he told me to skip school and wanted me to make breakfast. I scrambled eggs and prepared other dishes then went to wake my brother up. I set the table and once dad sit down he looks at the scrambled eggs and goes “what is this? This is not the right way to make scrambled eggs. Your mother used to make perfect scrambled eggs. Did you not learn anything from her at all? How are we supposed to survive if you can’t even properly make scrambled eggs?”
He looks at my brother and says “we’re doomed”. I snap and loudly tell him I’m not his replacement wife to expect me to do this and that for him. He looks at me stunned and my brother rushes out immediately. Dad starts telling me how cruel and insensitive what I just said and how out of line I was.
I reply that I was too tired to make ‘the perfect scrambled eggs” my mom used to make and that maybe if he as a parent had tried to learn we wouldn’t be suffering right now. He gets up throws the towel and walks out.
My aunt came to visit and when I told her she went off saying I should have never said that to my grieving dad and that I should be ashamed of myself for talking to him like that.
AITA?”
Here’s how Reddit users reacted to this story.
This reader said that this girl did nothing wrong and that it seems like too much is being expected of her.
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Another reader said that she needs to put her foot down and stop doing anything for her dad to teach him a lesson.
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This Reddit user said that she should be asking her brother to chip in, too.
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And this individual made a good point: when is this teenage girl going to be able to grieve for her mother?
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