I (22M) have a little brother (17M) who’s constantly walking all over me. When we were little, I had a toy that he destroyed & he got away with it because he was only 2 years old at the time, this is where the chaos started.
My brother has always been manipulative, everything he did wrong? My parents blamed me because he was the younger one. My grandmother got me a specially painted piggy bank with my name on it, my brother crossed out my name & wrote his with sharpie, of course he got away with it. I had a $10 bill that he ripped, then when he found the ripped end, my dad paid him a replacement $10 bill because he found the other end. When Splatoon was coming out, I wanted to play it, but he wanted to play it himself so he licked the disc so no one could play it.
FF to when the 3DS eShop closes, I buy a lot of the games on my green New 3DS with my money I earned from work, he gets like, 2-3 games with gift cards. He wanted it he 3DS all for himself, so he buys an orange New 2DS behind my back then says “this is yours, I get the green one. Don’t worry, I’ll mod the 2DS for you.”, I dont plan to-touch the New 2DS until he hacked it, which, he never did. I never even said yes to the orange 2DS, he did that without me ever letting him, I kept telling him not to.
2-3 years later and it’s now today, he still never modded it. I repeatedly ask him when he’s going to do it, he says he will but still hadn’t. Today, he accused me of losing the stylus for the green New 3DS. I explain to him when I last played it, the stylus wasn’t even there & that he’s doing this as I’m doing a complex task at work & let me work. He then texts me I’m never to use the green New 3DS ever again & that I can only use the 2DS & to mod it myself. I don’t find out about this until after I get home from work, so, I hid the green New 3DS from him & gave him the orange New 2DS & told him “all this over the stylus? I’m not being walked on anymore, this is yours now. The green one is mine, you can’t play it anymore. Everything on there was mine anyway.”
Was ITAH?
nta. the 3ds is rightfully yours and you put a lot of money into it. your younger brother seems entitled. do not give it back to him, even if family makes you feel pressured to.
NTA, keep the 3ds with you when you leave so he can’t use it again. Or lock it up somewhere he can’t get it.
YTA still holding a grudge for something he did when he was 2? That says a lot about you, imo.
Really i mentioned that to give examples of how my brother is manipulative & always has been