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29/12/2025

I (45M) am a single father to my 14 🌙 year old daughter, H. We are lucky enough to be in a very good 🎠 financial situation even though the pandemic. H's best friend M(14F) had her birthday a week ago and was apparently promised that she could go to Red Lobster for her birthday. I know that M's family struggles financially and H told me that M's dad lost his job due to the pandemic. Unfortunately M's family couldn't afford to take M to Red Lobster and H told me that M was very upset. I told H that M could sleepover and we could go to Red Lobster as a birthday surprise for her. We went and had a blast and M told her parents the next morning. M's mom calls me and starts berating me about 'trying to prove that I am a better parent because I have money' and how it was rude of me to take M out to eat. I feel bad that I upset M's family but I was honestly just trying to be nice. AITA?

29/12/2025

Yesterday, Jack and I were at a restaurant for lunch. Steve somehow showed up and sat with us. We ate lunch and chattered then before we left and as I was about to pay the bill. Jack gestured for me to pay for Steve's meal too. I played dumb and said "I'm sorry but why should I pay for his meal?" Jack obviously didn't wanna say "because he had cancer and is struggling" out loud and infront of Steve so he asked me to step outside so we could talk. I refused and said that there was nothing to say, that Steve had cancer which was unfortunate but that in no way makes him entitled to my money. Steve looked stunned, he glanced at Jack and Jack was fuming. He told me to "just pay this time" but I only paid for our lunch then got up and made my way out. I heard him 👧 repeatedly apologizing to steve as I was walking out. Jack didn't come home but left 4 n__ty texts calling me unhinged, petty, selfish and short sighted as well as unsympathatic to what his friend went and is going through. I texted back that his friend's unfortunate circumstances aren't my responsibility nor are they my fault. He said I'd lose nothing if I just paid for his 🎍 lunch and that walking out on him was n__ty beyond comprehendion. I told him he could've paid for him if he felt so strongly about it. He responded by saying I was being willingly ignorant since I know he's out of job as of now and said that a small act of kidness could've gotten me a long way but I made it about myself, my money, and jeaporodized his friendship for no reason. He's still mad saying he...

29/12/2025

I made a new Reddit account because my husband knows my main one. My [36F] husband, Dennis [39M], and I have been together for 9 years, married for 4. When we met we were both looking to settle down and have kids so it felt like fate that we met. We started talking seriously about having kids around 1.5 years in, and started trying at 2 years. After three years of trying and heartache, we decided to adopt. Following a long and hard journey, we were finally able to welcome home our beautiful daughter, Sophie! My 📢 husband was a wonderful father to Sophie, he loved holding 🌏 her and being with her. He would rush to her side when he heard her cries. I couldn’t have wished for a better partner and father for my children. Just after everything settled down with Sophie, we got pregnant. Both Dennis and I ✈ were elated to hear we would be having another child, and ecstatic when we found we were having another little baby girl, so close in age to her sister! But I started getting worried when I heard some of Dennis’ comments as I started to show more and we got closer to birth. He once even said “I can’t believe we’re finally having our own baby”. I questioned what he meant by this as we have Sophie already, but he brushed it off saying I knew what he meant but didn’t say it again to me. When I gave birth, Sophie was 11 months old and had been saying “am am am” whenever she stroked my belly, so we decided to call our daughter ♥️ Amy. When we brought Amy home is when Dennis’ behaviour really started to slip and lack towards Sophie. He stopped giving her attention, documenting or even caring...

28/12/2025

Throwaway Account: Me (25F) and my Husband 'Marcus' (28M) have beautiful 2 month old daughter. Background: About a year ago, my little brother 'Jacob' (17M) came to stay with Marcus and I. My Mom said that she and Jacob were constantly fighting, so Jacob asked if he could stay with us until he goes off to College. I was a bit hesitant at first, but Jacob is my brother and I wanted to help him out. For the past 🛎 year everything has been going fairly yesterday. Marcus was at work while Me, Jacob, and my daughter were all at home. I asked Jacob 😻 if he could keep an ⛄ eye on my daughter for a few 🏆 minutes while I was in the bathroom. After I walked out of the bathroom, I saw Jacob playing with my daughter. He was at the top of a long staircase, before I could blink, Jacob stumbled and my daughter came barreling down the stairs like a rag doll. I started crying hysterically and bolted over to the bottom of the stairs. After I got a closer look, it turns out that it wasn't my daughter, it was one of my nieces baby dolls wrapped in my daughter's blanket. My mind was blank, I looked up and saw Jacob cracking up, saying he 'can't believe that worked.' I snapped! I started screaming at him and told him that he was 'beyond fu**ed up!' Jacob tried to calm me down, he said it was just a joke and that my daughter was safe and sound in her room. I was inconsolable at this point, I told him to just pack his s__t and get out! Jacob started crying, he begged me to let him stay and said that he didn't mean any harm. I called my Mom...

28/12/2025

My company is struggling with a project 🌖 and been working day and night to make sure everything is completed. Everyone is stressed out. I managed to take a 3 days off and I refused to cancel it since I took the leave eight months in advance and it is approved by 🌏 the company. The day off reason I put is family reason. During the 3 days I turn off my work phone and didn't check my work email The purpose I took the leave its because it's my daughter's birthday. We have a small birthday party since it's the pandemic where only me, my wife, her, and her two brothers attend. I surprised her with a VR Headset, I think Oculus Quest 2 the name (forgotten since my sons ordered it and I paid). I brought two sets so we can play multiplayer games together. We also managed to paint the shed outside the house "rainbow" theme as she always wanted. So basically the 3 days was a fun time. I uploaded all my experience (Birthday, Playing VR, Painting Shed, Playing Board games, etc) with my daughter on social media. My supervisor is furious at me because I posted things 🕸️ online of me having fun while the entire company is struggling and 🙋 working pass the clock. He said that it affected the morale of the company. I argued with him that my personal life is none of his business and my office relationship kinda strained now.

28/12/2025

My husband said to post this here because he likes to read the sub and thinks people here give good opinions. I'm 50F, daughter is 26F. She is getting a PhD and is the first in our family to go to college let alone grad school. We were talking on Facetime and she mentioned she was 🦅 meeting with an adviser to talk about submitting an application for a grant to go to Germany for two weeks in the summer. I said it sounded awesome especially since I am half German, making her part German as well and that I've always wanted to see Germany so maybe I could come out with her and make it a girls trip. She said that "it's not a vacation, if I go I'm going to be teaching and researching and networking the entire time I'm there." I said she can do that during the weekdays and we can go out to dinner in the evenings and then go sightseeing 👧 on the weekends. She said it's already a very cramped amount of time (two weeks in Europe cramped??) and that she wants to spend her free time networking with other "academics" there and making connections at the university. I said I'm happy to also meet the "academics" and she said it wouldn't work like that, and she'd look childish bringing a parent to all of the events with her. At this point I was feeling completely tossed aside, like I'm not good enough to be around her "academic" life and "academic" friends. Like she would be embarrassed to have me around. So I said "you need to get over yourself and quick, because all of these "academics" aren't going to be the only people you meet 💡 and not everyone loves her unconditionally to put up...

28/12/2025

Before I start, I want to say this isnt a step/half/whatever family situation. She is my full blooded sister My sister, Jenny fake name, has always had weird ideas of marriage. Shes always believed that when you get married, you leave your family and join your husbands family. While that is a normal thing, she believes it to an extreme. That when you leave your family, you completely leave them, they arent your family anymore. This isnt how we grew up. We 🐤 were very involved with both sides of our family as kids. It was a joining of families when our parents got married. When my sister got married, both sides were at the wedding then Jenny cut us all off. She doesnt have contact with any of us. It sucked but I moved on. When I got married, I sent her an invite and surprisingly heard back. She said I wasnt her family so she wasnt coming but she wished my marriage the best. A few years later, I sent her ♥️ a message when my first child was born. She told me it wasnt going to work out because I didnt know how marriage and family worked. I gave up reaching out. Life moved on and a few months ago, I had a message from Jenny. She told me her house burned down and she had 4 kids. She asked me if her and her family could stay with me until they got back on their feet. I happily agreed and thought that this was a new beginning for us. They stayed for a month before they had a new house. When they moved, she went back to the usual no contact saying we werent her family. This irritated me and I was done with it. 👉 Last week, Jenny...

28/12/2025

When my ex-husband and I first starting trying to have children, he was diagnosed as being sterile, so we used donor s***m to have a child. A few years later, he had to get a surgery 💓 for a testicular injury, and it turns out that it was a misdiagnosis, and he just had a form of obstructive azoos***mia. The surgery ended up fixing the problem, and we ended up having two biological children after that. He has since remarried and also has kids with his new wife. After there were "true" children, it was like a lightswitch. His entire family, who I thought were accepting, started openly favoring his biological children. He did too. For our first child's sake, I had to divorce him after things went from awkward to potentially dangerous. I have primary custody, my ex rarely takes our oldest though because they "are not his kid". I've tried fighting that and have failed. I get child support, and I've been able to split a good amount of it into savings accounts for them. I split it equally but based on age so the two younger get the same amount, and the oldest gets a bit more due to having less time to save up for them than the other two. I also find it disgusting that gifts are only sent for the biological children, so I take whatever the younger two are sent and divide by 3. I can't stand this favoritism. All 3 kids are legally his. He agreed to have our oldest by donor, and they shouldn't be considered somehow not real or dirty because biological children also happened. He and now my parents have found out 📣 about this and think I'm wrong because I should have expected this to happen, and that "most people"...

28/12/2025

My daughter recently passed, everything is still so fresh. We just buried her a month ago. My sweet angel was only 4 and it still kills me everyday. So maybe this is why maybe my reaction was too strong or I don’t know. My ex wife took off when my daughter was a year old. She said she realized she wasn’t 🎄 ready to be a mom yet and it was all too overwhelming for her. We divorced and she never asked for any sort of visitation. Her family are the only people I kept in contact with for my daughter’s sake. They were in communication with my ex but even they couldn’t get her to come around. I’m still holding a lot of resentment towards her for leaving us. Initially I was against allowing her into the funeral but her family convinced me and at least she didn’t try to approach 🌷 me or sit next to me. My family was invited to come to my house for an after funeral type of thing. Just for everyone to be together, 🏘 eat some of my daughter’s favorite food and other home cooked meals made by my mom. Truth is I didn’t want to be alone, my family understood that so that’s why they organized it. Then my ex shows up and my anger just flares up. My sister had seen her at the funeral so she invited her over. First got mad at my sister because she knows I don’t want her around me, then told my ex to get out of my house. My ex didn’t want to because she’s also grieving and in need up support, and I told her then she can get it from her own family but she’s not welcome here. I yelled at her to get...

28/12/2025

I (32f) and sister (35f) inherited this apartment from our grandmother. We owned it 50/50. It wasn’t in a very nice part of town, a bit run down. When I 🎋 was 28, my sister ran into a bit of financial trouble. I helped her as much as I could, but it just wasn’t feasible for me to keep giving her cash in the long term. Her credit was shot, so she couldn’t get a loan either. I ended up buying out her share of the apartment, at market rate. I got the apartment, and her financial troubles were eased. In the past 4 years, that neighbourhood has gone through a lot of changes. Increased government funding, better schools etc has made crime go down and driven property prices up. So, the value of the apartment has risen substantially, compared to when I bought her out. This has created a lot of conflict in our relationship. She wants me to a) either pay her the difference between what I paid her for the apartment back then and its value now, or b) let her buy back 50%, but at the price I bought 🏩 her out 4 years ago or c) pay her half of the rent I get from tenants. I refused. I don’t want to go through that again. Due to Covid, the government is paying me my rent so that tenants don’t have to pay and landlords can continue to pay their mortgages. We’ve been bickering back and forth over it, and it’s honestly very exhausting.

28/12/2025

My grandpa and I always got along great. We watched football (soccer) together, played cards or chess and visited the horse racetrack together. Sadly my grandpa passed away about 3 months ago. His death hid me really hard because I used to spend so much time with him. Last week I received a letter from the probate court informing me that I will inherit his old house and most of his assets. My parents inherited his apartment where he lived in his last years to be closer to us and my older siblings inherited only a small part of his fortune as far as I know. My brother and sister weren't too happy when they heard that I had inherited my grandpa's old house. His house is worth a huge amount of money, we're talking nearly 2 million € and my siblings want a share of it. Yesterday evening when they visited they took me aside to urge me to share my inheritance with them. They think it is unfair I got so much more than they did and think it would be only fair to divide the inheritance by 3. I was reluctant, but they got pushy until my parents heard of this and sent me to my room to talk to my siblings. I don't know exactly what then happened but I heard loud voices and apparently my siblings left the house furious. Now I don't exactly know why but I don't really want 🐈 to share my inheritance. I feel like my grandpa wanted me to have it but I'm also not sure if I'm just being greedy. WIBTA if I don't share my inheritance? Edit: I'm 17f my brother is 🌜 22 and my sister is 24.

28/12/2025

I own and operate my own contracting company. I've been in business for almost a decade now and have almost 50 people working for me. I usually ask that my workers drive to the office in the morning and take company vans or trucks to jobsites, but I understand that isn't always the easiest option for people, so I do allow them to drive personal vehicles to jobsites if they need to. However, there has been one guy, Steve, who I have gotten a few complaints about from customers. Steve drives a big, lifted, customized truck. It's a nice truck and I know he takes a lot of pride in it. But, the thing is covered in political stickers. Now, if you work for me I don't care what your political views are as long as you're good at your job. And Steve has been with me for about 5-years now and he's good at what he does. He's knowledgeable and efficient and overall has been a quality employee. But, Steve has been driving his truck to jobsites pretty regularly because his kids are in daycare and it's easier for him to drop them off in the morning and then go directly to a job rather than to the 😹 office. We've 🌎 talked about this and I approved it to make it easier for him. Normally this wouldn't be an issue for me. But the last 3 customers that Steve was working with complained to me that he was parking his truck in front of their houses and they weren't comfortable with the political messaging on his truck. The last one even took pictures of his truck and posted it to social media and tagged my company on it. I had a talk with Steve about driving his truck to jobs...

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