Being the only reliable one in the family can feel more like a curse than a compliment.

When her father’s girlfriend bent the truth to cover up a selfish choice, her six-year-old stepbrother was left waiting in the rain.

So she decided to stop biting her tongue and tell them all how she really felt about their poor parenting skills.

Did she go too far?

You’ll want to read on for this drama-filled saga.

AITA for insulting my father’s girlfriend and telling them both I’m done helping them?

My (31F) father’s girlfriend has a six-year-old son, “Liam.”

I don’t consider him my stepbrother (quite frankly, I don’t see this relationship lasting more than a couple more years), but he’s a sweet kid who gets along with my son (5M), so I do like him, and I’ve babysat him a few times.

One day, her father and his new girlfriend called with an urgent request.

About three weeks ago, it rained. I was leaving to pick my son up from school when my father texted to say he’d had an emergency, and asked if I could pick Liam up as well.

I told him that wasn’t viable for me for a number of reasons. Liam’s school is 20 minutes away from my son’s, and rain means extra traffic.

His class also ends a few minutes earlier, so picking him up first would mean leaving my son waiting for at least half an hour.

Also, I had my infant daughter in the car with me, and I don’t like leaving her in the baby seat for too long.

Her father and his girlfriend proceeded to try and guilt her into agreeing to pick Liam up.

I told my father all of that, but he insisted, as Liam would have to wait alone in the rain for an hour if I didn’t pick him up.

I apologized, but said I couldn’t do it.

His girlfriend texted me about 10 minutes later to ask me the same thing, but by that point I was driving and didn’t reply.

Unfortunately, Liam ended up the ultimate loser in the situation.

Liam ended up waiting 40 minutes to be picked up.

At no point did I think this had been my fault, but I still felt awful about it.

Both my father and his girlfriend were mostly radio silent for a few days (and were cold whenever we did talk), which didn’t help, but I didn’t let it torture me.

The guilt-tripping didn’t end there.

We all saw each other yesterday for a family event.

Apparently, I wasn’t miserable enough, because after we left my father’s girlfriend called me. She asked me how I could be so happy and carefree after leaving her son in the rain like that.

We ended up having an argument.

My father joined in, taking her side.

Then I asked why they couldn’t pick Liam up themselves.

Then the truth of what really happened began to come out.

Turns out there was no emergency. They’d gone to the movies and it lasted longer than expected.

When they realized they wouldn’t get to the school on time, they asked me to pick him up.

Basically, they miscalculated how much free time they had and tried to blame it on me. And they also lied about why, so I felt bad about it for no reason.

So she had a few choice words for her father’s new girlfriend.

To paraphrase my reply: “I’m very sorry you’re the mother Liam is stuck with. Don’t expect me to help you guys anymore.” Then I hung up.

My father called me a few hours later to apologize for lying and being cold with me, but said I shouldn’t insult his girlfriend for an “innocent mistake” they both made.

She still stood her ground and insists she wasn’t in the wrong.

He also said it’s selfish of me to refuse to help them any further, when they would be more than willing to if they were in my shoes.

I actually don’t think I’m in the wrong, but I’m worried I took it too far with the way I replied, in particular since my father’s right about this being the first time his girlfriend has done something like this.

Either way, I think I’m too angry to look at this clearly.

AITA?

Once the truth came out, so did her anger.

What did Reddit make of this predicament?

These “parents” sure aren’t winning any nurturing awards anytime soon.

What happened here was very intentional, there’s no doubt about it.

Just because his girlfriend isn’t an attentive parent doesn’t mean he can’t step up and do better as a stepfather to Liam.

It’s pretty rich of them to act like anyone else but themselves is the villain in this story.

Some may have considered her words harsh, but she considered them necessary.

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