A young wife recently asked Redditors for opinions after she sent her brother a list of all the things his son had broken at her house over the years. This is her full story.
They Have Nice Stuff
OP is a 25-year-old woman who lives with her 27-year-old wife.
The wife comes from a wealthy background, and OP admits she can be particular about her lifestyle and the expensive things she has around her.
She Loves the Kids
OP’s adult brother has two children – a 7-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son. OP loves both of them, and has invited them to her house on several occasions.
Closer to Her Niece
The little girl is a pure delight, and OP admits she is closer to her niece than her nephew.
The little boy is mostly a good kid, but he is high-energy and very destructive.
He’s a Real Handful
OP and her wife have a really hard time controlling the nephew at all, and he has destroyed many items in their home over the years.
Most recently, he dumped nail polish all over the wife’s fancy carpet.
A Fancy New Place
Now, OP and her wife have bought a new house out of town, and it’s even more posh than their previous place.
With a game room, pool, and garden, it will be like a paradise for OP’s niece.
She’ll Love It
He Can’t Come
But OP told her brother she’s not ready for her nephew to visit the new digs, too, and that’s when the trouble between the adult siblings started.
She Has to Take Both
Her brother told OP that she could either take both kids with her, or neither one could go.
OP and her wife had already talked about that possibility and decided against it. OP told her brother she would skip taking the kids.
It’s Because He’s a Boy
That made OP’s brother very angry, and he told her she and her wife were always showing favoritism toward his daughter, at the expense of his son.
He even said they never included his son in any plans, just because he was a boy!
He Wanted to Know
OP told her brother that his son was uncontrollable and a real terror when he was at her house.
Her brother sort of laughed off that idea and asked what his son had done that was so terrible.
She Already Told Him
That upset OP, because she had told her brother about all the items her nephew had broken over the years.
Not to mention the tension it caused between her and her wife!
Boys Will Be Boys
He had always just said that accidents happen, and that boys play hard.
She Put It in Writing
This time, though, OP was going to put it in writing.
So she worked back through her memory and receipts and came up with a list of all things that bit the dust at the hands of her nephew.
He Had His Answers
OP put all this information in a spreadsheet, along with the estimated cost of each item, and sent it to her brother.
But He Didn’t Like What He Saw
That completely set him off, and he said that OP was acting just like her wife – an uptight rich kid. Now OP and her brother aren’t talking, and she wonders if maybe she overreacted.
Most Reddit commenters completely support OP. They say that she has every right to point out all the items her nephew has broken, especially since her brother asked what the boy had done.
So, what do you think of this story? Was OP justified in sending her brother a list of all the items his son has broken at her house over the years?
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