'You're a spoiled brat': 38-year-old woman kicks out boyfriend after he calls her 8-year-old daughter spoiled for leaving a plate on the table, the internet encourages her to leave the relationship

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Dec 1, 2025 12:00 PM EST

Dating is hard enough, but it becomes improvidently harder when you enter the dating arena with children already. In the story below, the narrator is a woman who's dating a man, both in their 30s and both with children from a previous relationship. They've never seen eye to eye on parenting, and it's becoming more and more of a divider in their relationship. She has an 8-year-old daughter, and he has a 4-year-old son. The daughter is starving for a father figure, and she tries to be affectionate with him and hold his hand, but he refuses. 

He feels uncomfortable doing it since he's not her real father. He seems to be a bit harsh with her, to his girlfriend's disagreement. She wants him to be more of a father figure to her. But the real icing on the cake hits when her daughter leaves a plate on the dinner table, and her boyfriend tells her that she's a spoiled brat. It's bit extreme for a child, and she has every right to question him. 

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    AITAH after kicking my boyfriend out for calling my daughter a snitch and spoiled brat?

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    I (38f) have been dating my boyfriend (34m) for a couple years now. I have an 8 year old daughter from a previous
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    relationship and he has a 4 year old son from a previous relationship. My boyfriend and I have always bumped heads on
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    parenting styles and discipline when it comes to the kids. Please give me some tips on how blended families get through this.
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    He has told me that his son is 4 years old and doesn't know any better yet and my daughter is 8 and she should already know how
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    to act. He's complained about her on occasions and says that my daughter is disrespectful and that I coddle her too much and that
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    it's not right that I have to tell her more than once to do something. I say she's a kid. My daughter's dad is in jail and no longer a part
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    of her life so she craves that fatherly figure and affection. My boyfriend has shared custody of his son with the BM so the
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    dynamic is a little different with the two kids. My boyfriend has refused to hold her hand or give her affection because he says it's
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    weird. He would get upset when she brought up old memories involving other male figures in her life and would tell her to go hold their hand instead.
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    Last weekend he got upset because my daughter left her plate on the table after breakfast and told her to stop being a
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    spoiled brat and to put her plate away. He had also been telling her to stop being a snitch earlier that day because she wanted to
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    inform him that his son was doing something he wasn't supposed to.
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    It really hurt me to see my daughter cry. I asked him why he was being so mean and to apologize to her but he refused. I
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    kicked him out of my house. He says that I'm too dramatic and that calling someone a spoiled brat isn't even that bad and that
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    he wants to teach her how to be respectful and to listen to parents. Am I being too harsh kicking him out of my house?
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    turquoise_turtle83 • 9h ago He is verbally abusive and emotionally dismissive towards her. Never would i accept that as a mother.
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    YTA if you expose your poor daughter to that sad excuse of a man.
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    destro23 • 9h ago Am I being too harsh kicking him out of my house? Nah, he can stay gone.
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