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My wife goes on date nights with our neighbor and refuses to let him pay me for babysitting
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My wife goes on date nights with our neighbor and refuses to let him pay me for babysitting

My (39M) wife (34F) and I live in at a suburban house with our daughter (10F, Emily). Our neighbour next door (48M, Walter) is a single father with two daughters (14F and 12F). We have been living here for a little more than two years. My wife really likes watching scary movies but I have never enjoy them. I get too scared and end up having a bad time so I prefer to avoid them. Her friends some...

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AITA For Asking For More Money For My Car?
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AITA For Asking For More Money For My Car?

So, I (28 M) offered to sell my RAV4 that has 100,000 miles on it in January to my brother and his wife. They have a baby and a beat up Honda civic as well as a Scion with way too many miles on it. They shared they’d be car hunting this year. I offered to sell it to them for what Carvana offered (which was $14,500) and they agreed to it right away. The problem was that my wife and I still h...

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AITA for demanding my husband to apologize for ripping the picture my son drew just becausw he didn't include his step brother in it?
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AITA for demanding my husband to apologize for ripping the picture my son drew just becausw he didn't include his step brother in it?

I (F33) have a son (11) from my former relationship with my ex husband. Currently I'm married to my husband (M37) "Joe" who has a (15) year old son. My son isn't that close to his stepbrother for many reasons including age, interests, hobbies, etc,. My son likes to draw a lot. his stepbrother tends to rip his drawings whenever they get into a fight. Now siblings and stepsiblings fight const...

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AITA for getting my daughter lip injections?
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AITA for getting my daughter lip injections?

I would like others to give me their opinion on this situation. A lot of people are angry with me but I think at the end of the day I did this to help my daughter. My daughter is seventeen years old. She turned seventeen in February. Since she was around ten, she has been complaining about her lips. She inherited her fathers thin lips. They are a great shape, but they are thin. She has been...

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AITA for Objecting to "Female Employee Only" Parking Spaces at My Workplace?
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AITA for Objecting to "Female Employee Only" Parking Spaces at My Workplace?

I am an approx 22.5 year old man, I recently snagged a really really good job. I work as a corporate level administrator in the trucking industry. It's been a pretty sweet gig so far and have no complaints as of yet (2 months in). I would also like to preface the following with saying that I work with a very diverse staff of coworkers who are all as professional as they can be, rarely is it th...

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AITA for telling my pr****nt FWB shes gonna have to get used to being a single mom bc I’m not daddy material?
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AITA for telling my pr****nt FWB shes gonna have to get used to being a single mom bc I’m not daddy material?

I’m 29 years old, broke, homeless, don’t have a job, and I struggle with addiction. My family has a history of ill mental health and I got hit with the bipolar stick too and I’ve been officially diagnosed with clinical depression and bipolar disorder. Basically I’m about as child free as you can get because I don’t want to pa*s down a lifetime of s**tty genetics and even s**ttier living habits ...

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AITA for choosing my budget over my boyfriend this Halloween?
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AITA for choosing my budget over my boyfriend this Halloween?

I (28/f) own my house and my bf (29/m) moved in January. We had a ton of early money arguments and agreed that we would keep to a household budget. Also, he agreed to pay down his credit card debt. I have more flexibility in my personal spending than he does. Early after we moved in, my bf told me that as a kid he always wanted to live in one of the houses that were totally decorated for tr...

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AITA for not letting my nephew bring his service dog to my wedding?
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AITA for not letting my nephew bring his service dog to my wedding?

I (27F) am getting married in a few months to my fiance (28M). We have been planning our dream wedding for over a year, and everything is finally falling into place. However, there is one issue that has been causing quite a bit of controversy in our family. My nephew (18M), "James", has a service dog, "Max", for his anxiety and panic attacks. Max is a well-trained and well-behaved dog, and he h...

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AITA for cancelling the trip after my fiancee decided to bring her 10 yr.o son with us?
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AITA for cancelling the trip after my fiancee decided to bring her 10 yr.o son with us?

I M33 have been with Natalie f32 for 2 years. We're getting married soon and she shares custody of her 10 yr.o son with her ex husband. Eversince her ex husband got sick, Natalie kept bringing her son over more often. Sometimes her mom would take him due to work etc. We've been having issues because of that because Natalie has to bring my stepson with us whenever we go. We started going out ...

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AITA for wanting my parents in town, but not at my house, while I'm adjusting to life with a newborn?
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AITA for wanting my parents in town, but not at my house, while I'm adjusting to life with a newborn?

I (24f) am currently pr****nt, due in december. I live with my fiancé Dan in the town where I grew up. I have a great relationship with my parents, but they had me quite late in life and they're both retired now, living in a beach town in the south. When they moved out, they sold me the house I grew up in well below market value, in exchange for me hosting them when they needed/wanted to come ...

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AITA for making my girlfriend's son give me his gambling winnings?
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AITA for making my girlfriend's son give me his gambling winnings?

I (44m) have been with my girlfriend (40f) for several years now. She has one child--a son who recently turned 18. He and I get along really well, at least for the most part. But recently he and I had our first blowout fight and I'm wondering if I was wrong. What happened was that we were returning home from a summer trip. My girlfriend decided that we should stop at a casino near the border of...

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AITA for refusing to put my packaged snacks back in the fridge per my husband's request?
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AITA for refusing to put my packaged snacks back in the fridge per my husband's request?

I, f34, am diabetic and keeping packaged snacks near me is essential, because often times I get low blood suger, due to issues I have with appet*te (I don't eat lunch or dinner properly). My brother in law and his pr****nt wife moved in with us a month ago, The issue began when my SIL started eating my snacks that I usually keep inside the fridge, I tried buying more snacks but sometimes they r...

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