Man Tells Son To Be Respectful If He Wants To Live With Him, Son Terms Him An AH And Leaves

"If he wanted to keep living here he had to show some respect"

Maryjane

• Published in Interesting
• May 13, 2023

Kids enjoy making a mess, but what about cleaning? Usually not much, and too frequently, it is the parent's responsibility to clean up.

When a youngster is fully capable of cleaning up after them, doing it yourself presents a number of challenges. One is that it adds to your workload.

Two, it conveys the idea that they can't clean up their own mess and shouldn't bother because someone else will do it for them in a very literal sense. We have all, at some point or another, gone to a particular seat at a school dining facility only to see the mess someone else had left behind.

We neglect to take advantage of this opportunity to reflect on our course of action and clean up after ourselves. This doesn't have to be a huge project; rather, it just needs to be a conscious effort to make a table or an area as functional as possible for the people who will use it after. 

In today's story, we see the OP's son, who doesn't like cleaning up after himself. He would often leave a mess in the kitchen.

OP told his girlfriend not to clean up after him as he is old enough to do that himself, but she still does it sometimes when she needs to use the dishes. The OP still had to confront him, but it ended in a brawl.

The headline...

The OP and his ex wife got divorced years ago when their son was only five years old

The problem OP has with his son is that he often leaves a mess in the kitchen

OP's son got angry when his girlfriend asked him if he could put his used dishes away

The OP told him that he had to clean up after himself but watch the way he talked to his girlfriend

In less than a day of being posted, the Reddit post received more than 600 comments and we've gathered some of the top replies for you below

He's free to make other arrangements if he doesn't value free accommodation

The OP's son is now a teenager with more freedom in the university

The OP's son is likely not adhering to that rule as a power play

This Redditor reminded the OP that he didn't include the age range

This Redditor feels like there's more left to be said

Letting him live on his own might do him some much needed good

Let him go and show his adulthood somewhere else

So many Redditors believed that the OP's son was just being lazy. You can't just sit back and watch someone else clean up your mess when you can perfectly handle it yourself.

At the end of all the back and forth, the OP was given the not the AH verdict, and you can drop your thoughts about this story in the comments section below.

Maryjane