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01/01/2026

So I (19f) live with my cousin (20f) because we go to the 🚇 same university. I have type 1 diabetes and a chronic lung condition that requires me to be on oxygen therapy full time. My aunt (cousin's mom) never believed that I'm as sick as I am, even with the near constant hospitalisation through my childhood and two emergency surgeries. They'd mock me when I couldn't attend cousin's birthday parties or take part in sports as much as she does. 📣 This has rubbed off on my cousin. She also believes that I'm faking being sick. She's publicly accused me several times of having Manchausen Syndrome in front of mutual friends. Manchausen's is a mental disorder where people repeatedly act like they have an ailment that ☺️ they do not. Because of this, our friends are split on who to believe. I have an oxygen concentrator in the apartment. She complains about it nonstop as it can get a bit loud, and it's turned on 24/7. The oxygen gets delivered through a nasal cannula, and it has a 40ft long wire so I can move about the apartment. I can't even remember how many times she's "accidentally" tripped or stepped on my wire causing it to fall out or get disconnected. My parents got 🐟 me a designer bag for my birthday. Immediate snarky comments from her. "It's not like she can even go clubbing, why does she need something like that?" or "She won't get a boyfriend, who'd date someone that's hooked to a machine all the time?" Few days after that, I had to go out for a while. Told her I'd be back in a few hours. Finished what I needed to do quicker than I thought, so I went home a bit earlier than I said I would....

01/01/2026

I (52M) never had a big family unit growing up. My dad bailed when I was a baby and I was just my mom and I after that. I was often jealous of friends who would have big family celebrations. My wife and I have three children Alice (27F) Jeff (24M) and Kevin (22M)—Fake names. I always thought my kids would spend all the holidays with us, because I always stressed how important it was to me to have them all home with me. I did a zoom call with the three yesterday and they broke the news to me that none of them would be coming home for Thanksgiving. I got upset and Alice interrupted me to remind me that she and Jeff worked in fields and that they would sometimes have to work holidays. (She’s a x-ray technician in a hospital and Jeff is a dispatcher for 911) and that she was 💜 married now and she knew I wanted us all home for every holiday but that just wasn’t realistic. I asked Kevin what his excuse was and he said he was going to stay with his girlfriend because she just had surgery and wanted to care for her. I said they needed to get their priorities straight and they knew it was important to their mother and I that they attend. Jeff said that my wife understood and I was the one who constantly tried to guilt trip them into rearranging their lives to make me happy and he hated that I refused to let them live 🚃 their 🐡 lives without trying to guilt trip them into doing what I want. Alice said it wasn’t up for discussion and I could either accept they wouldn’t always be there or I could celebrate without her from here on out...

01/01/2026

So I have twins, a boy and a girl who are just graduating high school. When they turned 16 and both got their license my wife and I bought them a car to share. My son proceeded to crash that car 6 times, totaling it on the last time. We planned on buying them both new cars for graduation, but my wife and I decided getting him a car right now isn’t a good time, and discussed buying him a 😊 new gaming PC. We decided to give them both some money, and told our daughter we’d take her car shopping. We 😻 told him we didn’t feel buying him a car right now was a good idea, and pitched the PC idea at him. He told us it wasn’t fair that his sister get a car and he doesn’t, and we 🌆 can’t expect a teenager to not make some mistakes. We are staying strong with this idea, but his grandparents, who he called and complained to, agreed it wasn’t fair that our daughter get a car and he doesn’t. We aren’t leaving him without a car, we said he was welcome to borrow my car if he needed it since I work from home. AITA?

01/01/2026

I’m 24M. My friend and his fiancée (23M and 21F) were at the same bar I was at (we weren’t planning to meet up there, we just happened to run into each other). Pretty late into the night (about 1 AM) i was outside catching up with another buddy when 🌞 they came outside and got into 🛎 a pretty bad fight. I’m not sure exactly what it was about. Something about another girl, either he was talking to someone and getting too familiar, or he gave someone his number, he was pi**ed and she was drunk so not much either one of them was saying made much sense. He was their dd, he basically told her to f__k off and find her own ride, she said she didn’t want to be in a car with him anyway, flipped him off and went back into the bar. I went over to her, asked if she was ok and she said she was. I’m not that close with her so I left it at that, she was still with her friends so I figured she was in good hands. An hour later, the bars closing. I hadn’t been drinking (my work starts at 3:30AM so I sleep during the day, bars are the only place open when I’m up). My buddy’s girl had been though, and all of her friends had left except for one guy who was pretty drunk himself and chatting up this other guy near the bathroom. I asked her if she needed a ride, she wasn’t really able to form a coherent answer so I took that as a yes. We live in a small town, I know where she lives because I used to get tutored by her older sister back in high school. I drove her to...

01/01/2026

AITA? So before I was with my boyfriend I was with my ex. He was very wealthy and despite the relationship not working out he did give me a lot of gifts throughout it and he bought me a car for our fourth anniversary paid off in my name. We broke up right at the beginning of the pandemic and I met my current boyfriend ten months ago and we’ve been official for three months now. I’m not one to speak about exes and he never asked any questions so I never told him how I got my car. He did compliment it but that’s about it. My boyfriends father is a mechanic and yesterday I was over at my boyfriends apartment his dad had to drop something off and he commented about my car saying it was the best in the parking lot and he liked the color and rims not knowing it’s mine. We laughed about it and his dad was asking me a ton of questions about it and how much I pay a month and I told him it’s paid off and a gift. My boyfriend was surprised and said 🕋 he assumed I was paying it off and asked by who and I said my ex. He got quiet and it was really awkward for a bit where no one said anything. His dad broke the ice saying it’s a great gift since I don’t have to worry about paying it off and the conversation continued with him wanting 🌖 to drive it around the parking lot and see inside which I let him. When he left my boyfriend started going off on me saying he can’t believe I never said anything and that I just embarrassed him in front of 🐅 his dad. I said how and...

12/31/2025

My daughter (27F) and son-in-law (30M) currently have two kids (4 and 6). They both have very intensive careers and mentioned that they were struggling with work-life balance. They were hoping for my wife and I to help pick up the kids from school, help drive them to after school activities, and basically look over them from the 2:30-5:30pm time. To give some context, I used to do this for my three kids because I had the more flexible schedule (academia) between my wife and I. However, I also used to work every night from 10pm to 3am to make up for that time. My wife and I are not retired. I love my grandkids, but I still have many responsibilities. I'm also far too old to consider 🌸 returning to my schedule from before my kids went to college. I suggested that they hire a nanny because, as I reflect, that's what I would do if I were to go back in time. This upset my daughter, which I realize I was a little tactless in that regard. However, I also feel like 🦁 she is old enough to understand that my schedule when they were growing up was really terrible, and not something I would want her to replicate. My son-in-law then got really self-righteous about us not prioritizing 🚇 the grandkids and had the audacity to even mention the word retirement. This lack of responsibility for their own kids and the condescending assumption that their time is more valuable then ours really angered me, and we left. Now, I'm wondering if I was out of line 🐻 with the suggestion, but I feel like that is the solution if they aren't willing to make other trade-offs with their careers or their personal time.

12/31/2025

I cant tell if I am being petty or not so please lay 🏢 the judgement on thick. I'm 28f, my husband is 29m and his sister is 43f. She has an 11yo daughter. We have 2 kids, ages 9f and 3m. My husband and I have been 🤖 together 11 years. Since the very beginning my SIL has been the "free handouts" type. She loves asking people to do free manual labor for her because she refuses to get off her SIMs game to do anything UNLESS her husband barks orders at her. The dynamic in that household is sickening. So not even 2 months ago she asked if our 9yo could come clean up the toys in her yard for $20. This is the first time she offered money and my daughter wanted to do it. We went, she did the yard work by herself. When it came down to payment, my SIL said "S__t, I only have $10 to last me the week. Can I pay you Friday?" Friday came and went and she never paid. So, I gave my daughter the $20 for her work and told my SIL how fu**ed up it was. She apologized profusely and said she hadn't intended to do this. I couldnt tell if she was lying or not so I dropped it. Last week she calls my husband and said "Can you ask Cassidy to come help me clean the house? I have people coming over and my back is k__ling me." I responded with "Well, what are you doing next weekend?" She said "I never have plans." So I said "Alright, I will come help you clean your house if you watch our kids next weekend so we can have a date night." She said "Absolutely!". I got in the car...

12/31/2025

I am the drama this week. I (16F) got myself kicked out of Sunday school at my step-dad’s church this weekend. My mom married Brad earlier this year. He has 4 kids (12F, 10M, 9M, 7M) that are with him most of the time, and to say their family is religious is like the understatement of all time. The daughter has to wear skirts all the time and can’t cut her hair and they’re all at church at least 3 times a week and have like family Bible time 😉 and stuff every day. I wouldn’t care except that now that my mom and Brad are married they expect me to participate and that’s just not my bag. I think it’s superstitious misogynistic nonsense and I always leave stuff at their church feeling icky. I tried to get my mom to let me go to my dad’s on Sundays to avoid conflict but that’s a nonstarter so far, so I try to avoid talking about it but Brad is like making it his personal mission to get me “saved” or something so the subject comes up regularly. I finally put my foot down about not wanting to go to church with them and it turned into a big argument and my mom asked me to just go and keep the peace for the younger kids because it’s something we do as a family. So, 😘 I go and mostly just read, but I don’t lie about why I’m there or my religion if someone asks me a question. It pi**es Brad and my mom off, but I figure if they don’t like it they can let me stay home. The problem is that the Sunday school teacher for my age group is a real piece of work and thinks we’re all stupid...

12/31/2025

I want to start by saying that I fully support my sister career choice and I am not interested in comments debating the morality of what she’s doing. My sister is an es**rt, she came to visit us last weekend, she was planning on spending the summer with us since we haven’t seen each for 3 years. When she told us about this my daughter ecstatic, they have a great relationship and she helped me raise her after her mom died. When my parents first found out about my sister’s job they denounced her, told her that she was bringing shame to the family and that she was going to rot in hell. I tried convincing them to change their minds and that treating my sister that way isn’t going to do anything good but they told me that it none of my business and that I should stop defending her. My 🌠 sister became depressed because of that and she stopped working. When she couldn’t afford rent I brought her to my house, I told her that she is my baby sister and 🏵️ that I will always be by her side and take care of her no matter what. She started getting better week by week and after a few months she got back to her former happy self. Back to the present day, Last Friday when I got back home from work I overhead them talking in my daughter’s bedroom. My daughter was asking her aunt about her job, she started telling her about how much fun it is and that she gets to visit many new places and meet new people, and how she gets to decides when she wants to work which allows her to take breaks whenever she wants so she gets to visit and spend...

12/31/2025

Background: my partner (M46) and I (F31) have been together for 8 years, and have been engaged now for 3, we had a big wedding planned pre-pandemic and understandably postponed it twice because of lockdown restrictions. After the second postponement, my Father (M55) passed away suddenly and we postponed again because I was broken. My Dad's family fell out with us (me and sibling) when my dad died over funeral plans, inheritance issues - they basically wanted to ignore my Dad, my sibling, and my wishes and do what they want - so in terms of family, it is just me and my sibling now (mum passed in 2014). My partner's family started hassling us about the wedding because restrictions are pretty much gone, everyone in our circle is vaxxed and can travel (partners family from another country). My partner and I paid for and will ✨ pay for everything, so it's not like his family have a financial stake here. I am really struggling with the idea of getting married without my Dad or my family there. When our Mum died, my brother and I both had severe depression, and our Dad (who just lost his wife) picked us up and carried us through (we were 22 and 24 at the time, so independent adults), I can't stress enough how incredible a man and Father my Dad was, and how shattering losing him so young 😺 has been. A big attraction to the wedding for me was dreams of him walking me down the aisle and making an embarrassing speech, I can't picture a big wedding without my Dad. My partner is completely fine with waiting so it's not an issue between us. Future MIL and SIL were on Zoom with us and brought up the 🐏 wedding again, looking for an...

12/31/2025

My (45f) partner (47m) and I have 3 children. Daughter (15f) and two sons (12 m and 9 m) My daughter has recently decided she wants to be vegan. The rest of my family, including myself, enjoy being omnivores. My partner works full time, and 😸 I work part time and am pursuing a 2nd bachelor’s at adult age. Combined with 3 kids, we’re BUSY. As I’ve also cut work hours to be able to study again, our income has also somewhat declined. In this light, 💞 my partner and I are not really happy with this development. Having to have an at least somewhat healthy/balanced meal for 5 people daily already is somewhat of a chore, and we’re on a budget. Neither in terms of time management nor money, do I feel like essentially cooking two meals daily is a not a reasonable thing to ask. Adding to that, vegan cuisine just requires a different approach to cooking (different ingredients) etc. Frankly, with all the things going on right now, it’s not high on my priority list to re-learn how to cook. If I would just buy extra vagan food for her, it would certainly dent the budget. I have offered her a compromise , where I offered that we would make a meat/fish and vegetarian (not vegan) version of each dish. That way she would not have to eat meat, at least, but we could just keep cooking many of the dishes we already do without much added effort. Additionally, I said I’d be willing to have one “vegan day” where she can experiment with making vegan dishes for all of us. Then, if she’s 18 and has her own budget, and still feels that way, she can buy the food with 🐰 her own budget and cook for herself. EDIT:...

12/31/2025

I'm M28 Canadian and my fiancée F26 and her family are from Latin America. my mother and father in law found out about my new job and wanted to have a "private" conversation with me without my fiancée so they invited me to their house. They invited me into their guest room. My father in law asked me to leave my phone and keys at the dinning table. They started talking about my new job. They had no idea how much I get paid and asked me to tell them about my salary but I politely declined to tell them. They asked why, I just bluntly told them it was non of their business. father inlaw chimed in saying "you're marrying my daughter, damn right it's my business" and kept on about making his daughter's future's secured. I assured him that his daughter is in good hands 🔔 and besides money isn't everything and love and respect are what's important. Mother inlaw disagreed and said that money is an important factor, Then gave examples of issues I'll have in my marriage if I'm not capable of providing for my family. I refused to tell them but again, assured them that I'm doing well financially so no worries. Mother inlaw refused to drop it. Claimed I was being disrespectful by treating them like they 🌞 were some strangers asking about how much I get paid and demanded I give her a number. I got so annoyed and wanted to excuse myself to the 💝 bathroom but father inlaw got up and locked the door. I asked what the hell he was doing. He told me to calm down and that he'll unlock the door when this conversation is over. I blew tf up and told him that their behavior is unacceptable and what I...

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