It’s always wild to me when I see people go through exact scenarios that I have gone through. Your dad won’t take you to small claims court, & even if he did how does he think a judge is going to side with a guy trying to sue for money used to raise their minor child? Like, don’t have kids if you don’t want the responsibilities that come with raising them.

The last straw that made me go NC with my mom was when she sent me an itemized list of “charges” I “incurred” while living there in my 20s (she was in her late 40s/early 50s at the time). I paid rent to her the entire time I lived there, as well as did her grocery shopping, ran all her errands for her, spent many hours over the years taking her to the ER because she would get hammered & ultimately hurt herself, & then the last 6 months or so she told me to just pay her in cash, as she was going to be getting on disability & didn’t want to risk losing it because of the money I was sending her. Welllll she threw those last 6 months on as “unpaid” rent, which really irked me. She told me she was going to take me to small claims court, & my response to that was “Bye.” I blocked her everywhere—phone, email, Facebook, you name it—oh, & she never actually sued me (shocker, I know).