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My brothers never clean their room. They’re 17 and 13.
My mom told me many times before to clean their room but I refuse and have discussed with her repeatedly they’re old enough to make their own beds, especially my 17 year old brother. If he can drive and stay out late with his friends, then he can surely make his own bed…
Because I refuse and have set a boundary with my mom for this “chore”, my sister tends to do their beds and clean their room not because she wants to, but because she doesn’t want my mom to get angry. Both of my parents have anger issues and always yell which is something for another time.
Anyways, today, my sister chose not to and so my mom asked me to make their beds. She yelled at me and told me “when I tell you to do something you do it” and compares me making their beds to other chores but that’s not the same thing…I do whatever chore she tells me but I have set a boundary with her for making my brothers’ beds and I repeated this to her.
She left me alone, but after lunch in the afternoon, she made me go to my brothers’ room, so I only made my 13 year old brother’s bed and left.
I’m probably going to get my phone taken away today if she finds out I didn’t make the other bed lmao or she’ll just sigh and ignore it. I’m so sick of living like this.
My parents wonder why my brothers are careless and it’s because they were never disciplined or given chores to learn to be responsible!
Edit: she just ignored. Edit: I didn’t expect to receive a lot of comments it’s a bit overwhelming reading all of them.
Sorry if I don’t respond but I did find some good strategies here so I’ll update if things change hopefully. I really appreciate those of you who shared similar experiences because I don’t often hear about it.
sometimes I don’t know if the situation is normal or if I’m being rude and I feel like I might go crazy debating this in my head lol. I found some comfort here, some of you are very kind humans