AITA for cutting off my toxic step mum and dad after years of begging them to be in my life?

for privacy reasons i wont be saying my real name but for the story (which is my real life) my name is Allie. When i was growing up my dad and mum had gotten into a big fight over my step mum (lets call her lexie) lexie and my mum have NEVER liked each other. They went to the same kindergarten, middle school and high school. And throughout their years together they have never liked each other.

lexie always needed to have more than my mum, she always had to take something my mum has earned, which included boyfriends. my dad (for the sake of it we will be calling him tom) tom and my mum had been together since they were 9 and when they had me my mum was 16 and tom was 17. They were young parents, and as per usual came the fights when i was growing up because my dad slowly got sick of the idea of having a kid and basically didn't want me anymore so he left.

and when he left he got with lexie. My mum was absolutely livid when she found out but she never let that affect me when i was a kid. She raised me to be the forgiving but firm with what i say kinda person. She taught me not to stay around and waste time with people that couldnt learn how to grow up. Lets move on from the past now shall we?

skip around 6 years later..

Ever since my mum and tom had split he hadn't seen me for 7 years. He didn't bother calling on birthdays or making time for me due to him being so deep into certain illegal substances. When he did finally start to try and reply i was already done with all his stuff. Lexie and tom eventually started having their own kids even though tom didnt want anymore kids, lexie had baby trapped him. When they started having kids thats when they wanted to stop being all crazy and weird around me and introduce me to my little siblings. They had my sister riley first and i adored her. Everytime i went to their house (which in relaity was actually lexies mums house they haven't moved out of yet even at 28 years old)

the only reason why i even bothered going to their house was because i did it for my mum who was a single parent trying to pay for rent, work while having a 8 year old and no family supporting her. I did it for her because she was already to stressed with other stuff and me not going to toms house would cause her to pay for a babysitter or not get paid at all. Riley became my other reason to go over to their house.

Every time i went over to lexie and toms house they would non-stop argue 24/7 and it wasn't normal arguing it usually ended up with one of them trying to beat up the other one. I was use to it because it had happened so many times i ended up just grabbing Riley and going upstairs with her so she wouldn't have to hear them argue and wouldn't have to see them hit each other.

as i mentioned they lived with lexie's parents so every time i went upstairs with Riley to avoid the fighting i felt even more uncomfortable upstairs wit her parents because her parents didn't like my dad or my mum. So i felt out of place every time i went upstairs but it was better than being downstairs with them arguing.

by the time i turned 12 lexie had finally gotten her own house and by that time tom went to jail because lexie's parents finally decided they were done with they're arguing and their constant breakups. Tom had gotten arrested on my birthday, a day before my birthday he called me and promised me that he was going to see me for my birthday but then he had gotten arrested. During that time the jail made him go to rehab so he got clean.

but after he had gotten clean, lexie got worse. Every time i saw her post something new on Facebook it was always with another man. I still ended up having to go to her house due to my siblings and if lexie had gotten worse and shes bringing all these guys home, i would rather to be there and go through all of that again then to leave me siblings all alone.

before tom went to jail him and lexie had another baby girl named willow. So when tom was in rehab and lexie was upstairs busy doing who knows what with other guys i was downstairs, forming a bond with my siblings and taking care of them before i even turned 16.

when tom got out him and lexie wanted to "try again" even though i knew they were cheating on each other but were only staying together because of the kids. Tom would always tell me not to tell lexie what i saw on his phone (it was usually dating apps or him talking to other girls) and if u didn't get from the start of the story that lexie was a very jealous person. She was so jealous that for half of the time they were together she didnt like me because i was "stealing all the attention"

anyways back to what i was meaning to start, i cut them off because of years of not showing up and years of abuse not only between them but also too me. verbal, physical, mental they did it all.

i am 14 years old now and I've never been better. My mum raised me to be the girl who doesn't tolerate any disrespect towards her or myself. And when lexie texted me saying that my mum was keeping me away from them, something inside of me snapped.

i sent her a very long paragraph describing all the cruel and disgusting things she has done over the years and thought i was to dumb to notice. I explained to her that i want no contact with her any longer than i have too and i told her only to contact me if it was about riley and willow.

And she did not take that lightly, after i sent her the message she tried to be manipulative and pull a "but after everything we have given u?" on me but i didn't budge because i was done hearing from both lexie and toms mouth about had bad of a mum my mum is. I was so over with hearing them complain about my mums success after years of hard working. I was done thinking that they could disrespect her in front of me.

after i had sent lexie the message and finally blocked her and my dad off of every social media i have. I have never felt better, they now know that I've grown up and i'm not the little girl they think i still am due to them never being in my life and years of me begging my dad to even reply to me. I am done with their crap and i never want to go through that again.

thank you for listening to my story and i hope someone understands what I've been trying to write because i'm not the best at writing and i am still learning on how to use certain words in certain context!

my name is Allie and i'm 14 years old and i really hope anybody has an advice or anything like that for me! but still AITA?

Posted Jul 4, 2025, 1:25 AM UTC

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