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Parental arguments aren’t foreign to many people’s childhoods, with parents insisting they are merely having passionate discussions while the walls seem ready to file for divorce. But in this case, the eldest child got promoted to in-house emotional support, forced to reassure younger siblings and absorb all the fallout, all while pretending there is any hope of focusing on homework while the domestic opera rages on.
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AITAH for yelling at my parents?
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Modern parents, masters of stress management, hold adult responsibilities like shields while conveniently forgetting that their primary coping strategy is shouting at each other until midnight. So when this teenager has had enough and joins the shouting for once, the aftermath is a tense, guilt-ridden hush punctuated by choreographed lectures from the same people who set the house on edge in the first place.
Yes, there might be some regret about yelling, but sometimes honesty needs to break through the hypocrisy, if only to keep the family therapist from going out of business.
‘I came out of my room and yelled at both of them’: 16-year-old snaps at parents after months of nightly arguments, defending his 8-year-old sister and turning the family’s tension into an all-out standoff
Growing up to the nightly soundtrack of door slamming and inventive insults must be quite the experience, like an unofficial anthem of dysfunctional family bonding. Kids are expected to absorb the drama, maintain perfect behavior, and gracefully sidestep emotional shrapnel. When a teenager eventually breaks and meets fire with fire, the fragile peace shatters.
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