Imagine living in your childhood home as an adult, but you pay rent and help out with the bills and household chores.

If your little sister moved back home while she was going through a divorce, would you be upset if your parents let her live there rent free and didn’t want to push her to get a job or help with any of the cleaning?

In this story, one woman is dealing with this exact situation, and she’s pretty frustrated with her little sister.

Let’s read the whole story.

AITA for telling my recently divorced sister to stop moping and get a job?

I (F24) am in a tricky situation with my family, I think Im doing the right thing but everyone’s acting like I’m being a villain.

I live in a house with my parents and grandma. All of us work full-time, except my grandma who’s retired.

I pay rent to contribute towards utilities and help my parents with their mortgage payments. I also pay the internet bill, streaming subscriptions and phone bills.

Here’s some backstory on her younger sister…

My younger sister “Holly” (F22) moved back into the house around 4 weeks ago.

She got pregnant at 16 and at 17 she moved out into her boyfriend’s parents’ house. They got married as soon as they were both 18 and now have four kids.

In the summer, they moved out of his parents’ house and into a rental house. They ended up fighting a lot over disagreements on how the household chores should be split and some various other issues to do with the house.

They soon separated and their divorce is in progress.

She’s pretty annoyed with how lazy Holly is.

Holly came back here, and her ex moved back in with his parents and took the kids with him.

Holly sees them for a few hours on weekends and seems fine with this arrangement (much to my parents’ dismay).

I don’t have an issue with Holly being here and I know she needed somewhere to stay and her family’s support. My issue is that she has spent this whole time moping around the house, scrolling on tiktok all day and going out with friends. She doesn’t clean up after herself or help out with any household chores.

She has never had a job (been a SAHM with the kids) and keeps saying she will get one but hasn’t even started job-hunting despite me and my brother writing a resumé for her. My parents have been paying for all her expenses.

She found a job that Holly is almost guaranteed to get if she’d just apply.

One of my friends is a manager at a cafe and she told me they were hiring and that Holly could get a job there if she’s willing to learn how to be a barista.

I told Holly about this and she immediately shut me down and said that she won’t work in a cafe because it’s “embarrassing” and she doesn’t want to work early mornings.

This turned into an argument because I couldn’t understand why Holly would turn this down and feel like she’s just being lazy/picky.

I told Holly she can’t just mope around the house all day everyday and she needs to get a job or think about college.

Holly told me to back off and that it’s her life.

Her parents are on Holly’s side.

My parents got involved and told me that it’s not been that long since the separation and that I can’t expect Holly to “be happy and normal”.

They said that she needs time and that my expectations of her are too high.

I think they are being too soft on her and she needs to stop acting like a teenager.

AITA???

I can see why Holly’s marriage didn’t work out. If she was just as lazy about household chores and working when she was with her ex, I can see why her ex would want out.

How little time she spends with her kids is also concerning.

I agree with the older sis that Holly needs to get a job and start contributing to the household, but it’s not her house. It’s her parents house, so what they want is the way it’s going to be.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

This person thinks it would be best for the older sis to move out.

Here’s another vote for moving out.

Here’s an explanation of why her sister is acting this way.

She really should take the job as a barista.

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