Internet Slams Teen for Blaming Mom's Cancer on Brother Coming Out
Reddit user NorthBat5313 shared the story on the popular r/AmITheA**hole forum, where it has gained more than 9,000 upvotes and over 2,800 comments.In the post, the 16-year-old explained: "I have an older brother, 2 years ago before going to college, he came out to our parents as gay which made our dad disown him and cut all contact with him.
He tried to force our mom to cut contact with him as well, but she refused, which lead to a huge argument. After a couple of months of almost daily fights, our parents decided to divorce."The Redditor explained that soon after the divorce, their mom began to feel sick and was eventually diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer."Dad was only paying for my alimony and refused to pay for my mom's treatment as well," explained the poster: "My mom's disease progressed and now the doctors estimate that she only has a year and a half left to live.
My mom accepted her fate, but I honestly started to resent my brother for this, as I don't see what was the point of him coming out right before going to college in another city.
His coming out only caused problems in the long run."Recalling a recent phone call with his brother, the poster said that the brother had told him he blames himself for not being able to help their mom. "[I] told him that he should blame himself for coming out to our homophobic dad which destroyed our parents' marriage and probably even got our mom sick due to all the stress caused by the divorce," said the Redditor.He continued and wrote: "My brother told me that he was still hoping our dad would come around and that he wouldn't have done it if he knew it was going to cause our parents' divorce, but I told him that the harm's already done and it's his fault our mom is sick.
