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RelationshipI woke up at 5am craving pancakes while on vacation with my in-laws, so I decided to quickly make myself and my son some since we were the only ones awake besides my husband who doesn’t eat pancakes. My sister-in-law’s daughter came downstairs just as my son was finishing up and started crying because there were no more pancakes for her. I did try to comfort her but I have really bad mornin...
RelationshipMy (36F) husband ( 39M) and I are likely divorcing. We've been married 7 years and a year and two months ago I gave birth to our daughter. My husband and I work at the same company, and at the same department. Until very recently I worked as an administrative a*sistant there while my husband is a marketing a*sociate. I was recently promoted to marketing a**lyst, which is one step below a*sociat...
Family ConflictI (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...
RelationshipMy (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...
Family ConflictMy 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. ...
RelationshipI 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...
RelationshipI 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...
OtherWhen 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 ...
RelationshipI34 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...
Food & DietI’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 ...
OtherI’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...
RelationshipI 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),...