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Guaranteed human. I told my father to step up or else my mother might leave him. I guess he's stepping down. It's time to step up or step off. For context, I'm a 16-year-old girl and my dad is a 57-year-old man. I love my parents a lot, and I am so grateful for all of the things they do

to provide for me. However, me and my dad have always had a bit of a strange relationship. He is not very good at communicating, and sometimes it feels like I can't talk to him about anything. By the way, this comes from user, I might cause a divorce. And if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R slash okay story time subreddit.

So, this does bother me.

But the real issue in our house is that my mom does

everything. Every day, she makes dinner, does the dishes, the laundry, etc. On top of this,

she recently started remotely working full-time again, and she's currently going back to college to get her

master's degree. I do everything I can to help out, but I can only do so much. My dad works full

time, and that's it. He never does any chores or helps around the house at all. He does work a labor

heavy job, and I understand it's tiring, but he could at least give our dog a bath or make

dinner for himself or something. Both me and my mom have said many times that we want him to help around the house, and he always says he will, but he never does anything. He did the dishes a couple times, but he didn't do it thoroughly enough, and there was still food on them. So my mom had to rewash them. I've honestly gotten really tired of this, as it's been going on for

years. And here's where I might be the A-hole. This happened three days ago. My mom was in class

that night, so she hadn't gotten an opportunity to do the laundry yet. And there was a basket of

dirty clothes in my parents' room. My dad offhandedly remarked, gee, there sure are a lot of dirty

clothes laying around. This made me really annoyed. I told him that he was a grown man, and if he wanted clean clothes, he could do a load of laundry himself. My dad looked surprised at this and told me to calm down. I have a tendency of speaking harshly to people when I'm irritated, and this was unfortunately one of those moments. So I told him that I swear to God, if you don't shape up and start doing some actual work around here, Mom is going to want a divorce. I knew immediately I shouldn't have said it. And he left the room looking really angry. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but he has been married two times before my mom. I told my mom about this, and she says that while he should do more work, what I said was really mean. And the divorce comment was completely unnecessary. When my dad got home from work the next day, I tried to apologize, but he completely ignored me and just went outside. Been three days and he hasn't said a word to me, even though I've tried to say sorry multiple times. My house is now really tense since my dad is also mad at my mom because he thinks she wants to get a divorce. I feel horrible, but honestly, deep down, I still agree with the comment I said to him. So, am I the a-hole? We have some comments from O.P. Here, has your mom actually mentioned to you that she wants to leave your dad? If she hasn't, then the comment you made would be stirring the pot

for no reason, which would probably make you the a-hole. Your dad does sound hard to live with, though,

so I can't really blame you. O.P. says, yes, my mom has mentioned that she wants to leave him,

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