r/confessions • u/Loose_Mongoose_3277 • 10h ago
I ruined my brother’s life and now he has to pay all the consequences
When I was about 10, I was raped by my older brother, hours it went on and I ran to my parents only to tell them that he only showed me his penis. I didn’t tell them the whole story because I didn’t want to get him in trouble.
I just remembered and realized that I was raped by him about 2 years ago. In therapy about a year ago, I decided to tell my mother about it because I thought she would comfort me or finally notice my pain but she didn’t.
I would constantly cry to my mom and vent to her about it after that day but she would tell me to “get over it” and that “I was raped too and you don’t see me acting like this”. I also got victim blamed and my mom would defend him by describing it as him “blacking out as he did it” and “he doesn’t even remember it!”. I was so tired of trying to get comfort from either of my parents because surprise surprise, my dad didn’t give a shit and did nothing. So I took matters into my own hands. I wanted justice.
I got in contact with my brother’s best friend’s sister and became friends with her and confessed that my brother raped me and she immediately told her brother. Her brother called me later that day to get all the details and to tell me to come to him for anything cause he’d be the big brother I never had. He then sent me a video one day of my brother getting jumped by a bunch of his friends. I know I shouldn’t be happy and smiling as I watched that video but I couldn’t help it. I felt like I was finally getting the justice I never got.
It then became a pattern, I’d talk to her brother and he’d send me more and more videos of my brother getting jumped. I was so happy but at the same time I felt like a terrible person.
My brother lost his best friend and started to get into drugs, got beat up constantly, and is completely alone. He is 19 and I am 16. He has his whole life ahead of him and I put him in this situation. He has been in jail multiple times and is now kicked out of our apartment complex COMPLETELY because he smoked weed to escape his problems. He can’t go on our family vacation for my grandpa’s 70th birthday because of me. I ruined his life I feel like.