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Dad Asked Why I Haven't Been Home, So I Pointed At The Family Photos And Said Find Me In One

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Dad finally asked why I stopped coming home. So I walked him to the photo wall — forty-two frames of birthdays, holidays, and vacations — and told him to find me in a single one. But the photos were just the surface. What I found hidden behind one of them was so much worse, and it led me to uncover what my own mother did to my grandfather's legacy when she thought I'd never notice.

Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction created for entertainment only. All characters, names, locations, and events are fictional or have been altered. Any similarity to real people or real situations is entirely coincidental. Background footage notice: The background video consists of gameplay footage owned by me. I retain full rights to this gameplay and can verify ownership if any copyright questions arise.

20 Comments

@thebigdawg61 1 month ago

Mom: "Are you seeing anyone?"
Me: "Yes. I've been seeing a real estate attorney, a police detective and the county prosecutor."

@RedditFamilyTales-s1n 1 month ago

The photo wall was such a powerful detail. Sometimes you don't need a huge fight to understand where you stand, you just have to look at who gets framed

@sombrafy14 1 month ago

This story is better because it is a more realistic version of the golden child dynamic. The ones where one child is hated and abused by their whole family while the other child is worshipped are getting old.

@markmcelroy8722 1 month ago

I would also have reminded them all that the real reason I stopped coming around is because MY Mother erased me from the family.

@Justy051 1 month ago

If she wanted one son, she should've adopted the second son out to a family that would've loved him. By ignoring him like this is just cruelty. The mother's ignorance is making it worse.

@question_everything70 1 month ago

I initially wondered "who's mother could possibly be like this?".. The I remembered my mother and our lack of a relationship because this is exactly how she is.

@cathybusby4264 1 month ago

He must have loved his mother enough not to file a fraud case against her. Or he respected his grandfather to much to put his only child in prison. For what ever reason the mother got out of it.

@alburtonart9765 1 month ago (edited)

Yep, I have a mom like that. She’s a piece of work. Oh yeah, this is like my life. I bought a house with my own money and my sister bought a house with her mother‘s money. I was never offered help. All the vacation that my sister and her child went on and my two sons and I were never invited.

@danielbarbour3501 1 month ago

I don't understand why Tyler wasn't aware - he would have been required to sign the paperwork as well (unless his was also forged).

@comikdebris 1 month ago

The one thing I find in this story is that the mother obviously forged both sons' signatures to get the loan. If the brother didn't sign as a member of the trust, then she forged both signatures to get the loan.

@nancycox204 1 month ago

Of course there is a lake house.

@raymonduter3247 1 month ago

"she didn't want anyone at church finding out". Is the truth ever welcomed at church?

@keithbrann5960 1 month ago

Any notarized document contains the name of the notary and their signature attesting to authenticity of the signatories and accuracy of the document being notarized.

@saliston 1 month ago

The bank can't foreclose in a property illegally signed over.

@robgates456 1 month ago

He took a photo of a photo wall with his phone … then zoomed in close enough and clear enough to read logos and dollar amounts off a contract? 😂

@mrsw2923 1 month ago

Never should have signed a NDA. And that mother should have faced charges. She can hate him from behind bars.

@annbrookens945 1 month ago

So does this not even ask if Tyler's signature was also forged? He had no idea where the money came from. But maybe his mom just presented some papers and told him to sign where she pointed?

@WilliamChambers-q5o 1 month ago

The parents can mortgage their own house. Tyler can sell his restaurant.

@WilliamDawson-f8s 1 month ago (edited)

Sometimes a parent can develop hatred for their child. The child doesn’t even need to have done anything wrong. The parent knows they’re supposed to love and protect their children equally, and often they delude themselves that they’re being fair. They excuse their lack of love and care with oceans of denial and irrational justifications.

My mother was an extremely violent alcoholic. She’d flip flop wildly and for no apparent reason, between acting supportive and screaming horrible things while hitting me. I have a lot of experience with this topic.

@Wysiwyg101 1 month ago

Technically speaking, there at the end when Mom told people he put money before family didn’t she do that first? When she forged his signature and took out money wasn’t she doing that against family?