Mom Pressures Son To Choose Stepbrother For Trip Over Biological Brother
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With that said, we are looking at a post that was submitted by a guy who is looking to see if he is in the wrong for telling his mom that she can't force him to invite someone specific for his birthday celebration. In this post, he tries to tell us a lot about his relationship with each of them so we can get an idea of why he chose who he chose.
In most cases, you'd probably choose the person that you have a better relationship with or that you are closer with. However, his mom is thinking the opposite and wants it to be a bonding trip.
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OP starts off explaining his parents situation and that they are divorced, which is how the stepbrother came along.
Then he tells us a bit about how he feels about his stepbrother and what kind of relationship they have.
We understand why the mom wants them to spend time together and for him to choose his stepbrother, but also it's his birthday.
This is when he tells us about the overnight trip and that he could choose one person.
Mom stepped in and told him that he should choose his stepbrother because they don't do much together.
OP tried getting their mom to understand but it doesn't seem like she was thinking about it this way.
People came to the comments to tell OP that they were not in the wrong here but they did understand where the mom was coming from here.
OP will definitely resist but maybe she needs to ask him why he's not as open to taking his stepbrother so she has an idea of his thought process.
She does have selfish expectations and it seems like so many people were on OP's side about this.
She really can't insist especially when it comes to her giving him a choice. Or so he thought he had a choice.
I would just specify that clearly it's his birthday so he really should get to decide on who he celebrates with.
We agree with everyone here because he is definitely NTA at all here.
This situation isn't as juicy as some of the others that we've covered but this guy definitely was not in the wrong here. We hope that OP's mom finally understands what he's doing and why he chose his brother instead of his stepbrother.
She really just shouldn't force the relationship.