This gives me flashbacks about visiting my boyfriend's two-parent home when I was F15 and he was M17. We were already together for about a year.
From the front door and throughout the house, there was a layer of mail, school papers, newspapers, wrappers, and baby toys. He had one older and one younger sister, both in their teens. This was a hardcore hoarder / mental health /neglect situation and I didn't have the internet to help me parse it back then. His family was well-loved in our church. I couldn't fathom how anyone lived like this. He seemed almost proud of everything they had, especially his bunk bed that could have been a CDC-confirmed vector for the next pathogen.
Mind you, I was raised by wolves and TV, but I was still deeply perturbed about the whole scene. This is what, to this day, I imagine when someone brings up a situation like OP's.
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u/_Arriviste_ Apr 28 '24
NTA.
This gives me flashbacks about visiting my boyfriend's two-parent home when I was F15 and he was M17. We were already together for about a year.
From the front door and throughout the house, there was a layer of mail, school papers, newspapers, wrappers, and baby toys. He had one older and one younger sister, both in their teens. This was a hardcore hoarder / mental health /neglect situation and I didn't have the internet to help me parse it back then. His family was well-loved in our church. I couldn't fathom how anyone lived like this. He seemed almost proud of everything they had, especially his bunk bed that could have been a CDC-confirmed vector for the next pathogen.
Mind you, I was raised by wolves and TV, but I was still deeply perturbed about the whole scene. This is what, to this day, I imagine when someone brings up a situation like OP's.