People Can't Stop Mulling Over Their "Am I The Jerk?" Stories

"I am a 16-year-old girl and my stepmother is a 36-year-old woman. For the past 12 years of my life, my stepmother hasn't liked me, she would always find a reason to scream at me but today she disrespected me in front of my friend while my father sat there and did nothing.

Yesterday, my friend came over to spend the night, we had fun, we went to the park and we went to 7-Eleven. We ran around outside until the street lights came on and after that, we got tired and laid down in my bed and we both fell asleep. We woke up, it was 9 o’clock in the morning and my father was making breakfast.

My friend told me she had to go use the bathroom and she asked me to show her where it was and I went upstairs with her to show her where the bathroom was.

My stepmother was in there, cleaning the bathroom and I didn’t know so she looked at us and got up stomping her feet saying she was cleaning the bathroom, and stomped into her room. My friend said what was that and I said I am not even sure, but just use the bathroom.

Five seconds later she came stopping out of her room and may I mention that I was in front of the stairs but there was enough room for her to pass by. She gave me an evil look, and I said what? When she said MOVE, screaming it, she went downstairs and I just asked why are you yelling at me?

I did nothing to you. My friend just had to use the bathroom. She continued to say well you know I am cleaning the bathroom and I said I didn’t know I just woke up.

Later on, she was still trying to argue and my father was still not doing anything about it.

She continued to run her mouth and then I said JUST STOP. I screamed loudly, and then she screamed louder than me. SHUT UP THEN, she said and then stormed into the basement. And then I waited for my friend to come out of the bathroom, and when she came out we were walking down the stairs to go into my room which was in the basement. She came storming up the stairs saying YOU CAN GO LEAVE MY HOUSE.

I laughed because I was more than happy to do that so I called my mother and told her what happened. My mother was fuming and angry. My mother told me, be ready in 25 minutes, I am coming to pick you up.

We both said goodbye, and I hung up. My friend asked me, what is your stepmother’s problem? I replied, I don’t even know. My father then screamed down the stairs, WELL MAYBE STOP TALKING ABOUT IT THEN. I replied back, what? Then he said, you keep going. Stop, it is not even serious, then I replied, maybe I wouldn’t have been talking about it at this moment if you had your wife under control and then he went silent.

About five minutes later, I told my friend to put on her shoes.

We went down to the park and waited for my mom. My friend put on her shoes, I put on mine, and grabbed all my stuff to pack that I brought from my mom's and as soon as I was about to leave, my father stopped me saying this is what you wanted. Good job. You got what you wanted. I completely ignored him and slammed the door. AITJ?"

Another User Comments:

"NTJ. Time to ask for a change in custody. Explain to the judge the ongoing verbal mistreatment from your stepmother and that your father refuses to stop her.

State clearly that your stepmother threw you out during your dad's parenting time and he did nothing. State that her rage issues are not something to handle and that you do not want to be in the home if she is present since your dad will not protect you." TiredAndTiredOfIt

Another User Comments:

"NTJ, your stepmom needs to grow up and learn to talk to you like a human being. People have to use the restroom. I am sorry that you had to go through that! There are plenty of things she could have said/done that are better.

She could have asked nicely to wait a moment. She could have said ok, and let her use the restroom. She could have just walked away. She could have said excuse me if she thought there wasn't a lot of room to get by you. What a mess of a woman." [deleted]