Abby Connolly
“They told me I was going to ‘level up’ and be a good big sister to her kids so that they could live their own lives and the kids would have someone to look up to,” she recalled.
“Then came the forced babysitting during the summer, all summer long. I always tried to find ways out of it, but I felt like I had no options. At least, no realistic ones.”
This year, she’ll be turning 18 in May, so she’ll be legally allowed to leave her parents’ house, move on with her life, and spend her summer however she’d like. She has plans to move in with a friend shortly after her 18th birthday and be done with her dad for good.
However, she felt a little uneasy about what would happen to her step-siblings if she wasn’t there to babysit them, so to make sure her parents could make arrangements for them in advance, she told them she was refusing to watch them this summer.
“My dad told me I have been the most consistent person in the kids’ lives, and I’m a [jerk] for dismissing them like that,” she explained.
“He told me I should be staying and doing what he and his wife want because they put a roof over my head for so long.”
Her stepmom began crying and trying to make her feel guilty for leaving her kids behind.
Should she feel bad for not watching her siblings this summer, or has she done enough already?
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