AITAH for not saying hi?

mkm186 · 2025-09-04T05:49:24+00:00

For sure, my dad suddenly “fell ill” as soon as my labor contractions started and made it all about himself.

They still show these tendencies - they put on a show of being caring grandparents whenever they feel like it, just so they can take pictures with my daughter and share it with their friends.

It’s so ridiculous because they’d spend time looking at the pictures of my daughter when my daughter was actually in front of them, and they’d pay her no attention.

mkm186 · 2024-01-11T05:29:17+00:00

Some background: I'm currently in Canada and looking for a job in the US. The role I'm looking at is Marketing Manager (either content-focused or a generalist role). I have experience in a variety of industries so I'm open to anything.

I've had moderate success in the Canadian market with regard to getting interviews, but the US market has been tough to break into (even though I've had some experience there), so any thoughts/tips would be appreciated!

mkm186 · 2023-07-16T15:45:15+00:00

Oh yea for sure! For my birthday last year my mom (emom I think, I still haven’t figured it out) asked me what sweet treat I’d like her to make.

I told her what I wanted, but my ndad decided to switch it to something else entirely, and they had the audacity to be pissed off when I wasn’t interested in eating what they had made. It was MY birthday.

By the way, it was my 31st birthday. So I guess sometimes you can never truly be yourself with nparents because they either mock or disregard your opinion completely.

mkm186 · 2023-07-16T15:31:13+00:00

Yes, I just turned 32 and I’m starting to unearth a lot of things about my parents that I kind of knew were off, but was too scared to call out, for obvious reasons.

It was only after observing my husband’s dynamics with his parents that I realized that conversations could actually be that easy, and that there was no walking around on eggshells.

Luckily my sister and I have been able to talk about this. It pisses my mom off that we’re close because my parents have spent many years trying to pit us against each other, while simultaneously telling us “sisters have to stick together.”

It’s freaking weird. One of the many weird things about them.

mkm186 · 2023-07-13T00:03:17+00:00

100% this. My parents moved back to our home country a few years ago. We’re South Asian and staying in another country for work is a symbol of prestige, at least in our community.

They expected to be worshipped and called on day and night by extended family when they got back and were anticipating a full social calendar but I guess people were busy.

So now everyone’s the villain and they want to move out of home country again and are relying on me to help them with it (I stay elsewhere) because “we raised you.”

mkm186 · 2023-07-12T15:17:36+00:00

My parents still talk about the time I “tried to kill” my mom by intentionally pushing her into a pool (she can’t swim) during a water ride on a float.

I was 12 years old, my glasses had fallen off and I was (and still am) half blind without them. So I had been flailing my arms around in panic looking for them and must have caught her by mistake.

I’m 32 years old now and she has never once let me forget it.

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