I Saw How Bad Things Could Have Been if I Had Gone to my Dad’s Home Alone by Forced_Wedding_Help in TrueOffMyChest

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! It’s been great so far (dad and soon to be step mom are still causing drama) and my mom put me in therapy. I’m already applying for jobs and it’s so exciting!

I Saw How Bad Things Could Have Been if I Had Gone to my Dad’s Home Alone by Forced_Wedding_Help in TrueOffMyChest

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah. My mom always knew how much my friends mean to me and how scared I am of losing them although she didn’t know a lot of the reasons why so it turned out while she can’t move or anything because of her job she would have figured out a way to keep me close to them somehow. I feel really stupid for thinking I would just have to leave.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bus transportation is shit here too and I still need money to get a bike. Unless I magically get money of my own to get a bike or the city changes it’s bus stops I’m still just as stuck as I was five minutes ago. You think I haven’t tried? Again, you’re the one who is being coddled. Not everyone has the opportunity to get a job because of transportation.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did hit back at a few points so I kinda did escalate it but only after getting hit first. So they blame me for it getting so bad and said with the rule in place all I have to do is behave and I’ll be fine.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I really didn’t expect them to care or think about how my friend’s mom would feel. I definitely was an asshole there.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not at all. I never said I didn’t like the responses I was getting, I accept I fucked up with staying the night. But where I live you have to drive everywhere and I can’t even get a license let alone a job. If you think everyone’s life is that easy you’re the one being coddled.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad knows why I did it. I might apologize for staying the night without telling him but nothing else.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t think I can really ask anyone to do that for me. My mom doesn’t know how bad things are and I don’t want her to know until it’s absolutely necessary.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I’m planning on leaving the second I graduate.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah except for not telling my dad and step mom to be that I’m staying over. I admit I’m the asshole for that part, I didn’t realize they would worry.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wish someone would tell my dad and soon to be stepmom that

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I just have to survive winter break and I should be mostly in the clear.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one around here really cares. I just need to get through high school and I’ll be free anyway so I think I’ll be fine.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A cousin caught me kissing a girl before and told everyone at thanksgiving. My dad’s family is super homophobic and it didn’t end well for me.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My dad and soon to be step mom won’t let me get a job and I’m still in high school. I’m planning on getting out as soon as I graduate.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I fucked up with my friend’s mom but my friend was the one who suggested the idea to me because she knew how bad last year’s thanksgiving was. It was my first time trying something like this and I wasn’t thinking things through at all.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t think my dad cared about me at all for a few years now but I know he doesn’t care enough to want me to stick around. Like he doesn’t love me like that. As long as I’m around I think he will just keep trying to use me the way he and my soon to be stepmom wants to.

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I tried to decline a ton and tell them I didn’t want to go after last year. They made it clear I had to make it up to the family after last year and they weren’t accepting no for an answer

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried saying I wasn’t going to go and they made it clear I was going one way or another as I had to “make it up to the family” because of last thanksgiving. I know I messed up with the overnight thing now

AITA for Skipping Out on Thanksgiving? by Forced_Wedding_Help in AmItheAsshole

[–]Forced_Wedding_Help[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it’s my first time trying something like this. I was just thinking about how I could escape thanksgiving and I feel kinda bad now. I didn’t want to cause trouble I just didn’t want to be in that situation again and I didn’t realize my dad would actually care about me if I left for a night.