Reddit Stories - DECEPTION BEHIND the Wheel_ The STOLEN Ride That Tore Us Apart_

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

#redditstories #askreddit #aita #deception #behindthewheel #stolenride #toreusapart #relationshipsSummary:A gripping tale unfolds as a deceitful act behind the wheel leads to the theft of a prized possession, causing turmoil in a once harmonious relationship. Trust is shattered, and the consequences of deception reverberate through the lives of those involved.Tags:redditstories, askreddit, reddit, aita, tifu, deception, behindthewheel, stolenride, relationships, trust, turmoil, deceit, betrayal, consequences, theft, turmoil, harmony, dramatic, narrative, storytellersBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reddit-stories--6237355/support.

I hope you enjoy this story. I drove my partner's fresh vehicle to see my family and falsely claimed it as my own. They discreetly traded it to finance my unmarried siblings' trip. Now my partner is taking legal action, and I'm cutting ties with my entire family. So the question suggests that my parents decided to sell what they thought was my car to fund my sister's self-care vacation and buy her a couple of expensive gifts because she just got divorced. I, 26F, drove to my parents' house and my boyfriend's new SUV because it's a pretty sweet ride and I really wanted to go on a long drive in it. My boyfriend, Tyler, 28M, had been saving up for a really

long time to buy a new car and he has had this one for almost two months now. He and I have been together for two years and last month, he moved in with me. My parents live quite far away from me. It's usually a six-hour drive from my place to theirs and we meet. maybe just once or twice a month. Last weekend, they had invited me over to stay for a couple of days with them since my dad was not doing well because his heart was acting up again. I decided to take the new car after talking to Tyler about it because my old car was in the shop for repairs. I didn't tell my parents about it being Tyler's car because I didn't think it was relevant. When they asked me who it was, since they seemed pretty impressed by it, I just told them it was mine.

I didn't know what it would lead to, I couldn't have possibly thought that they would sell it. Anyway, on the fourth day of my visit, I had gone to meet a friend, and when I came back, the car was gone. I started panicking immediately because I thought it was stolen. But when I went inside to speak to my parents about it, they told me that they had sold the car. I was shocked and they explained that when I had shown up with the car, they decided to take a couple of photos of it and sent it to a bunch of their friends to ask if anybody would be willing to buy. And one of them had found an interested buyer who was willing to pay quite a sum for the

car. I honestly don't know what kind of idiot would buy a car without bothering to have the title of the car signed over to them. But I guess they were able to find somebody who was foolish enough or maybe desperate enough to do that. When I asked them what they had done with the money, they told me that they had transferred the funds to my sister so she could take a well-deserved break because her divorce had just been finalized a couple of weeks back and she needed to indulge herself in some self-care and had even ordered a pair of diamond earrings and a bracelet for her. Online They asked me not to be mad, but clearly, since I had bought the car, I was doing really well,

and my sister had blown a lot of money on the divorce, so she really needed this. They could have paid for it with their own money, but they had to save for retirement as well, so they really expected me to be understanding of this and why they had done it. I was so furious that I didn't even know what to say to them, and I just started screaming in their faces, telling them that they had screwed up a big time because the car wasn't even mine, it belonged to Tyler, and they would have it from him once he found out about this. My parents had met Tyler a couple of times, but they were definitely not close, so even they received a shock when they found out that the car belonged to him and not me.

But instead of being apologetic, they started freaking out and blaming me for not telling them the truth about who the car belonged to. They said that because of my decision to fake it, they had endangered themselves and quite possibly the person who had offered to buy that car. Apparently, they had planned on selling the car without my knowledge, and once I found out about it, they would just convince me not to press charges against them, and that would be it. But now, since they found out that the car didn't even belong to me in the first place. They were scared of what was going to happen and started bugging me to talk to Tyler and

convince him not to press charges. They claimed that they had been fully convinced that I would not do anything to hurt them, and that's why they had sold the car when they thought it was mine which is just insane, I don't even know how to make sense of that. Essentially, they were planning on taking advantage of the fact that I was family and they were going to emotionally manipulate me into letting this slide, but with Tyler, they were not so confident and wanted me to do something to fix the situation. I told him that they could just contact the person who had bought the car and have him return it as it is,

but they said that they had already sold it and transferred the funds to my sister, so that was not going to be possible. The only reason I was even negotiating with them was not that I wanted to protect them, but because I wanted the car back because I knew how hard Tyler had worked for it and the fact that my parents were still trying to defend the decision of selling the car for my sister's sake was pissing me off. So I told them that if they didn't do what I asked them to, then I would talk to Tyler and make sure that he pressed charges against them.

and then, we were at a stalemate because they thought that I was being too cruel and that my sister had really been through a lot, so she deserved this vacation and the gifts that they had ordered for her so they couldn't just take it all back from her after they had already told her about it. They claimed that she had been really happy when they had transferred the money to her and told her to take a vacation with that money and had even mentioned the gift that she would be receiving once she came back home, and they couldn't take that happiness away by telling her that they had canceled the gifts. And she would need to return the money as well. So I told them that I couldn't care less about her happiness. I just needed the money back with the car, and if they didn't do it,

I would speak to Tyler and they said that they knew I wouldn't do anything to hurt them. So I got my phone right in front of them, called Tyler, and explained the situation to them while they just looked horrified and told Tyler that I wanted him to press charges against my parents. I was very pissed off, and I could hear that even Tyler was very upset, so he told me that he was going to speak to his lawyer and do something about this. After the phone call, my parents started screaming at me once again and pushed me out of their house, saying that I was a horrible human being and that I did not deserve to be called their daughter anymore. I was fine with that, but then, they started saying that none of this would have even happened if

I had just told them that the car did not belong to me, but instead, I had chosen to lie about it and now, they were in trouble because of me. They said that I was just insecure that my boyfriend had a brand new shiny car, and I couldn't afford to have the same, which is why I was trying to show off in front of them to impress them because they knew that I was just going to amount to a failure and nothing else. They had been right about it that their entire life, and I couldn't stand that. I found that very offensive when I tried to argue that I wouldn't even have brought the car with me if I had known what they had in mind. But they said that they had only sold the car because they thought that I was family and that I would understand their predicament.

But clearly, I was only interested in faking my lifestyle to impress other people. That was almost three days back and since then, I have been living in a hotel, waiting for Tyler to show up here and we have been in touch, but I just can't help thinking that maybe this is my fault because I didn't tell my parents whom the car actually belongs to. So I'd have for telling my parents that my boyfriend's car was mine when I visited them? Edit Many of you wanted to know more about my relationship with my family.

Well, as most of you might have figured out by now, there is a golden child in the family, and it's obviously not me. It's my older sister, she is seven years older than me and I don't have a good relationship with her. We have had no contact for the past couple of years and it's not something that we decided on purpose. It's just something that happened organically. She lives out of state and rarely ever comes back home, and when she does,

I don't visit my parents then because we don't get along. My childhood was not that bad, to be honest. Even though my parents were kind of biased towards my sister, I never felt like I was being sidelined or anything. This car incident just came out of nowhere. I had no idea that they were capable of doing something so crazy. Trust me, if they had treated me badly my entire life, I wouldn't even have stayed in touch with them.

earlier, it was only little things that used to bother me about my relationship with my parents, but they were very kind to me otherwise and were good parents all over. And that's why I stayed in touch with them, that's why I would visit them every month. This recent incident, though, just came out of nowhere. I think they're getting old and senile, that's why they thought that this would be something acceptable and I would just let it slide because I was family or whatever. They were wrong, though. and even the things that they had said towards the very end of our last meeting, while they were

pushing me out of the house, that they had always believed I was a failure and I wanted to prove them wrong. I don't know why that came from either because they have always been very supportive of me. They had never implied that I would grow up to be a failure, maybe they believed it in their heart, but they never let it show and were very good actors because I had been totally convinced that they loved me. This whole incident was the first one that was completely out of the blue, and I don't know what would have possibly driven my parents to act this crazy. I mean, I know that my sister's divorce was pretty bad. Her husband had been cheating on her and had still managed to get away with it without

paying her alimony and a dismal amount of settlement money. But still, that's not an excuse for my parents to act like this. Anyway, I hope that helps you guys make sense of why I had to stay in touch with my parents and come to a conclusion about what I should do. It's kind of urgent, so I would appreciate quick advice. Update 1, hey, so yesterday after I posted my update, most people told me that I had absolutely no fault in this. I did not want my parents asking questions about why Tyler had done with his car and stuff,

so I just decided to tell them one white lie. There was literally no way I could have known that it would lead to all of this, and I don't need to beat myself up about it. And yes, my parents might have treated me decently in the past, but after what they have just pulled, I don't owe them anything. Tyler showed up this morning and he told me the same thing that people in the comments had been telling me that I don't need to feel regret or guilt related to any of these. He is going to deal with this in his own way and all I have to do is testify against my parents

because he has had his lawyer draw papers for a lawsuit and is pressing charges against my parents. And you know what? I'm going to be with him on this. They totally deserve whatever is coming to them and they cannot dodge the consequences of this. In the evening, we plan on going to my parents' house and talking to them, giving them one last chance to fix their mistake, but I highly doubt that they are going to do it. Their only priority right now is making sure that my sister gets to indulge herself. I already tried reasoning with them earlier, but they were not receptive to it. If anything, I'm pretty sure that they're just going to feed me the same BS this time as well,

but Tyler thinks that it's worth a try because he doesn't want to waste his time fighting this out in court when he can just settle it outside. Of course, if they don't do as we say, then we will have to take this to court. It has been a couple of days, so even they might have lawyered up by now and I'm pretty sure that they're cooking up some lie against me to make them seem like the good guys here, but I know what happened and all I really need is just the contact number of the guy who bought the car and I will be able to sort this out in a jiffy. Anyway, since I don't have that right now, we are just going to have to suck it up and talk to

them one last time so that we can tell them how bad it's going to end up for them if they don't get back the car at any cost. The one good thing that has happened so far as Tyler is here with me, so I feel much less stressed out about everything. He has been very kind and compassionate towards me because he knows that this is not my fault and if anyone is to blame here, it's going to be my parents. Update 2 okay, so a couple of things have happened. As I said, we went to my parents' house to speak to them and told them that we were giving the money last chance to fix the situation but just as we had expected, they did not take us up on that offer. When we rang the doorbell and my dad opened the door to see us, he told me that he knew that he could count on me to realize that what

we were doing by getting them into trouble was not right and that he was ready to forgive me. They were so delusional that they had literally assumed that I was there to apologize to them and not give them one last chance to fix the situation and I found it kind of funny. So Tyler had to explain that we were there to talk to them about what was going on and he said that he was here to tell them that he was pressing charges against them so they had better get the car back or else, things would not turn out well for them. My dad got offended and told Tyler that he had no right to speak to him that way when he was standing on his property and asked us to get out of there, but I stood my ground and told him that we were not going anywhere

until he had given us the contact details of the person he had supposedly sold the car to because we just wanted the car back. We didn't want any trouble, neither for us, and nor for them. In fact, after this whole debacle was over, I planned on leaving them alone forever. And when I said that, my mom came around and said that she didn't care that I was threatening her. She knew that she had another daughter to count on, and she was going to make sure that everyone cut me off. After that, Tyler and I realized that there was no talking to them about this. We would just have to go ahead with our threats and do what we had come here to do, so we left

because it was pretty pointless. He then contacted his lawyer and said that he was ready to press charges because he had tried to sort this before going a legal way and now, we were going to do what we had to do. So that was that, and then, we returned to the hotel and both of us were in a pretty nasty mood since my parents were wasting a lot of time and it was affecting us badly as well. We were just discussing demanding some settlement money from them as well along with the car in perfect condition for all the time that they had wasted and also in case the car had any damages, we were going to get that money from them as well. And while we were discussing it,

I received a phone call from my older sister. I did not pick up because I couldn't possibly imagine what she would have to say to me, but then she called me a couple of more times, so I finally answered, and then, she started lecturing me about how I was harassing my parents and it was not right because they had raised me so I need to be grateful to them. I was pissed off, I had already mentioned that and I really didn't want to speak to her, so I told her that maybe she believed that I owed them anything but what they had done. I did not think along the same lines and things had always been different for her so it's not like she would even understand where I was coming from. I tried to hang up, but then she said that it was just typical of me

to be ungrateful for everything that has been done for me and I got very pissed out because first of all, I don't even know what she was referring to and secondly. I think what my parents had done was extremely unethical and stupid so they definitely did not deserve to be excused by me like she believed they did. And then she made that comment, I asked her what she was referring to because I don't remember a single time. I've been ungrateful to my parents, and she had the audacity to say that she was not talking about our parents, but she was talking about herself. That caught me off guard because I really couldn't recall any incident like that and just as I had expected, she started ranting about something arbitrary that had taken place years ago. She told me that she had

decided to go no contact with me, if you guys might remember, in my original post, I had mentioned that neither of us decided that we were going to go no contact, it just happened organically so I don't know where that came from, because of my ungrateful behavior. Apparently, she believed that back then, I got a really high-paying job because of her. My sister and I work in the same field, but even then, I was really shocked by that claim that she made on the phone because I could not remember anything like that happening and I was very lost. And then she started explaining and you know what? Just hold on guys, her logic is going to blow your mind as well. Apparently, she believed that she was the one who was responsible for me getting that really great job back

then because she had decided to move away with her husband and had withdrawn her application a couple of days after she had applied, after which I got selected eventually. In what universe does that make her responsible for getting me the job, I will never know. Anyway, she believed that she was owed a thank you after she decided to move away and left the job to me. And when I did not thank her for anything, she decided that she was never going to speak to me again until I acknowledged what she had done for me, which never ended up happening. So we didn't speak for the past couple of years. I was so confused because I didn't even know what she was playing at, trying to make it seem like I was ungrateful

when I didn't even know about any of these expectations that she had for me. and even if I had known, I wouldn't have thanked her because they were completely unreasonable. I told her off instantly and I said that she was, in no way, responsible for me getting the job. I am just as qualified as her, and I was just a bit younger at the time. But even then, I'm pretty sure that I got the job because of my own hard work and perseverance, and not because she opted out. I told her that I didn't care if she thought that I was ungrateful, I just wanted her to leave me alone because I had said that I was.

was going to make sure that my parents returned the car to me in perfect condition. And if she thought that it was unfair on my part, tough, was not going to change my mind, and she was a fool to think that she could call me, say such stupid things to me, and then try to make me feel differently about this situation. I also told her that obviously she would never find any faults in our parents because she had always been treated like a princess and I had been treated like I was just a normal kid, and even though I had never resented any of them for this, it was about time that I started acknowledging it. Then I hung up and blocked her and now, we are in no contact permanently,

I'm making sure of that. After the phone call, I discussed things with Tyler and we are not sure if our parents put her up to this, but if they did, they just made things worse for themselves. Anyway, it has been an incredibly long day and it's almost one in the morning now. We have another long day ahead of us tomorrow as well, so I'm just a lot of you. So I'm just a lot of going to try and get some rest. It was very important for me to vent out my feelings here because even though I did speak to Tyler about it, I just wanted to talk about it some more and get it completely out of my system. And that's why this was such a long update. So thanks for sticking by until the end. It means a lot to me, for the ones who read it all the way see you guys soon,

I'll keep you guys updated on what happens next, and hopefully, my parents won't put up much of a fight anymore after this because I'm really sick of everything and I just want to go home to my normal life now. Update 3, hi, so it's around noon right now and as it appears, Tyler and I might not have to go to court at all because this morning, my parents showed up at the hotel and started groveling, trying to get us to stop whatever it is that we were planning on doing. When we got a phone call from the front desk this morning, I was confused about whether I should let them up or not, but Tyler said that maybe we should talk to them because they might have changed their mind after last night. So we let them up and when they were in our room, they

started apologizing profusely, saying that they had thought things over after last night and they really didn't want any trouble so they would really appreciate it if we could settle this out of court. They told me that they had contacted the man who had purchased the car from them and were talking to him, trying to convince him to come back. Apparently, he was ready to go on a cross-country road trip, but I personally think he might have been planning to run away because I can't think of anybody in their right mind who would have been willing to buy a car that they didn't even have the title to, and this was apparently coming at a really inconvenient time for him. But they were able to manage to convince him, somehow, promising him that they would return

two grand more than the amount that they had sold the car for. So we might be getting Tyler's car back after all, and we are really happy about it because we are relieved that we don't have to stay here for long, since the guy who bought the car will be showing up at my parents' place in a couple of days to return the car. Getting involved with the court here would mean staying here for several days and we didn't want that, so this is a better option, to be honest. My parents also tried to apologize to me for their behavior and said that they had realized how wrong they had been, but I told them that that was completely unnecessary because no matter what they said at this point, I had made up my mind and I was going to cut them off as soon as I went

back home. They seemed a bit unhappy about that and said that they really wanted to make it up to me, but I told them that my decision was finally and I really didn't want to speak to them because this had been a terrible experience for me and they had completely humiliated me in front of my boyfriend the day before and had been insufferable since they sold. The car without my consent, so I really didn't want anything to do with them after this. They looked very upset while they were leaving, but at least this nightmare is going to be over now and Tyler and I can finally go back home. Update 4 Hello.

So a couple of weeks had passed and we got the car back. It was in the same condition that we had kept it in, so thankfully, my parents didn't have to pay any damages but they found out about the car just in the nick of time because if the guy had taken it on the cross-country road trip, things would have been much different. Anyway, my parents drove the car down to our place and tried to speak to us, to apologize to me once again and get me to talk to them, but I told them that now that the car had been delivered, we had nothing more to talk about. They were really desperate too, and I could tell that they really wanted to continue being a part of my life because I don't think they are getting any grandchildren from my sister any time soon. But Tyler and I made it very clear that we did not want them loitering around our house and made them leave by threatening to call the cops on them when they said that they were going to stand around until I forgave them and said that I would keep in touch as I had previously. It was their own rotten behavior that had changed everything for us and then needed to realize and acknowledge that. Until they did so, nothing would ever change. Anyway, that was two weeks ago and recently, Tyler proposed to me and we are hosting an engagement

party at our place this weekend. Invitations have already been sent out, and I have heard from a couple of relatives that my parents and my sister are very upset that they did not receive one, since they thought that at least something as big as this would make me reconsider our situation and, I would extend a hand of peace towards them to make things right again. I would say it was a pretty unrealistic expectation to have for me because none of them had been kind to me, and Tyler and I were on the same page about whether we wanted them at our party or not we didn't. It's a really important day for us, and if they can't be nice to me, they don't deserve

to be around me. Besides, even if I thought about making things right with them and inviting them, then the day would become entirely about us and our family drama and not about our engagement, so we decided to steer clear of that. And they kind of shot themselves in the foot by talking about this to our relatives because they definitely didn't have any nice things to say about me. They thought that I was being brady and kind of silly by blowing things out of proportion. Well, so maybe I'll just stay this way and keep my distance from them and then they won't have to deal with my brattiness anymore.