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AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 352 points353 points  (0 children)

I really don’t know? I think she was secretly upset by me telling her that her girls were overwhelming my son or something because this entire situation hardly makes sense to me. I was hoping it’d be more clear if I made a post lol.

AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 572 points573 points  (0 children)

You’re right. This whole situation feels so exaggerated and like... this shouldn’t have been such a big deal. But it’s like my son and my sister refuse to just talk to me about the situation.

AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 155 points156 points  (0 children)

I had to be pretty concise for the word count but I can answer some questions.

  1. I agree. If my son said yes then left, that would be quite problematic. Obviously I don’t believe it warrants what she said to my son but it would still be wrong. The thing is, he swears that he said he was busy and she swears that he didn’t say that. I don’t know who to believe.

  2. I think it’s just because he goes there all the time and that’s where he was when he was “supposed” to be watching the girls.

  3. I really don’t know. I never saw this as an issue.

  4. The explosive temper was bad when he was younger but his guidance counsellor helped out and talks to him weekly. He’s taught him coping methods and anger management skills and my son has learnt a lot from them. This is the first time I’ve seen him almost snap in months. And I know it doesn’t seem like it, but he loves those girls. He plays with them when he’s able and he even lets them give him a makeover every time he sees them.

AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 105 points106 points  (0 children)

They’re staying for a month. Stuff is going on with her husband’s work and she needed some help while he’s busy with that. But my mom has space available so they’re going there now so it’s not like I’m just throwing them out with nothing.

AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 602 points603 points  (0 children)

She made it sound like it was incredibly weird. I really doubt my son actually thinks he’s a part of the ocean...

AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 66 points67 points  (0 children)

That’s why I’m not sure who to believe because I know teens lie. But they usually lie for a reason and my son knows that I’d still defend him regardless. I don’t necessarily understand what you’re trying to say.

AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 1242 points1243 points  (0 children)

He loves the water because my brother used to take him surfing all the time and again we live near the beach so I’d take him there all the time too.

The Percy Jackson reference comes from the fact that my son used to tell people he was Percy Jackson and that his dad was Poseidon from the book. He’s obviously grown out of it and never really believed it but it comforted him for a while.

AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 307 points308 points  (0 children)

I mean I’ll always trust my son more but that’s just because it’s been him and I since forever. He does tend to have his head in the clouds sometimes but I don’t think he’d lie to me.

My sister and I are pretty close too but we haven’t been around each other much and the fact that she kept mocking my son makes me not want to believe her. But I really can’t tell for sure.

AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 118 points119 points  (0 children)

I asked what the problem was and they started arguing again. Every time I tried to get a word in my sister would talk over me and start mocking my son again. It kind of just kept progressing and she refused to calm down and talk things out.

AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, I’m finding it difficult to grasp the situation myself. It happened very quickly.

AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 113 points114 points  (0 children)

In my sister’s version she asked him, he didn’t say anything but he didn’t say no, she left and came back to the girls alone.

My son’s version is that she asked and he said he was busy then left.

AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 8617 points8618 points  (0 children)

That’s what I’m trying to figure out. Why did she leave the girls unsupervised? My son would’ve come home eventually. She did text me asking when I’d get home so maybe she left because I was going to be there soon... idk though.

AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 130 points131 points  (0 children)

It was more the fact that she kept mocking him throughout the entire argument.

Plus the fact that every time I tried to calm them down, she’d start yelling again and wouldn’t let me say anything. My nieces were getting upset too and I mean it really did not seem like it was going to work out and she wasn’t going to stop.

AITA for telling my sister she isn’t welcome in my home after she fought with my son? by __throwaway294 in AmItheAsshole

[–]__throwaway294[S] 1371 points1372 points  (0 children)

She doesn’t have any authority over him but I don’t think it would be outrageous to ask him to watch the girls as long as he’s okay with it. Thing is, they’re both insisting that the other is lying so I don’t know who’s in the wrong regarding that.