My Adoptive Brother’s Golden Child Publicly Disowned Me, but Now He Needs Me... | Reddit Updates

My adoptive brother's Golden Child publicly disowned me but now he needs me to babysit his clingy baby so I refused and now suddenly I'm a valued family member posted by you/ Pink monsters saw I 20f was adopted when I was 16 by my half brother and his wife who were in their late 30s at the time they already had six children when they adopted me but it was never an issue they have treated me like their own kids since they met me and later adopted me as did all their other kids except for one their Golden Child who is only four months older than me we'll call him Chad Chad has always been an insensitive jerk to literally everyone including our other siblings he would get into fist fights with our older sister say horrible and mean things to everyone and get away with it he also had extreme anger issues that caused broken doors holes in walls Etc he got to do everything my sister and I were never allowed to do got a free car could go out at night Etc when we were still in high school together he stood up in front of our entire class year and told everyone I wasn't his sister and never would be he then told me in front of his friends that I would never be a part of his family and I should just get over it then walked off this wasn't a one-time thing he kept doing this until he moved out and I stopped seeing or talking to him Golden Boy once again got the family's attention after he got married right at our high school moved to his wife's family's house and then had a baby the first grandbaby since this happened I have stayed as far away from him as possible only seeing him for family pictures every year because our mother my half brother's wife asks recently I decided to tell her mom about what he said and did because she was upset about how I was distancing myself from him she basically pulled that that's still my kid and it's my first grandbaby card as her reason for not being upset over it I didn't really care to be honest I knew it wasn't going to change her mind about her kid anyway out of nowhere I got a message begging me to come babysit for them because you're the only one who can deal with these kinds of babies because no one will help apparently they are weing their kid off breastfeeding and the baby is extremely clingy because of that and because the mom is a germaphobe who has basically isolated this kid since birth it has literally only been held by about six people since it was born they know I don't sleep much because I'm an insomniac with ADHD and I'm also not bothered by crying for some reason I can sit for hours with a crying baby and it doesn't bother me I can't tell if that's a blessing or a curse at this point my sister is mad at me because apparently they haven't asked anyone else in the family for help but me and everyone wants to go see this baby am I the jerk for not wanting to be around or take care of the baby because its father said that I'm not part of his family update one day later I want to say this I read everyone's comments and it made me feel much better knowing my feelings about this whole situation are valid I wanted to give an update though most of you may not like it after I posted I ended up talking to two of my friends from high school they were actually there on multiple occasions when Chad publicly said all that stuff I talked with them for a while one of these friends actually came over almost weekly when I was still living at my parents home so she understands my family firstand we talked and we all mutually agreed I'll go this once see if we can't mend things and if not I can tell my mom and sister that I tried and we're done with the whole thing if the negative behavior for my family continues I will cut them off for good so I agreed to go babysit I went over to Chad's house around 8:00 p. m. as soon as I showed up I was greeted by Chad's wife who was extremely happy to see me she was tired you could just tell she had the I have a one-year-old look going on she talked to me for a few minutes about how glad she was that I came over how excited she was to go out with Chad I just kind of listened to her go on and on before she finally got to the baby letun call him Seth she explained his night routine feedings Etc nothing too big then she mentioned how he had been having crying fits at night and wouldn't get to sleep until mid morning I was a bit unsure about that but all babies have different routines I guess she then said they would only be gone about 4 hours and would be home around 12:30 or 1:00 a.

m. at the latest after this Chad came out from their room started talking to his wife looked at me and then just kind of looked me over for a minute giving me a small wave and Nod before heading out of the house his wife followed and simply told me to call or text if I needed anything for a minute I was just stunned but then I went to see Seth it was a bit odd because it was my first time seeing him in person and not just in the photos hanging around our parents house in person he is the cutest little baby ever he was fine the whole time and he only cried because no one was in the room not because of the weaning by this time it was around 11:30 almost midnight I kept checking the clock every few minutes to see what time it was when 12:30 rolled around I thought should I text them then I decided to wait a few more minutes before texting I ended up messaging both of them at 1:00 a. m.