AITA for Playing Loud Games While Parents Keep Me Up at Night?

OP is 16, stuck in the living room with a game running, and trying to enjoy his night. Meanwhile, his mom, 39, and her boyfriend go upstairs, say they’re going to bed, and then immediately start making the kind of loud, “bed wrestling” noises that travel straight through the floor.

The bedroom is right above the living room, so OP hears everything. He gets fed up, decides he doesn’t need to listen to his own mom for 20 minutes, and cranks his Logitech speaker and subwoofer to full volume as retaliation until he finally goes to sleep.

Now everyone’s wondering if OP crossed a line, or if the punishment fit the chaos.

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So I 16m am up playing games my mom 39f and her bf (age unknown) tell me they are going to bed, they know I am going to be staying up in the living room and playing my games. So they go upstairs, it is important to note their bedroom is right above the living room.

So they decide in their wisdom time to do the eh special art of “bed wrestling” (y’all know what I mean) they did this very loudly for about 20 minutes so I decide well I don’t need to hear that, and I blast my game. I have a logitec speaker and sub set up so it is quite loud, and I will continue to blast until I go to bed.

I feel genuinely traumatized I did not need to hear my own mother making noises like that. TLDR parents do the \*\*\* loudly and I blast game in retaliation, AITA?

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Like the OP who confronted their boss over an unrealistic workload, boundaries backfired fast.

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It starts with mom and her boyfriend announcing they’re going to bed, then choosing the loudest possible moment to do the “bed wrestling” right above OP’s gaming spot.

OP takes the “you knew I’d stay up” warning personally, blasts his game louder, and basically dares them to hear it.

The complicated part is that OP says he feels traumatized, not just annoyed, because it’s his own mother making the noises.

So when the retaliation turns into sustained speaker-and-subwoofer volume, the whole house dynamic flips from “goodnight” to “who’s really the problem tonight?”

What are your thoughts on this situation? Share your perspective in the comments below.

OP might be the one losing sleep, but he’s also the one turning the volume up to make sure nobody else gets comfortable.

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