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AITA for financially screwing over my sister after finding out she’s close with my ex and his wife?
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AITA for financially screwing over my sister after finding out she’s close with my ex and his wife?

Usually, I wouldn’t take personal advice from strangers online, but everyone in my life seems to think I’m a petty, scorned, bitter woman (which I probably am), and I need objective advice. My ex-husband (currently 43M) and I (43F) were college sweethearts. For me, life felt perfect. I trusted him completely. That’s why it was so shocking when I found out he was in love with his much younger...

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AITA for going off on my wife for commenting about our 3-week-old daughter’s looks?
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AITA for going off on my wife for commenting about our 3-week-old daughter’s looks?

My daughter, our second child, is three weeks old. Pre pregnancy, my wife was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and depression, and in the days since birthing our baby girl, is most definitely experiencing post-partum depression. Our first child, our son, looks very much so like her. In fact, if you look at baby photos of my wife, they look almost exactly like our son’s baby photos. And m...

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AITAH for refusing to split inheritance with my sister after she cut contact with our parents?
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AITAH for refusing to split inheritance with my sister after she cut contact with our parents?

My sister (34F) and I (37M) had what I'd call a decent life (financially and socially) while growing up. Not perfect like our parents were a bit strict and old fashioned but they provided well for us. About 6 years ago, my sister had this crazy argument with them over her career choice (she dropped her accounting job to become a yoga instructor). Things got nasty which led to her not talking t...

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AITA for telling my sister I hope she never has kids?
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AITA for telling my sister I hope she never has kids?

I'm 22f. I have 3yo twin boys and I had a baby girl not even two days ago. My sister, Jod*e, is 34 and has been suffering with infertility for the past 10 years, as well as repeated miscarriages. I used to feel really bad for her and also a bit guilty as I got pr****nt twice while being on contraception. It caused some tension between us when I was pr****nt with my twins because she was jealou...

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AITA for asking for a gift receipt for a baby shower gift.
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AITA for asking for a gift receipt for a baby shower gift.

My(28F) husband (30M) and I are having our first son later this year and he is due on labor day. My husband showed up for the gift portion. When opening gifts, one gift was a baby care package and a onesie to the rival college my husband and I went to. It was given to us by a friend who went to said rival college. My Husband has a pretty deep hatred of the rival school. I follow along with tha...

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AITA for telling my wife either she gets a job or i'm putting her on an allowance?
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AITA for telling my wife either she gets a job or i'm putting her on an allowance?

My 34m wife 34f is a sahm/sahw and she likes to spend frivolously. After the kids go to school on the bus she usually goes back to bed, then wakes up goes to starbucks to have a coffee and bagel and browses her phone. Then she goes to the gym and after goes shopping. She doesnt always buy things sometimes its just window shopping, but she's spent 1,500 by herself some months on clothes, nai...

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Sister Demands I Rename My 11-Year-Old Cat Because It Ruined Her Future Baby Name
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Sister Demands I Rename My 11-Year-Old Cat Because It Ruined Her Future Baby Name

I have two cats, Tonks and Dio. Tonks is named after the Harry Potter character and Dio's name is from DiGiorno pizza. My sister mentioned she is trying for a baby, and I was supportive, though I am not a big fan of children myself. Three months later, she is pr****nt and discussing baby names. Yesterday, her boyfriend's friend texted me saying his family has a T*to Dio and requested that I...

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AITA for telling my ex wife I don't care if she and her family starve that I am just responsible for our sons?
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AITA for telling my ex wife I don't care if she and her family starve that I am just responsible for our sons?

I have two sons ages 16 and 14 with my ex-wife. Our marriage reached a bitter end when I learned she had remained married to me for over three years so I would support her through returning to school so she could switch careers to an even better paying one, despite her old one paying as much as mine. For years I tried like h**l to save our marriage because I felt it fracture. She played along ...

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AITA for not letting a family member I barely know drive my expensive car in an "emergency"?
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AITA for not letting a family member I barely know drive my expensive car in an "emergency"?

I was at my in law's house yesterday, alone with their god daughter (we'll call her Ashley, she's 28), while my husband was out doing stuff with his parents to discuss important family matters. I was already feeling pretty stressed and anxious about how their conversation was going to go. I don't really have a great relationship with Ashley, so I was just keeping to myself in one of the guest ...

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AITA for going home after my husband dangled me over the parking garage edge as a prank and I thought he was k**ling me?
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AITA for going home after my husband dangled me over the parking garage edge as a prank and I thought he was k**ling me?

I went out with my husband to eat at a place nearby that we had booked for that time and he had wanted to go for a while and he had been really looking forward to it and I drove him there and we parked on the top floor of the parking garage nearby, and we got out of the car and started walking down the stairs, which were right on the edge of the parking garage. He started talking about how hig...

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AITA for asking my wife for an abortion.
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AITA for asking my wife for an abortion.

Me (31m) & my wife (29f) are very vehemently childfree. We’re not one of those nutters who calls kids crotch fruit or spawn or whatever godforsaken name there is, but it was an agreement that we had very early in the relationship that we wouldn’t have kids. Now I’ve been putting off getting a vasectomy, I did get one a few weeks ago but I was just procrastinating it which was my fault I guess....

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AITA for yelling at my husband for eating the wrong cookies?
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AITA for yelling at my husband for eating the wrong cookies?

I(37F) made fancy cookies for a friend’s birthday this past week. The amount of planning that went into these cookies was silly TBH. Slowly but surely I collected the ingred*ents I needed through annoying a*s grocery and amazon orders and miraculously had everything I needed to make these cookies on time for my BFF’s birthday. Baking them was also a ha*sle - I had to bake them in small batches...

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