Teen Redditor Tells A Kid Whose Parents Are Divorcing That It's Okay Not To Be Okay With The Divorce, Gets Berated For It

Nobody is going to be happy about their parents divorcing so we don't expect them to understand the benefit it could have on the family dynamic.

Daphnie

• Published in Interesting
• March 23, 2023

We are back here again today with another fantastic Reddit post that was submitted to the AITA thread. If you know us, then you know we cover these posts very often, and we love to dive into all the details of the post itself.

The AITA thread is the perfect place for them to be able to vent and get an unbiased opinion on the situation. Usually, they come to Reddit to see if they are in the wrong or the right for how they acted in a situation.

Sometimes it's hard to get a straight answer from those around you because they might have some sort of bias. That's why some people come to the internet to get advice on their situation, where they know they'll get a straight answer.

With this being said, we're diving into a post today submitted by someone who is looking to see if they are wrong for telling a kid that it's okay to not be okay with their parent's divorce. Ultimately OP was trying to comfort the kid, but most of the adults were mad about OP saying that.

Let's dive in and see the full post and all of the best comments that were left on it as well.

OP starts off by saying that their parents are divorced and so they related to the kid, Kai, whose parents are going through a divorce right now.

OP explains a bit of what the kid was saying and why he replied in the way he did. Ultimately, people were telling the kid to be happy about the divorce.

OP's family then heard them telling the kid this which obviously stirred the pot and got them upset that OP said this, especially coming from a divorced blended family.

OP says that they don't enjoy being a blended family all the time either though so it's not a positive from going through a divorce.

OP said that they got a lecture and was told that they were wrong for telling a kid that despite how they really feel. So OP just wants to know if they are wrong or not.

The first comments said that OP was NTA because the kid was probably happy to talk to someone who was being real with them about how it feels to have divorced parents..

However, some people had a different perspective and said that OP could have posisbly just painted divorce as a negative in the kids brain and made them blame their parents for doing something "bad"

This is true too because the adults should have definitely said something to the kid to comfort them in this tough time.

Many times adults don't want to admit that their divorce will heavily affect the kid and obviously most times the kid isn't going to be happy about it.

Ultimately people said that OP was NTA but that maybe they shouldn't have been ao aggressive with it. Many people brought up points of them possibly skewing the way that the kid sees their parents and thinking they are bad for divorcing.

Honestly, one of the adults should have stepped in to comfort the kid though so OP didn't have to anyway.

Daphnie