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r/AITA My Parents Abandoned Me at 16

2025-11-04 Comedy
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Four Relationship Dilemmas: Parental Abandonment, Food Theft, Job Refusal, and Retaliatory Flirting.

Learn how commentators judge severe boundary violations, from parental abuse to retaliatory actions after infidelity, focusing on accountability and relational repair.

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  • Parents who abandon a 16-year-old receive maximum negative judgment (4.5/5 buttholes).
  • A husband refusing to find work after his failing luxury business closes is judged harshly while the wife is admonished for unfair expectations (2.5/5 buttholes).
  • The OP in the fry experiment is rated NTA (0/5) despite controversial videotaping tactics, highlighting the wife's disproportionate reaction. This segment reviews four distinct moral quandaries presented on r/AmItheAsshole, offering judgments on accountability in family and marital conflicts.

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Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3hJo9o8qFqrblXu1Plkv8L Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rslash Discord: https://discord.com/invite/VD6eYD3 0:00 Intro 0:06 Kicked out 1:55 On tape 7:09 Second job 10:26 Sleeping around "Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC By Attribution 3.0

Top Comments (10)

@olivers_playlists7343 2025-11-04

Gaslighting your spouse over French fries is wild, man. I don't blame OP for wanting solid evidence if this is how she acts when called out.

615 3 replies
@Mario-SunshineGalaxy64 2025-11-04

Second OP’s wife is insane, instead of being a mature adult and admitting fault she throws a tantrum and makes everyone around her miserable. The issue isn’t the fries, she’s just a nasty person, and yeah, she might be feeling embarrassed and humiliated but that’s her own doing, OP and his son just called her out on it.

588 19 replies
@barasmin7759 2025-11-04

The "I was a handful as a kid" line is so very common for people who were abused as children because they internalized their shitty parents rhetoric on why they "deserved" the abuse

563 40 replies
@davesaylor7829 2025-11-04

Story 2: She wants to pretend she only eats healthy and sees McDonald's as beneath her. Exposing that lie probably hurt her self image. That doesn't mean OP was wrong, and doesn't justify her reaction; but she got her ego bruised, so she's lashing out.

513 9 replies
@baalconnorlarsson789 2025-11-04

Story 2: It's totally real gaslighting, what's worrying is that she's treating her son badly.

330 3 replies
@sardsvib 2025-11-04

I would have given the mom in the second story a higher score. After getting caught gaslighting, she's not only ignoring her husband but she's also treating her son "badly" for going along with it.

265 4 replies
@halfgingerish 2025-11-04

Story 3: in what world is it fair that she should work a SECOND job before he lowers himself to get a SINGLE job where he might not be the boss? That's a teenager's attitude, he's got the mental fortitude of a teenager.

178 8 replies
@Peter-hx3im 2025-11-04

Story of the husband who lost his business. He's the type of guy who, after the divorce, calls his wife a gold digger who dumped him after he lost his business, when in reality, it was his lack of effort, not lack of income, that killed the marriage.

118 1 replies
@EV_Dreams 2025-11-04

Fry lady: wtf is wrong with her. Blowing up at the husband is one thing, but blowing up at the kid is so much worse. This will probably be a core memory for the kid.

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@owl7072 2025-11-04

Story 1: They didn't just abandon Op, they specifically abandoned Op like a pet they no longer wanted to care for.

35

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