AITAH, 526 Leland Avenue, Dayton, OH (2026)

06/05/2026

AITAH for refusing to fund my brother's wedding after he insulted my wife?

Hey everyone,

I'm in a bit of a dilemma and need some outside perspectives.

I (32M) have a younger brother, Tim (28M), who recently got engaged. Our family has always been close, and I've been relatively successful in my career. Because of this, I've been able to help out family members financially when needed. Tim and his fiancée, Lisa, have been planning their dream wedding, and naturally, he came to me asking if I could contribute a significant amount to help cover the costs.

Here's where it gets tricky. My wife, Sarah (31F), and I got married three years ago. Our wedding was a modest but beautiful affair that we funded ourselves. Tim was my best man, and though he didn't contribute financially, he was supportive and involved.

A few weeks ago, we had a family dinner where wedding plans came up. Tim made a snide comment about how our wedding was "nice but not exactly the fairy tale" that he and Lisa are planning. He then implied that if we had asked for help, maybe our wedding could have been better. This hurt Sarah deeply, as she put her heart into planning our wedding.

I confronted Tim later, explaining that his comment was out of line and that he owed Sarah an apology. He brushed it off, saying he was just joking and that we were being too sensitive. Sarah feels disrespected and is upset that Tim doesn't see the problem.

Now, Tim is pressuring me for the money, and our parents are subtly hinting that I should help out for the sake of family unity. However, Sarah feels strongly that we shouldn't give a dime until Tim apologizes sincerely. I agree with her, but I also don't want to be the cause...

06/05/2026

AITA For Ending My Relationship After My Girlfriend Installed Cameras In Our Apartment Because She Didn’t Trust Me?

I need help. I'm M25 and my ex girlfriend is F24. We were together for 3 years and marriage was definitely in our future.

Basically, my ex always loved true crime but she was really getting into DV true crime. She had been down her DV rabbit hole for about 4-6 months I want to say before she really started acting weird with me. She didn't want me to have her location (which we mutually had for safety purposes), she was telling her mom, sister, and friends everything I did, she was being skittish around me, kept a diary when she had never had one before, and would basically just be overly cautious around me. I'm not too sure how to describe it. You could just see she was being weird. Even at gatherings my family asked me if we were fighting because she seemed overly cautious around me and was only sticking with the women.

It was really starting to get to me, but I didn't want her suspicions to be "right" so I didn't do anything about it. She had told me that as a man, I have to understand. That DV happens all the time, even perfect men suddenly end up abusers, and that I was no different. It really, really got to me. All I could think then, and even now, is that I'm nothing like those men. I get that it could be anyone, but, seriously? I don't even k__l bugs. I take them outside. She had never been in an abusive relationship either. This behavior was so unlike her but I felt like there was nothing I could do because of her position. If I reacted badly she would be "right" and I know I'm not an abuser so I just took...

06/05/2026

AITAH For telling my kids' step mother that she is just their step mother & my kids aren't hers?

My (50 F) 10 & 13 yr old children are at their dad's (52 M) for the summer. We divorced 10 yrs ago & he remaried almost immediately. (She was the affair). After some counseling, we co-parent pretty well, most of the time, but my ex's wife (32 F), I'll call her Becky, is just a bit much. I really tried to like her, but she talks a lot, is very opinionated & has a tendency to interfere with our parenting agreements. She'll cause delays in pick-up times & phone calls, by hiding their phone, she's tried to get them to refer to her as mom & last week, she took them to a theme park that my husband & I had already made plans & bought the tickets to take them to, when we came down, next week to visit. Their dad was unaware that she was planning it , as he was out of town, on business, that day. I was very upset, but I let it go, once my ex & I spoke about it. He assured it wouldn't happen again.

2 days ago, my son called to ask me some personal questions as they wanted to look up my family history on an ancestry site. I told him to wait & we would do that together, when he came home. I had signed up for a genealogy site, a few months ago, to help my mom. I signed in, today & found 2 family matches, in the town that my ex lives in. Becky did exactly what I asked her not to do.

We had previously discussed social media & computer access, and I was very explicit that I didn't want my kids' info out there.

When I called her, at first, she...

06/04/2026

AITA for giving my husband in ultimatum in regards to how he interacts with my daughters?

When my husband and I got married, his daughter "Catherine" was 11 and my girls were 10 and 8. We thought we did our best to blend the families. Catherine never expressed any issues. She didn't interact much with my kids, but she didn't like playing with other kids at school either. We figured it was just her personality. We did our best to treat all 3 kids fairly.

Catherine got engaged about a year ago and said she didn't want a wedding and would probably just elope. We were happy for her, but we recently found out she did have a wedding and we weren't invited (nor was her mom, stepdad, halfsister). When my husband confronted Catherine she blew up about how she never asked for a blended family. She said she would never invite him and not me, as she would never go to a wedding if her husband wasn't invited, but one day was supposed to be about what she wanted and not "pretending some people were her family"

My husband was blindsided. He really didn't feel we had done anything wrong and he was devastated he had missed so many signs. Personally I think a lot of this has to do with Catherine hearing how her MIL never even dated when her husband was a child, and I think that made her jealous. I did my best to support my husband, but ever since his talk with Catherine, he has been pulling away from my daughters. My younger one still lives at home while she finishes school and he has hardly been talking to her. My older one is planning her own wedding and he is showing no interest. I get it is hard, but he has been in their lives for fifteen years...

06/04/2026

AITAH for comparing my husband to his stepfather and making him feel emasculated?

My husband recently played a prank I did not appreciate and opened my car window while going through a car wash. I got soaked and felt completely helpless. Not to mention our son was watching and I do not want him to grow up and think that is how you treat women.

When my husband explained why he did it, it pi**ed me off even more. He said it was just a whim because he remembered his stepfather doing that to his mother when my husband was a kid, and my husband thinking it was funny. This annoyed me because MIL is my polar opposite in every way and we have never gotten along, so acting like something is ok to do to me because it was done to her just blew my mind.

I told him if he wants to act like his immature stepfather than I want what MIL gets and I listed my terms

1) I want to be a housewife with a housekeeper and spend my days doing whatever the f__k I want

2) I want elaborate vacations every other month

3) I want Cartier and Tiffanys and the other s__t he buys her

4) I want someone to give in to my moods and whims. If MIL wants ice cream at 2 am she gets ice cream. If she wants attention, he drops everything

5) I want to be lavished in attention to the point people are rolling their eyes

I said when he can truly act like his stepdad, I can tolerate the pranks. My husband became silent and didn't speak to me for the rest of the car ride. When we got home he locked himself in his room. He finally blew up that I...

06/04/2026

AITA for telling my husband that he failed me and our child?

So, to kick off, within the first 2 months of me giving birth (and having severe PPD), he decides to make a completely out of the blue career change. I urge him to go get checked by his P*P for PPD, because surely something must be wrong to be making such a life changing decision with zero warning so soon after I give birth. He refuses. Insists that he is fine but that his career is all the sudden 'too much' and it's 'taking too much time away from bonding with the baby'. Literally a normal 40hr work week but he was getting pi**ed because for the last 2 weeks of his employment, his boss had been asking that he works 4hrs every Saturday (his normal day off, but it's only 4hrs). So, he quits. He gets a job elsewhere 2 days later and takes a $4.50/hr pay cut. Okay, no big deal. Except now he has to pay $160 out of each paycheck for the mandatory benefits and work fees. That doesn't include taxes. He is bringing in no more than $300 a paycheck, in comparison to the $600+ paychecks he was getting. Our bills are almost $2k a month. Therefore we have had to pay out of our savings every single month and it adds up quick!

Well, heres where I may be an a__hole. Bills are obviously due soon. I asked him how much money he had set aside for the bills so I could work through the numbers. He tells me that he "wasn't able to" save anything for bills and he literally has $4 in his account. Meaning come the first, ALL of the bill money will be coming out of our savings. He tells me "maybe you need to start looking for a...

06/03/2026

AITAH for saying I would divorce my wife after our kid starts going to school and then following up?

37M and 38F married for 11 years. We have a 7 years old daughter and everything looks perfect for outsiders in our relationship. However, we started having serious problems with our intimacy life in the second year of our marriage. I had serious discussions with her about it many times. I had her go to a doctor for hormone tests, which came up normal. I tried to arrange a marriage counseling/s__ therapy session which my wife rejected. I was young and hopeful back then and instead of saying no to a kid, I went ahead with it. I fully accept it's my mistake though I dearly love our daughter.

After our daughter was born, I did not ask for any kind of s__ for 2 years. Guess what happened? We had s__ only 2 times. Everything I tried after that was met with a checklist. I complete the checklist, she finds another excuse and it goes on and on. When our daughter was 4 years old, I made up my mind and told her I would divorce her after our daughter starts going to school. She did not take me seriously even though I said I am dead serious about this. For the last 3 years, I was focusing on myself mostly after taking care of our daughter during the day. I started hitting the gym and got six packs for the first time in my life. I started going for healthier food options, started playing tennis and hiking. I went to therapy. Life has been amazing from a personal point of view. Our daughter will start going to school this September and I've had the divorce papers for a while now. I was literally counting days and presented the papers to my wife. She could not believe it...

06/03/2026

AITAH for breaking up with my girlfriend because she is vanilla in bed with only me?

I(28M) was together with my ex-girlfriend(28F) for almost 2 years. Our intimate life was okay though I always wanted more. I wanted to be more aggressive, more adventurous with costumes and toy plays. On the other hand, she was fine with vanilla intimacy. I had a discussion with her about it once and once she refused, I respected her decision and did not ask again.

Last week, I was on her phone and searching for home appliances on her browser. I saw a local women forum on the open tab. It was this question: "those who are together with a good guy, do you regret it?". My girlfriend answered stability is good though she sometimes miss wild times and intimacy. I was baffled. She did not want to do these things with me even though she misses it. I confronted her and asked if she wants out to try new things without mentioning the forum. She answered no again and I told her about what I saw. She told me she certainly misses those things but will not do them with me. She could do them with a h__kup, FWB or someone else but not me because I am a boyfriend material. I told her I am open to do these things if she misses it and she rejected.

I tried to understand her reasoning for days but could not in the end. I also came to conclusion that we are incompatible and part of me wanted to do these things. She was my first while she had many partners before me and I did not get to experience these things like she did. Aftermath was not pretty but it's too much drama, I do not want to talk about it here.

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06/03/2026

AITA for telling my boyfriend that his daughter needs to start paying for food or she needs to leave?

I have been dating Mark for 2 years now and he moved in with me 4 months ago, with his 19yo daughter Lindy. Mark and I split the bills down the middle, Lindy doesn't contribute, though she has a full time job making $16 an hour. I never had any intentions of making her pay anything but her eating habits are driving me up the wall.

She has a "food routine" for breakfast, lunch and snacks (I'm told she has OCD and it's an OCD thing). She has 6 pieces of toast every morning between 6-8am. 2 with peanut butter, 2 with butter, 2 with jelly. By 10am she makes herself 2 hard boiled eggs because she's "starving". She eats 2 grilled cheese for lunch around 12-12:30. She then eats again at 2 (before leaving for work), where she has 2 packages of ramen noodles. Her snack? She takes spoonfuls of peanut butter straight from the jar several times a day. Dinner she usually eats at work, but when she's home she eats more than me and Mark combined. When she gets home, she has no less than two bowls of cereal - where she fills the milk to the top and then just pours it down the drain after (as in drinks none of the milk and just wastes it). And no, she's not overweight. Id say she's a healthy weight. Maybe 130lbs and she's 5'9" tall.

Now.. I'm going through an entire loaf of bread a day. A big jar of peanut butter doesn't last more than 3 days. I'm buying a carton of eggs every 2 days. I'm lucky to make a gallon of milk last a day. Mark and I hardly ever eat bread, peanut butter or eggs. Maybe once a week at most...

06/02/2026

AITA for expecting my wife to apologize to my daughter?

I have a 12yo daughter "Claire". I met my wife "Kim" 4 years ago and married her 2 years ago. We had a daughter 5 months ago. Claire is adjusting very well. There was never any issues surrounding the baby or jealousy or anything like that. If anything Claire tries to 'help' too much. So the issues really started when Kim came home after giving birth and they haven't stopped, despite both me and Kim talking to Claire several times. It basically goes in one ear and out the other.

So Claire has made it a habit to sprint to the baby whenever she is crying and loudly shriek things like "what are you doing?" Or "why are you crying". Doesn't matter what time of day or night it is. When shrieking she also makes a point to stand basically on top of you, so it's directly in your ear and you're unable to move. Mix that with the baby crying and your fight or flight is bound to kick in. So I get it completely and as I said, I've continuously been on top of it and redirected Claire and told her she needs to stop doing that. Her shrieking is not helpful like she thinks it is. However, she says "well I got the baby to stop crying didn't I?" And it's true. The baby will stop crying. Sometimes she even enjoys it and starts giggling. But it's ear piercing.

Well, for the past 4 days the baby has had a fever. She has a viral infection. She's cranky and even putting her down turns in to a full on hysterical scream. My wife is touched out. So I understand why she felt the need to lose her s__t last night on Claire but I'm still...

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