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'AITA for being uncomfortable with my wife's ex sending her flowers?' UPDATED
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'AITA for being uncomfortable with my wife's ex sending her flowers?' UPDATED

Update: My wife (33F) and I (34M) have been married for 8 years, and we have 2 children aged 4 and 6. My wife has been a SAHM since we had children. Prior to dating me, my wife was in a long term relationship with her ex. Ever since we had our first child, he had been sending her flowers every year on Mother’s Day, and it always made me very uncomfortable, but my wife was always appreciative of ...

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'AITA for telling my wife the day before our daughter’s graduation that I'll be divorcing her?' UPDATED
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'AITA for telling my wife the day before our daughter’s graduation that I'll be divorcing her?' UPDATED

My wife and I have been married for 20 years and we have a daughter who’s 18. She graduated high school a few months ago. Around 6 years ago, I found out that my wife was cheating on me and having an affair which lasted for a couple of months. I really wanted to divorce, but my wife was really remorseful, she quit her job, she started going to therapy, she promised all reconciliation steps I aske...

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'AITA for telling my fiancé that my little brother is more important than him?' UPDATED
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'AITA for telling my fiancé that my little brother is more important than him?' UPDATED

I'm 30f, and I'm currently two months pr****nt with my first child and engaged to my fiancé of three years James (31), for little background when I was [15] my parents had my baby brother ; and five years after while I was (20) and Matt was (5), my parents and Matt were driving home when they got into an accident resulting in my parents' death. After the accident I was completely destroyed and de...

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Bride snaps at SIL for bringing up 'Bridgerton' while dress shopping, 'I don't want to hear about that show.' AITA?
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Bride snaps at SIL for bringing up 'Bridgerton' while dress shopping, 'I don't want to hear about that show.' AITA?

I (25f) went wedding dress shopping a few days ago. It was a s**tshow. My fiancé is from a religious family and it was important for him to get married at his family’s church. It’s not som**hing I always wanted for myself, but his family is helping to pay for the ceremony and this means a lot to him. The problem is that his mom insists that I get a modest wedding dress. I tried on a bunch of d...

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'AITA because I will not watch anything more complicated than a Hallmark movie with my wife?'
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'AITA because I will not watch anything more complicated than a Hallmark movie with my wife?'

I love my wife. She is intelligent, and sweet. Also she is beautiful inside and out. She teaches high school English and Social Stud*es. She loves novels and usually has several on the go. However she cannot follow the plot of a movie to save her life. Unless it is about a big city lawyer visiting her home town to shut down the local factory but instead reconnecting with her high school boyfriend...

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'AITA for not helping my husband get ready for work in the morning?'
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'AITA for not helping my husband get ready for work in the morning?'

I (25F) have been married to my husband (25M) for 4 years now. We have a child so it limits our schedule a lot. Here's how our mornings used to go 4 months ago : I would wake up around 6am, get ready and go to work by 645am. Husband would wake up when our 2 year old woke up. Usually around 645 to 7am, then gets ready and takes child to daycare. It worked for a bit but my husband hated the schedu...

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'AITA for making my husband change gyms because his female gym budd*es flirt with him?' UPDATED 3X
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'AITA for making my husband change gyms because his female gym budd*es flirt with him?' UPDATED 3X

I (38F) had a fight with my husband (41M) last week when I asked him to change his gym. He says it's not fair to him, but I told him it was important to me, and he agreed. As a week has pa*sed, I am not sure if I did the right thing and want to get neutral opinion on this matter. We have been married for 12 years and have two wonderful kids. My husband and I were into fitness when we got married....

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'AITA because I pay for a maid to clean the house before I come home?' 'My wife stays home.'
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'AITA because I pay for a maid to clean the house before I come home?' 'My wife stays home.'

I work out of town and my wife stays home with our two teen kids. When I'm home I take care of the housework to give my wife a break. The kids are supposed to help around the house in return for me paying for their phones and stuff. My wife chooses not to enforce that while I'm gone. Our income is split thusly. We pay all our bills. Including the kids phones. We set aside money for retire, vaca...

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'AITA for publicly exposing my cheating BF at his birthday party?' + MAJOR UPDATE
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'AITA for publicly exposing my cheating BF at his birthday party?' + MAJOR UPDATE

So, this might be a wild one, but here goes. I (26F) have been dating my boyfriend Matt (28M) for two years. Everything was fine until a few weeks ago when I noticed he’d become super secretive with his phone. Before, he used to leave it out on the table, but recently he’s been taking it everywhere—like even to the bathroom, which seemed odd. One night, while we were watching a movie, his ph...

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'AITA to be upset my in-laws are planning a separate birthday party for my sons?' UPDATED
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'AITA to be upset my in-laws are planning a separate birthday party for my sons?' UPDATED

My husband and I bought my mom's house and are currently doing major renovations to it (we're redoing the plumbing and the bathrooms, for example). As a result, we can't really host any gatherings there until the plumbing and the flooring is done. I knew it would likely not be done in time for our twins' first birthday, which is next weekend. My sister-in-law (SIL2) also is high-needs on the AS...

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'AITA for excluding my brother from my wedding because of his 'fun facts'?'
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'AITA for excluding my brother from my wedding because of his 'fun facts'?'

I have an older brother David (41). David has boundary issues and was in the learning disabled cla*ses. My parents never let him out of the home. He has an very rough personality and because he was never allowed to work or do anything so in his 40’s he doesn’t have friends. He still dominates the conversation at every holiday with “fun facts” and goes off on those and doesn’t realize no one is li...

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MIL takes back family heirloom from DIL before the wedding. AITA?
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MIL takes back family heirloom from DIL before the wedding. AITA?

I won't respond to repeat questions, check the comments --------------- My family has two heirlooms that we give to a bride or groom when they marry. For the men, it’s a set of cufflinks, and for the women, it’s a bracelet. My oldest son and my oldest sister are married, and their spouses wore the bracelet or cufflinks at their weddings. This tradition is essentially our family’s way of saying, “...

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