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AITAH My buddy and his wife got cps called on them and I refused to help them clean their house?So my buddy and his wife...
12/05/2026

AITAH My buddy and his wife got cps called on them and I refused to help them clean their house?

So my buddy and his wife have a very unhealthy little boy, he was born at just 27 weeks gestation and it was not clear what the cause of early birth was, I at the same time was about 28 weeks pregnant, and have been doing everything i possibly could do for them while managing my life my husbands life and our two large dogs. They had to fly about 6.5 hours south to a nicu that could accommodate such a young baby and I really wanted to be there for her but couldn't go due to my own complications.

Now my child was born on time in November 2024 and their son was born in August of 2024 he's about 6 months old but still in a very hard place in life. He doesn't gain weight the doctors have run every test and since being released from the nicu has been to the hospital for week long stays at least 5 times. This being said the last time he wound up in the hospital the doctor told them that she would have to resort to calling Child Protective Services on them if they were discharged and he lost weight again.

He's one of the rare cases where he HAS GOT TO BE FED EVERY 3 HOURS ON THE DOT! His parents refuse to wake up in the middle of the night to do feeds and wonder why he's loosing the weight. They are both young parents so I understand the struggle as some one who also has a newborn child and two dogs, the problem they have is no matter how many times I've gone over to clean they A) don't Keep it clean, B) have yet to potty train their dogs (5 and 3) years old.

They recently had an appointment and cps was in fact called and they asked me to come clean again but I do not wish for anyone to have their child taken away but I'm at my whits end with trying to help them and them just taking it for...

AITAH for telling my ex’s mom why we broke up?**UPDATE: He came over (uninvited) this morning and we got into another al...
12/05/2026

AITAH for telling my ex’s mom why we broke up?

**UPDATE: He came over (uninvited) this morning and we got into another altercation. Police were called and he was arrested. I planned on filing a report after all the advice on here anyways, he just made it easier by being an i__ot.

Thank you for all your replies I didn't expect this to blow up the way it did!** I (27f) broke up with my boyfriend (33m) a few days before Christmas. His mom reached out to me right after Christmas saying she missed me and hoped I was feeling better and that she'd see me soon. I was supposed to go to his parent's for Christmas, but obviously didn't since I broke up with him.

That's when I realized that he must not have told them we broke up, and even lied that the reason I wasn't there was because I was sick. I reached out to him and told him. He said he hadn't told his parents yet and it's not their business.

Fast forward to a few days before NYE and she texted me, asking if I was coming over to their family party. I told her no and said that we'd broken up. When she asked why I told her to ask her son.

He texted me flipping out saying that he'd already said it wasn't their business and to leave his family alone. I told him that *she* was the one who reached out to me, and the only reason I told her was because I didn't want her to keep texting me. I told him I didn't tell her why, and told her to ask him.

Last weekend I heard through a mutual friend that he was going around telling people that he broke up with me because I'm crazy. I was upset that he had to he nerve to be badmouthing me and lying trying to make me look like the bad guy when I was keeping my mouth shut on what really happened. In reality, he got black out drunk and got physical.

So, I told...

AITA for not wanting to take care of bf’s brother?My bf and I have been together for just over a year. Four months into ...
12/05/2026

AITA for not wanting to take care of bf’s brother?

My bf and I have been together for just over a year. Four months into our relationship he brought me to meet his mom and brother who is autistic. He told me in advanced about his brother but I assumed he would be like my ex who was a little social awkward but lived a normal life. I was shocked when I met him as it seemed he was at a college 10 year old’s mental development. He had a melt down during dinner and I could see how stressed his mom was at having to deal with this.

My bf and I have been together for a just over a year. Four months into our relationship he brought me to meet his mom and his brother who is autistic. He told me in advanced about his brother but I assumed he would be like my ex who was a little social awkward but lived a normal life. I was shocked when I met him as it seemed he was at a college 10 year old’s mental development. He had a melt down during dinner and I could see how stressed his mom was at having to deal with this.

We talked after we drove back and he told me his mom was planing on sending him to a group home as she are getting older and would soon be no longer able to take care of him. I thought nothing more about this but last week his mom had a health scare and she asked him to take his brother. Both his parents are in poor health at this point so likely this will be semi permanent. He told me the plan had changed and he would have to take his brother in. I’m not sure why because everyone is getting shots and the numbers are down but he explained there’s currently an insane 2 year waiting list for entry to a group home. He wants me to take care of his brother as he works 12 hours a day out of the hour. I work from...

AITA for kicking my inlaws out of my home?I (27f) have an 8m old daughter with my husband (38m). We have had issues with...
12/05/2026

AITA for kicking my inlaws out of my home?

I (27f) have an 8m old daughter with my husband (38m). We have had issues with his father and step mother since the begining of our relationship but we have done our best to keep things civil for my husband's sake. Currently DH is overseas in the military and left when our daughter was 3 days old.

This past weekend my husband had begged me to let his parents come meet our daughter and I was told they would stay at a hotel. The plans were to meet at my aunts home during the day so they could meet our daughter. Well, thursday night there was knocking at the door at 10pm. It was his dad with his step mom. They came early and no hotels were affordable. They ended up in the guest room.

My husband apologises, he had no idea why they were there but asked me to make it work because he was busy with work. Well, early friday morning I woke up to my baby screaming in her crib in my room. His step mom had picked her up from her crib and apologised saying that the baby was awake so she thought it would be fine to pick her up. I ended up grabbing my daughter and told her to get out of my room. She said nothing but left and I admit, I was harsh in tone. The whole day I am becoming increasingly annoyed because they had complained about dust, that I had a pile of laundry to wash, and they felt that it was unfair that my family is around the baby more than his. Mind you, they live over 12 hours away, my family is within 1 hour of me. After I got my daughter down for bed we were eating dinner when his step mom asked me if I was going to apologize for snapping at her this morning in my room. I told her no, she shouldnt have been in my room to begin with and then she said "well my therapist told me to tell you...

AITA for never telling my Mother I married into money?I (34F) have a difficult relationship with my Mother, she had me w...
11/05/2026

AITA for never telling my Mother I married into money?

I (34F) have a difficult relationship with my Mother, she had me when she was 17 and was addicted to various substances when I was growing up. She'd leave me with whoever would watch me for days on end and i'd end up mostly raising myself. I left home at 16 and couch surfed with various friends until I was able to get my own place. At 25 I met my now Husband and we got married three years later.

His family is the polar opposite of mine and are incredible, so loving and warm, I honestly consider his parents mine and call them Mum and Dad. They also happen to be quite well off but that isn't something I care about, I mention it because it matters to the story.

Last year my Mother reached out to me after a decade of not speaking to her wanting to reconnect and introduce me to my little sister who was 2 years old, I was confused as I hadn't even known she'd been pregnant, but it seems she'd been a change of life baby. I thought maybe she'd turned over a new leaf and if not I wanted to make sure the kid was ok. At first it seemed like things had changed and she was trying, this illusion lasted for the first few visits over six months then she broke down, told me she couldn't do this, and asked me to take my sister. My husband and I had a long talk about it, we'd been struggling with fertility and had been considering adoption anyway. We told her if we were doing this we were doing it right, and we had his families lawyer ensure it was a legal adoption and airtight which took several months, My in-laws adore her and consider her their Granddaughter. They've even set up a trust-fund for her.

We have allowed My Mother one supervised visit per month so she's not totally cut off from my sister but it was during these visits things went badly as she saw how she was...

AITA for 'forcing' my son to wait to marry his then high-school girlfriend?I (f50s) have 2 sons, Dan (m22) and Sam (m27)...
11/05/2026

AITA for 'forcing' my son to wait to marry his then high-school girlfriend?

I (f50s) have 2 sons, Dan (m22) and Sam (m27). Dan started dating 'Fran' in their junior year. Towards the end of senior year, Dan came to me and said he wanted to marry Fran. At the time, Dan had multiple college options which he was going to decline to stay in our town and marry Fran. I obviously didn't support this, I wanted my son to go to college and knew he wanted that too as he'd always been ambitious. I told my son that he had his whole life ahead of him and he could get married later, but didn't need to rush it. I told him that if he went to college and waited, even just a year or two, I'd pay for his tuition. At the time I didn't know how serious their relationship was as they'd been together for a little over a year, and was scared it wouldn't work out and he'd waste this opportunity. My son happily accepted this offer and agreed with me that it would be best to wait.



This year my son graduated college but maintained a long distance relationship with Fran, and they announced their engagement a couple months ago. We were all ecstatic about it. Sometime between then and now, my son told Fran that I was the reason he waited until now to propose. I wasn't aware until Christmas when during dinner, Fran said she wanted to say something. She began saying I paid my son to not married her and actively tried to ruin their relationship. She then said she was blessed that 'evil hadn't won' and couldn't wait to have a long and happy marriage. Everyone was silent and didn't really know what to say. My son approached me later to apologise and said she had twisted his words but it's been constantly weighing on my mind as friends and family present all have different opinions.



Edit

If my son had married Fran out of high school, he wouldn't of gone to college. My son chose to go...

AITA for dropping the "We're Not Having Kids, Now Stop Bringing It Up" bomb on my MIL?My husband and I don't want kids. ...
11/05/2026

AITA for dropping the "We're Not Having Kids, Now Stop Bringing It Up" bomb on my MIL?

My husband and I don't want kids. My MIL is big into family in the traditional sense. She has been pushy with us about having kids since we got married. Literally the week after we got engaged, she started asking.

My husband has always changed the subject, and has even told her that it's really none of her business. Every time we see her, she asks. Everything we do is built around the idea of use having kids. 3 years into our marriage, my husband said "We might not even have kids" and MIL would nothear it. At year 4, husband had a vasectomy and I had a tubal.

So this weekend we were all at their home enjoying some BBQ and drinks and everything. When I get up to grab a beer, my MIL asks me if maybe I should drink water instead, because wink wink nudge nudge, you never know.

I was annoyed by this and said "There's really no chance."

MIL, all wide-grin, said, "Oh come on! It's time for you two to finally get serious! Put down the beer and tell us when we can finally expect you two to finally make your family official!"

I said "We've been official for about 5 years now, MIL," and drink the beer. Husband laughs with me.

MIL gets more annoyed and says "Well, you won't be REAL (Lastnames) until you bless us with babies!"

Husband said, "Mom, enough." MIL pushed again. Husband repeated.

After about fifteen minutes of the usual comments, I finally snapped and said "MIL, Husband got snipped. I had my tubes tied. We're not having kids. You need to stop bringing it up. Period."

Well, I thought I started WWIII. She started crying and stormed off. Family looked at us with disgust and stormed off to comfort her. We left. Party kinda ended. The social media b__lsh*t started shortly after. Vague posts, links about how motherhood is a woman's greatest calling, listicles about how unhappy childless women are, etc. Some meme about how "I guess I...

I [32F] got drunk and experimented with my husband [35M], his reaction made me feel uncomfortable. Did I ruin my peace o...
11/05/2026

I [32F] got drunk and experimented with my husband [35M], his reaction made me feel uncomfortable. Did I ruin my peace of mind?

Update: Thank you for all the feedback! I needed to get it out of my system and just process through it from different perspectives because even though it has been discussed, it still weights on me. To clarify, it was addressed when I was postpartum and he did not cheat. After some thought, it’s the hospital event that bothered me most, at the start of our parenthood chapter, and the not knowing where she was coming from when asking my husband to be her date when I was at my most vulnerable.

And yes, I have been insecure and have been open with my husband about how I’ve been feeling. We had a second child and have been struggling with different parts of the postpartum journey ( sleep deprivation, weight changes, schedules, weaning, etc) and been feeling insecure once again. The beginning of motherhood, literally still at the hospital and raw from birth, began with another woman entering our space and asking to take him away ( even before ANY family of ours visited)! So yeah, I’ve been insecure. I’m not apologizing for how I’ve felt and acknowledge I have a lot of internal work to do, as a partner, individual, and parent. Regardless, my post was asking “how” do I get over it and therapy has been the suggestion. Thanks again.

A few years ago, my husband worked with a Vietnamese foreign national who he kinda mentored at work and trained her. She seemed sweet and I never felt threatened. Then she started sending him home with boxes of fruit, purchased some food for Thanksgiving and sent it home with him, would call him past midnight, from Vietnam, to talk about her parents, etc. I called him out, as she is married, and I was pregnant with our first child at that time. He told me she wasn’t close to her husband because they only married for papers and even lived in separate apartments.

Well, the final straw of doubt was when she showed up at the hospital the day after I gave birth to our...

My husband (M32) just told me (F30) he has feelings for our friend (F30) and those feelings are reciprocated - do I leav...
11/05/2026

My husband (M32) just told me (F30) he has feelings for our friend (F30) and those feelings are reciprocated - do I leave?

My husband is currently a stay-at-home dad, watching our 1yo during the day and our 4yo when he comes home from school. He met another SAH dad (M 36) who has a 1yo as well, and they’ve been hanging out all the time. I was very grateful for their relationship because my husband seemed lost as a SAH dad at first. We ended up getting very close with the family as a family and started spending a lot of time with this guy and his wife (F 30) and kid. It’s been about 6 months since we’ve known them, and this last week I could feel something sort of shifted. My husband and SAH dad’s wife went out together for drinks one night last week, I didn’t think anything of it, they’ve both had very hard childhoods and have bonded over that. My husband doesn’t have a lot of friends and I was honestly just excited that he had someone other than me to talk to. But today I told him I felt like he was not telling me something and he said he did have something to tell me. We went on a drive and he said that he’s developed feelings for this woman. He said they sort of talked about it on Wednesday when they went out (it’s now Sunday) and that they’ve been messaging about it throughout the week. I asked him how it came up and he said it was just “very natural” but didn’t give me details more than that. I asked to read his messages between them from Wednesday to today and he declined. And that really rubbed me the wrong way. He assured me nothing more had happened they’ve just established that there’s “feelings” present and that there’s no intention attached, it just was the right thing to let me know.

Here’s where I stand; I am not naive and I know people develop feelings for people all the time. It would be unnatural not to, and I don’t think he’s wrong for having them. However, I don’t like that they discussed...

Told my wife (F35) that she couldn’t do it without me (M34). Turns out she can.I made one stupid selfish comment to my w...
11/05/2026

Told my wife (F35) that she couldn’t do it without me (M34). Turns out she can.

I made one stupid selfish comment to my wife a week or so ago and now my life is in disarray.

My wife is in some crisis. Her work is closed and she’s being paid, but she’s home with our kids now, including one 3 year old. She gets breaks on Monday and Friday with childcare. We went into having kids knowing she wanted to be a working mother. So this has been an adjustment… to say the least.

Onto the OG fight. She spent a long day with our kids and the neighboring kids, and when I came upstairs from work and she asked for a break, I didn’t respond well. I made excuses and didn’t offer help and for the first time in years my wife lost her temper and cursed at me.

Like an i__ot I dug in and thought I was right. I admit we both said some unkind things. But after reddit humbled me and she made me sit down and write a list of things I did for the family that day and compared it with her… longer list, I apologized. She accepted and I figured things would go back to normal.

They haven’t. My wife used to include me in parenting our kids. I did dance pick up most weeks and bedtime was split. I gave baths. Made dinner. All the stuff. Since our fight, my wife hasn’t asked me for any help with the kids. The first morning I woke up on what was supposed to be my morning with the kids, I figured she was just being nice or trying to prove a point but it keeps happening. She didn’t even send them down to say good night last night. Normally my wife does this silly game where she sends my son to ask me to read 5 books and then we would negotiate down to 1 or 2 and race upstairs. Last night I heard her racing him and came up to find her doing bedtime yet again. The kids haven’t even noticed. It’s like she’s...

AITA for decline my Step Dad's call when they couldn't find me at my Step Brother's wedding?I (27F) was at my stepbrothe...
11/05/2026

AITA for decline my Step Dad's call when they couldn't find me at my Step Brother's wedding?

I (27F) was at my stepbrother's (29M) wedding a couple of days ago. For some context, my mum (59F) and his dad (57M) have been together for 10+ years at this point. My stepbrother even included my mum in the family photos at the wedding and thanked her for looking after his dad in his speech. I could not be happier for her as this meant a lot to her. However, I was not included in family photos. This hurt me a little but it was his and his now wife's day so I'm not going to complain and I certainly would never bring it up to them or anyone else other than my partner. Especially not to my mum who was so shocked and happy that she was included.

Anyways, this leads on to the matter at hand. My stepdad was talking to the brides mother later in the night whilst I was sat near them, half listening and bopping along to the music. The brides mum says to him that its lovely to have my stepbrother in the family and that now she has 4 children instead of two (both her daughters are now married). This is when my step dad turned around and said that he feels the same and he is very proud of his four. (My two stepbrother and both their wives). This instantly felt like a dagger to my gut (I should probably add that my mums previous partner said to my face as a 7 year old that he never wanted to be a father to me when I asked if I could get him a fathers day card, plus my own father left when i was two and was abusive for context as to why this hurt me so much) and my mum started questioning if I was okay. I said I was fine and to leave it but she kept badgering me and then asked me if I had been eavesdropping when I shouldn't have been. I barely nodded when she said she had heard it too and said that...

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