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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Training_Option6269 on 2023-08-25 04:14:59.

My brother is a fairly well known artist in my area. He is a sculptor and a complete piece of shit.

My wife loves him and has always supported him. She would show everyone his sculpture he made for her and people would buy from him. Her sculpture is one of the very first ones he made after he got out of rehab for the millionth time.

He was at our house a month ago and he saw his sculpture. He said that he was embarrassed by how shitty it was compared to what he makes now. He asked if he could take it and rework it to make it better.

My wife agreed because she is an amazing and trusting woman.

He sold it. He sold it for $15,000 which wasn’t enough to pay off the people that he owed money to. He could have asked me for the money and I would have paid it. Instead he broke my wife’s heart and I fucking hate home for doing that.

I went to see him in the hospital and told him he was dead to me and to never come near my family again.

My mom called me to scream at me for putting more stress on him when he is in such a vulnerable point in his life. I told her that if she ever mentioned him to me again I would tell my kids to choose between her and me.

I know it seems extreme but you have not idea what this did to my wife.

My father called me to talk about it and said my mother was inconsolable. I told him that his other son stole not just a shitty piece of art but my wife’s belief in his redemption. I said that if my mother insisted on fucking with me over her piece of shit son I would do what I said.

I am so angry right now that I’m not really thinking straight. I need perspective.

AITA?