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🗓️ 28 August 2025
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0:00.0 | My entitled sister demands that I give over my son to her so that she can be my son's new mom, |
0:06.0 | claiming that she deserves to be a mom because my wife and I never planned on having any other |
0:10.3 | kids in the first place. But as a result, I snapped at my sister in a way that I'm sure she never |
0:15.1 | expected, resulting in my family saying that I'm the jerk for the way that I reacted. |
0:19.9 | Here's what happened. This story also came from the Am I the Jerk subreddit. Check the links in the description if you would like to submit your own story. Okay, let me start off by saying that I love my sister, and for the sake of the story we'll call my sister Jenna. She's been there for me through thick and thin, we were raised in a tight-knit family, and despite our occasional squabbles growing up, we've always had a strong bond, or at least I thought we did. But recently, something happened that made me question everything. I'm a 35-year-old male, and I have a 4-year-old son who we will call Liam. He is the light of my life. I wasn't always planning on having kids. I wasn't really against it, but I just didn't see myself as the dad type when I was younger. But things changed when I met my wife, who we will call Sarah, seven years ago. We fell in love, got married, and after some long talks, we decided we wanted to start a family. It took us some time, but Liam came into our lives and I couldn't be happier. My sister Jenna is 38 years old and she, on the other |
1:11.7 | hand, has struggled with infertility for years. She and her husband, who we will call Mike, have been |
1:16.5 | tried to conceive for as long as I can remember. They've gone through rounds of IVF, hormone |
1:21.2 | treatments, and pretty much anything else you could name. I can't even imagine the emotional and |
1:25.8 | physical toll it's taken on her. |
1:27.8 | I've tried to be supportive in every way that I could by listening when she needed to talk, |
1:32.1 | helping her financially when they were going through expensive treatments, and just being |
1:35.9 | there for her in general. |
1:37.3 | But here's where things started to get complicated. |
1:39.8 | Jenna has always had this aura around her. |
1:42.1 | Like, no matter what, she always got what she wanted. She was |
1:45.3 | the golden child growing up, and everyone admired her. And in a way, I did too. But there was |
1:50.8 | always a sense of entitlement, like she expected life to keep rewarding her. So when she and |
1:55.5 | Mike couldn't conceive, I think it shattered something inside of her. Over time, her behavior |
1:59.8 | towards Liam began to change. |
2:01.6 | At first, she was a doting aunt, showering him with gifts, visiting us all the time, offering to babysit |
2:07.2 | whenever we needed a break. But gradually, her comments became more possessive. She would say things like, |
2:12.6 | You're so lucky to have him. I wish I could keep him for a few days. Or she would say, if Liam were mine, I would do all these different things with him. Now, I just chalked it up to her frustration with not being able to have kids of her own, and I just kind of let it slide. I didn't want to make things harder for her than they already were. But then, about six months ago, Jenna and Mike announced that they were looking into adoption, and |
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