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AITA for being surly, rude and mean at a wedding and leaving early?
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AITA for being surly, rude and mean at a wedding and leaving early?

I was asked to be a member of the wedding party. Despite this, I was THE ONLY person, not only in the wedding party, but also at the ceremony, who wasn't allowed to have a +1. This was an outdoor wedding with unlimited seating, and these people don't give a s**t about COVID, so it wasn't about that. I was told it was because my relationship wasn't "serious" enough, despite us being together for a...

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AITA for full-on raging at my parents after they spent £1,300 of my money for my brother's gaming PC set?
Family Conflict
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AITA for full-on raging at my parents after they spent £1,300 of my money for my brother's gaming PC set?

For a bit of context, around a year and a half ago, when I was 15, I came up with a plan to pay for my own university fees once I finish school. It's a little expensive (between the 4 to 5 figure range and my family isn't the richest one so yh), so I wished to save my parents the trouble of paying and do everything myself. I planned to save up enough money until I can invest in some cheap land b...

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AITA For not switching places with my friend and ruining her life
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AITA For not switching places with my friend and ruining her life

This happened a couple weeks ago but I'm still getting s**t about it. A friend of mine, Daya (fake name), asked me if I wanted to come with her on some errands and see her new car. I said yes because I had some things to get done and my car was being checked over. (We're in the same bubble and stayed masked the whole time) Well while we were out Daya ended up hitting another car while turning le...

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AITA for getting angry at my parents after they refused to look after my children?
Family Conflict
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AITA for getting angry at my parents after they refused to look after my children?

I have two children, my son (4) and my daughter (2). Raising two children at a young age has been really difficult, however, I was able to graduate from college with a good degree and start a career that I am happy with. Despite this, the struggle of trying to juggle the responsibility of looking after my kids and focusing on my career is stressful to say the very least. My fiancé (26) also work...

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AITA for not wanting a bday party after being refused a present I wanted?
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AITA for not wanting a bday party after being refused a present I wanted?

I (17F) will be turning 18 in a couple of days, and naturally, my mom asked me to pick a present I want. My mother is not by any means a greedy or inconsiderate person. She raised me and my brother alone ever since I was old enough to remember and she's been trying her hardest to care for us, which is why I respect and love her the most. I asked for the same thing, a 120 colored pencils Faber Ca...

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AITA for expecting my fiancée to not wear her late fiancés ring anymore?
Relationship
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AITA for expecting my fiancée to not wear her late fiancés ring anymore?

My fiancée (M) was engaged before me. Her fiancé pa*sed away in a pedestrian car accident 3 and a half years ago. We met a year and a half after he pa*sed on tinder. On our first date she told me what happened and then I noticed an engagement ring on her right hand ring finger. I didn’t say anything. A couple months in I brought it up and M said that she will wear the ring on her right hand unti...

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AITA for telling my adult daughter the truth about why I wasn't in her life?
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AITA for telling my adult daughter the truth about why I wasn't in her life?

Recently, I got back in contact with my adult daughter M, after having had nothing to do with her since her birth. She's 25 now, but honestly I wasn't around from her birth all the way through to when her mother d*ed a couple years ago. Now, I know I'm not a perfect person here, I've done some bad things, but in this case I don't think I was the bad guy. M's mother and I dated for about a year a...

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UPDATE - AITA for kicking my wife and her daughter out of my house?
Relationship
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UPDATE - AITA for kicking my wife and her daughter out of my house?

Hey guys, a lot of you asked me how I am doing and for an update. It has been a couple of weeks since the incident now. I met with my wife, and we discussed everything. She wanted to continue with our marriage and give it a second chance, but I told her I want a divorce. It was very hard for me, but in the end, I think it was the right thing to do. I still love my wife, but I don’t want to be ca...

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AITA for refusing to let my parents move in and reminding them that they backed the wrong horse?
Family Conflict
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AITA for refusing to let my parents move in and reminding them that they backed the wrong horse?

My (37m) family comes from and is a long line of doctors, being a doctor is the only acceptable profession in their eyes and anything aside from that is met with literal abandonment. Which is what happened to me when I turned 17 and told my family I was NOT going to be a doctor but to build an acting career / social media career (youtube wasn't huge then) and supplement my income with small busin...

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AITA for telling my wife that she doesn't spend enough time with her son and is not being a good mom to him?
Family Conflict
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AITA for telling my wife that she doesn't spend enough time with her son and is not being a good mom to him?

When my wife was 20, she had a son, "Brandon" for the sake of this post. It was just the two of them for a long time until I met my wife in 2016. Things moved quickly in our relationship and by 2017 we had moved in together and she was pr****nt. My wife comes from a big family (1 of 5 kids) and had always wanted at least four kids, so she was eager to get started on adding to our family since by t...

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AITA for not doing a favor for my dad and telling him I don't owe him or his favorite wife and kids favors?
Family Conflict
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AITA for not doing a favor for my dad and telling him I don't owe him or his favorite wife and kids favors?

After our mom d*ed, dad told me and my siblings (17m, 16f and 14m) that he was glad that part of his life was over and he was going to find someone he actually loved and wanted to be with, and we better be ready because he wasn't slowing down for us. This was 10 years ago. He met a few women before his wife of 9 years. They were together a few months before they got married, and she was pr****nt...

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Woman Hires And Fires MIL As Her Babysitter Because Of Her Messy Att*tude, Husband Feels Terrible About It
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Woman Hires And Fires MIL As Her Babysitter Because Of Her Messy Att*tude, Husband Feels Terrible About It

Back 4 months ago both my husband and I landed the same job, making fantastic pay. This job pays $28 an hour so this was HUGE for us. The problem is that it's overnight shifts so we needed a sitter for the kids. We asked MIL to do so, she said yes and we told her to pick what she felt was a fair amount for payment. She said $300 on the 3 day weeks and $400 on the 4 day weeks. (12hr shifts) I wi...

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