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AITA for saying my special birthday dinner's aren't special for me and I don't want them anymore?
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AITA for saying my special birthday dinner's aren't special for me and I don't want them anymore?

For years my mom and stepdad have only eaten out or gotten takeout from one place because of my stepsiblings allergies. Both have an allergy to peanuts and other kinds of nuts. My stepbrother (11) has a dairy allergy and my stepsister (12) has a seafood/sh**lfish allergy. Their allergies were diagnosed around the time my mom met my stepdad. When we all moved in together it became an allerge...

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AITA for kicking my husband out of the hospital after he refused to drive me and my daughter there?
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AITA for kicking my husband out of the hospital after he refused to drive me and my daughter there?

I have a 14-year-old daughter. Her biological father pa*sed away when she was four, and her uncle served as her father figure for the next six years until he also pa*sed away from cancer. Due to these losses, she struggles with abandonment and trust issues, opening up only to very close individuals. When she met my husband, she was polite but did not immediately accept him as a father figur...

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AITA for making my step sister seem "uneducated"?
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AITA for making my step sister seem "uneducated"?

I (F21) am currently staying with my family on my dad's side. My stepsister is 19. We never got along. I grew up in Korea and have a Korean name. She always gets it wrong to a point that it seems on purpose. The rest of the family gets it right, except for my little sister who is 3. I speak 5 languages in total; my stepbrother speaks 3; my stepsister never wanted to learn even though she had th...

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AITA for telling my friend to "keep her polyamory s**t to herself" or leave my home?
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AITA for telling my friend to "keep her polyamory s**t to herself" or leave my home?

My friend Emily is staying with my husband and I for a week. She was evicted from her apartment after an incident with her ex boyfriend, and she had just two weeks until her new lease started and nowhere to go, so she's staying on our apartment. One of the houserules I gave her was no visitors/partners. Emily is poly, and she has 5 current partners, and when I told her none would be able to vis...

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AITA for kicking my roommate out for som**hing that her friend did?
Boundaries
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AITA for kicking my roommate out for som**hing that her friend did?

I am a 37 year old man and my roommate is an early-30s woman. I rent a two-bedroom house and it had a spare room, so I decided to look for a roommate last year. I had a couple of people interested, but a friend asked me for a favor and I let her move in. She pays about 30% of the rent because that's all she can afford. My roommate has one particularly good friend who she invites over regula...

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AITA for Going Off on My Sister After She Kept Returning My Car with an Empty Tank
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AITA for Going Off on My Sister After She Kept Returning My Car with an Empty Tank

I (28F) have been letting my older sister, Emma (32F), borrow my car for a while now because hers broke down a few months ago. She couldn’t afford to fix it, and since I work from home and don’t use my car every day, I told her she could use it when she needed. I thought I was being nice, you know? Like, helping out family the way you’re supposed to. At first, it was fine. But then I starte...

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AITA for laughing at my son's girlfriend when she asked me to pay her compensation for the money I spend on my other grandchild?
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AITA for laughing at my son's girlfriend when she asked me to pay her compensation for the money I spend on my other grandchild?

I have two grandchildren. One is seven and the other is five. The seven year old is the child of my daughter and I do have more access to her, but despite what my son's girlfriend accuses me of, i do not have a favorite. The seven year old does beauty pageants. They are completely her choice, but she saw pictures from her mother and I doing them and begged to be in them. She also rides horses....

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AITA For telling my neighbor to get F-ed when he told me to remove my doorbell camera?
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AITA For telling my neighbor to get F-ed when he told me to remove my doorbell camera?

So lately, There have been a number of burglaries in the area I live in. My wife and I were among those who got burglarized and most of the stuff we lost were packages and electronics. My wife and I both work long hours so we're not home most of the time and despite taking precautions, we still are concerned for the safety of our belongings as well as other things. So I decided to get a doo...

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AITA for outing my dad to my grandparents because I was forced to share my car?
Family Conflict
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AITA for outing my dad to my grandparents because I was forced to share my car?

My (17F) parents divorced when I was 6, my dad remarried when I was 10 to my step-mom, who has a kid (16M), my step-brother's dad is not in the picture (neither is my mom, so we both live full time in the same house). I'm pretty close with my parental grandparents because I spend the whole summer with them and help them around, my step-brother is always invited, but he never comes, it's not th...

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AITAH for refusing to let it slide after my wife said I run a “hobby business”?
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AITAH for refusing to let it slide after my wife said I run a “hobby business”?

I’ve been starting/running a trades business in a major city. It’s going into its fifth year, we have 8-12 employees, have won awards and grown every year. The conflict: I called me wife to ask her about a paperwork problem for taxes - turned out we needed the completed 2024 for som**hing (we hadn’t yet filed). She said it would give her a panic attack and she’d faint if I said she had to. ...

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AITA for refusing to spend Christmas Eve with my MIL because she treats me like her personal servant and makes cruel jokes about me?
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AITA for refusing to spend Christmas Eve with my MIL because she treats me like her personal servant and makes cruel jokes about me?

So, I (F, 28) have been married to my husband (M, 31) for almost 4 years, and we have two young kids. Every year, we spend Christmas Eve with his family, and honestly, I’ve always dreaded it. The main reason is my mother-in-law (MIL). She’s always been kind of a difficult person, but over the years, it’s gotten worse. From the moment I met her, I felt like she saw me as someone “beneath” he...

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AITA for telling my mom I resent her holding me back because of my sister
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AITA for telling my mom I resent her holding me back because of my sister

I (f17) was one of those gifted kids when I was younger. I taught myself how to read when I was 2.5 and how to add when I was 3 and by the time I went to kindergarten I was reading chapter books and doing second grade math. My sister (18) has adhd and dyslexia and was always a little behind in reading and math. Now to the story. My district makes us do placement tests whenever we start kinde...

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