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12/31/2025

I -19f- work in a furniture store, I've been here about a month. My boss recently called me into the office and asked me to fix my 🤣 walk as it's quite "suggestive?". I asked what she meant and she told me that I know what my body looks like and that walking the way I do brings attention to my b__. I told her I can't help this as I have larger hips and it'll always make my b__ stick out and that no matter what it'll look odd. She told me to try hunching a little when 🕊️ I walk just to help things and I did try it for a few day, but it didn't feel good and made my back hurt, so I went back to walking correctly. Yesterday she said she was disappointed that I'm still drawing this kind of attention to myself and that it's not ladylike. Am I the a__hole? 6hr update: Thank you to everyone. Things didn't go so well. I wrote this before my shift started and when I got in she asked me into the office and she fired me. She said I had the choice to be a professional or a distraction and she said it's clear I've made my choice. I'll be looking for work soon, but thanks to everyone for the kind messages. Update part deaux: I've gotten a lot of messages from people who can relate to having their body criticized, and it's been very reassuring and has made things feel less heavy. I did shamefully, try to call and ask for my job back. I tried to negotiate that I'd wear a large jumper and baggy pants, just to keep the peace until I could find another job. My old boss said she's uncomfortable with having me...

12/31/2025

I've been with my husband since his daughter "Lina" was 13. Being a stepparent is the hardest thing I've ever done. To 🐚 put it very simply, Lina was never happy. She didn't want me to marry her dad, but I thought she would come around when she saw that he 🐎 still loved her just as much. She was not a bad child, wasn't acting out, but literally nothing made her happy. She never smiled, never expressed any interest or enthusiasm about anything. MIL was extremely concerned about Lina and kept demanding to know what we were doing to her. We had to set boundaries because MIL was asking Lina completely inappropriate questions and implying we were doing something to her. Lina reacted badly to these boundaries and began acting out. It was such a mess, and I felt like such a failure, because no matter what we did she just was not happy. (yes she was in therapy and we did family therapy) Lina moved out at 18 and was suddenly super happy, which just made us feel worse, and MIL was convinced we did something to her. MIL has multiple times asked Lina in front of other people what we did to her. Lina denies that we did anything and says it just wasn't fair that she had to live with her dad's partner and she couldn't relax with a "stranger" in the house. That really hurt because 📣 I tried to bond with her and her dad tried to maintain a relationship with her, but she was just so shut down. I recently found out that MIL has been calling me a child abuser. She also blatantly tells people she hates me. When confronted she cried about how hard it was on her to watch Lina like that and...

12/31/2025

My husband and I recently took a 5-hour flight to attend the wedding of one of my closest friends (T). We both 🛵 took 5 days off work for T's wedding, and payed for our flights, hotel, and everything else that comes with that ourselves. Prior to the wedding, I was a huge emotional crutch for T. In her own words, I was her 'chosen family', and she wouldn't have known what to do without me to listen to her and help her. Around a month before the wedding, I also threw T a giant bridal shower at my house, which I paid for. None of 😄 T's cousins or childhood friends chipped in or worked for T's bridal shower. This meant that I was also stuck with the job of organising, decorating, and cleaning up after the party. It is important to note that I was NOT appointed as the maid of honour or even a bridesmaid at this wedding; I was 🎍 just asked to organise the shower by the bride herself because 'she couldn't trust anyone else with it'. When the wedding day finally arrived, I found out that the entire guest list of the bridal shower (the same people who had actually refused to lift a finger or contribute money for T's bridal shower) had been invited to hang out with the bride in her suite to get dressed with her for the event, while I did not get the same memo. When I finally did get down to her suite, T asked me to leave about 20 seconds in so that she could have a moment with her family and childhood friends. After the wedding ceremony, we went down to the reception area, where my ever-optimistic husband was the first to find out that we were seated at...

12/31/2025

Sorry for the confusing(?) title, I don’t exactly know how to word this. I’m 21f, my dad was 46m. To make a long story short: When I was 9, my dad cheated 😂 on my mom, while she had cancer, and got married immediately after she died. Stepmom, who is 43f, and her daughter, 🐚 who is 18f, were not nice people, and made growing up a living hell for me. They were constantly reminding me I didn’t have a mom, and would do things like destroy my bedroom, any school stuff I had, and throw any nice thing I had out. My dad knew about most of it and did nothing. When I turned 18, I moved out and refused to contact any of them again. About a month ago, my dad had a heart attack in the middle of the night and died. I didn’t learn about his passing until two weeks ago, where I also learned he’d left me everything in his will. Not “everything” everything, but he left me what money he had, and several precious objects that are worth a good bit of money. Very little was left to step-mom and step-sister. I found out he died because they called me to start harassing me about giving them what 🌼 I was getting from my dad’s will. They told me they would be struggling if they didn’t get it. I ended up telling them that I didn’t care if they were struggling, and that if they really wanted to do this, I would see them in court. AITA for collecting what I was left from my dad’s will, leaving my step-family to struggle? Edit: 1: step-mother was left something, yes. She was left with the house, and money from my dad and her’s joint account. I was left...

12/31/2025

My brother and his wife had their first child a week ago, and we are all over the moon ecstatic! I am torn about this situation because I realize the weeks/months after birth are a huge shift and very stressful, so I wanted to come here and 😀 see what a third party would think. I still plan on apologizing after things cool down though. My nephew was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck (a nuchal cord). He had no complications other than having to get some extra oxygen after birth. I was also born with a nuchal cord--I had a bit more severe of a case and was in the NICU for a week and a half 🕸️ because of breathing issues and a seizure after birth. I'm obviously alive today, and perfectly healthy (aside from unrelated issues, like mental health). My brother and I also have a younger sister who has developmental disabilities--she had absolutely zero complications in her birth. Since giving birth, my SIL has been talking to everyone about how she is "going to have a disabled baby" and that she needs reassurance that we will all do our best to support her "disabled child." According to my brother, there has been no such determination made by her doctors, just 📢 her saying that because of the nuchal cord, he is going to have disabilities and developmental delays. We were all on a group video call and she was saying that she ordered some books about adjusting to being the parent of a disabled child. My mom had mentioned that 🚟 she also had a nuchal cord baby, and that it's scary but everything will turn out fine. My mom didn't mention which one of us had the nuchal cord, however, and my SIL assumed it was...

12/30/2025

I Got a call from our sons teacher who said that he 🦀 had apparently told his teacher, 'it's a long story, but not as long as my d__k'. After she asked him why he didn't do his homework. This is the exact joke my husband makes. She also mentioned that this 🙋 wasn't the first time he's made these types of jokes, just the first time it's been with her. One example she gave was that my son apparently asks girls for, 'pencils or pieces of paper'. And when they give them to him he apparently smirks and says, 'good girl'. Which is another thing I've seen my 🐧 husband do. I told my husband 🌞 he needed to start acting his age because it was rubbing off on Jacob, and Jacob was getting in trouble. He said he'll, 'do as he pleases in his own home'and that I should, 'learn to see the humor in things'.

12/30/2025

throwaway, not US My parents divorced when I was 14 over my *legal father's* cheating (5 years long affair). Mom got primary custody and I did my best to be as cold and distant as I could be when I had to go for visits at his. I mostly went so mom wouldn't get in trouble with courts but it was obvious I wanted to be anywhere else but there. My mom told me I should separate my *legal father's* actions towards her from his actions towards me but I just couldn't. Growing up, I idolized my parents' relationship (*legal father* took her out on a date every week and regularly got her flowers, chocolates and other small gifts - the optics were of a perfect couple) and to find it all was a lie was devastating. It didn't help I was the one who walked in on him with his mistress. After the divorce, I completely changed my life trajectory to spite him. I was originally set to go to a preparatory high school and go 🐌 on to 🍁 uni. Instead, I chose to attend a trade school with an integrated apprenticeship and had a guaranteed job immediately upon graduating at 17. I cut all contact with him as soon as I turned 18 and had my name changed to mom's maiden name. As far as I was concerned, my mom was my only parent. Fast forward several years and the world situation claimed her. The *legal father* tried to reach out but the funeral restrictions were for six people only and that got filled easily with just my 🏍 mom's closest family. I also sent back the money he tried to give me for funeral expenses. Early November is a time of remembering the dead in my country. People visit...

12/30/2025

Yo reddit, first big post here, so be gentle. So the situation goes as: I (29M) am marrying the love of my life (27F) next May. It is pretty much a big deal in the family, as this is the first wedding in my generation. I also have a sister (27F), who I'm not really close to due to us being really different people, the reason for it being us reacting very differently to the same childhood traumas, but the relationship is not horrible either. My sister had a boyfriend (27M) for 9 years, they got together around 16 or something (I wasn't really around that time) and they had it great for most of the time. The guy and I got pretty close, as he was with us on all family occasions, we shared similar hobbies and he helped a lot in our family issues by simply being there as an independent onlooker. Altogether, for long years a part of the family. They eventually broke up almost two years ago, which was understandable due to how much people change in such a young age, different views on having kids, etc. It wasn't even a problematic break-up, I talked to my sister about keeping touch with him and she was fairly understanding about it, no fuss. Time passes and turns out my sister left him for a guy 19 years older than her (not a big problem, she was always had an old person's soul) which was not especially cool, but whatever. I kept in touch with her ex, even had better times with him 🦑 without them 🚃 being together, he handled it great, he moved to the same city where I lived, became an integral part of my group of friends, friends with my fiance, all fun and games. And...

12/30/2025

My mother passed away 3 years ago, I (19F) was her only biological child but she took care of my step-dad's children (25M, 26M and 30F) since their mom died giving birth to 25M (I'll call him Jon) so ⛄ my mom what their only maternal figure, they married when I was 2 and she took care of them ever since. I'm not personally close with either of them or her husband and when she passed, I moved to my dad's home full time and never spoke to them again. Now, my mom left some money to each of them, but nothing like jewelry, family heirlooms or things like that. Jon wants to get married to his long term gf and a few weeks ago sent me a message on fb saying he wanted to talk and I agreed, I congratulated him and everything, but he asked for my mom's engagement ring since she always ''promised it'' to him. My mom and Jon were really, really close, closer than me and her maybe, I knew she loved him the most and it hurts, yeah, but whatever. He showed me some old messages between him and my mom saying things like ''If you want the ring, just ask my love'', or ''I have the ring kept in a box for you'', but she never actually changed her will for the ring to be left to him and she had plenty of time to do so, because she did left them money. This rings go back to a few generations back, maybe 200-250 years old, it was my mom's, my grandma, my great-grandma etc, my mom wore it 🤣 all the time and it's the only piece of jewelry she actually liked. ❤️ I said I was gonna thing about it before leaving. I consulted...

12/30/2025

I'm the child of an affair between my dad and my mom. My dad stayed married to his wife and sees me at my grandparents house every other weekend. I also do my summer visits at my grandparent's house and my dad stays for the two months to spend time with me. My dad's wife and her kids (my older siblings) hate me and don't acknowledge me. I'm pretty mad about it but I kind of get it now. My parents did a s__tty thing and while it's unfair, I'm getting punished for it. So i gave up on having a relationship with my siblings. And I gave up on having any financial extras from my father after finding out his wife was preventing him from spending any extra money on me other than child support. But my grandparents do love me and always invite me to family gatherings. When I go, it causes my dad's wife and my siblings to make a scene and leave. It honestly ruins the whole vibe but I feel like I'm going just to spite them because I'm pi**ed off at being 😀 treated so badly. My dad obviously feels upset by it but to his credit, hasn't made me feel unwelcome himself. Our city is at stage three and I found out there's a family gathering happening in a 😿 park. I'm thinking of going. AITA for going?

12/30/2025

I (25F) started my Masters program last year right before the world became dystopian. My boyfriend (34M) and I have been together for 4 years and he has watched me 🌕 scrimp and save in order for me to afford to go to school. I mean, I was poor poor. Anyways, for Christmas this year he surprised me with a really nice and expensive computer since all of my school is online. I was incredibly grateful for the gift and did not expect it at all. In fact, I told him he needed to return it because my old computer was fine. He assured me this was my gift to do what I needed in order to graduate school. However, this was the first very expensive gift my boyfriend has bought me. He's bought me some jewelry that was around 100 dollars (which I consider to be expensive) but this computer was in the thousands. What I did not expect was how this computer was going to be used as a bargaining tool for months to come. Every week, he'll ask me for money. When I say "no we really need to save this for [blank] fund" he'll say "we'll we could have did that with you computer but I still got it for you, so you owe 🐐 me!" It's been several conversations like this, both joking and serious, about how I "owe" him for the computer. I've had several conversations about this with him and told him I don't appreciate how he's using this computer for leverage when he wants me to get him something. He'll apologize but a week later brings it up again. It's become such a source of contention that I told him I was going to sell the computer and buy a cheaper one and give...

12/30/2025

My engagement to “Matt” ended after I found out he was cheating on me with “Claire”. He ended up marrying Claire after I broke ☺️ up with him. During our engagement, we were looking to move into a new house. Everything was ready for us to move in, we just had to sign the paperwork. Matt ended up moving into the house with Claire. This all happened 4 years ago, and I’ve moved on since. My fiancé and I were living in his house until two months ago. He decided he wanted to demolish and rebuild it, so we had to find another place to stay whilst it’s being built. We ended 🌟 up finding a house in the same neighbourhood as my ex and his wife. When Matt and I originally found the house he now lives in with his wife, I did ALL of the work finding it. I absolutely loved that house and I was more upset about not being able to move into it than finding out they were getting married. Also, the owner told us he would only rent the place to us for a year because 😝 he was planning to sell it so I didn’t actually think they would still be living there. We’ve lived here for two months now. The first month was completely peaceful and I didn’t see my ex or his wife even once. In the second month, I became more friendly with some of my neighbours and they introduced me to the other neighbours including Claire. That evening, she came to my house and went on a long rant about how I was trying to get Matt 🐰 back and I was a stalker. After that, I started seeing Matt a lot and he wouldn’t stop making conversation with me. Things got really...

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