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OtherHonestly, I don’t even feel that this situation needs to be on Reddit but my daughter, husband and many of my family members are calling me an a*shole and I’m really not sure anymore. Four years ago, when my daughter was 12, she desperately wanted a pool. She said that all of her friends had pools and she was the only one who didn’t have one, plus she loved swimming. She insisted that she w...
OtherI was walking my kid home from school. We are in a pretty nice area so the windows tend to be huge and on ground level. My child is 6. Suddenly she laughed and pointed at one of the houses. Inside there was a completely n**ed woman leaning down to pick som**hing up right in front of the window. We could see everything clear as day. I know the woman, she is one of my wives friends. I laughed ...
RelationshipI 25m am married to my wife Laura 21f. Laura and I have a two month old daughter together. While Laura was pr****nt with our daughter I started working longer shifts so my shifts were 5 am until 7pm instead instead of 9 til 5 to earn more money for when the baby comes and since Laura stopped going into work when she was 7 months pr****nt and did some work romotely for the last few months. I ac...
RelationshipTo start I'm going to mention that I'm your typical 5'6 short guy. I hate myself for it, I'm openly insecure about it and have exhausted all solutions to fix this issue. I met my girlfriend 6 months ago, she met my family and they embraced her right away. My sister invited her to her wedding and mentioned including her in the wedding photos. I asked my girlfriend what shoes she was going to wea...
ParentingMy (30sM) sister (30sF) is having her wedding at the tail-end of October, and she has decided, understandably, that she doesn't want any children to be at the wedding, which is perfectly fine. This, however, means that I won't be attending. I have three young children, 7M, 5F, 3M. As you can imagine, it's hard to find a babysitter for them on a normal day, and even if I only went to the rece...
OtherMy sister and I are both pr****nt at the same time. She's 30 and I'm 24. She has a 3 year old daughter and is expecting a boy this time. She announced her son's name back in April and told everyone that the name was set in stone so feel free to use the name in gifts and stuff if we want. I didn't announce our daughter's name officially yet. Some people know just because I was close enough to t...
RelationshipI am a man who was given a woman's name at birth. My parents are hippies and gave their oldest son a girl's name to "stick it to the man" and I will never forgive them for it. That name caused me to be bullied and damaged my professional life in ways I cannot describe. My sister is pr****nt with her first child. A girl. She and her husband are ecstatic, it just sucks that she inherited my paren...
OtherBefore I start I’d like to say that my gf and I are both women. We are lesbians. I say this to hopefully preempt the ‘typical man’ comments. This happened last month but my best friend and hers are still giving me s**t about it. We had our one year anniversary. I asked what she wanted and she told me just som**hing romantic, a little necklace or som**hing cute. While browsing around on Amazon ...
OtherA few years ago my brother needed help. I let him move into one of my rental properties and we did it all legal. Lease agreement and everything. Because I was renting to him at a breakeven point we agreed that he was responsible for all the maintenance of the house and yard. Well he has four kids. And the hot water tank isn't enough for his family and he wants a new one. I told him to go ahe...
OtherI took my son with me to the grocery store today. He is seven. I am a big believer in learning by doing. I like to give my son as interactive a role in things as possible, and if he wants to do som**hing himself I always at least let him try unless it's unsafe. When we got to the self checkout he confidently told me he could do it by himself, so I let him. There are about ten self checkouts and...
Food & DietHey guys, short time lurker first time poster, I'm not one to really do this but I'm genuinely wondering if I'm in the wrong. So my son had a friend over for dinner the other night. For context, they're both 13, and the friends parents are vegan. I don't know anything about vegan food and don't have many vegetables I normally cook - pretty much all I ever make for vegetable sides is b**tered...
Family ConflictI (25m) am a single dad to my 5 year old son and daughter. Their mom is alive, but left me and I have full custody. Yesterday I had to buy groceries so I had my kids next to me. An older guy was behind me in line and started asking me about them and I should have just said that I was watching them or som**hing but I told him that they're my kids. I don't look old at all, so of course he sta...