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Bluesprinkles12 · 27/11/2023 21:45

I moved to the UK when I was a teenager along with two siblings, mother and my niece. Both of my siblings significantly older than me (over 10 years age gap).
When we moved here none of us could speak English, which was difficult but fine. I picked it up pretty face and from then on everything has been on my shoulders, think all the appointments, bank things and even applying for jobs do my mother or sibilings. Anything that required any knowledge of English was seen as my job which was a lot for a teenager but fine… fast forward over 10 years, I’ve graduated university, moved out, now work a professional job.

It’s been well over 10 years since we moved here and the thing is nothing changed, absolutely nothing. They still don’t speak any English, everything is on me. Including doing homework with my now teenage niece.

Things kicked off today as my brother is currently in the process of buying a house of me ( long story, he already lives there, only paid nominate rent for the past 4 years and I’m selling it to him for 15k cheaper than the market value). He expects me to do absolutely everything with regards to paperwork, fill out all the forms etc and because of my 9-5 I simply don’t have the time to do it all for everyone all the time. It ended up with him having a massive rant of him saying that I always help everyone else and not him

aibu to think that they expect too much help from me?

OP posts:
Quitelikeit · 27/11/2023 21:48

I’m perplexed how they have managed financially to survive in a country for all these years without learning the language?!

Send them the google translate app or something similar

Or direct them to the councils local translate service as most have them

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