My Entitled Family Wants to Take My House and Give It to My Brother, Even Though They Kicked Me Out.

I’ve taken to renting out two of the rooms in my house, one to a close friend and the other to a friend of said close friend. Both have been fantastic tenants; they know to keep quiet and leave me alone most of the time.

They even have small refrigerators they keep in their room so they don’t need to keep any of their drinks in the main fridge. The deal I gave them on rent was too good for them to pass up; it increased my monthly income well, and even after taxes, I’m still monthly putting away some decent amounts in the bank since the rent money pays a good chunk of my monthly mortgage.

You’re all probably wondering how my parents, brother, and Sil took to me renting out those rooms to friends. Well, the answer is not well.

My father and Dan stayed out of it, but Sil freaked out, which made my mother come crying to me over how I could have rented those rooms to Dan and his family instead. We had a bit of an argument in which I pointed out, for one thing, they fucking broke into my house before to try and steal it; she wouldn’t want to let someone who did that move in with her.

Also, there wasn’t enough room for me, Dan, and his entire family in my house, not that I’d ever share a roof with him anyway. It’s a three-bedroom and a manufactured home no less.

I have the master bedroom and its adjoining bathroom; that would have left only two small rooms for Dan, Sil, and four kids, not to mention they’d be annoying AF to me all the time. Also, she knows very well I can’t be around Sil because she intentionally antagonized me and they all mocked me when I was homeless before.

Besides, my current tenants are both single guys in their 30s. I get along with them.

My mother had some sobbing excuses for a while, but she finally let it go and admitted she was just desperate. Parents found out I was renting rooms out because Sil basically stalked me in some way.

Then she told my parents, and then my parents contacted me, and then my mother came over to cry about it. Since then, my parents haven’t bothered me once about the house, so things are good for me.

My parents and Dan, not so much. It turns out Sil is a far worse person than even I thought.

I already knew she was a gaslighting, self-victimizing dramatic f— but she sank even lower because Dan’s youngest child turned out not to be his. Yeah, you all read that correctly.

Sil had an affair, which in retrospect isn’t all that surprising and something a few people here totally called months ago. After being caught, Sil was ousted from the family.

Dan just recently finished with his divorce, which actually went in his favor since we thankfully live in an at-fault state. Dan also sued to get his name taken off the birth certificate of the youngest child and won.

Basically, after the incident where my parents tried to force me to hand over my house, things got pretty tumultuous over at their house. Sil blamed me a lot; she was convinced somehow that I had tons of money, like I’d won the lottery or something, and that I should share the wealth.

Apparently, it was her idea that they come to my Christmas party because she hoped they could all try to get on my good side. It was also her idea to make my parents and Dan try to get money from me for an apartment.

So it really burst her bubble when Dan and my parents informed her of how my finances actually were. For the longest time, she had Dan and my parents fully engulfed in her toxic mindset and only fed their narcissism with her own, so her blaming me made the rest of them blame me.

That is until what happened in front of the police when they tried to steal my house; that’s when the downfall for Sil really started. My parents and Dan were apprehensive about coming to my Christmas party after the way I’d outed them, but Sil convinced them to just throw together a few cheap gifts from what they could get at the last minute and just show up.

“He’d never throw us out once we’re already there,” she argued.

Boy, was she wrong. She gambled on that plan, and I, with the complete blessings of everyone I’d invited, threw her and the rest of them out.

Her plan, she no doubt thought was the most clever thing ever, backfired in her face spectacularly. I guess being chewed out by family at my party not only wrecked my parents’ reputation even more, it actually started a wake-up call for them to eventually not listen to Sil anymore.

As I said in my last post, my parents decided on going back to church, perhaps because last year I’d said they’d probably go to hell for their actions. I can’t say that’s the real reason, but you’ve got to admit it would feel kind of satisfying if that was the case.

Though my parents hadn’t been to church in two decades before going back, while I don’t think it’s a bad idea that they’re going to church, they need to understand that going doesn’t just give them a do-over for all the shit they’ve done in the past. But I have a little faith they’re at least trying because my parents came to my house without Dan to personally apologize to me after they’d seen an animated video of my first three posts.

That’s right, they’ve known about this Reddit account for a long time now. They also know everything I’m saying.

Yes, they’re unhappy about it, but I feel everyone here deserves an update since it’s anonymous for my parents and Dan. Though, watching an animated video of themselves and their own actions was a great way to make them see what kind of people they really are, and they came over to apologize to me later.

I’d never seen my father apologize like that to anyone, and the man isn’t a good actor, so this felt genuine. They fully acknowledged what they did to me and how there’s no excuse for any of it.

They even described themselves as narcissists and admitted the truth that they had wronged me very badly. Then they went on to blame Sil for a lot of things.

Yeah, they kind of threw her under the bus, but it’s not like she wasn’t guilty of everything they said. My parents have been getting counseling for a while now too and did offer group family counseling, but I declined as I’m not ready for that anytime soon.

Dan himself didn’t apologize to me for some time, but he looked extremely remorseful anytime the past was brought up. Meanwhile, Dan and Sil’s marriage absolutely fell apart.

It wasn’t a crumble; it was a cascade. Without me as the scapegoat/ATM that they couldn’t mock or try to get money from anymore, and after the public humiliation of social media, my Reddit posts, and the animated online video, Sil finally let out enough of her toxic on Dan and my parents for them to realize she’s not the person they thought she was.