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If you’re not busy trying to dodge your own tackles and linebackers, you’re expected to dive into the family drama relay and hold the piping-hot mess until someone else’s nerves catch fire. The sister with the relentless optimism keeps trying to force a group huddle, the parent has retired from free childcare to focus on not reliving past sacks, and our 23-year-old sister isn’t interested in burning their hands for the sake of “togetherness.”
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"AITA for telling my sister I would have kept the door closed on her too when she looked for me to side with her against mom?"
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So when the time came to play babysitter to the half-siblings no one asked for, instead of scrambling for potholders, one sibling gracefully let the hot potato drop, refusing to be scalded by someone else’s guilt-fueled emergency.
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22-year-old woman shows up unannounced to drop off her father’s 6 and 4-year-old kids from his 2nd family, expecting her sister and mother to babysit for free, gets upset when they both refuse: ‘Mom simply didn't answer the door’
Some families pass down heirlooms or secret recipes, but this one prefers to lob emotional hot potatoes across generational lines and see who can stand the heat. The rules are easy to follow: problems are tossed to whoever looks least likely to duck, boundaries are treated as football field yard lines, and everyone's always hoping they'll be out of the room when their name gets called for the next field goal try where your arm are the goal posts and a kid your dad decided to have with his second family, 16 years after he had you is the ball.
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