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Teen hides from step-mom and makes her look 'crazy' to get out of babysitting.

Teen hides from step-mom and makes her look 'crazy' to get out of babysitting.

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Getting along with a step-parent isn't a walk in the park, particularly when they switch up their tone towards you behind closed doors.

The idea that a teen should immediately bond with a step-parent and step-siblings simply because their parent fell in love is naive at best, and pressure-filled and manipulative at worst.

Relationships take time, intention from all sides, and mutual respect and understanding. If one of those is missing, it's going to be a long road. Luckily, the internet is here to give perspective on that road.

In a popular post on the AITA subreddit, a teen girl asked if she was wrong for gaslighting her step-mom in order to avoid babysitting.

She wrote:

AITA for making my step-mom look crazy so I can avoid babysitting her kids?

I (16F) live with my dad. My mom passed in a bad accident a couple of years ago. My dad met Josie in a grief group or something like that and they got married last year. Josie has two kids (8M, 6M) and I hate living with them tbh.

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