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OtherHi. I'm a new mom, had my son 5 weeks ago. my husband's parents have been staying with us and things have been super overwhelming. MIL has a habit of taking the baby and refusing to give him back to me. She'd say I'm deliberately ruining her time with him. My son needs feeding every 2hrs and she basically makes me beg her to hand him over to me so I could feed him. Last night at 10PM. MIL h...
Food & DietFull disclosure, I do eat meat, eggs, and dairy. That being said I'm lazy and prepping and cooking meat takes more work than I'm willing to do a lot of the time, so I've built up a pretty okay repertoire of vegetarian and vegan meals. That's why I volunteered to cook last night for a small family dinner even though I would normally never. Love my mom to bits but if the first step isn't brownin...
OtherMy bf and I go to the climbing gym regularly. He is really into it and I just started and climbing a few times a week. He is s***idly compet*tive about it and quietly insults beginners who are not as good which makes me feel self conscious because I’m a beginner. Last night we were at the climbing gym again and he was doing a V6. There was about 6 people taking turns on the problem probably bec...
OtherI lost my 27 year old brother to cancer a couple of months ago. We were so close and had a lot in common. He was a gamer and had all types of gaming gear including a gaming chair that he wanted me to have before he d*ed. It's devastating because we were really hoping and had plans to spend Christmas 2021 together. This chair I consider special because it was my brother's favorite of all gear a...
OtherI (23F) am an avid hiker in Australia. Last week I encountered a middle aged woman, around 50 years old as I was coming off a trail. She was walking in my direction as I came out of the bush. It was strange to see her, the sun was almost down and the weather was starting to turn. also, this was an intermediate collection of trails at best, difficult even for me at worst. and she didn't loo...
Family ConflictI(26F) bought a hoarder house back in May 2018. It is a big 6 bedroom 4 and a half bathroom house. When I bought it, the contract stated that I take ownership of the house and everything in it. The lady who owned it d*ed, and her heirs could not deal with the stench and literal mountain of junk and waste in it (you could only open the door not even 8", and some rooms had the junk filling them w...
RelationshipEver since we(27) had a baby, my wife had been talking like a baby herself. Rather than teaching the baby to talk like a person, it's as if my wife's language has become baby-like. She would make noises in between conversations like "Bo-dee-bo-dee-chooop" and "Awowo-fwatata", even when talking with adults. This is especially embarra*sing when I am with her in public places, when she talks like...
OtherI am a single mom of two boys ages 11 and 10. Their father and I divorced 5 years ago after I learned he was cheating on me. He got her pr****nt either right before he told me, or right after. But our divorce was not an easy one. He wanted to stay "friends" and I could not look at him after what he did. He and I were together for over 13 years, he was also a friend before he was my boyfriend/h...
OtherI'll preface this by saying that my husband (33) has a friend "Carl" (33) who he considers to be one of his closest friends. My husband sometimes calls Carl his "nicotine" because of how much he misses him and wants to spend time with him, they do everything together, they're even co workers working the same job. Unfortunately, Carlos's wife pa*sed away from cancer 3 months ago which caused him...
Family ConflictMy (f21) boyfriend (m24) of almost a year, invited me to dinner with his family. (Mom, dad and his 16yr old brother.) Never met them prior to that. The only thing I knew about them is that they’re conservative and christians but lovely people. And they were. I got along really well with them, before dinner. They were lovely and talkative. When it was time for dinner, my bfs dad wanted to pray. ...
BoundariesMy f22 brother m27 is currently engaged to his fiancèe f25. he bought he a new phone for valentine's and asked my boyfriend who's trained in computer and software to install a hidden tracking app on the phone so his fianceè won't see it or notice. I overheard them talking and when I entered the room they went silent. I waited til my brother left then talked to my boyfriend, he denied having th...
RelationshipSo, my husband has this friend, I’ll call him Alex. Alex is one of those people that would bring a guitar to a house party and strum it nonstop. Alex is also one of those people who insists on stopping games in the middle to start political debates, knowing that the rest of us don’t share his far right views. The rest of our friend group has also mentioned this, and for a while he wasn’t invit...