15-year-old girl refuses to let her 16-year-old brother use headphones, Mom and Dad side with him: 'I didn’t want to lend them because this is an ongoing issue'

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  • Teen boy looks annoyed at sister who refuses to give up her headphones to him.
  • AITA for not letting my brother use my headphones?

    Every week my brother(16m) has had soccer practice which is around 40-60 minutes away. My mom, who drives him, has always complained about the fact that he sits with his headphones in and doesn't interact with her, which I(15f) think is incredibly r de and bad social etiquette.
  • My parents also often complain to me about the fact that he's a "selfish j " and have genuinely asked me if I think he could be narcissistic.
  • They point to things like his friends waiting outside our house for ten minutes to pick him up or his one star uber rating for never being at the pickup on time, and when my mom and I asked him about this, he said "I'm the one paying them".
  • Today, my brother came into my room before he left for soccer and asked where my airpods were so he could borrow them (his were de d).
  • I told him that I don't want him borrowing them because I think he should just "sit in the car and interact like a normal person".
  • I didn't want to lend them because this is an ongoing issue my parents complain about, and I didn't want to feel like I was enabling it.
  • He yelled downstairs to my dad and tried to get my him on his side, which worked.
  • My dad joined the argument calling me selfish and entitled because I recently borrowed my brother's nintendo switch to play a game online with my friends, so I should allow my brother to borrow something back.
  • I explained that I would've allowed my brother to borrow my airpods in any other circumstance, but am not going to support his inconsideration.
  • My brother grabbed my expensive new headphones that I got for christmas and got into the car, which I followed him out to and took them back.
  • He then went back inside to try to look for my airpods in my room while I stayed outside to talk to my mom, who was already in the car.
  • I told her what was happening and she civilly asked me to just let him borrow the headphones because she knows how he is and didn't want them to be any more late than they already were.
  • She also added she wants to avoid conflict. My dad then came outside and started yelling at me from the porch about how I was being "selfish" and I walked to the house to try to have a proper conversation with him while my mom told him to stop yelling.
  • When I came inside, my dad started screaming about how I wasn't getting anything more from him or my brother.
  • My brother then came downstairs, without my airpods or headphones, and left to go to soccer.
  • A text was then sent to my family group chat reading, "Done with \[my name\]. That is NOT how we treat each other.
  • Cannot believe you would treat your brother like that for ZERO reason other than to be mean.
  • NOT ACCEPTABLE" My mom has always been generous when driving my brother and I around, allowing us to play whatever music we want in the car with no complaint.
  • I can't understand why my dad is mad at me for standing up for something he was complaining about in the first place.
  • I still haven't responded to the text. AITA? Should I have just given the headphones to him to borrow?
  • Teen girl relaxes on the couch, happily listening to music in her headphones.

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