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Zambies

HALEY….

Kiall Vun Myeret

Honestly can't blame her No point in taking on more then you can handle, it will only tear you down. And that doesn't help anyone Just eh... you're actually actually going to communicate that to the family right Haley? ... right?

Elizabeth Hunter

Oh no, Haley... I understand why she's burned out; it looks like she's becoming her own person at school with a friend group that cares about her, and her mom keeps expecting her to drop everything when stuff goes wrong at home... Haley deserves to enjoy her innocence, but Mike desperately needs someone to notice what's wrong. MOM AND DAD, I'M LOOKIN' AT YOU!

Steven Pope

Ooohhhh so NO ONE in this family is doing well, got it.

Washington BC

I mean she’s a teenager in a family going through a divorce, she ought to but I don’t think you can really hold it against her if she doesn’t

Joselyn Rivera

Oh that family is gonna break. I'm getting the number on speed dial!

Crossbreeze

Patience, Compassion and Empathy are heading down the court, ball in hand. If they make the shot into the Basket of Understanding, Haley will understand things from Mike's point of view too They aim, they shoo- WAIT WHAT!? THE OPPOSITE TEAM HITS THEM ALL WITH THE RKO! ANGER DOUBT AND BURNOUT HAS TAKEN THE BALL!!! THEY SHOOT AND SCORE!!! TEAM APATHY WINS!!!! MISUNDERSTANDING SPREADS!!!!

Crossbreeze

I can't blame Haley for how she feels but please talk to Mike or to your Mother! Please!

Brandino

Honestly just seems like no one likes talking about what’s effecting them at all. They would rather let it boil it up inside and eventually take over their lives.

SomeColourMage

unfortunately, we may have bigger problems right now

Fiver

I get the feeling that if she said any of this to her mom.... it wouldn't actually go well? We saw how Ellen reacted just giving her Mike's lunch, imagin how that would go if Haley actually said anything

Fiver

Like I don't think Ellen would be purposefully abusive, but snapping and yelling about everyone in the family needing to pull their weight and such

Sometimes a Badger

Being the eldest and having a younger star sibling must be hard. She probably feels like a secondary caretaker without any kind of recognition or real help. Might make a person resentful and lonely.

transopossum17

Even Chris seems to have picked up on things being wrong

Kauphy

Good for her

SCD

Haley: I'm a loner, a rebel.

Moonberry Jam

Don't worry Haley, you might not have a brother for much longer /s

Elmanii

Haley is living the middle-child life. 😭 Mike's the oldest, so their parents have an expectation for him to always perform well. Chris is the youngest and a toddler, so he gets the second most attention because he can't take care of himself yet. Meanwhile, since Haley's the second-born, she's practically forgotten about outside of work that needs doing around the house. Yet at the end of the day, none of the kids in this family get the real attention they deserve. Mike gets praise, but it's from the threshold of his bedroom door as his parents look in every once in a while to see that their child is spreading himself thin with schoolwork and things that'll look good on his college resume. Haley is only spoken to when they need her to take care of the baby or something they don't have time to manage around the house. And Chris? With two parents who have full-time careers, how often do we see these kids' parents with that baby? They spend so little time with that boy; I wouldn't be surprised to hear Chris accidentally refer to Haley & Mike as Mom and Dad one day. Also, speaking of their parents, they absolutely knew that, given their busy work schedules and failing relationship. They had absolutely no reason to mess around and have a third child, especially when they waited until both of their oldest children were in high school to do so. What? Did they think having another baby was suddenly going to fix all the problems in their marriage? Because third time's the charm, right? 😒

⚰️ Irani ⚰️

Set your foot down girl. You are not a free labour source so other people can escape into bullshit

Sinna Burns / Sinnabunny

Are we even sure Mike's been paying enough attention to his family to know his parents are having issues? The fact we haven't heard about this from his perspective leads me to think he hasn't.

azurekmage

Chapter 124: Second String. In the final pages, Mike arrives home and overhears his mother arguing with his father on the phone about how unfair it is that they put everything on Haley's shoulders and that they are the ones who have to take care of Chris, etc. After this, Mike asks her to take care of Chris to help his mother and comments that "I know Dad is..." which implies that Mike knows his father isn't someone he can count on, so Mike definitely should have some idea of ​​what's going on between his parents.

Kirk Findlay

Trust me, I get what she's feeling. And as a teen coming into her own and wanting to live for herself. She's blinded herself to the red flags Mikes giving cause she's stressed out by the family possibly divorcing, and having to be the grown up amongst the kids. I've said it before and previous page confirmed it, she's not blind to the drama going on, and probably can peace together that Mikes best friend stopped coming by, seemed to try and kill herself, then dissapeared for awhile, and after coming back still isn't coming by anymore. And now Mike has been getting worse and worse. Those are lines to follow and she's sort of ignoring them out of spite, somewhat justifiable spite, but spite none the less. She doesn't really see that her mother is struggling trying to juggle Mike issues and a toddler, along with an likely impending divorce. And that is causing her to lash out and refuse to help. Not realizing that her mom is stressed and relying on the one kid who can seemingly actually take care of herself and has no crazy shit going on. Haley is the child that doesn't have issues, atleast immediate ones, and is old enough to take care of herself. So it's kinda obvious why mom is leaning on her a bit. But I still get why Haley's upset. It's alot for a kid to have to grow up fast cause her family is a mess. She should be trying to grow up and be herself, but she's in a situation where she has to be the adult amongst the kids. And she's reached her breaking point. It'd probably work out well if she just spoke to her mom about this. Her mom would probably unstand and explain herself better, and try not to push duties on her, atleast without asking first. But this comic has shown, Mikes family isn't the best with communication. And we can probably see where Mike gets it from to some extent.