17-year-old son refuses to go on family cruise with parents, his mom demands $2,000 to reimburse for the ticket, sparking backlash from him: “I won’t be moving back with you”

Hey there internet enthusiasts. If there's one thing in life that we all have frustrations with, as well as great love for, it's family. There's something so complicated about family dynamics. We don't get to choose our family members, that's part of it. You could be born into a household you resent, or have a child that you just can't seem to make right no matter how hard you try. Sometimes the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and sometimes it falls so far that you can't even recognize the person, or how they're related to you. We all have family members we get along with, and ones we don't. One could be incredibly close with his or her mother, and deeply against their father. It's common to have a better relationship with one of the parents. Sometimes I wonder if our parents feel the same about their children, but wouldn't say it. I'm assuming they do. Hey, we're all human, even our parents.

In the story below it centers around a family, and the narrator is a teenage boy who doesn't have a good relationship with his father. Due to his tensions with dad, it's starting to affect his relationship with his mother as well. Read the full story below for all the juicy details.

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AITAH for telling my mom she’s d*** to me after expecting me to pay $2000 for a cruise i’m not going on?

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