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AITA for getting annoyed that my fiance won’t just SMILE for a picture instead of making a s***id gaping mouth face?
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AITA for getting annoyed that my fiance won’t just SMILE for a picture instead of making a s***id gaping mouth face?

My fiance makes this really s***id face in pictures. Smile big, but with your mouth closed. Then just let your jaw hang open. It’s this awkward, weird cross between a smile and gaping mouth. Sometimes he just opens his mouth really wide without a smile, and looks super idk, shocked? Excited? He only does it sometimes though. Before we started taking pictures, I just asked him if we could tr...

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AITA for telling a friend's girlfriend that she's spoiled?
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AITA for telling a friend's girlfriend that she's spoiled?

Several days ago we invited a friend and his girlfriend over for dinner. Before we start, some background about my friend: I've known him for almost 15 years, he never had a lot of money, but he never let that get in the way. He worked hard, saved hard, and bought things if he decided he really wanted them, but was not a spendthrift. He paid his way through university without taking any loans,...

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AITA for telling my brother that his looks aren't the reason women run from him?
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AITA for telling my brother that his looks aren't the reason women run from him?

I (22M) have three older siblings, Diana (43F), Sebastian (37M) and Jake (32M). I was the surprise baby and I'm cl**er to Jake than Diana or Sebastian. Jake has always been interested in sports and trained since he was 14, going pro in college, so he looks like a young Schwarzenegger. I took after him because he was the sibling at home I was actively watching. I was young and desperate for int...

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AITA for naming my daughter the name I chose years ago?
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AITA for naming my daughter the name I chose years ago?

I had my daughter a week ago. I had chosen her name a long while ago because it had a very personal meaning for me. Before I was pr****nt my sister and I had been talking about what we'd like to name our kids and I told her the girl name I really wanted to use. She complimented me on it and then we didn't talk about it again. She gave birth to my niece five months ago and guess what name she u...

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AITA for letting a teenage boy spend the night in jail before dropping the charges?
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AITA for letting a teenage boy spend the night in jail before dropping the charges?

When I moved cities a few months ago I rented an apartment on a monthly contract while looking for another one to buy. A couple months in the owner told me that she will be putting it on the market so she will be needing my schedule to arrange showings. I offered to buy it and not even 2 weeks later I was the owner of my own apartment. I live in the second floor, the first floor is owned by...

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AITA for using my special needs priviledges?
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AITA for using my special needs priviledges?

About a year ago, my university added psychological problems to the special needs students requests. I have been diagnosed with severe anxiety and clinical depression so I decided to apply to the program. The program is strictly enforced and they requested my diagnosis, the date and the doctor. Then, they contacted my doctor. Well, I got in. I have around 1.5x time in exams, able to record t...

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AITA for rejecting a girl as revenge?
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AITA for rejecting a girl as revenge?

So, to start off, maybe, it was a bit petty of me tbh. Anyway, I asked this girl Clara out on a date about a year ago. I was a completely different person then, and she turned me down. It stung like h**l, but it did encourage me to better myself. Since then I've gotten in better shape, became more confident and generally I've had more luck with girls. I still never forgot what made me improve ...

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AITA for giving the entire inheritance to my twin brother?
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AITA for giving the entire inheritance to my twin brother?

So I (30F) made money young. I dropped out of college to model, then started my own business and made some smart decisions with stocks. So I have quite a bit of money saved, my own property owned free and clear (just pay utilities), and a couple cars. I am single and childless. Growing up, I was very close with my twin (30M) but not so much with my other siblings (also twins, 28F). Basicall...

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AITA for not wanting to share my son?
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AITA for not wanting to share my son?

My son d*ed at age 4. On the first mothers day after he d*ed my husband got me a necklace with some of his ashes in. I wear it every single day. My Aunt is not someone I see often. She got on with my son but only really saw him a handful of times a year. She came a few times to see him when he was sick but not often. When we were told he didn't have long left I asked if she wanted to come and s...

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AITAH my wife went out with a recently single friend...
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AITAH my wife went out with a recently single friend...

I'm in a weird situation and I'm beginning to feel like I was in the wrong because of my wife's response...or lack thereof. Last Sat**day my wife went out with a recently divorced friend. She invited my wife to a brewery fundraiser and said she would be gone from about 4-8 PM. She took our youngest to their house to play with her friend's child, and their teenage daughter was going to watch the...

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Dad Backs Son's Choice To Sidestep Aggressive Special Needs Child, Faces Allegations Of Discrimination
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Dad Backs Son's Choice To Sidestep Aggressive Special Needs Child, Faces Allegations Of Discrimination

Myself (43M) and my wife (41F) have lived on our street for years with our two boys, James (12M) and Sam (6M). Every Sat**day morning Sam and I have a ritual, he calls them our dude walks. We look for spiders, dig in the mud, and stop at our neighborhood park to play. It's sort of a standing meetup for a bunch of parents in the area. Recently a new family moved in the next block over. The mother...

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AITA for ending my marriage because I didn't want to force my kids to live with my wife's oldest daughter again?
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AITA for ending my marriage because I didn't want to force my kids to live with my wife's oldest daughter again?

My wife and I (both 30s) are parents to five kids between us. I have two kids (15 and 13) with my late wife and my wife has three a 16 year old daughter with her ex-boyfriend and two more kids (10 and 7) with her late husband. We've been married for four years and we were together for two years prior. When we met she shared custody of her oldest daughter with her ex and after we had been ma...

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