Families don’t always get along, but when one person is causing all the drama, it makes things even harder.

For this woman, her older brother is always causing issues for the family and she’s the only person who stands up to him.

Now, everyone’s mad at her for it.

Here’s the full story…

AITA for not allowing my brother to wreak havoc on our family?

I am the youngest of three (30F). I have an older brother and sister and my older brother is an emotional ticking time bomb.

He comes to family events and sucks all of the air out of the room.

He likes to argue with anyone who will argue back and when you try to call him out for his childish and poor behavior he blows up and essentially ruins the time for everyone.

Most everyone in my family will ignore him and his bad behavior for the sake of “keeping the peace” at family events.

But this doesn’t always work…

Well, his target changes each event and when his sights land on me, I don’t accept it. He will try to be nasty and mean to me and I will tell him about himself.

About how he has the emotional maturity of an ant and how he will die if he doesn’t make everything about himself.

Usually my mom ends up getting mad at both of us and either he will leave or I will. My mom likes to ask me why I have to “feed into him”.

She doesn’t see it that way…

And I told her if she’s okay with him speaking to her like garbage that’s fine, but I’m not.

I will always defend myself and stick up for myself. And if she wants to keep the peace she just shouldn’t invite me.

She will retell the story like I’m the one who was being an a-hole and so I’m curious….

Am I the a*****e here?

Let’s get into the comments…

This Reddit user has a great read on the situation.

Another commenter thinks she should distance herself.

Some people had some advice for the situation.

And others had funny and clever ways to stop his antics!

Like the old saying goes: treat others the way you want to be treated!

But everyone has their limits.

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