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AITAH for telling my husband he will never be allowed in the delivery room with me again
Boundaries
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AITAH for telling my husband he will never be allowed in the delivery room with me again

I 28F and my husband 32M (I’ll refer to him as Shawn) recently had our first child, the pregnancy went smoothly and Shawn was amazing though out. The issues started when I went into labour, l was full term, 40 weeks 5 days with a big baby 9lb 7oz and the labour was AWFUL, it started at around 2 in the morning, I woke With pain it was manageable but very uncomfortable, I wasn’t at the point of need...

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AITAH for snapping at my gf 's "friend "who wanted to take" care "of her for night .
Other
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AITAH for snapping at my gf 's "friend "who wanted to take" care "of her for night .

I am 21M and my girlfriend is 27F. We have been together for three years. She says she is a private person and does not want to publicize our relationship much, which I agreed to. But her "friends," even the ones who know we are together, hit on her as if she were single, and it seems to me she enjoys the attention. Her guy friends act as if I am invisible . Just last weekend, one of her ma...

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AITA for Refusing to Let My Parents Move in With Us?
Family Conflict
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AITA for Refusing to Let My Parents Move in With Us?

I (38M) have been married to my wife (36F) for almost 10 years. We bought our home a few years ago and have two kids, 6 and 4. Things have been going well—we both work, we’ve made the house feel like our own, and we finally have a decent routine. Recently, my parents (mid-60s) announced they’re selling their house to “simplify” and asked if they could move in with us for “a little while.” They ...

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AITA for moving all my daughter’s belongings to my parents house and leaving nothing for my husband’s affair kid?
Family Conflict
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AITA for moving all my daughter’s belongings to my parents house and leaving nothing for my husband’s affair kid?

My husband told me Sat**day that he'd had an affair and had a kid from it. Our kids are 14m and 10f and this child is 9f. Som**hing happened to her mother in the last couple weeks (I was a little too busy screaming at him to listen to the details) and he was leaving to go get her. My daughter came to me crying saying that he told her she had to share her room and her stuff with this girl for n...

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AITA for making my stepson walk on his engagement night?
Parenting
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AITA for making my stepson walk on his engagement night?

My stepson Rowan (23) just got engaged to his fiancee, she comes from a highly conservative family and they both won't live together til after Marriage. They're both on great terms and I have to say her parents are a bit much. So the engagement party was held at a restaurant. I drove my wife, Rowan snd his best friend Jack there because Rowan's car needed some work. On the way back, I had to...

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AITA for telling my wife I don’t want to go to her sister’s wedding after finding out I’m excluded from all the wedding weekend events?
Relationship
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AITA for telling my wife I don’t want to go to her sister’s wedding after finding out I’m excluded from all the wedding weekend events?

My (31M) wife (29F) and I have been married for less than a year. Her sister is getting married in the upcoming weeks, and the whole thing is a full weekend out-of-town event Friday through Sunday. At first, I was on board. I figured it would be a nice trip, and I’d be spending time with family, meeting some new people, and celebrating. But as plans started coming together, I realized I’m not ...

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AITAH for not giving my coworker a ride anymore after she made me late to my kids pickup
Parenting
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AITAH for not giving my coworker a ride anymore after she made me late to my kids pickup

I work with this girl Melissa who doesnt have a car right now because hers broke down last month. Our shifts end at the same time and she lives sort of on my way home so I started giving her rides. At first it was just supposed to be temporary until she could figure som**hing else out. The problem is Melissa is always running late leaving work. She takes forever to finish up her tasks and t...

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AITA For not punishing my daughter for mocking her cousin?
Family Conflict
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AITA For not punishing my daughter for mocking her cousin?

My wife and her younger sister are best friends. As a result, when our middle daughter and her cousin were born around the same time, my wife really expected them to also be best friends. With sixteen years of hindsight, I can say with certainty that the expectation was misplaced. Nothing happened in particular. My daughter just doesn't like her cousin. My wife keeps pushing the relationshi...

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AITA: My husband will invite his family and friends over without telling me until that day. He then expects me to clean, run to the store and prep/cook everything. I finally just decided to leave the house the last time he told me because I only had 4 hours till their arrival. He canceled.
Relationship
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AITA: My husband will invite his family and friends over without telling me until that day. He then expects me to clean, run to the store and prep/cook everything. I finally just decided to leave the house the last time he told me because I only had 4 hours till their arrival. He canceled.

The thing is, his family is constantly judging and talking about each other, so when he says "It doesn't matter, they don't care..." I know, and he knows, he's full of it. Also, it's not just tid**ng the house. We are not regularly stocked in food or drinks to have people over. When I got home, I asked what he was planning on having for dinner, and he responded, "I don't know, I guess it's good...

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AITA for telling my daughter that I absolutely do not support her ONLY wanting to be a Stay-At-Home-Mom?
Family Conflict
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AITA for telling my daughter that I absolutely do not support her ONLY wanting to be a Stay-At-Home-Mom?

I don't have a problem with the idea of parents who stay home with their kids. It's not like that. I get that childcare is expensive, and that often times it just makes sense. What I have a problem with is my teenage daughter literally planning her life to *only* become a SAHM. As in, no college, no jobs, no certifications, nothing at all to support herself until that time might come. I told...

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AITA for teaching my (20M) niece (4F) to say "el chupacabra"when her mom (32F) says "you know what really gets my goat?"
Family Conflict
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AITA for teaching my (20M) niece (4F) to say "el chupacabra"when her mom (32F) says "you know what really gets my goat?"

My sister has a habit of saying "you know what really gets my goat," she probably says it 7/8 times a day. So like that Tumblr post, I taught my niece to say "el chupacabra" when her mom says it (it sounds more like "eh supacaba" though cause shes four but its adorable). I told my niece it was a monster from Mexico that eats goats and she didn't seem scared or anything, probably cause the only ...

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AITA for yelling at my neighbor for secretly driving my daughter to school?
Other
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AITA for yelling at my neighbor for secretly driving my daughter to school?

My (37F) 10-year-old daughter has been walking to school on her own for a couple of years. She knows the route, she's always on time, and she's never had any issues. We live in a relatively safe area and the school is a 15 minute walk from our home, with ample sidewalks and crosswalks. Today, I found out that our neighbor has been driving her to school without my knowledge. I'm furious and went...

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