Let's just put it this way — some people are blunt, and there's nothing they can do about it even if they tried. They serve the truth to you on a silver platter, no sugarcoating. This debate, taken to Reddit, seems to be one of those things. A 16-year-old boy is now wondering if he's in the wrong for telling his mom that her husband (his stepdad) can't afford to send her stepson (his stepbrother) to the same school that he attends.
Teen dives into the context.
The 16-year-old starts off by telling readers that he attends a British international school, which is all thanks to his dad. His mom's husband, who she cheated on the teen's dad with years ago, can't afford to send his son to a similar school.
The mom wants teen to withdraw from school.
So the mom has tried to get her son to withdraw from the school he attends, even attempting to loop the dad in and get him to withdraw their son. She thinks that he should attend a public school because it isn't fair to her stepson, Jack. The dad refuses to do so.
The mom keeps trying to push for her son to withdraw.
"She has taken to visiting me when my dad wasn’t home and saying that I don’t have to be in a ‘fancy private school’, and that I should talk to my dad about withdrawing," the teen writes. "She even told me it has given me ‘an elitist hobby’ — I like reading Shakespeare."
Son dishes out the truth.
"So I told her that it isn’t my fault her husband spent all his money on his mistress (something she has vented to me about before) and that she can’t expect me to give up what I have now for the sake of a guy I only see once a month," the post read. Of course, the mom got offended and said her son was being inconsiderate of her feelings. Then she left.
The teen ends up calling his mom.
The son decided to call his mom to further discuss the topic. "I made it clear to her that I will never give up any of my opportunities for her stepson’s sake," he said.
The mom gets upset.
The mom got upset at her son and told him that he was selfish. "I told her that unlike her at least I’m not a cheater who lost custody by snorting cocaine in front of her then 11 year old son. That’s it. She won’t be bothering me anymore. No contact now."
Users weigh in on the issue.
So, of course, users jumped to weigh in with their opinions. And from the looks of it, many don't think the teen is in the wrong whatsoever. And the mom has gained a lot of loser points as well.
Here's what people had to say.
"NTA," one person replied. "In fact it makes your mum massively entitled not to mention she's picking favourites. She would lower the standard of your education and take you from a school you're happy with just to appease your step brother? And the horrible way she's trying to manipulate you into giving it up after she tried to end around you to your dad and it failed. NTA all day."
And more.
"NTA, your mom seems very emotionally immature," a user wrote.
Another person joked: "NTA. Ditch the mother, keep the Shakespeare hobby. She has, wherefore she knows not, lost all her mirth…"
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