You’re not supposed to speak ill of those who have passed on, but sometimes, those who have gone on make it hard to keep our mouths shut.

This teenage girl is grieving her mother, but her stepsister won’t stop bad-mouthing the woman now that she’s gone.

Find out what happened when she finally had enough.

AITA for asking my stepsister why she let my mom babysit her kid so much if she was such an awful person?

I (16f) lost my mom 15 weeks ago.

It’s been awful.

I live with my stepdad and stepsister still.

I do have other family.

A part of me would prefer to be with my bio family members, but my mom wanted me to try and make this work so for her I’ll try a while longer.

My bio father doesn’t want to know so it’s not like I have another “parent”.

Her stepsister didn’t have a great relationship with her stepmother.

Mom got married to my stepdad when I was 4 and stepsister was 8.

She hated mom and everything about her for as long as I can remember.

She gave her such a hard time.

My stepsister lost her mom when she was 2, and even though mom never tried to erase her mom and never tried to make my stepsister call her mom or anything, she was always throwing it in her face that mom had replaced hers.

Even though she didn’t remember her mom, she was really obsessed with this idea that my mom was some evil person who went in and stole her mom’s life.

My stepsister had all kinds of therapy growing up.

Her stepsister let her mom (her stepmom) babysit.

When she had her daughter 3 years ago, she leaned on mom for babysitting a lot.

She still treated mom like trash, but mom was free babysitting and mom adored that little girl.

She saw her as a grandchild even though my stepsister didn’t let her daughter call mom grandma or anything.

Even when my mom was sick she babysat.

Now her stepsister complains about her mom.

My stepsister has been complaining about paying for childcare since mom passed, and she has said some really awful things.

My stepdad and her fought a little over it, but he doesn’t want to lose her, his only kid and his grandkid.

But it bothers me.

She spoke up, unable to take her stepsister bashing her mom.

My stepsister has expressed how glad she is her daughter won’t remember my mom and that she won’t ever be mentioned around her child.

How she won’t even let her see photos of my mom.

Then she said my mom had been a pathetic waste of oxygen and how good it was to not deal with her anymore.

I snapped and asked her why she let mom babysit her kid so much if she was such an awful person.

I told her she should look in a mirror because she’s the one who turned out to be a truly awful person.

Her stepsister told her she’s the one who is wrong.

My stepsister told me I have no right to question her and I should shut my mouth around her.

My stepdad said nothing.

But he gave off the vibe that he didn’t like me speaking to his daughter the way I did.

AITA?

The stepsister sounds horrible, only using her stepmother and then bashing her after she was gone.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted…

This reader encourages OP to move out.

Another reader agrees that she doesn’t have to stay for her mom.

This reader points out what her mom would’ve wanted for her the most.

Another person encourages her to get as many of her mom’s things as possible and leave.

Here’s the perspective of another person who lost her mother when she was a teenager…

It really does not seem like a healthy environment living with the stepdad and stepsister.

How can people be so awful?

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.