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01/17/2026

01/17/2026

AITA for getting upset 😇 that 🚡 my family ate almost my entire birthday cake even after I told them not to?
I (21M) had my birthday 3 days ago. one of my close friends made me a 2kg homemade Biscoff cheesecake with a cookie base, completely from scratch, the day before our end-of-semester exam.

She put a lot of time and effort into it, and I was really touched.

She brought the cake to my house, and we had a small celebration with 4 to 5 close friends.

I only ate one slice because I don't like having too many sweets at once.

After everyone had a piece, about 3/4 of the cake was still left. The next morning, I had one piece, and I had another piece at night.

At this point, less than half the cake was left. I figured someone in the house might have tried it.

I was okay with it, whatever. the day after that, I had stomach issues and didn't eat anything.

I did notice that the cake was getting smaller and smaller. At this point, there was only 1/4 cake left.

So I told my family (mom, dad, and younger brother), "Please don't eat the cake anymore. I want to have my birthday cake for myself".

I just wanted to eat it myself because there was...

01/17/2026

My husband wants to 🌺 spend time with me again but I’d rather 🦀 not to cancel my plans. AITAH?
Growing up, my husband and I were both the weird kids with no friends. I was a bookworm who talked too much. He was a class clown that people found annoying.

We grew up, met each other and got married after 2 years of dating. We’re both in our late twenties.

While my childhood wasn’t great without close friends, I’m not desperately yearning to revisit that time in my life. I have friends and we talk once every few days and we see each other in person every couple of months. We live pretty far apart.

My husband on the other hand is/was looking for ride or die friends. I think he grew up watching too many movies about that.

Eventually at work he found those friends. They were incredibly intertwined and my husband did everything with them at work and in his free time. I tried to warm up to them but they were immature, dramatic, and they all had dated or broken up with each other.

As time went on, my husband spent less and less time with me. I was lucky if I saw him once a weekend. I tried to have an intervention but apparently these people were fulfilling his deep need...

01/17/2026

🦎 AITA for breaking up after a girl sat on my boyfriend’s ⚡ lap?
Me (21F) and my boyfriend (20M) have been dating for two years. It was his birthday recently and his friends decided to party at one of their flats. They invited me but my parents didn’t give me permission. We had a family event in a another city so we were travelling. His friends sent me pictures and videos of him dancing and having a good time until I stumbled across one picture where Sri’s(M20) girlfriend R(F20) was sitting on my boyfriend’s lap. He was hugging her from behind. Sri was present in the party too but I felt very uncomfortable seeing that photo. I told my boyfriend the next day that it wasn’t cool and I felt bad to which he gaslit me and told me I was overreacting since her boyfriend was right there when it happened and it’s not s__ual. But Sri and R are in a complicated relationship where they are on and off constantly. They sometimes go on breaks and date other people to p__s each other off. The last houseparty I was at, R was making out with a girl to get Sri’s attention and then they fought wildly after she took off her clothes to dance with another girl in front of everyone. And they...

01/17/2026

AITA for ignoring our daughter’s 💌 inconvenient 🏩 boundary?
My wife (39f) and I (36f) have a daughter (technically my stepdaughter but I’ve raised her since she was 5) (19f) from a previous relationship of my wife’s (her father is not in the picture) who has come back home after her first year at uni. She’s picked up a new (and problematic) issue since she was last home for an extended period of time, surrounding laundry.

Basically, she has established a “boundary” where nobody is to touch her clothes. Her reasoning is that she’s concerned something will go missing/get damaged, thinks it’s just gross for us to go through her stuff, and is an adult who deserves privacy. All fine, we have 3 young children in our home (9f, 9f and 2m) so plenty of washing to keep us entertained.

The issue is that she has a habit of monopolising washing facilities to the extent where we’re effectively prevented from being able to get any other laundry done. For example, last weekend she put a wash in before work and hung it out on the line at around 11am. She then left for work (12pm-10pm) - her wash was dry within an hour, and obviously she wasn’t going to be back all day. We had a few days...

01/17/2026

AITA for not wanting my husband’s niece 😉 😽 to move in with us?
My husband and I don’t have any biological kids. 4 years ago we fostered Emilia (19) and she’s still living with us after aging out. We’re also fostering 3 kids, 2f, 3f, m8. Needless to say, we have a pretty full house. My husband and Emilia have always had a difficult relationship. They’re both pretty stubborn and b__t heads a lot. We considered telling her social worker that it wasn’t working out so many times, especially in the first year, because of how often they argued, how stressed the arguments made her, and because he has more of an authoritarian parenting style that she didn’t respond well to. She and I have always been very close though and she considers me to be her mom. The problem is, since we’ve started fostering the younger 3, she’s had to watch how good of a dad he is with the little ones and gets upset that he wasn’t the same with her. It wasn’t always rational but there was a lot of resentment and jealousy that she’s having to work on. Now my husband has a niece (18f) who will be on her own this fall. She got a full scholarship to both the school 10 minutes from us and a school an...

01/17/2026

Brother Ends Relationship 🙋 With Sister Who Prioritized Drinking Over Childcare In 💕 A Crisis
My wife, Eve and I have 5 children (Kira 12, Jack 5, Mick 3, Lena 2 and Miranda 6 months). My sister, Renee, basically hates children. She tolerates then for family events but clearly isn't interested in being an aunt. I always tried to respect it even if it frustrates me. While it's not perfect, aside from that difference I'd have said we were close. Two months ago Eve and Kira were in a car accident and hospitalised (they're a lot better now!). I wanted to be there for them, especially Kira, but obviously couldn't leave the younger ones home and taking them wasn't realistic. I tried everyone, the babysitter was too busy, father was hours away for a work trip, the in laws were away on vacation. I ended up asking Renee because I was desperate, but she refused saying she was busy. In the end I stayed home, and couldn't visit until the next day. I hated it, but I understood that there was nothing I could do. But I later found out the reason Renee was 'busy' was because she was planning to go out drinking with her boyfriend that night. It honestly pi**es me off that she apparently hates my children so much she'd stop me from...

01/17/2026

🚞 AITA for not telling my (ex)wife that we ⛄ lived in a rental apartment?
Hi.

Back in 2008 when I started University, I rented a 2 bedroom apartment with my (exex)girlfriend at the time and my friend & his girlfriend.

We got a great deal for it, as the owner of the place lost his job because of everything that happened back then and decided to try her luck abroad where she still lives.

Years went by and after University my friend and his GF decided to find a place of their own, as we had full-time jobs, renting this apartment together did not seem expensive anymore, and also did not seem expensive to rent alone after we broke up some time later.

So there I was, alone in a 2-bedroom apartment in the central part of the city.

The owner decided that she was too lazy to mess with bills and stuff every month and made arrangements for me to pay everything directly, as I earned her trust, I still pay her monthly rent which is very cheap for today and deal with everything else having her authorization.

Because of the perfect location, my second bedroom was basically "free BNB" for my friends who did not live in the city and I did not mind, it is good...

01/17/2026

🌴 AITA For Accepting ❣️ A Mother's Day Gift From My Stepkids?
My husband and his ex divorced after Husband's ex came out as a trans man. They have two kids together who were 7 & 9 at the time. Husband and I married when they were 10 and 12. We now have two children together as well who are 3 & 4. Stepkids are now 15 & 18. They have had a rough haul with husband's ex and came to live with us soon after we got married. Ex has been clear the kids are not to call him "Mom", so they now call him by his first name. He has also been in a series of relationships that have been....hard for the kids.

I have never asked or expected that they call me "Mom" or see me as a maternal figure. However, this past Mother's Day, they asked if they could join us at dinner and had bought me a gift (a very lovely locket that says "Mother" on it).

Well, Ex just learned about this and called me very angry. He says I am trying to displace him in his children's lives and that I should return the locket. I find the whole thing confusing as he has made it clear on multiple occasions he doesn't want to...

01/17/2026

AITA for shaving and not informing my 🤠 partner 🐭 of 4 months?
Today I shaved my face because here in the UK it's humid and muggy; I informed my partner of 4 months that I had done so; to then be proceeded to be told that "she had every right to know" and that it's a "lack of communication". The hair isn't the issue, it's the fact I did not tell her before hand that is, I told her she had no right in being annoyed with me shaving my face because I'm allowed to do whatever I want to it and that if any changes were done to her face/body I wouldn't care because it's her entitlement to do so, she then berated me about how it's untrusting to not communicate with someone about something and that she's annoyed I just didn't ask or inform her. I personally don't know if I'm in the wrong as I am autistic and my social skills and bogged down by what I feel is best for me (not in a mean way, more self preservation). I'd sent a humorous video to her explaining why I did this and she didn't understand that I didn't ask her before hand because I didn't want the back and forth of her saying no and me saying yes for...

01/16/2026

My (34f) husband (30m) said I 😀 wasn’t attractive enough to cheat 🐬 on him?
My husband is gorgeous. Everybody says so. I consider myself pretty but unremarkable.

My features aren't exactly supermodel material but I do the best I can with what god gave me. I have nice skin thanks to skincare, a decent body thanks to the gym, and so on. But Compared to my husband I might as well be a troll.

Even my own mom thought my husband must be gay and in the closet or hiding sketchy things because of how much more attractive he is than me. It's the first thing people notice when we're out. I've had women flirt with him right in front of me and have had two girls I know try to to get with him behind my back.

Even I question why he's with me sometimes. I'm insecure about it but my husband has always said that he loved me and thought I was beautiful and to not listen to other people. Yesterday changed everything.

I bumped into an old boyfriend from college. We parted on good terms and it turns out he's doing very well for himself in his career. I'm looking to change jobs and I'm pretty decent at what I do.

We exchanged LinkedIns. There was nothing...