'Don't ever talk to me again': 17-year-old girl finds her 12-year-old stepsister reading her private journal and mocking her, 17-year-old freaks out but bio dad takes stepsister's side

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Sep 19, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

I've been journaling since I was 16-years-old. My best friend, Eva, at the time was journaling, and I thought it would be a cool habit to take up. That was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I feel like growing up as a teenager and naturally falling into self-expression through writing is one of the best things I could have done for myself. It's not only a great and helpful way to cope through life and your own emotions, but it really helps memory too. The brain is really working to writing everything down, understand and process. 

In the story below, the protagonist is a 17-year-old who also journals. It's also an outlet for her to release herself. Her family is blended. Her father remarried after her mother passed, and she has a stepmother and step-sister. She was never fond of either of them to begin with, but when she comes home to find her step-sister reading her journal out loud to another friend, it's the nail on the coffin to their relationship, and I don't blame her. 

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    aitah for what i said to my stepsister after she read my private journals?

    Teenage girl reading journal
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    hey, i made this account just for this cause i'm always seeing these posts and i really don't want to
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    ask this on twitter/instagram where my close friends could see, it's embarrassing to me.
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    so my mom d d five years ago when i was 12. my dad remarried about three years ago. his new wife, stacy, came with a daughter
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    who's now 12 (i'm 17). stacy looks like she tried to be a model in a small town catalog once and never got over it. she's loud but
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    honestly i just stay out of her way. i don't have a close relationship with her daughter either cause
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    she's basically her mini-me. as for my dad, he has always been a "keep the peace" kind of guy,
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    even when my mom was alive. he just hates any kind of confrontation so he lets people
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    walk all over him, which means he lets stacy and her daughter do whatever the f they want. so yeah, we don't feel like a family, at all.
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    anyway, after my mom d di started journaling. it's the one thing that helped. at first i was just writing letters to her, telling
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    her about school and how much i missed her. now it's just where i put everything. how much i can't stand stacy, dumb sh happening
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    at school, the fact i have a massive crush on this girl in my chem class. they're literally my
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    brain on paper and i keep them in my desk drawer. NEVER out in the open.
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    so i got home around three days ago and i hear laughing coming from my room. i open the door and my stepsister and her friend
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    are on my floor with my journals spread out around them. she was reading them out loud in a
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    stupid, mocking voice. she was reading a part about how i was having a bad day and just wanted to talk to my mom. they were
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    laughing their off. then she flipped to a part about my crush and was like “ew, she likes girls”. i really don't even remember what
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    Teenager journaling in her room
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    i said cause i just started screaming at them to get the f out of my room. my dad and stacy ran in cause her friend
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    started screaming (literally, she was too loud acting as if i was gonna kill them or something)
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    and my stepsister immediately started crying saying they were just joking and that i was being crazy.
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    my dad just tells me i'm overreacting and that she's just a kid and she didn't mean any harm, that i'm basically an adult
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    and stuff, literally before i could even explain myself he already took her side. then he told me i shouldn't have left my journals
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    where she could find them. i was so pred i looked at him and said something like "of course you'd say that, you haven't given a sh :
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    about me or mom since they moved in" then i turned to my stepsister and said "don't ever talk to me again, you're so
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    weird and disgusting" stacy gasped and dragged her sobbing daughter out of the room. my dad just looked at me
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    with this disappointed face and walked out. it's been de d silent in the house ever since. they're all acting like i'm this huge monster
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    Girl journaling
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    who needs to apologize and kinda giving me the cold shoulder lol. i know what i said was mean
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    but i feel like she crossed a line that you can't come back from. aitah?
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    Losticus NTA. Your dad is your only parent left, and if he's not going to stick up for you,
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    you don't have any choice but to do it yourself. Is what you said a little mean? Yeah. Will it get your point across? Also yes.
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    Therapy could help you guys as a family, but everyone has to want to participate.
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