My parents sold my childhood home and lied to me about it. AIBU to be heartbroken?

[WASPIT]

Just venting.

They told me they had rented it out, just to tell me eight months later that they had actually sold it.

AIBU to feel heartbroken?

I wish they had told me the truth initially

She was helping then when they were originally planning to sell! Finding agents etc.

Are you financially successful, @WASPIT ? I wonder if there’s a sense of shame attached to this. Either way, it’s so weird they chose to lie to you and you alone.

I'm not sure where these people were getting that you overreacted. I'm not sure why they felt the need to lie. I guess from now forward I would make sure that they're not lying when they tell you things.

It was their house legally yes. But it was her home. Can you not understand that?

It's completely natural and normal for memories and emotions to be attached to places and objects and be distressed by their loss.

In a phone or online is a bit odd, as you'd hope she'd have backed up e.g. messages (like keeping letters and postcards) or photos.

Move on.whatever problems you have that house didn't hold the answers.

I would ask them why the need to lie but with being heartbroken as a reaction that might answer why

I moved to much to have one but I am a grown up and understand everything can't be the same forever of course i would have been sad a bit then moved on

Such bitchy remarks on this thread. The OP saying she is 'heartbroken' is just an expression. No need for the all the snarky 'grown up' comments.

I swear the majority of mumsnetters these days have had an empathy bypass. Selfish arseholes. No wonder the world is in such a mess.

Ignore them OP. You are not wrong at all. It's normal to feel upset if your parents lied to you. And you were more than willing to help them sell the house previously so it's not you. It's them.

No. She's "heartbroken" at the sale of the house, not the fact she was lied to.

It was her home when she was a child. Now she is an adult (presumably). No, I really cannot understand someone being heartbroken over the sale of a house that isn't theirs/they no longer live in. I reserve "heartbroken" for the really serious life or death or tragic things we have to go through in life.

Nobody was living in the house!
None of the family; op thought it had been rented out to someone else, and was presumably ok with that.
I’m baffled at the heartbreak, too.
Unless op did indeed hope for it to be hers one day, because literally nothing has actually changed here.