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Final update: Aita for exposing my wife's cheating and not wanting to do anything with a child that isn't mine
Parenting
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Final update: Aita for exposing my wife's cheating and not wanting to do anything with a child that isn't mine

It has been a difficult few months. I considered running away from everything, even abandoning my son, although I know he is not biologically mine. However, I did not want him to suffer. Since then, I have visited him frequently. I moved out but continued visiting him, while my wife tried hard to make me stay. Her sister also caused significant trouble, but I tolerated it all for my son. Th...

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AITA for telling my dad it hurt my feelings that he's a better dad now that he's a stepdad and wouldn't do it for me?
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AITA for telling my dad it hurt my feelings that he's a better dad now that he's a stepdad and wouldn't do it for me?

My parents got divorced when I (17m) was 7. My dad was never the best dad or the worst dad. He wasn't a monster or neglectful but he never made time for me. If I asked him to hang out with me he'd say later and later never came or he was too busy and maybe another time but the other time never came. He'd encourage me to do as many extra curricular's as I wanted and he hired a babysitter to tak...

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AITA for breaking up a relationship between our son and a girl, who both have disabilities?
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AITA for breaking up a relationship between our son and a girl, who both have disabilities?

I have a 16 year old son with severe physical disabilities. He uses a motorized wheelchair and requires help to get in and out of it. My husband and I are in a friends group of families with similarly disabled children. My son recently announced that he is dating a 17 year old girl from the group. My only problem is that this girl has severe mental and physical disabilities. She has the me...

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AITAH For Telling My Neighbor I Have No Desire or Obligation To Babysit Her Children Because I'm A SAHM?
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AITAH For Telling My Neighbor I Have No Desire or Obligation To Babysit Her Children Because I'm A SAHM?

I'm new to my area and I have made friends with a few neighbors through a mommy and me group. I have been in the group now a little over a month and I have a 9 week old. I have a neighbor who is in the group and she asked me last week in an emergency if I could watch her 3 and 5 year old, she looked desperate so I agreed. I was like well its just once. I am a full-time SAHM and enjoy all my ti...

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AITA for climbing in the window of my dad's house? He changed the locks to keep my mom (divorced) out but I was supposed to be at his house for the weekend.
Family Conflict
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AITA for climbing in the window of my dad's house? He changed the locks to keep my mom (divorced) out but I was supposed to be at his house for the weekend.

My parents are divorced, and because of the custody agreement I am supposed to be at my dad's for every other week. My mom dropped me off outside his house and I went to the door and the key didn't work. I banged on the door and rang the doorbell and nobody came to the door, the house seemed empty. My phone had d*ed and my mom had left because she was dropping me off in her rush to work. Th...

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AITAH for sending my sister flowers anonymously and making her husband upset?
Relationship
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AITAH for sending my sister flowers anonymously and making her husband upset?

I (M, 37) have always been close to my sister (F, 35). We talk regularly, and during one such conversation, she told me she’s been feeling really depressed / overwhelmed lately. As we were talking, I could tell she was holding back tears. So I decided to do som**hing nice for her. I contacted a local florist and put in an order for some flowers. I had them delivered to my sister’s place of emp...

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AITA for refusing to "fulfill a promise" I made to an autistic person?
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AITA for refusing to "fulfill a promise" I made to an autistic person?

I am 16F and I have a neighbour, Ben, who is 16M. He is an autistic person. He is high functioning but sometimes prone to severe meltdowns. Our mothers are friends, so we hang around a lot. We are friends and hang out a lot together but I don't consider him close to me. It's because it's a pretty one sided friendship. If you asked him a single question about me, he wouldn't be able to answer. ...

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Aita for telling my husband I don’t want his brother around our son because of his DNA concerns?
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Aita for telling my husband I don’t want his brother around our son because of his DNA concerns?

My husband and I have a two year old son together. My husband is a great and attentive father but this problem for the past year and a half or so is reaching its breaking point and I’m extremely annoyed. I made this ultimatum with my husband last night after a fight I had with his brother. I have brown hair and blue eyes, my husband has blond hair and blue eyes and our son has brown hair an...

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AITAH for not making payments towards my wife’s student loans after she insulted my sister’s education?
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AITAH for not making payments towards my wife’s student loans after she insulted my sister’s education?

I [36m] have been married to my wife, Anne [28f] for three years. Anne is an Ivy League university graduate. Without revealing too many details, she went to a school that virtually every American knows by name. My sister, Jennifer [40f] went to a different Ivy League school, but one that is considered lower in status than Anne’s. Jennifer did not graduate. She began suffering from mental healt...

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AITA for telling my son he can't stay with me when I found out why his wife kicked him out.
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AITA for telling my son he can't stay with me when I found out why his wife kicked him out.

My daughter-in-law is pr****nt with my first grandchild. She is suffering from placenta preavia. She is on bedrest. It would be dangerous for her to have s*x. So my a*shole son decided that he should cheat. She found out and kicked him out of the house. He came to stay with us because "she was having crazy pregnancy hormones". Every time he called her they would fight. After a couple of days...

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AITA for ripping my debit card out of my fiancé's hand when I saw him purchasing stuff for his brother off Amazon?
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AITA for ripping my debit card out of my fiancé's hand when I saw him purchasing stuff for his brother off Amazon?

My fiancés brother "Chris" moved to Mississippi from our home town 2 years ago to be with some girl he met on the internet. Chris has always been the type to make terrible life choices and my fiancé is ALWAYS the one who bails him out (with the except of my FMIL). My fiancé does this because he has survivors guilt. They lived with their father growing up and their father hated Chris with a bur...

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AITA for sharing the "private" text my conservative neighbor sent me with the neighborhood group chat?
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AITA for sharing the "private" text my conservative neighbor sent me with the neighborhood group chat?

I (M, 32) moved into this neighborhood 2 months ago. The neighborhood is kind of busy with lots of activities and events taking place. I have a next door neighbor named "Steve" from what I'd noticed Steve has an important place among the neighbors, he's conservative and somewhat influential if this is the right word. So amyways, Steve keeps inviting me to participate in events but I tell I'm bu...

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