A Reddit user who told his father he was now “effectively homeless” was completely in the right to do so, said other users of the website.
“AITA for telling my dad that he’s effectively made me homeless?” asked “OkNumber787” in a Friday, August 16 post to Reddit’s “Am I the A–hole” (AITA) subreddit.
In the post, OkNumber787 explained he’s a 22-year-old male who moved out of his father’s house a year and a half ago.
“The deal he made with me was that I could always come back home if I was struggling too much financially (I’m a university student and also working full-time),” said OkNumber787.
The lease he is currently on ends on September 1, “and since around July, he and I have been under agreement that I can move back in with him starting in September.”
That arrangement, however, recently changed.
“Fast forward to today. He texts me out of the blue and says that his current girlfriend isn’t okay with me living there and that I’ll need to figure something else out,” he said. “He told me this two weeks before my lease is up.”
Of the nearly 1,500 responses to OkNumber787’s post, almost all said that he was “NTA” and that his father was acting irrationally.
“NTA. It’s sad that he’s not even willing to house you temporarily to give you time to find another option, given that he’d made a commitment to you,” said Reddit user “owls_and_cardinals” in the top-upvoted reply.
The user continued, “He’s choosing his [girlfriend]’s preferences over your basic needs, and justifying it by saying ‘Well you’re an adult, figure it out.’ Adult or not, you had an AGREEMENT and therefore had not made other arrangements and it’s totally inappropriate for him to withdraw that at this point.”
Other users pointed out that OkNumber787’s father was not acting like an adult either in this situation, especially when it comes to housing policy.
“I would tell him that adults tend to have at least 30 days of notice that they need to find new housing and that is what you two had arranged and how was that not being an adult? Is he going to fund six weeks of a hotel for you as well as first and last for a place to live since you weren’t anticipating needing that? He’d said for years he’d house you if you ever needed it,” said user “Spinnerofyarn.”
“There a reason that 30 days is the standard. Especially, if you work full-time,” said user “Having-hope3594.”
Fox News Digital reached out to OkNumber787 and to a family therapist for additional comments and updates.
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