AITA for not forgiving my parents and sister after they cut me off (i had an affair with her HUSBAND)
The original poster (OP) engaged in an affair with her sister's husband. When the in***elity was discovered, the sister publicly shamed the OP and informed their parents.
Despite this, the sister chose to remain married to the husband, placing the blame entirely on the OP for 'seducing' him.
The immediate aftermath saw the OP facing severe consequences: her parents evicted her, and both parents and sister actively sabotaged her employment by calling her coworkers and gossiping about her actions, forcing her to move cities for mental relief.
After es**blishing a new, supportive life over ten years, the OP received a recent message from her parents asking for forgiveness and financial a*sistance for the sister and her children, leaving the OP conflicted about how to respond.
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The OP is experiencing significant anger and reluctance to engage with her parents after a decade of severe h***ssment and abandonment following the affair revelation.
The core conflict is between the parents' current desperate plea for financial help for the sister and the OP's justifiable desire to maintain the hard-won peace and distance she es**blished to protect her own mental health and new family.
The central question now is whether the OP should respond to this outreach, specifically whether allowing her husband to draft a harsh reply on her behalf const*tutes an overreaction or a necessary boundary enforcement, versus ignoring the request entirely.
Readers must weigh the possibility of long-delayed reconciliation against the right to self-preservation.
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