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Gabija Palšytė

“AITAH For Not Wanting To Drop Out Of College To Pay My Parents’ Bills? Mom Refuses To Work”

Your family is meant to support you while you build your life and chase your dreams, but not everyone is so lucky. Some people’s relationship with their parents is… tense, to say the least. Add a big dose of entitlement, threats, and a distaste for boundaries into the mix, and you get a truly toxic dynamic.

A student asked the AITAH community if they were wrong to refuse to drop out of college just because their unemployed mother demanded that they do so. Instead of wanting them to build a solid foundation for their future, she wanted them to spend their hard-earned money on her bills instead. Keep scrolling to read the full story, and to see what advice the internet gave the young man.

Most parents would be happy to see their children pursue higher education or build the foundations of their future in other ways

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