She Told Her Little Sister The Real Reason Why She Moved Out Of Their House As Soon As She Turned 18, But Her Sister Didn’t Believe Her
A 23-year-old girl’s parents got divorced back when she was 10. Her dad treated her mom terribly, and he forced her to do the chores around the house, as well as all of the tough parenting.
Her dad always was there to be the “fun” one and was constantly making her mom out to be the bad guy, which she fully bought into.
Her dad really did turn her against her mom, and she had a deep-seated hatred for her mom because of the things her dad said.
At this point in her life, she can see how her dad manipulated her to be on his side, but she carries around a lot of guilt about it still.
So, back when her parents split up, her mom’s boss just so happened to be a friend of her dad’s. As soon as her mom and dad’s marriage was over, her mom lost her job one day later.
She suspects that her dad was able to get her mom fired from her job, and everything only got worse from there.
“He made more money than she did, his name was on the house, he knew she didn’t have the resources to dispute him in court for very long, so he drew the process out for as long as possible until my mom ended up homeless and living in her car,” she explained.
“She lost custody of all three of us and had to move to another state to stay with her sister because she couldn’t find work here without an address. He cut her off from us, and we didn’t talk for years.”
“As soon as my mom was gone, my dad began treating me the way he had treated her. It was a total switch from the man I’d grown up with, all of a sudden; it was like he hated me.”
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After her dad started treating her this way, she knew that he had been manipulating her against her mom all long.
She then was able to get her hands on the divorce documents, and she could see that she was right.
When she turned 16, she began squirreling away her money so she could move out, and that’s exactly what she did when the clock struck midnight on her 18th birthday.
She packed all of her belongings and left her home behind.
She also was able to reconnect with her mom after she moved out too.
“I’ve done pretty well for myself after leaving,” she said. “I have a job, an apartment, a baby. I’m happy with my life.”
“My sister contacted me a few days ago, she just turned 18, and she wanted to see me. We met at a park and talked for a while.”
“When she asked me why I left, I tried to lie and come up with better answers, but she kept pressing, so I told her the truth, all of it, not sparing the details.”
Her younger sister did not take the news well, and she at first denied that their dad was like that. Her sister insisted that their mom had been the issue all along.
“She said she didn’t believe me about any of it, and then she stormed off,” she continued. “I told our mom what happened, and she said that I shouldn’t have told my sister at all.”
“She thinks that it wasn’t fair of me to shatter her reality like that because she’s just a kid, and our dad is still her hero.”
“I know what it’s like to have that reality-shattering moment, and it sucks, but I mean, she asked for the truth. Was I wrong to give it to her?”
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