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I live with my Nparents, I do so because a) I'm disabled and can't work in a traditional setting, and b) because my father is disabled and has been getting more and more unsteady on his feet. Nmom works 40hrs a week so I am the domestic wrench, expected to follow him around and clean up his messes. She mows the yard once a week, takes care of her dishes (most of them,) and gets so angry if you suggest she do aaaaaanything else or ask for help. Even though I keep my 10 month old nephew 3 days a week. There are days where I don't even eat until 10pm because I can't stop caring for him, and she gets exasperated by my asking for help, because "it's my job," or I don't even ask for help because she gets really flustered if he's anything but a perfect angel.
Today, my nephew is asleep in my room, where I usually hide, so I'm stuck out in the living room with my dad. He has been talking to me over what I'm listening to on my headphones, and I'm expected to listen and answer. He'll see me doing some chore and innocently enough, ask what I'm doing, and I'm expected to explain the whole fuckin process. It's really wearing thin. He just asked me "what's wrong with you today?" So I told him he's irritating me, asking what I'm doing every time I switch tasks, reading things to me from his Facebook when he knows I don't care, knows that I avoid Facebook ALTOGETHER because I'm an addict and I have a tech problem, and I don't want to be constantly scrolling like every other mindless social media drone.
He instantly fired the fuck up and told me to get out of the same room as him, which I did not, because he's not going to order me anywhere, I'm thirty-fucking-two, I'm not a child and you're not going to send me to my room like one. Told me that I have an issue today, and it's NOT him. The conversation ended with "no it is, and I'm trying to communicate, and you're getting pissy."
Adult children here who are stuck at home for whatever reason, please tell me your secrets. How the hell do you handle all this crap? I've been meditating nightly, and thinking of adding a midday session, I know that might help, but I'm really at a loss.
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