WIBTJ for manufacturing a conflict between me and my aunt?
I was raised by my aunt from 11 onwards. I’m moving away across the country very soon to start my life free of her.
I don’t want to give an entire life story, because somebody might see this, but I essentially feel as though she was a horrific person for my preteens until about 18 (last year), and it seems as though she’s attempting to whitewash our past. I’m willing to give more details if more information is required for a verdict, but I will abstain unless asked..
Anyway, so she has been asking about how she still wants us to stay in contact after I move, and how she wants to send me “care packets” or whatever. as somebody who dreamed for the day when we never had to talk.
I’ve been brainstorming a lot of ways to make it clear that I want little/minimal contact. and thus, that brings me to my proposal.
I’m on a strict two month cleanse (like the one J.Lo did for 10 days, but instead for two months), and as somebody who works the night shift, does gym extensively, does historical research for my site even off volunteer shift, and has three volunteer commitments, I’m often extremely tired after cooking.
So I put a cooking lid/thingy over the food I cooked, as a symbol of “don’t throw this out” and obviously keeping flies off it or whatever. In actuality, I just wake up later, around 3pm, and put it all in the fridge.
She has been outright, unmistakably throwing the food I cooked in the trash can, I guess as some sort of message. in reality, this only mildly annoys me. I buy stuff in bulk, and it takes more time to doordash than it does to simply get over myself and cook. But I see this as an opportunity to bait her.
my plan is to do the exact same thing about two weeks before I move, hope she throws it away, and then confront her about it, and make sure it starts an argument.
Then, I’ll latch onto that when I get on the bus, and that would be the clear explanation for why I’m not responding to her messages/calls, in this thought experiment.
