Guy Comes Up With A Brilliant Plan To Intentionally Drink Before Family Gatherings To Dodge Babysitting Duties Which Usually Fall On Him
Recently, a childfree man turned to the AITA community for advice, where his story received a lot of attention. The author who goes by the handle Low-Ad-1414 explained how since he is the “cool uncle” in the family, his older siblings get to ‘dump’ their rather ‘difficult’ kids onto him.
“I’m not qualified or even capable to watch my brother’s 3 kids by myself as well as they need, plus their cousins (my sister’s kids) also want to spend time with their cousins so I’m sitting there by myself watching 5 kids aged 4-8 by myself, 3 of which may have special needs,” he explained.
As if that wasn’t enough, “my brother will give me a physical paper list of parental duties, a backpack with stuff for the kids, then turn his phone off in front of me then walk away after dumping his kids on me,” Low-Ad-1414 wrote.
For this reason, the author came up with a way to evade babysitting, even if that meant intentional drinking at family gatherings and being labeled “a drunk.”
A childfree man wonders if he is wrong to drink at family events in order to not babysit his siblings’ 5 kids and spend time with the whole family
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The story grabbed many people’s attention as they shared their opinions in the comments where the author himself actively participated
"Of course I can washya kids brother, allll six of them..." *drunkenly falls over*
"Alright kids, cool uncle is here! Time for arts and crafts! Today, we'll be learning how to build things from this book *holds up the anarchist's cookbook*"
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Nta, but he's doing the thing where when you try to give him advice on how to handle it, he keeps giving you excuses as to why it won't work. "I tried, but-". I know people like this. It makes me think he might be a bit of a pushover in confrontations, which, clearly he is if he's allowing himself to be walked all over like this. Hopefully all the internet encouragement will help give him the backbone he needs. (Also, wanting your relatives to think well of you when they're unalive is a weird excuse. Obviously, they're all going to be watching everything you do from beyond the grave! They'll figure out how op really is, then!)
This is true. It is also true that when you enforce your boundaries, more often than not you become the one thought of as a problem in these situations. Not right, but true, and most people are too non confrontational to cope. This is where the get along go along aspects of our society fail us. If I have to get loud and repeat myself for you to hear me, that doesn't make me the problem. It's still you bro.
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"Of course I can washya kids brother, allll six of them..." *drunkenly falls over*
"Alright kids, cool uncle is here! Time for arts and crafts! Today, we'll be learning how to build things from this book *holds up the anarchist's cookbook*"
Load More Replies... Nta, but he's doing the thing where when you try to give him advice on how to handle it, he keeps giving you excuses as to why it won't work. "I tried, but-". I know people like this. It makes me think he might be a bit of a pushover in confrontations, which, clearly he is if he's allowing himself to be walked all over like this. Hopefully all the internet encouragement will help give him the backbone he needs. (Also, wanting your relatives to think well of you when they're unalive is a weird excuse. Obviously, they're all going to be watching everything you do from beyond the grave! They'll figure out how op really is, then!)
This is true. It is also true that when you enforce your boundaries, more often than not you become the one thought of as a problem in these situations. Not right, but true, and most people are too non confrontational to cope. This is where the get along go along aspects of our society fail us. If I have to get loud and repeat myself for you to hear me, that doesn't make me the problem. It's still you bro.
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