Man Sells the Family Home After Wife Passes Away, Causing Her Adult Children to Move Out on a Whim

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Jul 15, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen. Change can be hard. Although it's an integral part of life, and even can be beautiful in many ways, it's never easy to grasp the tides of change, the ups and downs that life throws at us. Yet, it's all natural in its own way. 

Death, unfortunately, is a part of life. It's actually something that makes life beautiful. Because if we all lived forever, what would the purpose be? What would our meaning be, floating forever in this ad infinitum of eternal return. So it brings us to the Reddit piece. 

The original poster (OP) is a man whose wife has just passed. She has three children, in which he's also raised, but the kids have made it clear they don't want to have anything to do with him. As OP doesn't need the big house anymore, he makes a snap decision to sell it. The children don't appear too pleased…keep in mind they're all in their 20s. Who do you think is in the wrong?

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  • 01
    r/AITAH • 7 days ago No_Competition7799 AITAH for selling my house to get rid of my step children.
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    My wife passed away in November of 2022. She left me three adult step children who have all been very clear that I am not their parent despite being in their lives for over ten years. Their father has retired to the Philippines.
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    They are 21, 22, 25. Their mother and I have been helping them out with a place to live because our city is very HCOL. The youngest is in school still but the other two are employed.
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    After their mother passed away they stopped doing anything around the house. We had been charging no rent so they could save money. The older two were responsible for their own bills other than that. I paid power, water, Internet, all the utilities. We even provided food for the
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    even provided food for the youngest.
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    Now they do nothing to help around the house. I have had to hire a cleaning lady to help. It's stupid.
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    So I put the house up for sale. The price has gone up so much since I bought it that I could retire to the Philippines if that was my thing.
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  • 08
    It took no time at all to sell and I'm moving out to my cabin. I gave each kid $10,000 and told them that the house was sold.
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  • 09
    They aren't idiots they had seen the for sale sign and been around for the open houses.
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    Now they are getting upset with me for throwing them out of their home. I guess they did some of their growing up there but they never treated it like much more than a place to sleep.
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    I think that their mom would be disgusted with how they treated me and our home.
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  • 12
    They pooled their money and got an apartment but if they count on only the money I gave them they will have nothing in a year. AITA?
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  • 13
    Oddjibberz 7d ago Raise your hand if your parents gave you $10k when you moved out? No hands? You separated from leeches, NTA
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    Xoxo_emmmaa • 7d ago NTA. They were disrespectful to you and your home and you weren't obligated to continue providing for them, especially after they became adults.
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    Rowana133 7d ago NTA. You are already generous for giving them $10k. They are adults and need to figure out the rest on their own.
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    Ok Oliv 7d ago • You're a saint for giving them 10k each, NTA
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    shocking Rn ⚫ 7d ago I sold my house to get rid of a freeloading lazy brother, and my siblings blamed me. for making him homeless. He was 59. Yet they wouldn't take him in. You're NTA at all. Some people will take advantage of you rather
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    advantage of you rather than standing on their own. two feet.
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    • ophaus 7d ago Ahhh, the majestic nest destruction. Fly, little birdies.
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    argan_85 • 4d ago Wouldnt be at all possible to do legally where I live. Biological children always have a right to a (rather large part) of the inheritance.
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    Still, NTA. You real what you SOW.
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    I forgot_to_respond • 2d ago Reading through these comments makes me grateful. My parents charged me $75 rent from age 16 to 18. And then they returned it for my first security deposit+rent.
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