24-year-old daughter cuts parents off before her wedding after years of favoritism towards her entitled older sister, parents refuse to back down: ‘They claim they were loving parents’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Dec 29, 2025 4:00 PM EST

Usually, good parents don't really need to convince their children that they are good parents. Usually, children decide based on their own experiences if their parents did a good job. And if a parent finds themselves trying to plead their case in front of their children, and insist that they did a good job raising them, that is probably not a good sign of their success. 

Since many adults will admit that their parents weren't so successful at being parents, there are also plenty of parents who would insist the exact opposite. "What do you mean we weren't good parents to you? We gave you everything you possibly needed, we did everything right, you're so ungrateful, yada, yada…", you get the idea, don't you?

The question is, should one keep putting up with parents like these past the required age? If a parent hasn't done their job well, do the child owe them anything? Do they owe them an adult relationship?

If you ask the 24-year-old daughter in the story below, she would have told you that for years, she thought she had to keep up her relationship with her horrible family. Even though her sister was awful to her throughout their entire childhood, and their parents never took her side, she still gave them the benefit of the doubt. She still tried to do good by them, even though they never did the same.

Now, however, she is a full-grown adult, with a fiancé and a life of her own. Still. her sister treats her like garbage, and her parents couldn't care less, and she finally decided she had had enough. With the support of her partner, the young daughter cut off her parents and sister, even if it means they will not attend the wedding. And while it didn't seem to bother her sister much, Mom is not pleased with her daughter's decision to keep her out of her life.

Is the daughter obligated to have any relationship with the parents who were never by her side? Or is she entitled to keep out people who only have a bad effect on her? Keep scrolling to read the full story and help the young adult decide what would be the right call.

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  • AITAH for cutting my parents and sister out because of their blatant favoritism of my sister and dislike for me?

    I (24f) feel so dumb for writing this but I'm torn. I have an older sister (27f) and we've never been close.
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  • But more than that she has never ever liked me. If there's a reason for that I don't know it.
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  • She has always been the clear favorite though. She could steal my toys and our parents wouldn't say a word.
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  • She could force hideous haircuts on me and nothing was said. When she had friends over she could shut doors in my literal face and chase me out of the living room or chase me inside so I wasn't outside with them and nothing was said.
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  • She would chase me with stuff and threaten to hit me for merely sharing the space with her and her friends.
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  • There were also times she pulled chairs away from me, pushed me off chairs because we were sitting next to each other and our parents never said a word.
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  • But any time she accused me of something I was punished. I could be sitting right in front of my parents and if she said I had just done something they would ask me why and refuse to believe me when I denied it.
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  • Another time my dad saw her break something and then blame me and he still punished me.
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  • Despite all this I have tried really hard to have a good relationship and to love my parents and sister and to earn their love back.
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  • But as an adult my sister is worse. She slept with one of my boyfriends, she told my friends lies about me and she mocks my appearance all the time.
    via Miyloy8
  • My parents paid for her college education, for her first three cars and they gave her several hundred dollars a month while she was in college.
    via Miyloy8
  • I got some money toward college and that was it. And the money came with hundreds of strings attached.
    via Miyloy8
  • They also visited her more in college and they still visit her more today. The only time she visits me is when she's trying to humiliate me.
    via Miyloy8
  • I still tried and tried. But I recently got engaged and there was zero congrats or any kind of happiness.
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  • My sister tried to flirt with my fiancé and told him he would be better off with anyone else and my parents said nothing.
    via Miyloy8
  • He got mad on my behalf and we left. We talked about it afterward and he told me he felt it would be better for me to be no contact with them.
    via Miyloy8
  • So that's what I did but my mom was being dramatic because I sent one final message to her, dad and my sister about how they've treated me.
    via Miyloy8
  • She can't contact me directly so she's texting my friends and she's posting to social media and claiming they were loving parents and my sister was an amazing older sister and role model and I'm excluding them from this important part of my life.
    via Miyloy8
  • It's making me ask if I should have tried harder even though I strongly know it would do no good because I did what I could and it wasn't enough.
    via Miyloy8
  • I was never good enough for my parents or likable to my sister. AITAH?
    via Miyloy8
  • TinLydElli If you keep them in your life your sister will try to ruin your wedding & your parents will help her. Cut them off. Block them & anyone that fights their corner. Have a wonderful life with your fiancé & build a new family. I say this as someone who has finally cut their siblings & parents out too. I am in my 40's but wish I'd done it in my 20's before they ruined so many special days for me.
    via TinLydElli
  • MyVingerStink Holy moly! Cut them all off forever!
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  • Over_It7623 Cut off these terrible people, your fiance sounds like a winner though! Congratulations!
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  • Sea_Firefighter_4598 Good lord, they've trained you well. Believe your fiancé.
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  • Material Cellist4133 Just respond to the post with all the differences and end with a sarcastic response of "Yeah you have been great parents, so great that all above happened"
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