17-year-old isolated from family for being child of infidelity, puts her mom in her place after she reaches out for support for being alone: “I can’t wait to leave you”

Family dynamics are different for everyone. Some people grow up with their parents still married, while others have only one parent in the picture, or divorced parents. Some people are only children, while some have multiple siblings. Regardless of your family dynamic, we all know how much our upbringing and relationship to our parental figures and siblings affect us. How our parents treat us imprint on our brains pathways of attachment that permeate into our adult romantic relationships and friendships.

Everyone has their strife in life, but no one can ignore the difficulty of growing up with stepparents and stepsiblings. For the protagonist in the story below, that's exactly what she's going through. But the kicker is that she's also a product of infidelity. Her mother had an affair with her ex-husband and got pregnant. Now the teenage protagonist is just in the world where she has no father, her stepsiblings hate her, and her mother is isolated along with her. What is a girl to do? She doesn't even blame her stepfather and doesn't expect anything from him. She understands him and knows he has no obligation. She blames the whole situation on her mother. Her mother laments that none of her kids like her. Hm, I wonder why.

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AITA for telling my mom I can't wait to leave her without any of her kids since she can't stop using me as a pawn?

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Some people are just dealt an unlucky set of cards for life. I feel bad for this girl.
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Her mother sounds like a narcissist…
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