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In the aftermath of a family crisis, a 19-year-old woman finds herself at the center of a contentious dispute with her parents. Having diligently worked multiple jobs since the age of 14 to secure her financial future and fund her education, she now faces an unexpected request from her parents. The parents, struggling with significant debt after spending extravagantly on the eldest sister’s wedding and facing financial setbacks due to her father’s furlough, approach their youngest daughter for financial assistance.
However, the situation takes a distressing turn when the parents not only request a loan but demand that the daughter hand over the entirety of the money she earned from her teenage years, totaling close to $40,000. Their reasoning revolves around the belief that they provided the necessities of life, such as food, clothes, and shelter, and therefore, the daughter owes them a significant portion of her earnings. The young woman, feeling conflicted between empathy for her struggling family and the injustice of the demand, faces a challenging decision: whether to succumb to familial pressure or stand firm in her belief that she shouldn’t be held responsible for the consequences of her parent’s financial mismanagement.
So keep on scrolling down below to read the whole story narrated by OP and make sure to read it till the end otherwise, you won’t be able to let us know whether OP is an A-hole or not.
1. OP is 19 years old and has six older siblings her parents spent most of her childhood money they didn’t have on OP’s siblings and she realized earlier that when she hit her teenage she would have to take care of herself financially when she turns 18. So OP started doing odd jobs in her neighborhood like babysitting and by the time she was in school, she got the part-time job.
2. When OP was 16 she was working three jobs in the summer and when her parents told her that they couldn’t pay for college she had already earned enough to be able to provide for herself. Moreover, she also made money during quarantine by tutoring online.
3. The problem arose when OP’s eldest sister got married her parents spent almost 30 grand on her wedding by taking out a second mortgage
4. Recently, OP’s mom texted her for the first time since the wedding “your dad and I need a favor. When can we call you”?
5. OP figured that they would text her to ask for a loan of them few thousand and OP was willing to do this moreover, she has considered giving some of her tutoring jobs so they could make some extra cash.
6. But OP was not expecting them to demand all the money she made from age 14 to 18 and not only this OP’s mom made a statement saying that she made that money under their roof and they paid for her food and clothes for 18 years and this money is only a fraction to what she owes them
7. OP said that food, clothes, and shelter are the basic needs that parents provide and she didn’t ask for it moreover, OP said that since that day two of her siblings have continuously hounded her about giving them what is rightfully theirs.
8. Now OP wants to know whether she’s an A-hole or not let’s see.
9. NTA
10. They are acting like naive children and they are forgetting she didn’t sign up for this
11. Exactly, indirectly they are asking OP to pay for her sister’s wedding which is ridiculous.
12. That’s some favoritism I’m seeing
13. They need to manage their money and stop spraying their problems on a teenager for god sake!
14. Better luck next time!
15. I haven’t of such an entitled family in a long time and it’s pathetic
16. OP doesn’t owe them anything
17. Parents need to acknowledge this
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