The Reddit user who told his father he was “effectively homeless” was completely justified, other users on the site said.
“Was it AITA who told my dad that he effectively made me homeless?” asked “OkNumber787” in a post on Reddit’s “Am I the A–hole” (AITA) subreddit on Friday, August 16.
In his post, OkNumber787 explained that he is a 22-year-old man who left his father’s home a year and a half ago.
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“His promise to me was that if I ever found myself in financial difficulty I could always come home (I’m a university student and work full time),” OkNumber787 said.
His current lease ends on September 1. “And since about July, he and I had agreed that I would move in with him starting in September.”
Reddit users supported one man (not pictured) whose father revoked his permission to live with him just two weeks before he was due to move out. (Getty Images, iStock)
But that arrangement has recently changed.
“Fast forward to today, out of the blue I got a text from him saying that his current girlfriend doesn’t approve of me living there and that we have to figure out another way,” he said. “He told me this two weeks before my lease was due to end.”
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She reportedly said, “I finish work very late and no one wanted to hear me in the basement late at night (I would have kept it quiet – the loudest sound would have been the alarm that went off for 5 seconds when I opened the door).”
“I tried to make my case and told my father that he had agreed for months that I could return home but he still refused,” he said, adding that he had “effectively left me homeless. If he had known sooner that I couldn’t return home, I would have looked for somewhere else.”
He told me that I needed to grow up as an adult and deal with this, to understand my own issues.
Her father refused to budge, saying: “He told me I needed to grow up and deal with it like an adult, to understand my problems.”
“As it stands, most landlords won’t let me on September 1st, so I’ll have to start looking for a place on October 1st,” OkNumber787 said, noting that he’ll likely have to “couch surf” for months. “AITA?”
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In a follow-up comment to her post, OkNumber787 said that after asking around, “a couple of coworkers said they needed an extra roommate to help pay the rent,” and that her grandparents were also okay with her moving in, but they don’t live close to her workplace or school.
“Those are my two best options right now,” OkNumber787 said.
Reddit user OkNumber787 (not pictured) wrote that he feared he’d have to “couch surf” for months as a result of his dad’s sudden decision. (iStock)
In the AITA subreddit, you can reply to a post and indicate that the poster is an “NTA” (“Not an A–hole”), a “YTA” (“You’re the A–hole”), a “NAH” (“There are no A–holes here”) or an “ESH” (“Everyone here is the worst”).
Users can “upvote” answers they find helpful and “downvote” answers they find unhelpful.
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Of the roughly 1,500 replies to OkNumber787’s post, nearly all say he is an “NTA” and that his father is behaving unreasonably.
“NTA, it’s a shame he made a promise to you and then won’t even let you live with him temporarily to give you time to find another option,” Reddit user “owls_and_cardinals” said in the most upvoted reply.
Reddit users were largely unanimous in saying that OkNumber787 was right when he told his father that his sudden change of plans had left him “effectively homeless.” (iStock)
The user continued: “He’s [girlfriend]You are putting your husband’s preferences above your basic needs and justifying it by saying, ‘Well, you’re an adult, figure it out for yourself.’ Adult or not, you were in agreement and had no other arrangements. It is totally inappropriate for your husband to back out at this point.”
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Other users pointed out that OkNumber787’s father also wasn’t acting like an adult in this situation, especially when it came to housing policy.
“Adults are usually given at least 30 days notice if they need to find new housing and you two had that arrangement so you should have told him why isn’t that adult? He’s going to pay for 6 weeks of hotel bills and your first and last housing payments for you when you never thought you’d need it? He’s said for years that he would provide housing if you needed it,” said user “Spinnerofyarn.”
“There’s a reason 30 days is the standard, especially if you work full time,” said user “Having-hope3594.”
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