Karen DEMANDS I CHARGE MY SON RENT... GETS TAUGHT A LESSON! - Reddit Stories

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, mister rhdder here, welcome back to another episode
of Reddit podcast Stories. Our first story we'll be reading today,
Karen demands I charge my son rent to live in
a house that he partially owns. After that, my brother
married the mother of his daughter's bully and moved them
into his house. And after that, heavy metal finance. Now
for every thumbs up this video, kits one, Karen does

(00:22):
not get to steal her neighbor's WiFi, but their speeds
are so much faster than ours, So please smash that
like button and subscribe and turn on notifications for news
stories from Reddit every single day. Karen demands, I charge
my son rent to live in a house that he
partially owns. My oldest son, who's twenty four, is not

(00:42):
my wife's biological kid. He was my son with my
late wife. My late wife and I bought a three
bedroom house when we got married. When I remarried, my
current wife moved into this house with me, but I
never put her name on the deed. The house was
only in my name. My wife and I ended up
having several kids, needing to move into a bigger house.
When we bought our new home, she wanted me to

(01:04):
sell the old one. I said no, that this home
was something my late wife and I purchased with the
hope of one day passing on to our son. I
would make it a rental property instead. That was one
of the biggest fights we had ever had. She insisted
we make a compromise, but I refuse to do so.
When my son graduated from college, I put his name
on the deed to the house with mine, which was

(01:24):
another fight, but I felt he was the appropriate inheritor
to his mother's share. I didn't share any of the
rental income with him, though, as I was still paying
all of the taxes in insurance. At this point, the
mortgage is paid off. I met over two thousand dollars
a month from this house, which goes into the household budget.
My son just got engaged and he wants to move
into the house after he marries his fiance. He suggested

(01:47):
he'd pay half of the rent and eventually buy out
my share of the house. I told my son I
agreed to his plan of saving up to buy out
my share, but instead of paying rent, he should just
take over the taxes in insurance are to this, my
wife is livid and says that I'm a massive jerk
for dramatically decreasing our household income without consulting her. She

(02:08):
likened my decision to financial mistreatment. I suggested we downsize
to a smaller house now that our oldest two kids
are leaving the nest, and we could rent out the
larger one and be in the same situation as before,
owning two homes and getting rental income on one. She
called me a selfish jerk and won't even speak to me. Now,
am I the jerk? You're the jerk? Why even get

(02:29):
married If you refuse to take anything that your wife
says seriously, maybe try treating her like an actual human
and take what she has to say into consideration. There's
no telling how many years this woman has been allowing
you to be her husband, sharing her life with you,
building a family with you, and even at this point,
after all these years, you still flat out disregard what
she has to say because you side with your daddy's boy.

(02:53):
If she had known you would go on to pick
your nepotism baby over her, I doubt she would have
wasted her life with you. I hope she leave you?
And is They always say that I hope she leaves
you and is able to get her fair share, which
involves you selling that house and splitting the profits with her,
Not with your daddy's boy who wants to live in
daddy's house for the rest of his life. Your wife

(03:15):
deserves so much better. My brother married the mother of
his daughter's bully and moved them into his house. My brother,
thirty nine male, has a daughter, Piper, who's fifteen. When
Piper was four, her mom passed. My brother told Piper
so much about her and they had some special photos
of her mom that were treasured. When Piper was six,
she started being teased by this girl called Nancy, who's

(03:38):
now fifteen. It continued on for over a year and
ultimately came to a head when Nancy tore up a
photo of Piper's mom that Piper brought into school for
some Show and Tell family edition her class was doing.
From that day on, Piper did not like Nancy because
of that incident. My brother and Nancy's mom met. They
became friends, and a few months after the incident where

(03:59):
Nancy tore up photo, they started dating and they married.
A year later. Piper pulled away from my brother when
she found out he was dating Nancy's mom, and even more,
when they moved in together and got married, Nancy was
actually happy and tried to get close to Piper, but
Piper wanted nothing to do with that. Nancy's mom mentioned
how being sisters would mend the rift, and I thought

(04:20):
that was kind of crazy given what went down. My
brother only mentioned to me recently that he really thought
Piper and Nancy would be sisters and would be close
by now. But Piper doesn't want anything to do with
Nancy still and doesn't trust her around anything important. I
told my brother that's because he moved too fast to
get that kind of relationship with them. I said, he
and his wife started dating and Nancy hadn't even apologized,

(04:43):
and then Piper was still upset about who he was
dating and Nancy being in her life more when they
got married. I told him, at no point did he
try to make what happened better for Piper. He thought
his marriage license would somehow erase the hurt Piper felt
and the bullying Nancy put Piper through for more than
a year. I said, maybe if he had given it time,
let Nancy apologize, and given the girls space where they

(05:05):
weren't living together to interact outside of school. Things could
have been different, but you had one kid who was
hurt and angry and another who was eager to have
a dad and a sibling after only having her mom.
My brother said, I expected him to let Piper dictate
his life. I said, no, not what I said. I said,
if he wanted Piper to be happy and embrace Nancy
as a sibling, then he should have taken things more

(05:26):
slowly to get that outcome. He told me it was
none of my business and I was overstepping and I'm
just his little sister. Am I the jerk? Not the jerk?
Your brother sucks and he needed to hear it. Being
sisters will mend the rift. Is the kind of BS
rationalization people make when they don't want to face how
disgusting it is that they're bringing Piper's bully into her home,

(05:48):
into her family. My brother said, I expected him to
let Piper dictate his life. Uh yeah, God forbid a
parent be expected to prioritize their kid's well being or anything.
What your brother needs to realize is that, sure, he
can refuse to care about his teenage daughter, but Piper
is fast approaching the age of adulthood when he can
no longer dictate her life. I think he'll be in

(06:10):
for a rude awakening when his daughter drops him just
as coldly as he's dropped her. Not the jerk he
shoved aside his daughter's feelings for his own personal happiness.
I think it's incredibly gross. He even started being friends
with the parent of his daughter's bully, much less dating
and then marrying her. Did they tell this lovely story
of how they met at their wedding. He's probably permanently

(06:32):
damaged his relationship with his daughter. And your brother is
the one who brought it up. You didn't just say
it out of nowhere. If it wasn't your business, then
maybe he shouldn't have been talking about it with you.
He's just mad you called him out on his bs.
This is gonna come full circle when Piper goes no
contact once she's old enough to leave home. People don't
magically embrace their unapologetic bullies because their parents decided to

(06:54):
shack up and force them into a sibling relationship. This
whole dynamic is probably a nightmare come true for Piper.
You are right on all fronts, but there's very little
he can do now to mend the situation which he
massively fumbled, So I understand why he would rather play dumb,
not the jerk. Nobody is the jerk in this situation.
Your brother was hurting and found love. He found it

(07:17):
good for him, but he didn't do a good job
handling the situation with his daughter. That doesn't make him
a jerk. Parents aren't perfect. Things can be handled in
better ways, and as long as you learn from mistakes
or are willing to evolve as a parent, it's okay.
No jerks here. Not that your brother would take your
advice now, but he and Piper should be in family
therapy together so that Piper can communicate her feelings to

(07:39):
her dad in a safe space. At the very least,
Piper should be in therapy so she can process her
feelings about losing her mom at such a young age.
That's the biggest elephant in the room in my opinion,
since it doesn't sound like Piper's dad tells her stories
about her mom much anymore. Heavy Metal Finance quite a
few years ago, in the late nineteen nineties and very

(07:59):
early on in my career, I used to work for
a company that helped customers of certain retail stores manage
their finances. My role was as a sort of compliance officer,
ensuring that the staff who dealt with customers were following
the rules. If they messed it up, it was a
big problem and could potentially impact the customer's credit score,
result in them defaulting on payments, and even end up

(08:19):
in court. I took my job pretty seriously. The company
was not particularly well run from a management perspective. They
made a lot of money very quickly and had grown
from a handful of people in a garage to a
four story office building within the space of a year
and a half. There wasn't a great deal in the
way of policy of process framework, so I had to
develop a lot of the tools to do my job myself.

(08:42):
This involved some programming a basic system to track what
I was doing, linked to the extensive rules set and
automate some of the more tedious reporting. It would also
track how long I was spending on each task, so
that I could see about which elements I could streamline now.
I was quite proud of this system and called it
Hendry as I'm a massive Jimmy Hendrix fan, and it

(09:02):
used to play about five seconds of the instrumental version
of little Wing when it started up, as I had
my own little room cupboard. This never used to annoy anyone.
I can geek out about that kind of stuff. At
this point, before corporate it became rather more rigid. I
used to write a lot of my own tools. I
was the only person who was using Hendrix, and it
was a tool just for me. My manager, the archetype

(09:25):
middle manager, decided that because it allowed you to quickly
reference which rules applied to which situation, it should be
rolled out to all staff. Now I had previously considered this,
but I argued that I couldn't guarantee that it would
be fit for task because I had designed it for
my own use and I'd need to make some changes first.
But he rolled it out anyway without me even getting
a chance to tweak it. He got a team Player

(09:48):
of the Week award for introducing a tool to make
life easier for frontline staff. In his acceptance speech. That
was a big raw raw thing each week for the company,
he thinked his manager. I didn't even get a mention.
Then two weeks later he realized that I'd been recording
how long I had been working on a certain task.
Within the program. Now, I had realized fairly quickly that

(10:09):
this part of the program was a little too detailed,
and I didn't really care too much about every single
task within each incident, so I just used it to
record how long I spent on the entire incident, rather
than each part of the incident. My manager invited me
to a meeting about Hendrix, no details given, and I
attended thinking it was going to be a list of
requested features, only to find out that the head of

(10:30):
HR was there and I was being given a written
warning for falsifying timekeeping Because each customer interaction was a
certain length. My manager had decided that this was what
I should be recording, and not how long I was
spending listening to, analyzing, checking, and reporting on the interaction.
Remember this is a tool that I had designed for
my own use, and it was not being used to

(10:51):
calculate how much I was being paid or whether I
was doing enough work during the day or not. There
was nothing in place for that at all. I had
not made the record it's public. He had found them
in a file on this server that only he and
I had access to. Nobody else was supposed to even
have this tool I argued this, and was told that
it wasn't up to me and I was getting a
warning regardless. It got quite heated and unpleasant, though I

(11:14):
got the impression that the head of HR was a
little embarrassed about the whole thing. They said, however, that
if I wanted to consult a lawyer, I was quite
within my rights to do so. It was at this
point that I was rather smugly able to state that
I could get two lawyers there within the hour, as
both my parents were practicing and my mother was in
point of fact, an employment lawyer. Suddenly there was a

(11:35):
completely different attitude from my manager. There was an attempt
to roll back the issue and turn it into a
suggestion that perhaps I should be a bit more careful
with my time keeping in the future, but I was
pretty angry. At this point. I pointed out that my
software had been rolled out to all staff against my wishes.
I was told that this wasn't up to me, as
it was company intellectual property, until I advised them that

(11:58):
I'd written it in my own time at home home
on my own computer. It was plugging into the office
government rule set and not the corporate internet one. I
had not confirmed it fit for general release at all.
I had received special dispensation from it to install it
on a single word computer mine, and I would require
them to pay a license fee for anything beyond this.

(12:19):
To be fair, this would have been tied up in
court for a long time, and I've got no idea
whether I'd have been successful. So in the end I relented.
If they wanted to use Hendrix, well I guess they could.
I just made sure that Lil Wing would play for
one second longer on startup, for every week the software
was in use. Then I quit the following Monday and

(12:39):
was working for another company by the monday after that.
Three or four months later, I got a phone call
from my former manager asking me to come fix the
problems with my software. He hung up when I quoted him.
My consultant fees I don't know why. It wasn't able
to figure it out. It was just setting in a
text file, not all that hard to find. A friend
who remained in the company tells me they continued to

(13:01):
use Hendrix for a whole year. The mornings and the
call center were apparently horrifying, with Little Wing playing for
around a minute every time someone started a new shift.
Sometimes it would play on twenty computers at once a
few seconds apart on tiny PC speakers that were unable
due to it to mute. My son asked out a
girl as a prank. I have three kids. All this

(13:24):
is at university, so it's just me, my wife, and them,
who are sixteen and eleven. All my kids are kids
who have been raised very well, and they've grown to
be people I'm proud to call my own. My son
recently had some friends over and things were going fine.
I went upstairs at one point to bring them the
pizza they had ordered when I overheard my son talking
about how his friends owed him something for asking a

(13:46):
girl in their class out as a prank. From what
I gathered, the girl with someone his friends didn't deem
attractive enough, and a load of other bs. I decided
to talk to my son about it after his friends left,
to save him from embarrassment. I did raise my voice
a bit, but that was due to how maddening the
whole situation was. The same thing had happened to my
cousin when we were younger, and I saw how the

(14:06):
whole thing affected her as she took on new relationships.
My son argued back that it was just a prank
that wouldn't hurt anyone, and that I was going against
him by listening to his friend's private conversations, and said
that while he felt sorry for my cousin, he was
mature enough to understand to not pull the prank any further.
I didn't listen to any other excuses he gave and

(14:26):
decided to ground him for two weeks. He said that
I shouldn't have any say in this when the whole
thing had nothing to do with me. My wife claims
that boys will be boys and that it's something harmless.
When I asked her how she'd feel if this was
played on our daughter, she simply said that won't happen
because she has good genes. Mother in law and father
in law are blowing up the family group chat about

(14:48):
how I'm hurting their baby for normal teenage boy behavior.
So am I the jerk? If I'm being too nosy
about an act that has nothing to do with me,
I'll take back my son's grounding. Your son is a bully,
Your wife sounds like a piece of work, agreed as
someone who was asked out as a prank and still
has scars from it twenty years later. Not the jerk,

(15:10):
Oh p, this is not a harmless joke. I guarantee
the girl that he was talking about won't find it funny.
Please don't back down. My best friend pulled a prank
like that on me in fourth grade. Fifty plus years later.
I still hate her guts for it. It ruined my
dating years because my self confidence was destroyed at nine
years old. This happened to me in fifth grade, and

(15:32):
I found out in high school. It was a whole
joke at the other middle school that a geek like
me thought someone as cool as Matt would date me.
I used it as a teaching tool when I taught
middle school, but I still think about how horrible that
was to do to someone. Same happened to me in
ninth grade. It took me a very long time to
trust again, and it damaged my self confidence for even longer.

(15:53):
This isn't a harmless prank, and it does hurt people. Frankly,
I think two weeks grounding is the least of the
kid's worries if he can't see how this could really
hurt someone After what Op said, Wow, can't believe how
many of y'all got asked out as a prank. No
wonder y'all spend all your time on Reddit. That also
explains why y'all have such twisted views of relationships and

(16:14):
why y'all can't stand dudes. Look, I'm sorry y'all had
these bad experiences as kids, but you need to move
on and just go on with your life. I had
bad experiences too when I was a kid. Nothing to
rival y'all getting asked out as a literal prank, but
I had my fair share of misfortune. One time, I
took my Pokemon card collection to school and during lunch,

(16:35):
someone stole the whole folder from my backpack. It was
the hardest loss I've ever taken, and I still think
about it to this day, but I don't let it
control my life. I would have much preferred to be
asked out as a prank than to lose my entire
collection of Pokemon cards, which included my first edition holographic
charz Ared, which is now worth thousands of dollars. And

(16:55):
y'all think you had it bad? Dude, sounds like a jerk,
But I do you think we should drop f's in
the chat for that holographic charz ard? Bizarre safety procedures
at work cause a hilarious cobra effect. I'm a senior
electrical engineer in the industrial sector. I started work at
a huge firm a few weeks ago, and right off
my superior detailed what was expected of me every quarter.

(17:18):
Among the requirements were one safety violation report a month.
I thought, okay, I could keep myself from messing up
more than once a month. This is a large factory
with everything from spinning grinders to steaming corrosives, so obviously
OSHA is a big issue here. But this isn't my
first rodeo, so to speak. I generally know what I'm doing.
So my first month goes by and I keep everything

(17:40):
nice and safe. End of month, one on one rolls around.
Boss makes it clear, to my surprise that the requirement
is for me to file at least one safety violation
a month. Obviously, I inquired how one could go about
controlling safety violations, as they are inherently accidents, and if
I had any way to influence their appearance, I would
prevent them in the first place. But he just said,

(18:01):
I need to keep my eyes open the violations will appear. Fine.
I kept my eyes open, but honestly, everything seemed perfectly
in order. Everyone else in my department were ticking off
safety violations one after another, and I was nearing the
end of month two with nothing. I would go on
walks looking for safety infringements instead of working. Something seemed off,

(18:21):
so I looked into the safety Violations Report Excel and
I was just stupefied. This was a list of the
most unbelievably inate in fractions I've ever set my eyes upon.
I'll give you some examples. Infraction cabinet door was left
open in room someone could hit their head. Immediate mitigation,
cabinet door closed, future mitigation add magnets to cabinet doors.

(18:43):
There were countless other esoteric reports, like unexplained puddle next
to electrical cabinet or stack of cables on floor. I
couldn't believe it. These well educated grown men and women
just writing nonsensical safety violations on absolutely anything. I tried
approaching one of the guys about it, but he just
said to keep my eyes open, the violations will appear.

(19:04):
They kept repeating it like it's a mantra, then changed
the subject. I thought this was ridiculous enough, but then
one day a report came in about a ladder missing
one of the plastic caps on its legs immediate mitigation.
Plastic cap found elsewhere and secured in its place. Now,
I was the last one to use this ladder the
day before, and it was perfectly fine, which led me

(19:24):
to my conclusion that this man was purposely sabotaging company
equipment just so he can fix it and then write
a safety violation report. I feel like I'm in an
episode of the Office. Everyone I approach about this just
brushes it off, maybe because I'm the new guy. Anyway,
I couldn't show up to my second monthly evaluation san
safety report, so I went to a random grounding cable,

(19:46):
slightly unfastened the bolt, took a picture, and then fastened
it back in place. I wrote a report about it,
and the OSHA guy commended me in person about my vigilance.
Is this a department wide grift? Are the managers unaware
of this farce? Or are they just pl playing along?
Usually this would be a huge red flag, but everyone
is otherwise really nice and the pay is great. Anyway,

(20:07):
Ideas as to what I should sabotage next month are welcome.
My brother chose a dog over me. I'm twenty eight female.
My brother, who's twenty six, was my best friend growing up.
He didn't feel the same way. I was a lot
more awkward as a kid, so I often just followed
his friend group around, even though many of them bullied me.
He never stood up for me, but when we were alone,

(20:29):
he went back to being fun and nice, so I
always forgave him. When we were teenagers and got part
time jobs, I started buying him birthday and Christmas presents,
even though he never did the same for me. Our
parents said it was because he's younger and would eventually,
but to this day, I have never received a gift
from him personally. Now that we are adults, I call
and text him occasionally to check in, and though he's

(20:51):
nice when he responds, he doesn't initiate. I figured that
was just how he is. I always put more work in,
but he's my brother and I love him. I'm graduating
from graduate school soon and I invited my whole family
out to celebrate. Everyone got a plane ticket and hotel
room I'm paying for, and it's been planned out for months.
The other day, my brother called me to say that

(21:12):
he was picking up a new puppy the day before
my graduation and that he couldn't make it. Something inside
me broke a little. I asked if it really had
to be that day, if he couldn't postpone it for
a week or something. But he said no, dice and
to cancel his reservations. I said okay, and I hung up.
I decided I was done being in a one way
relationship with him, even though I always thought of him

(21:33):
as my best friend. Later I was talking to our
mom and she was saying how excited she is to
see us, and I told her, oh, brother's not coming.
He chose a dog over me. She asked what I
was talking about, and I explained. She said she was disappointed,
but not surprised. Word got out and my brother called
me really hushed and sad and said that what I'd

(21:54):
said wasn't cool. I said, I just told the truth.
He called me a jerk, and we haven't spoken since.
I said what I said in anger and bitterness. But
now I'm really feeling guilty because I've always forgiven my
brother and I've never heard him sound the way he
did on the phone. Am I the jerk at it?
Because I guess I didn't share some things properly. I
didn't invite myself to parties or social events my brother

(22:16):
got invited to with his friends. When I said I
followed around his friend group, I meant sitting near them
on the school bus or during assemblies. My brother has
a social life outside of me, which I was not
invited to nor forced myself into. I did not insert
myself into his friend groups, just that when they were
a group functions, I would hover near them as opposed
to being in a corner when we were alone. We

(22:36):
acted very friendly with each other, and we would hang
out regularly, like playing video games together. He did agree
to go to my graduation before I bought the hotel
and plane tickets. I did not assume he would attend
if he didn't want you telling people he backed out
of your graduation festivities to get a dog. He shouldn't
have backed out of your graduation festivities to get a dog.
Not the jerk, obviously, not the jerk. He's upset not

(23:01):
because he hurt your feelings, but because he knows you
recognize the imbalance in your relationship. He's also upset because
other people now see how he treated you, or now
publicly acknowledge it. I'm not saying the following statement to
be mean. I'm saying it so you can see how
obvious it is to a Reddit random who has never
met you or any of your family members. Your brother
is self centered and absolutely puts his own interests above you.

(23:24):
Even your mother acknowledges this. When you told her that
he was not attending because he's picking up a puppy.
She said she was disappointed, but not surprised. I'm sorry.
I can imagine being on the outs with your brother
hurts a lot. This is a big step in claiming
the respect you deserve, and I hope you realize that
and stand your ground. You've done nothing to feel guilty about.
I get that you still do feel guilty, but this

(23:45):
outside observer absolves you of any unwarranted guilt. Honestly, I
think everyone sucks here. You for being the clingy older
sister that never took a hint growing up, and it
took you until you were almost thirty. Your parents for
not noticing this and when you guys were kids, Your
brother for being passive the whole time and not being
direct with you to give him space. Seems like a

(24:07):
lot of unspoken emotions, clingy older sister that never took
the hint. Wow, just wow for doing creepy stalker things
like buying her own sibling Christmas presents. I guess no,
like calling your sibling your best friend when they are
clearly not. Am I the jerk for telling my wife

(24:27):
she was being childish and unreasonable for trying to make
me choose between her or my mother. My wife and
I have been together for ten years and married for three.
My wife, Jane Doe, is twenty nine and I'm twenty eight.
Generally speaking, during our years together, we've never really gotten
into fights or been in each other's throats. Sadly, this
has changed over the last year ever, since my mother

(24:48):
was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and I made the choice to
care for her using my own funds since my mother
has no assets. Recently we got into a fight because
as of late, things have gotten tighter Financially. We're not struggling,
but our lifestyle has become rather limited compared to what
it was prior to me taking care of my mother. Financially,
I've also been less available because I took on a

(25:09):
different role at the job, higher pay, but more responsibilities
and longer hours. She's been trying to get me to
place my mother in a Medicaid funded nursing facility, and
she knows how I feel about that. We both work
in the medical field, and we both know exactly what
will happen to a case like my mother, who is
fully ambulatory but requires hand over hand care, but can
be combative with strangers because she's oriented to a person

(25:32):
rather than a place. I told her, even if we
went with her idea, does she really think that will
make things better? I will still go visit her often
just to make sure they're doing right by her, and
a private memory care facility would be twoed at three
times as much when I'm currently paying for her home care.
Then she asked, what about us, Though we're young, we
should be living and enjoying our lives, creating memories and experiences,

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which I agree with, and I told her we can
still do that, just not at the frequency we once did.
Then she started to tell me everything I already knew,
and at this point I started to lose my cool.
I know it's progressive. I know at one point, if
she lives long enough, she will need skilled nursing care.
I know spending nearly six to eight thousand dollars a
month on her expenses is not financially saying she's my mother,

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though everything I have is because of her. She made
countless sacrifices to raise me by herself, and it was
not easy raising a kid, let alone one on this spectrum,
working multiple jobs by yourself. My wife knows this and
knows how much my mom means to me. She tried
to play, if your mother was of sound mind, she
would want you to enjoy your life and to live happy.

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I snapped at this point, sure, you may be right,
but if we were really struggling, we're giving up extra
vacations and freedom. This is where she replied with, then
you have to choose me or your mother. I cannot
live this way anymore. At this point I told her
she was being childish and unreasonable, and if she divorces,
so be it, but don't try and play the victim
or act as if she's being reasonable. Had it been

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her family, I would understand and do everything I can
to support her through it. That's what partners do. They
support one another, help lift them up when they fall,
not kick them while they're down. You're the jerk people,
with Alzheimer's and dementia belong in care homes unless you're
paying your wife for her help. It's wrong. I say
this is someone who had family in both categories. Why

(27:22):
are you even making this post for validation so as
to make you feel that you did nothing wrong and
the only bad person is your wife? Because after reading
your post and your comments, you absolutely don't want to
compromise or accept the judgment of others, So why are
you even posting here? You're the jerk. You have the
right to take care of your mother and she has
the right to feel upset with it because it's taking

(27:43):
away from your presence and the relationship and marriage and
also puts a financial strain in your relationship. For every response,
you're just trying to argue with the commenter and don't
seem to understand or accept their opinions. If you don't
want opinions, then don't post here and ask for judgment.
You're only wasting others time. And lastly, you're the jerk,
not because you want to take care of your mother,

(28:04):
but because you don't care what your partner feels and
how you Even after posting in this sub you're not
ready to take other's opinions. You're the jerk for the
specific question you asked. Am I the jerk for telling
my wife she's being childish and unreasonable for trying to
make me choose between her and my mother? Yes, you
are the jerk because your wife is not childish nor

(28:25):
unreasonable according to any mature criteria. She wanted to have
an equal discussion with you where the outcome was not predetermined.
That isn't childish or unreasonable. She has concerns about the
future of your marriage. That's something most spouses would treat
seriously and not call childish. She has not been consulted
on financial decisions that affect her too. That's how kids
are treated, but it does not make her a kid

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to point out how inappropriate that is. Please believe that
all of my sympathies are here with you and your
obvious love for your mother and the difficulties her care
will bring you. I admire your devotion to her and
willingness to support her for that. You're definitely not that
you're But your inability to see any solution here but
the one you have chosen makes you the jerk. So
does your lack of empathy for your wife. You see

(29:07):
the situation as black and white. Your wife feels it's
more complex than that. Don't insult her by calling her
childish or unreasonable until you listen openly to her concerns.
I hope you two can come to an understanding about
the next steps. You're the jerk based on your comments.
Your wife didn't have any say in the decision to
care for your mother. You presented your decision to her

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and went on your way. That's not how a partnership works.
You're not a jerk for wanting to take care of
your mother. Your wife is not a jerk for wanting
no part in that. However, you are a jerk for
being a bad partner and then losing your cool when
your wife starts a discussion. If you want a chance
for your marriage to continue, you should both seek counseling
to figure out what to do. In the meantime, start
thinking about how you're failing to support your wife slash

(29:50):
partner instead of blaming her for not supporting you. How
dare he try to support his mother who's dealing with
Alzheimer's knowing that his wife and him would have to
cut down on lugs vacations. I divorce him too. Am
I the jerk for wanting my sister to pay me
back because my nephew lost my electric scooter Last year,
I bought an electric scooter, which I've since modified to

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add more speed, a new handlebar, and some other mods.
The scooter itself was not cheap at fifteen hundred dollars,
plus mods put it over two thousand dollars. I have
a sister who's forty three and a nephew who's thirteen,
who I always let house it for me while I'm
out of town on business. I have pets and plants
that I need taken care of, and they always welcome
a change of scenery. So I had to go on

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a business trip last month for a week and I
let them house it. My nephew has always asked me
about my scooter, and I told him that it isn't
for kids because it's extremely fast, and I've expressly forbidden
him from writing it multiple times. His mother knows about
this as well. Well. I came back from my trip
and my sister tells me that I'm going to be mad,
but my nephew took my scooter out, left it unattended

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and it was stolen. I was upset and asked them
to leave. I told them they'd have to replace, and
my sister pleaded with me they couldn't afford it, it
was a mistake, and that he could just do chores
around my house to pay me back. I told her
that it doesn't replace my scooter. She said that any
money would have to come from their vacation fund. I said, oh, well,

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our parents have gotten involved and said that I'm taking
this too far. They agree that my nephew should be
punished and I should be paid back, but to take
away their family vacation is just cruel and petty. They
suggested a payment plan. I told them no, that I
use my scooter to commute to work often and that
I wanted it back immediately. Furthermore, he was warned not
to ride it since it's dangerous. Now that I've started

(31:37):
to calm down here a little, I'm wondering if I'm
being a jerk here by being so demanding and potentially
punishing everyone else for my nephew's mistake. She said that
the money would have to come from their vacation fund.
If replacing this scooter miant, they'd have to use money
reserved for basic necessities rand her mortgage, food utilities, then
I'd say you might want to reconsider the payment plan option.

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But if they're upset because they can't take a vacation
this year because of this, then tough craft, not the jerk.
Not the jerk. Your sister should pay you. Your parents
can pay money into your sister's vacation budget. Your sister
can make payments back to your parents. Solved, not the jerk.
Repaying you comes before a vacation you needed to commute

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to work. Their neglect caused it to be stolen, so
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