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Food & DietMy sister has been vegan for many years and she is also raising her son vegan. He has been vegan since birth. My nephew and son attend the same school so I pick them up from school everyday. My nephew has snacks + dinner at my house every weekday before his mom comes to pick him up. I usually make a dish for my family and a separate vegan dish for my nephew. A couple of months ago I left th...
RelationshipFor some reason my (F32) sister (23) and her fiance (25) decided that the very best way to celebrate before getting married was to have a joint bachelor/bachelorette party. At strip clubs. They also hired a bus limo for the evening. The aftermath was, thus far, three breakups, four people dropping out of the wedding party, one impending divorce, and one arrest. The cleaning bill for the limo w...
RelationshipMy daughter (27F) is getting married in the fall. I (58M, het dad) am supposed to pay for the wedding, that's what we agreed on. We got the save the date invitations a few days after I put the payments through my bank (they need to be approved, so no money has been paid yet). My wife isn't invited to the wedding. I have been divorced for 15 years and married to my wife now for 8 years. My daugh...
OtherMy wife and I have been separated for 2 years, with a contentious divorce finalized in May. I have primary custody of our two children (daughter 17 and son 14) and live in our shared home. On Monday, I found my son and two friends on the roof of our sun deck playing army. I told him to put the ladder away afterward. This continued until Thursday when my daughter revealed the true reason: our 22-y...
ParentingMy children's dad & I got separated and divorced 2 years ago. We're on good terms regarding co-parenting. And since he's close to my brother, my brother had invited him to his wedding. Perfectly okay with me since the kids were thrilled to get extra time with dad. I was taking a video of mom and my kids at the wedding and posted it on my insta. Hours later, I get a call from my ex yelling a...
OtherOn my birthday this year, I treated myself to 50 bucks in lottery tickets, and managed to hit one of the huge $50,000 payouts. After taxes, I had ~$34,000, so I’ve put $7,500 into my wife’s car, and put the rest into a high-interest bank account. I’m planning to switch jobs early 2020, but first, I plan to travel for the month of January and half of February across Asia and Europe. I’ve never ...
Family ConflictI have a 22 year old daughter (Chloe), her mom and were never married. Because of circumstances that I couldn't be in her life for long...then, her mom got married when she was 5 to her stepdad who is a somewhat decent guy, nosy but decent. I came back to the country when Chloe was 16, and she was open to the idea of rebuilding our relationship. though, her mom always throws in my face that Chl...
RelationshipI f32 developed an interest for piano after meeting my late husband who was a piano teacher for 7 years. He taught me to play it and he helped me buy one (used one but still a bit expensive) 2 years ago. I play it everyday, after his pa*sing (6 months ago) I just find comfort spending time playing. However, my brother and his wife (who came to stay with me for 2 months after loosing their apart...
ParentingI'm trying to keep this vague for obvious reasons. I'm in my mid-30s. I got pr****nt from a one night stand. Honestly, I always wanted kids, and for various reasons, it's not likely that I'll ever have a long term partner. I've tried and had many heartbreaks. He's in the military, and pretty much ghosted me once I told him the news. It's fine, it was a one night stand anyway, hardly a love aff...
OtherI'm M23 my gf is F21 and we've been together for about 2 years now. Now I come from a very middle cla*s family, dad's a blue collar worker and mom has been working since I was a kid as well. My GF's family is filthy rich and even she'll admit she's spoiled, everything paid for and a 3k a month allowance. Because of this she's never had a job, doesn't care about school really (She's doing fine ...
RelationshipMy f33 husband's m30 birthday was several days ago, we decided to go celebrate at a new diner and invited my inlaws to join us. Throughtout the entire celebration, this 20ish waitress who served our table kept acting strange, she didn't take her eyes off my husband and threw some inappropriate comments at him and infront of us as she came and went. I was feeling uncomfortable, but decided to...
Family ConflictAlright, so I have a son(13M) with my ex husband. We got divorced because he was having a emotional affair which turned physical, and had a kid with the AP, and is a single dad atm as the AP left. My son goes over to his house on weekends, and sometimes his kid comes over to my house because my son and him are somewhat friends, and I don’t really mind. The problem now is that I’m planning on...