40-year-old single mom refuses to let 21-year-old niece stay with her for free after her sisters move in too, she kicks her out: "I have to feed 6 mouths now"

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Jul 7, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Hey there ladies and gentlemen of the internet. If you're Gen X or Boomer, then you know what it means to live in a decently functioning economy. We make jokes and memes about it, but it's actually a really serious thing, and colossal to living a decent life. Why do you think millennial humor is so existential and self-deprecating? Do you know what it's like to grow up making just enough money to pay for rent in a dilapidated apartment with two other roommates, and you have to eat beans and rice for dinner because eggs are too expensive? Even in the Great Depression everyone could still afford eggs and milk. These days? It's highway robbery to purchase the bare minimum.

It's surprising that anyone can make it in this economy, or that anyone actually has something in a savings account or that they can afford to buy a house. My take is that the person must come from money. 
Although almost none of this has to do with the story below, it's an interesting discussion. Read the full story below. 

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    AITAH for not letting my neice stay with me

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    I(40 F) live in my 2 bedroom house with my daughter (19 F) and my 2 sisters who came from across the globe to visit me. As my daughter is back from college, our house is packed.
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  • This girl seems to be down on her luck, but the protagonist is right. She has other people who she should be relying on and who she can rely on, like her parents. This woman is up to her neck in other people's drama and doesn't need one more person, even if it's family. 

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    3 days ago at around 12 am, my niece(21) knocked on my door. My niece has a 2 year old daughter. She told me that she
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    broke up with her boyfriend and needed a place to stay for the night. I took her in and offered her food. I made her share a bed with my daughter.
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    My neice then told me that her boyfriend spent all his money by gambling it and they got evicted.
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    I was confused by why she came to my house as her dad's( my brother's) house was a few blocks down my house.
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    The morning came and my daughter asked me if this will be going for too long. My daughter is an only child and she likes her
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    privacy. My niece was entering her room without knocking and letting her daughter play with my daughters things.
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    I called my brother and asked him if he will take her to his house. He said no and it is the life she has
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    chosen to live. For the days that she has lived with me I offered her food for her and her daughter.
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    Yesterday night she told me that she is going to get her things from her friends house. I told her that I can't let her stay anymore
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    and to figure things out as I have to feed 6 mouths now. I told her I will be giving her some money so that she can afford food and
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    shelter for a week but it would be impossible for me to let her and her daughter stay with me.
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    She got pretty furious at me and shouted that no one was there for her and left the house. I felt pretty bad. But my daughter is saying I
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    shouldn't feel bad as my niece has both of her parents in her life and it isn't my duty to provide for her.
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    I really wish I could do something for her but the economy is terrible right now.
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    • Agreeable_Mess_7... 13h ago NTA. You've done what you can and your house is already full. Someone else from the family should be
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    stepping up. She probably got mad because she knows she has limited options, but that's not your responsibility.
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    I'm sure you'll continue to help out as much as you can, but you're under no obligation to take her and her daughter in indefinitely.
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