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AITA For Telling My Ex-Fiancé's Best Friend That He Needs To Live Negative Impact He Played In Ex-Fiancé's Misery?
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AITA For Telling My Ex-Fiancé's Best Friend That He Needs To Live Negative Impact He Played In Ex-Fiancé's Misery?

I (30f) am here because the people I'm closet to that I would usually go for advice are a little too close to home and biased towards me to give a neutral perspective. I'm going to give some backstory for context first and if there are more questions I'll try my best to clear things up. Backstory: I was engaged to my college boyfriend "Mike" (30m) and was really happy. What I wasn't happy about h...

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AITA for not doing anything after discovering that my wife deleted my daughter's novel?
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AITA for not doing anything after discovering that my wife deleted my daughter's novel?

I have been married to my wife Hannah (36) for 2 years. She and my daughter Morgan (16) don't have a daughter-mother relationship. To be completely transparent here...they both fight often and just don't get along. Morgan used to spend most of her time at her mom's, but now is staying with us for school. I remember Hannah telling me about a novel Morgan has been writing on her laptop. She admitte...

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AITA for telling my sister in law i’m not her late sister and she needs to see a ther***st?
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AITA for telling my sister in law i’m not her late sister and she needs to see a ther***st?

I'm (19F) feeling really conflicted about a situation with my sister-in-law (27). Her little sister pa*sed away three years ago, and while she says she's grieved, I'm not so sure. She constantly compares me to her late sister. It started with similar interests like high school subjects, sports, and colors, but it's escalated to almost everything I do. Even the way I decorate my room and the snack...

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My Wife Was Diagnosed With Cancer and I Walked Out Because She Refused to Have My Kids
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My Wife Was Diagnosed With Cancer and I Walked Out Because She Refused to Have My Kids

I (33) get a call from the ER on Friday saying that my wife (32) drove herself there because of searing pelvic pain. I’m on a business trip until Sat**day but I drive back in time to be there Sat**day morning before she woke up. A while after she wakes up, the doctor comes in. My wife says to stay with her so I say ok. He takes a deep breath and said that from the transv***nal ultrasound and CT ...

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UPDATE: AITA for jumping out of the way when my niece and nephew tried to push me into a pool, resulting in them falling in?
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UPDATE: AITA for jumping out of the way when my niece and nephew tried to push me into a pool, resulting in them falling in?

First off, my folks tell me that my nieces and nephews are all good swimmers and that they use the pool all the time. The 7-year-old is still a beginner, but he loves the water. My sister just said they couldn't swim so I'd look bad. To be fair, none of the kids are allowed in the deep end, which is where they fell in. It was the two 10-year-olds and the 9-year-old who tried to push me into the ...

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AITA for not apologizing and causing my daughter to lose one of her few friends?
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AITA for not apologizing and causing my daughter to lose one of her few friends?

My daughter is 12 years old. She’s always struggled making friends but last school year met “Danielle”. To me, Danielle was a little bossy and cared a lot about popularity, obsessed with making my daughter popular but I figured she was just trying to help. And she was nice. When the schools reopened, Danielle’s mom asked me if I wanted to carpool. She’d drive the kids in the morning and I’d pick...

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AITA for willingly choosing to be a single father?
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AITA for willingly choosing to be a single father?

So I (37M) had a kid (23M) when I was 14. His mother and I were 13 when we started dating and had no clue about anything and it resulted in a pregnancy. Despite the odds against it and immense difficulty, we kept our son, remained together and were happily together for over 21 years. We were married for 9 before my wife pa*sed away from cancer aged only 34. Losing my wife devastated me and my so...

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AITA for standing by my husband's m**hod of disciplining my son?
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AITA for standing by my husband's m**hod of disciplining my son?

Throwaway because I post about work on my main. I have a 7 year old son from a previous relationship, and my husband and I have been together for 3 years. While their relationship isn't bad, they have never been able to bond as a father and son, and so my son tends to give him a lot of pushback. My husband has a large collection of figurines, which he has been collecting since high school. They ...

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AITA for keeping an emergency family iphone secretly hidden in the car my daughter drives so I can always track the location of the car?
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AITA for keeping an emergency family iphone secretly hidden in the car my daughter drives so I can always track the location of the car?

Well the cat’s out of the bag on this one, but it doesn’t matter because now I have justification to reinstate previous, more stringent cell phone rules. My daughter is 16, and as most 16-year-olds, she has her own phone with less parental control. But I still have sensible rules like no turning off iPhone tracking, always answer my texts or calls immediately or within a reasonable time frame when...

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AITA for not helping a woman on the subway?
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AITA for not helping a woman on the subway?

I'm coming home from work and the train is pretty crowded. It's standing room only so I grab onto a metal bar and hold on for dear life. I notice a guy and a girl to my right with the guy towering up close and personal to the girl while she was essentially with her back to a wall. I first thought they were a couple because the guy kept leaning down and whispering to her and they were far too clo...

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AITA if I choose to disown my sister after she thought our sister d**ng was a joke?
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AITA if I choose to disown my sister after she thought our sister d**ng was a joke?

This probably sounds obvious, but there is more to it. Our sister pa*sed 3.5 yrs ago, and my sister is just now coming back into my life since she has “straightened” herself out. My younger sister Marty took a different path in life. She got expelled from school for vandalism, dropped out of high school multiple times. She got into heavy drugs and drinking. She ran away from home because my mothe...

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AITA for refusing to speak to my sister because she wouldn’t let my daughter be a flower girl at her wedding (she originally was a flower girl) and causing multiple family members to boycott too
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AITA for refusing to speak to my sister because she wouldn’t let my daughter be a flower girl at her wedding (she originally was a flower girl) and causing multiple family members to boycott too

So I (28f) have a sister (26f) who got married last month. I’m gonna be blunt, my sister has always been one of those people that has to have everything perfect, to the point where sometimes it was hard to be around her. But she was my little sister and I’ve no other siblings, so I always made excuses when she’d hurt me when I was doing things right in her eyes. I was kinda nervous when she aske...

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