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Am I the Jerk?

My Parents Spend $500 on MY Amazon Account… then Gaslight Me into thinking I OWE Them

Am I the Jerk?

youtube.com/amithejerk

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0

My parents spend $500 on my Amazon account and then gaslight me into thinking I owe them.

0:08.0

So this is an older story, so bear with me.

0:12.0

A common thing to happen in my family is my parents demanding me to buy them stuff off Amazon because, well, they're entitled. I have Amazon Prime, so I understand

0:23.6

using my account. However, they also make me use my debit card to pay for stuff and eventually do pay me

0:30.5

back, usually. Still, it's incredibly annoying. It's never been a huge amount of money, but this time

0:36.7

around it was a set of chairs

0:38.4

worth 500 bucks. I rejected the idea, mostly given that I'm still in college and I only made

0:44.6

$10 an hour at the time. $500 was about a fourth of the money I had in my bank account at the

0:50.8

time. I told my entitled mother this, and she went off on me, claiming I don't

0:56.1

love her and that I don't trust her to pay me back, and she began to cry. You know, basic

1:01.7

parental manipulation tactics. I eventually complied and bought her the chairs, so I'm out 500 bucks.

1:09.2

She then tells me she'll pay me back in about three days when my father

1:12.5

gets paid. Three days later, still no money. To avoid a fight, I just bite my tongue. Then a week

1:19.5

passes, and then another week. After about two weeks of not being paid, I was incredibly

1:25.6

annoyed. I also worked almost every night this summer at a customer service job,

1:30.3

so naturally I wanted to relax on my days off.

1:33.3

Cue my parents deciding that we need to deep clean the entire house.

1:38.3

I was helping, and then I received an email about an interview for an internship

1:43.3

that I've been working hard to

1:44.8

accomplish. I was reading the email, and that's when it happened. I hear my mother's voice.

1:51.0

So, are you going to do any work today or just sit on your butt all day? I was really annoyed and said,

1:56.9

Really, you're going to say that after I brought those chairs for you? My dad then chimes in, you ungrateful son of a B word.

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