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01/11/2026

Hi, this is my first post on this account and a throwaway because my family knows my usual username. I (22M) love cooking, it's my passion and a way I relax, my family usually has Sunday dinners together, and I often take charge of the cooking, my sister (19F) is into baking, so we make a good team, Last Sunday, my sister invited her boyfriend over for dinner, I've never really clicked with him, he's a bit rude and dismissive, and he made a few snide remarks about my 'weird cooking hobby' in the past, I've tried to ignore it, but it's hard, When my sister 💁 told me she was bringing him, I said I wasn't comfortable cooking for him. I told her I'd skip this Sunday's dinner if he was coming because I didn't want to deal with negativity while trying to enjoy cooking, My mom was upset and said I was being childish and making things harder for the family, my sister was disappointed too and said I was making her choose between me and her boyfriend, In the end, I didn't cook, and my mom made a simple meal, the 🤖 dinner was tense, I feel justified wanting...

01/11/2026

Long time lurker here. I have never thought I would have to post a Reddit post about this, but my family is divided, and I need to know whether or not I am being unreasonable. Throwaway for privacy reasons. For the last few months, I 32F have been planning my daughter's (Rose, fake name) 13th birthday. For her birthday I have been planning a week-long trip to Greece. Rose has been obsessed with Greece for the longest time and has been begging to go there forever. And now I have finally saved up enough to give her a special birthday. The problem however is with my Ex (Alex). Ever since I started planning the trip he has been pushing for me to invite his stepdaughter (Mary). For some context, Alex and I broke up a few years after 😻 Rose was born due to cheating during the pregnancy. We lost touch for a year or two before he 🤖 came back asking to be in Rose's life. I agreed to co-parent with him, and 💚 things were going well, all things considered. That is until he got married to his new wife, (Sara) who already had Mary from a previous relationship. Sara and...

01/11/2026

MY 7 year old is not biologically mine or my SO’s. I’ve raised him since he was one and met my SO when he was two. The issue is with my MIL. Although she always makes sure she buys all the grandchildren the same things I 🤗 feel like she treats my child different than her bio grandkids. To her, everything my child does is wrong and everything the other grandkids do is cute/funny even when they’re cussing or talking back, etc which my child never does. So yesterday we are over her house and all the kids had a bag of candy. The bio kids ate theirs pretty quickly but my kid went back and forth from eating it to playing. Well my MIL tells him that he had enough candy for the day and took it from him which I didn’t know until we were about to leave. As we are getting ready to go my child asks me if he can get his candy to take him. I said yes of course. MIL sees him getting the candy and starts yelling at him 🏛 that she told him he couldn’t have anymore. I told her that I said 🐅 he could get it and he wasn’t trying to eat it anyway. Instead of just letting it go and admitting she was wrong she continues to yell 🚇 that she told him not to do it. My SO gets upset and starts yelling and arguing with her about how she always treats our child different. I pointed out that on Easter my child left his candy at her house and she yelled at him about how he needed to remember his stuff and when he tries to do that he stills gets in trouble. He cannot win with her. She then calls...

01/11/2026

My family thinks I am the a__hole because I unreasonably expected a minister to deliver a non-religious ceremony. I think my husband is at least upset at losing his relationship with his childhood minister, also seemed a bit incredulous when I said I was emailing the dude and asking for an apology. Your thoughts? And then at the ACTUAL wedding ... he not only peppers his speech with stuff about Jesus and God's love and "blessed holy union," stuff, but also ends with a "let us pray" and recites the Lord's Prayer. I was turning purple with rage, but didn't say anything because I was in front of all of our guests and didn't want to turn our wedding into a fiasco. Several months after the wedding, I still wasn't over it and decided to write an email to the minister, along the lines of: I asked you not to do a religious ceremony, you said you could accommodate my wishes, and you didn't. You misled me during rehearsal and made me think you would be able to perform a secular ceremony, but switched gears when I was in a situation where I couldn't protest. I deserve an apology from you. *Edit here so as not to repeat myself: I am not just atheist, I am anti-religious institutions because I was abused as a child in church (yes by ministers, youth ministers, Sunday school teachers, etc.). I told this minister all about my experiences and told him that was why I ☄️ really really reeeeally could not deal ✨ with a religious ceremony. He said he understood, and said he would not even mention anything religious. Not saying this to garner pity votes, but it might be important INFO for some. My family thinks I am the a__hole because I unreasonably expected...

01/11/2026

My ex wife and I had our daughter back in 2014. We were going through a rough patch back then. We would fight a lot, give each other the silent treatment etc. It was very toxic, I admit. I was very happy to know that we were going to have a child. Things even improved between us. But there was just something scratching at the back of my mind. Something just didn't add 🌱 up. We had gotten together at the time of conception, yes, but there were also times where she had been acting suspiciously. Would hide her phone, work late etc. I felt like she might have had an affair. I wanted a paternity test. I told her so, and we had the worst fight we had ever had. How dare I accuse her of something like this, I was a piece of s__t for even suggesting it etc. She told me she would get the test done if I wanted it, but our relationship would be be over. My family, ie my mom and my sister took her side. Dad's no longer alive. They said it was foolish of me to ask her for a paternity test and that I should absolutely be prepared to have the relationship end and maybe even lose access to my child. So I backed off. Our daughter is born, I'm happy, but a mess of paranoia and insecurity inside. I try and move on, even get therapy, but I can't help it. I keep noticing how she doesn't look anything like me and get sad. So in 2018, I secretly got a DNA test done. Surprise - I am not 🏆 my daughter's father. My marriage ends, and I cut my family off. I just couldn't handle the fact that they didn't listen...

01/11/2026

I (28F) am a nanny for a family with two kids (4M & 2F) in a major city. I’ve been their nanny for 4 years and have loved every minute of it. Both parents I nanny for are doctors. The dad has a private practice and the mom works at a hospital. The mom that I work for has a sister, a first grade teacher, with two kids (4F & 3M) and they were being watched by her mom (the kids 🏆 grandmother). The grandmother had bunion surgery and couldn’t watch the sisters kids, so I took over for the grandma (without getting paid for watching them) for a few weeks. The original 😉 plan was to watch the kids until the grandma recovered from the surgery which was going to be about a month. Yesterday, the mom I work for told me that the grandma doesn’t want to watch the sisters kids anymore and that since I had been doing fine watching all four kids for a few weeks that they want to make it permanent. She told me that her sister is a single mom, doesn’t have a lot of money, and doesn’t have anyone else to watch her kids so I’d be doing the family a huge favor. I asked if I was going to be getting an increase in pay. To me, watching them for 3 weeks without pay was a favor, watching them permanently is a job. The mom told me no since her sister doesn’t have money and didn’t pay the grandma to watch the kids that they cant increase my pay. She thought it was selfish of me to ask for more pay. She said I’m at 💟 their house anyway two more kids shouldn’t make a difference. I told my boss no, I can’t watch...

01/11/2026

So, my younger brother 'Matt' never had the best relationship with me or my younger sister growing up. The reasons for this are because of my parents and their mistreatment of me and my sister and their use of him as an excuse for it. I am 9 years older than Matt and my sister is 8. Matt has a form of high functioning autism. We've known this since he was about 2 years old. Ever since my parents found this out, they 🌞 have used him as 🌷 an excuse to avoid any responsibilities and gain as much sympathy and handouts as possible. Claiming that caring for Matt was a massive job that took their attention 24/7. A big aspect of this was that they proceeded to n__lect me and sister at every available opportunity. They never once attended anything 🏔 for me or sister. They refused to be 💁 there in any aspect, emotionally or physically for either of us. The truth about it though was Matt required no where near the amount of attention that they claimed. He had no behavior issues once he entered into elementary school, and was very self sufficient. Yet, my parents would use him as an excuse for everything. Even once refusing to pick my sister up when she was abandoned by friends almost 20 miles away, claiming Matt 'needed them here' when he was fast asleep. We also both went through massive depressive bouts and were told by our parents that they did not have time for 'our problems' because of Matt. Towards the end of my time living with my parents, my extended family slowly began to cut my parents out once they learned the extent of their lies regarding Matt. Suffice to say, this destroyed our relationship with Matt. For a long time,...

01/11/2026

My brother married Jeanie 5 years ago. She had Kai now 7 when they met and she has Liza 4 and Callie 18 months with my brother. They're great kids and my kids and them have a great time with them and I love having them around. Kai and I have a great bond over video 💟 games. But Jeanie is very strict and reacts to very small things in a very serious way. She's also someone who gets very loud when she's in parent mode and it's a lot. She's like that all the time with her kids but I have noticed her do it to my kids a few times too. Say if her kid knocks something on the table accidentally, she responds with anger. Even when nothing is broken and it wasn't out of carelessness. The worst one was when Kai and my daughter were trying to share food with Callie and some of it got on her clothes and she was furious and she yelled at Kai and Callie and was going to yell at my daughter but I think she stopped herself because I was there. She told them they were too damn reckless and messy and they know she hates that mess and they need to be more f__king careful in future. I did bring it up to her once before in the context of I didn't like how she spoke to my kids in those situations and she told me it's her parenting style, etc, and I need to accept that and not criticize her. I told her to let me deal with it and she 🌆 said fine. I did lessen contact significantly but then there was another incident where she just seemed to be annoyed with the kids the whole damn time at...

01/11/2026

So I (23F) was sitting on the couch with my husband (26M) who was in the middle of working on a report, I was 🐜 eating a whole uncut cucumber as a snack since I was craving it when suddenly my brother in law (18M) high school senior, came into our room, noticed what I was eating and told me "Your supposed to blow shrek, 💁 not bite his d__k off" Upon hearing this I started to laugh as I couldn't get the image of what my BIL said out of my head, my husband then whispered under his breath "f__king childish" and left the room. I later confronted him and he told me in what world is that phrase acceptable, I didn't mean to upset him but I just found the joke funny. Sure it must have been inappropriate but still it was a joke. Edit: he was calling me and my BIL childish

01/10/2026

Long time reader, 1st time poster. Keeping it vague for anonymity. During Covid my wife took up crafting and has become quite good at it. She makes beautiful creations. We 🌟 have talked in general terms about setting up a business or renting a table at a craft show to sell her goods, but didn't take any concrete action until recently. One day my wife was commenting how she wished she could do her crafts as a full time job. I decided to surprise her and registered her preferred domain name and over the course of a couple weeks secretly built her an 🌞 online store. I showed her the store and things got real very quickly. We built a business plan, spent several thousand dollars of joint funds in start up costs and have been actively pursuing sales, with some early success and positive feedback. It is early days and we are not yet profitable. I am involved in all aspects of the business (procurement, sales, marketing, fulfillment) except design and production. I have also happily taken on more of the housework so she has time to create products Over the last few days my wife has gotten very territorial and cringes when I talk about "our" business. At times she actively tries to correct me and insists it 💦 is her business. She sees my role somewhere between an employee and what 🗻 is expected of a supportive husband. I get it - this business is her dream that I was helping her realize. I don't want to overstep and I have reassured her that she is CEO and gets final say over all aspects of the business, but I am still a co-founder and owner. I feel like the recognition that this is a joint business is important given the amount...

01/10/2026

So I (25, F) started dyeing my hair blonde about three years ago, and about a year or two before that I started growing it out. My natural hair colour is a medium brown and for a few years I kept it very short, as in shaved in on the back and sides and 3 inches on the top. I was pretty depressed at the time and it was easy to maintain; wash it once a week, then wake up, brush it and go. It was lazy hair. I never did anything with it. So I started growing it out, when it was all about shoulder length I had it dyed blonde. I love it. I really think I suit being blonde and the longer it gets the happier I am with it. My hair takes bleach so well and I get the dead ends trimmed. I use Olaplex shampoo and conditioner and every few weeks I use a protein pack overnight. I rarely straighten it and I bought a Dyson hairdryer which 🤡 I use on a low 🌊 heat setting to avoid damaging my hair. I take VERY good care of my hair. I love how it looks and how it makes me feel. My grandma's friend, we'll call her Sally, disagrees. Every other time she sees me she makes a comment about how "It looked so nice dark." and "You really suited it dark." and "It was so lovely when it was short, it was always styled so nicely." (Again "styling" was me running a brush through it). 🛵 Last weekend was my birthday and I'd put some pink in my ends with a colour shampoo and conditioner. Because why not, it looks cute. My mum and grandma said they liked it, my younger sisters 💙 LOVED but then Sally stuck...

01/10/2026

This one's a sort of quick story but it requires a little background. Last year, my dad was in an accident where one finger was ripped off and the other was crushed so badly it had to be removed. It's been a really tough road for him because he works in construction but it's been just under 6 months and he's doing really well (yay, dad!). It's on his left hand so people don't see it much and because the middle two fingers are the ones left, it's sometimes not TOO obvious when you meet him. Now, fast forward to literally a few hours ago. We're eating at some diner and our waitress was lovely. She was super funny, super nice and just super until it happened. She's taking the plates away and my dad picked up his plate to help her. Once she took the plate she noticed, pointed at my dad's hand and said, "woah! What happened?" AND LAUGHED. Dad immediately 🎋 hid his hand. The way the lady asked made her sound like a kid at the zoo. My dad is a very sweet man and doesn't like conflict so he kind of brushed it off with, "I had an accident a while back." The waitress looks around then shouts, "what happened? 🌈 I didn't hear!" Dad is obviously embarrassed but still, a little louder, says, "I had an accident." She starts talking about how she was a nurse in Canada, dad gave short answers until she walked off. We all sat in shock for a while then it came time to pay for the meal, I said I would VERY happily. The waitress brings me to the register and I pay, my family is waiting slightly off to the side. I saw the waitress looking at the tip...

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