A teenager has told the heartbreaking story of losing her mum, being left everything from the house to her money, only to be pressured by her father and his new wife to hand everything over.
The 17-year-old took to the internet to ask for advice after a final explosive argument with her step mum and her family left the young girl wondering if she should in fact give up the house.
On the popular Reddit forum, ‘AmITheAsshole’, the young woman wrote: “My mom died a little over a year ago. I was living with her full-time before she passed. She left me a lot of money and her house.
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“Since the house was just going to stay empty until I was done with college my aunt (on my mom's side) and I talked about it and we agreed she would stay there since she's taking care of my grandma and her place was small. I will move back in once I've finished my schooling”.
She explained that she let her dad believe that the house was left to her aunty, so that he wouldn’t move in and said “I don't trust my dad or have a great relationship with him”.
Her post went on to say: “I am currently living with him, his wife Jan, and her twin daughters(17, both lovely people) in a 3 bedroom flat”.
However, just two months ago, her father found out that the house had in fact been left to his daughter and told her she is “selfish and spoiled”.
“Since then I haven't heard the end of it, I'm selfish for making us all stay in a tiny flat, I'm spoiled because I won't share my inheritance, I'm a terrible person for making the twins take out loans. You get the gist”.
This weekend was the twin's birthday at her nana’s house, which was attended by most of her dad's family, his wife's family, and some of both of their friends.
“After they were done opening my present to them they asked me if that was really it. (I got the matching bracelets with their birthstones, which they both loved btw) It got quiet and I asked them what else they were expecting.
“They said Jan said that I was planning on surprising them on their birthday by telling them we were moving into my moms house and helping them with college.
“My grandma asked Jan if this was true and Jan started in on me again. She asked what she could do to make me stop being a bitch, pull my weight, help out, and be fair”.
The young girl reached boiling point and told her step mum to “drop dead” before an explosive argument kicked off between both families.
“I told her she could drop dead and that my mom died for me to get all these things she wanted me to give her daughters.
“I said if she wanted everything to be fair then she should drop dead and I would share everything I had with her daughters since we would have all lost a mother then.
“That it would be fair only after that happened. She and my dad started yelling at me and my grandma and uncles started yelling at my dad and Jan and everything was pretty much over after that”.
Concluding her post, she said the whole way home, she was receiving messages telling her she was in the wrong, while her family were contacting her dad to say they were disappointed in him.
The 17-year-old said: “I don't usually fight with my cousins so I'm really starting to think maybe I am being selfish and that I went to far at the twins party”.
She then asked for the public’s opinion, and it seems the vast majority of readers sided with her and told her to hang on to anything her mother left her.
One person wrote: “At 17, I wouldn’t have had the verbal creativity or emotional fortitude to so expertly advocate for myself.
“You are, in fact, a hero for ensuring your aunt has housing security as she cares for your aging grandmother, for standing up for yourself in the face of the emotional immaturity of the adults around you, and for investing in yourself.
“Carry on, queen”.
A second person wrote: “They don't own you. And this bullshit where Jan made up a story about what you were going to do and then surprised you with it? Incredible. I hope you get out as soon as you can”.
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