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Single Mom Refuses To Pay For Babysitter's Laptop That Her Youngest Child Broke, Gets Blasted Online For Asking If She's In The Wrong For It
Family Conflict
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Single Mom Refuses To Pay For Babysitter's Laptop That Her Youngest Child Broke, Gets Blasted Online For Asking If She's In The Wrong For It

I (single mom of 2) hired a babysitter after I started working a new job (used to do wfh for 2 years). My kids are 8 & 6. The babysitter is 17. she brings her laptop with her to study which is perfectly ok with me as long as she keeps an eye on the kids. Yesterday, I came home and the babysitter showed me her laptop that got broken by my youngest. I was shocked I asked how this happened, and...

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AITA for telling my family they can’t use Spanish on Christmas Day or my husband and I are not coming.
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AITA for telling my family they can’t use Spanish on Christmas Day or my husband and I are not coming.

My (f35) family is Mexican and we live in TX. Everyone in my family is bilingual and they tend to mix English and Spanish constantly. My siblings spouses have all learned some Spanish, some better, some worse, but they can still participate in all conversations. I’ve been with my husband for 10 years. He took a few cla*ses but he found it too difficult and decided that he can’t learn a language...

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AITA for lying to my son's girlfriend's parents?
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AITA for lying to my son's girlfriend's parents?

My son has been seeing this lovely girl for about 4 months. They are both 16. Her parents have a litany of issues (super controlling, narcissistic mom and alcoholic dad.) Generally, because she lives much cl**er to the school, my son goes over there occasionally after school, and I pick him up in the evening. I will also drive him there sometimes on weekends and pick him up when he's ready. ...

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AITA for getting into an argument with my husband because he left me during surgery.
Relationship
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AITA for getting into an argument with my husband because he left me during surgery.

I am a (25f) and my husband (27) and I have been together for almost 4 years and we do not have any kids. I had a same-day lumpectomy surgery yesterday. The tumor is not believed to be malignant, but I wanted it out since my mother had b***st cancer. My husband got the day off work and drove me. The surgery was delayed for about 3 hours, and my husband was getting impatient. The surgeon finall...

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AITA for being "An ungrateful, spoiled brat" for the Christmas gift my husband got me?
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AITA for being "An ungrateful, spoiled brat" for the Christmas gift my husband got me?

I wanna begin by saying that in every holiday me and my husband M33 (we both work decent jobs) set separate budgets for gifts. He uses his own money to buy gifts and I do the same. We've been married for almost a year (together for 3) this is our first christmas as married couple. He mafe a list of every person he wanted to buy a gift for. I stumbled upon this list by accident and out of curio...

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AITA for not wanting to continue supporting my daughter's (12F) gymnastics training
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AITA for not wanting to continue supporting my daughter's (12F) gymnastics training

When my daughter was young, we introduced her to gymnastics. She was totally hooked and kept asking for more and more lessons. We encouraged her, thinking she will eventually lose interest. Now she is 12, training 20 hours a week, spending weekends after weekends competing at high level compet*tions. Problem is, she is 5'7" already and still growing. She is starting to have ambition for D1 ...

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AITA for splitting with my wife after she aborted our baby after things a psychic said?
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AITA for splitting with my wife after she aborted our baby after things a psychic said?

I34 m have been married to my wife for 8 years. We have a 6 year old together. My wife was also pr****nt. My wife’s very spiritual, and I’m not very knowledgeable on the things she enjoys because I grew up strictly religious, but if it’s fun to her, I never minded as long as I wasn’t involved. When my wife was pr****nt with our first child she went to see a psychic to get a “reading” on our ba...

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AITA for expecting a guy who invites me to his house for a movie date at dinner time to offer drinks or food?
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AITA for expecting a guy who invites me to his house for a movie date at dinner time to offer drinks or food?

I’ve known this guy for a couple years and we’ve worked together occasionally. We’ve had a couple dates before. We split the bill without any discussion or issue. He Snapchats me one day to come over to his place that night and watch a movie he has. I say sure. I forget the rest of the snapchats, but at some point I replied “pizza and a movie” and he replied “yeah see you soon!” It was just ...

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AITA for walking out of an intervention my family surprised me with?
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AITA for walking out of an intervention my family surprised me with?

I’m 23 and I got incredibly drunk at a party two weekends ago and ended up with alcohol p***oning. I do relatively drink a lot, but only in social settings. I spent the rest of the weekend in the hospital recovering. It was a one time s***id mistake. Yesterday, I went over to my parent’s house for dinner. When I walked in, they were all sitting in the living room with somebody I’d never see...

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AITA for evicting my son for moving in his girlfriend?
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AITA for evicting my son for moving in his girlfriend?

I own several properties and rent them out. My son is 20 and goes to school near one of the properties (10-unit luxury apartment). It's cheaper to let him live there rent-free than living in the dorms. Obviously the condo is MUCH larger (three bedrooms, 2 bath, gym on-site) private, quieter, etc. I put several conditions on his living there rent-free. Nothing shocking; no smoking (he doesn't),...

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AITA for offering two different kinds of cake at our wedding?
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AITA for offering two different kinds of cake at our wedding?

My husband, Josh (29F) and I (27F) just had our wedding a couple weeks ago and we mostly got good feedback until today we have heard that a lot of people have been smack talking the cake behind our backs. Josh and I originally were going to have a smaller wedding at a resort. We were fortunate enough to be given some money to invite extra guests, so we decided to expand the wedding and have som...

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AITA for getting an entire table for myself after my husband and his mom didn't save me a seat?
Family Conflict
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AITA for getting an entire table for myself after my husband and his mom didn't save me a seat?

I'll start this off by saying that I, f32 have been with my husband Bob, m39 for 3 years, married for one. His mom has a habit of keeping me out of most of their functions with the excuse of "you work too much". Not true because sometimes I do make myself available but yet find myself excluded. Last week. His mom invited us for a celebratory dinner at the restaurant after she completed her ...

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