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OtherI have 4 children and I'm pretty easygoing; they don't have a lot of rules they have to abide by. It's simple: be respectful, do your ch**es, and for the two teenagers (15 & 16) be back before 10 pm. My 16-year-old son came home at 11 last night when the house was already locked up after missing about 10 calls from me. He knocked to get in, and I just called him back and told him he could sleep...
ParentingI'm 26M, my sister is 28F. We're the only family we both have, neither of our parents are with us anymore and we have no aunts, uncles, or cousins. I'm single, so is my sister: she's a single mother of a 3 year old. Despite all of this, we're not particularly close. We live in the same city but I might see her once a year in pa*sing. Last week she came to my house and offloaded her son to m...
RelationshipI f39 have been with my boyfriend for 4 years. I have a bio son 16 year old son as well as 2 step kids (11 & 13). My son has been complaining about his younger stepsiblings entering his room and taking his things constantly and without asking. I tried disccusing this with the boys and my boyfriend punished the boys and told them to ask first before taking anything and return it if taken but my ...
Family ConflictI [F32] I met this wonderful man 'Philip" [M36] 2 years ago. We got married 4 months ago. For context, I have a 10 yo son "Billy" from my previous relationship and my ex isn't in the picture. I have to admit that Philip's relationship with my family isn't so great. They would disagree on a lot of things. For example, he had an argument with my dad when he said that he was keeping their grandson...
OtherMy little brother, is doing an internship with a large corporation. He organized an internal food drive, in which the floor that donates the most wins free pizza for lunch on a Friday. At the conclusion of the food drive, my brother called the pizza place on a Monday and asked about the logistics of ordering 35 pizzas, on a Friday, during lunch hour. They said it wouldn't be a problem, and to p...
RelationshipI (26F) have an older brother (27M) who's been dating another guy (30M) for around 4 years. I don't have any issue with my brother being gay, but I have one with him wearing a wedding ring in order to pretend that he's married to him. You see, we live in a country where gay marriage still isn't allowed (Romania), but despite this, my brother and his boyfriend started wearing weddings rings rec...
Family ConflictI (32 M) was recently bestowed an inheritance of close to $50,000 by my late grandfather (91 M). The reason I received the inheritance according to the will is because I was the only person in his life who would make a point of visiting him at his old age home (his wife and friends were all long deceased and my parents live in a different country then him). I would visit 1-2 times a month to c...
OtherMy son (4) had a sleepover last night with a friend. This friend's parents were doing my wife and I a huge favor, because my wife's father had surgery yesterday, and we needed to be there and didn't get home until after midnight. So yes, this story begins with us already in debt to them. Anyway, at naptime today my son started freaking out because he couldn't find sleepy D**bo (his stuffed ani...
ParentingI (M 39) have been married to my wife Stacey (F 30) for 5 years and we have 2 children together. I also share 3 children with my ex wife Hannah (F 37). Ever since Stacey and I got together she has made it very clear to me that my 3 children are mine and Hannah's responsibility, not hers. I pay Hannah child support every month. Stacey has demanded that I give her the same amount of money each mo...
BoundariesSo, I (f23) am a full time college student. Right now I'm living with my sister "Claire" and her husband "Thomas" while I get through my current semster. I don't work so I don't have everything I need for my daily skin/hair routine so I borrow stuff from Claire. Claire didn't have an issue in the beginning but then started complaining about me randomly walking into her room but I go in there lo...
RelationshipI 39, got married to my wife "Nelly" 36, months ago. I have to say that Nelly and my daughter (her stepdaughter) "Megan" 16, never gotten along. They have lots of disagreements and nothing in common and it was obvious since the first say they met but I didn't do anything about it thinking they'd move past their differences and warm up to each other the longer they spend time together. I was wr...
ParentingI (m28) have been with my fiancee (f30) for a year an a half. I have a stepson (4) that I adore and treat as my own. My older brother's wedding is soon. I was intending on going but after I found out that my stepson was not invited, we started having issues. My brother explained that it's the nature of the wedding they chose which is child free but my fiancee was upset that this rule was forced...