Parents disown daughter, ban her for 8 years, then act stunned when she refuses to welcome them after building a happy, independent life: ‘Jess has the right to cut them out of her life just like they cut her out of theirs

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Apr 23, 2025 6:00 AM EDT

I suggest anyone who identifies with the parents and siblings in this story pull up a chair and brace themselves, because I'm about to unveil a radical concept: actions have consequences. Mind blown, right? I'll wait while you gather the pieces of your worldview from the floor. For the rest of us, those who somehow stumbled through life understanding that cause and effect isn't just a philosophy discussion starter, let's carry on.

You know, I love it when horrible actions are paired with cute little personality traits. I mean, how awesome can a person be to act awfully for years on end and then be baffled when the subjects of said behavior aren't waiting with open arms to forgive and forget. So naive, adorable, almost.

people who dish out years of cruelty, neglect, or casual banishment, only to later act absolutely stunned when their victims don't leap into their arms at the first hint of olive branch.

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  • The audacity! The wide-eyed confusion! It’s almost sweet, in a puppy discovering mirrors for the first time sort of way, except it’s grown adults wondering why the family member they erased isn’t thrilled to play reunion.

  • "Aita for telling my parents and sister that they deserve what they are getting"

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  • I 28 male have to sisters Alexa 28f Jessica 31f (fake names )and parents mom49 and dad 52. Growing up we had a pretty normal life tho I could always sense that Jessica was the rebellious one of my sisters. She
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  • by her teenage years always wanted to argue with mom and dad you know normal teen stuff. Well around about 16 she started really acting out she tried dr s alcol ect she even went as far
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  • as to steal money from our parents. Ok so fast forward once she was around about 19 my parents basically banned her from their house which was their right and my younger sister completely
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  • All fun and games till you get a taste of your own medicine

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  • supported it I didn't take sides cuz I didn't really care tbh. What I didn't know for a while if that they went as far as to block her on social media and stop taking
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  • phone calls and inviting her to outings and parties even family get togethers. Well jess found out my mom and dad would do weekly outings with my younger sister and cousin (the daughter of
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  • my late aunt )but not my sister. once again, I need to stress that this was well within their rights. However, my older sister asked my younger sister about it or more like complained. She
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  • Oh so that's how it feels?!

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  • basically snapped and told her that the way mom and dad treated her was completely her fault for the way she acted when she was a child. Well, Jess
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  • apparently took it to heart and completely turned her life around. She found her husband who loves her and supported her through her recovery and achieving her
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  • college degree. She has two beautiful kids. She's finally found her passion in life and is all around doing amazing. Well, my mom thought it would be a good
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  • idea to reconnect with my sister so that she could be there for her grandkids and Alexa readily agreed. The problem is my older sister has decided to completely
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  • cut my mom dad and younger sister out of her life. The only reason I know this stuff is due to the fact she's not so cruel as to completely cut them out of her life. She keeps in contact with me
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  • because one me and her have always been closer than her and Alexa, who is quite frankly annoying. More than that she doesn't want our family to ever have to contact her directly,
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  • which I agreed with. Well mom called jess on fb messenger since I refuse to share her phone number. Well according to what my mom told me jess told her that she didn't have a mother or
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  • sister that her kids already have a grandmother. Well know my sister and mother are taking it really hard. My mom asked me to talk to her which is when I finally let her have it I told her straight
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  • up that distancing themselves from Jess was never a problem. It was they're right but cutting her off for eight years and pretending she didn't have a daughter or that she only had one daughter was
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  • trash and kind of crappy. My mom tried to justify it by pointing out the way just acted when she was growing up, which was valid but cutting her off for eight years never checking in and never even
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  • seeing about her while she was pregnant or even doing the work to find out that she was pregnant when it was all over social media was pretty crappy. And making your son have to walk his sister
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  • down the aisle when the entire wedding is aware that she has a father who just chose not to. It's pretty crappy and that Jess was well within her rights to cut crappy people out of her life just
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  • like they cut her out of their own life Now my dad is mad at me because apparently I just made things worse for my mom. I don't get how telling her the truth was wrong. It's not like Jess is unable
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  • to accept the past. Yes, she was terrible growing up and doesn't even deny it and she also accepts that she didn't get much better during early adulthood. She just doesn't wanna revisit that chapter
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  • in her life and doesn't want my mother sister or father to be a part of it I feel like that's valid. But now my mom and sister keep calling us, cruel for supporting, keeping them away from their grandkids. Aitah
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