'Not your finest hour': Internet divided after woman tells sister she hopes her husband 'goes to prison'
A woman’s dilemma has left the internet divided after she revealed that she told her sister that she hopes “her husband goes to prison”. An anonymous woman with the Reddit handle u/floatingbird-1232 wrote about the situation on the platform’s popular ‘AmITheA**hole’ and now, the post has gained over 1.4K upvotes and around 242 comments.
In a Reddit post titled "AITA for telling my sister I hope her husband goes to prison?", the unknown woman wrote her sister’s husband “has had things dug up recently about his criminal past.” She further stated, "He’s always been scummy so I try to avoid the man when I see my sister. She has 4 kids with him (13m, 12f, 9f, 4m). All her kids are awful to my son. My son (11m) is autistic and his dad isn’t in the picture."
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'Called my son fatherless as a tease'
The woman detailed, "The last time they came over everything kicked off. Her son laughed and called my son fatherless as a tease, my son came running to me crying and telling me how he mocked him about his ‘daddy not loving him enough to stay’. I also noticed some marks on his arms."
'Her husband was in legal difficulty'
She then narrated, "This was directly after my sister saying her husband was in legal difficulty. I scolded her son and called him a bully, causing her to get upset and defensive of her son saying he has done nothing wrong. I then said, ‘like (husband’s name) did nothing wrong’. She started defending him and I told her that he deserves the punishment he will get and I hoped he’d go to prison for justice of his crimes, that he was the one that broke the law and just because she cares about someone doesn’t mean they are a saint who can do no wrong."
The woman then added that her sister got angry and left. "I don’t really know if I’ve been wrong or given her the reality check she needs. I mean, her son is a bully, she’s had multiple complaints about his bullying from the school but she does nothing. All her kids are brats that have had multiple complaints and troubles with the school. Neither her nor her husband are good parents. Her daughters are both rude, especially her eldest, and her son steals her and his fathers cigarettes, vapes and she allows him to drink alcohol. I think it would do him good to to see his father going to prison to know actions have consequences. Maybe I’m too harsh?" she asked.
AITA for telling my sister I hope her husband goes to prison?
by u/floatingbird-1232 in AmItheAsshole
Internet divides over 'ESH' vs 'NTA'
After reading her order, the social media users had mixed views on the issue. One of them wrote, "OP [original poster] is the AH [a**hole] if she doesn’t call CPS [Child Protective Services] about a 13 year old drinking and smoking!" While an individual wrote, "NTA. But for your son's sake you should minimize if not completely eliminate any and all interactions with your sister and her family. This cannot be good for his mental health."
Another backed her by saying, "NTA, but not your finest hour. With your last paragraph with all the extra detail it sounds like your sister’s family seriously needs help and a reality check… serving that out when you are heightened emotionally is never a clever move. Stop having them over, stop forcing your kid to hang out with rude, bullying, unpleasant children. Your child deserves better."
On the other hand, there were many who blamed both sisters. A user commented, "ESH. Her son does sound like a bully, but it sounds like he also has lackluster parents. But you could have found other ways to express this rather than wishing his dad goes to prison, regardless of whether or not he did the crime that would send him there."
The user also added, "Prison has a way of tearing apart families: one person does time, the whole family does time. And if he does go to prison and theirs ends up being a single parent household, do you imagine that's going to make the kids have a brilliant epiphany, Ebenezer Scrooge style, and suddenly see the error of their ways and give up stealing and bullying and vaping and invest their energy in college prep and community service?"
One more wrote, "ESH. Your sister and her family are terrible. But if you know your nephew is a bully so much he’s been disciplined several times at school, then you have no business leaving this kid alone with your son. And you note all her kids are awful to your son so this most recent time isn’t an isolated incident. Stop letting these horrible people around your son. ETA: Your nephew left marks on your son and you said in the comments you can’t cut them out of your life. At what point does your son become more important than some terrible people?"
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