'She looked at me like I had three heads': 16-year-old daughter refuses to help mom with housework, claims mom should take on the 'motherly duties', leading mom to start paying her for the help

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  • "AITA for telling my mom that just because she works and pays, the bills doesn’t mean she can stop with her motherly duties"

    I (16f) live with my mom my stepdad my twin sister my little brother, my little sister and my older brother for the time being. I cook I clean I make sure my. (8f)
  • sister my(14m) brother and my (16f) twin sister are all up for school in the morning and on top of all of that I work and go to school myself.
  • Yesterday I told my mom that I need a mental health day because I literally do everything she looked at me like I had three heads and told me what do I do
  • and I just got so mad I snapped I packed a bag and I left the house. I stayed at my boyfriend's house for like three days. I didn't answer a single text a call or anything.
  • I just need to day for myself and after the three days. were up. I went home and it was a mess everywhere. My room was a mess. The kitchen was a mess. The
  • living room was a mess everything and the first thing my mom told me when I walked in the house was clean it up. And then I yelled at her and I told her
  • just because you work and you pay the bills does it mean that you can stop with your motherly duties. I shouldn't be taking care of everybody in the house and then myself I'm only 16.
  • She said you're the older sister you should be doing this stuff anyways and I told her that I am a twin and there's other people in this house that can clean up and do all the other stuff So am I the a hle?
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  • Texas Yankee212 What happened with 16y twin that she cannot help? Is she just lazy or entitled?
  • Still-Control7991 OP Lazy
  • Live Western_1389 NTA. Can't say the same about your Mom. She's a piece of work.
  • Still-Control7991 OP Tell me about it
  • bippityboppitynope NTA, can you live with your dad?
  • Still-Control7991 OP He is a dadbeat
  • BlueGreen 1956 NTA Your mother has kids but expects you to be their mother. Uh, nope.
  • Mother Search3350 NTAH Clean your room, get up in the morning, get ready for school and leave.
  • There are no babies in that house that need to be taken care of 24/7 and your mother and stepfather are responsible for taking care of their children. NTAH
  • Dizzy-Bowl-900 NTA This is called parentification, and I am sorry you are going through it. It s ks, and it's one of the main reasons people will estrange from their families as they get older and see how ridiculous their parents were.
  • Update I js wanted to say thank you to you all I told my mom everything that I needed to say nd what all she said she was
  • sorry and she will pay me for all I do also I will be moving out on my 17th birthday

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