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OtherMy sister is getting married next month. My husband and I were both planning on going but when we got the invitation it was only for me. When I called my sister and asked about it she said my husband was of course fine to come but she requested that he not be in any family photos. My husband is in a wheelchair. I've been married to him for 8 years. He has been in a wheelchair since he was 16 an...
OtherI feel like this is such a cliché reddit story but I’m really struggling with what to do here so.. I am my mother’s oldest biological child. When I was 5 my father pa*sed away and she remarried my step-‘dad’ when I was 8. When I was 9 I was sent away to live with my father’s sister who lived states away because her husband didn’t want me to live there anymore. They used to pay my aunt some ...
RelationshipI (50M) am a single father to my son (15M). My son has been making exceptional grades and he plays for his high school's baseball team. That was until he started dating a girl (17F). They've been dating for the past few months and they seem very happy together, but my problem is that my son's grades have been slipping, he's been skipping out on ch**es at the house, and missing practice/games. ...
Family ConflictMy husband was in a car accident last week. He was staying at the hospital for his broken leg. Only me and his mom were there. His mom and I don't get along AT ALL. he tells me I'm overreacting or paranoid whenever I point out how she's mistreating me. He complained about hospital food saying it had no taste and asked me to make his favorite meal which's steack dish and bring it to him at the h...
OtherI live in a quiet suburban neighborhood with your standard backyard, some gra*s, a few old trees, a weathered shed. Nothing fancy, but I try to keep it tidy. I'm on polite-but-not-close terms with most neighbors. We wave, sometimes chat about the weather, and that’s about it. There’s a family two doors down with a boy who’s maybe 9 or 10. Lately, he’s gone full pirate mode. I mean fully com...
OtherI (44 F) will start by saying that my son (“Luke”) is 18 years old, he is not a child, and he purposefully p*ed on his bed multiple times. We have a housekeeper (“Mary”) that helps me with the laundry, cleaning, etc and she only brought it up after it had already happened over and over again. I could tell she was very uncomfortable when she explained the situation, she said she had been cleani...
OtherSo for Christmas my mother got me and my wife a pride flag, and we hung it on the outside of our garage. It got stolen a few days ago, but since we have cameras we were able to figure out the culprit was my brother. This isn't a huge surprise, I came out at 12 and in the 32 years later and he has been nothing but horrible to me because of that. I decided even so to call him up and ask him to re...
Family ConflictMy mother pa*sed away 3 years ago. The family home, where I and my sister grew up, was willed to me. It was her ancestral property, and she wanted her daughter to have it. The other vacation home went to my 16 year old sister. Our father remarried 6 months after mom pa*sed away and moved his new wife in. My sister says that that woman has removed all of our family pictures from the main living ...
ParentingMy bf has a daughter (6) and we have her every other weekend. She’s really started testing boundaries recently and defying us, mainly me, and being generally disrespectful. It’s meant we’ve had a really hard weekend with her and we’ve had to work hard on keeping up with her att*tude and behaviour around the house as we all share it and she needs to learn she doesn’t own it and that there are co...
OtherI, (32M) have a fiancé , Katie. (30F) Katie spends a lot of time online, consuming a lot of short form content. Over the last year or so, Katie has been watching a lot of autistic creators on TikTok and has been talking about them non-stop. She began making jokes/pa*sing comments about her acting autistic, blaming things on “the tism’” which I mostly ignored. Then, she brought up seriously ...
Family ConflictI (F28) am getting married to a pretty great guy (32). He is teacher and he is very happy with his decision to become a teacher. I work for a tech company and we do pretty well financially. We have been together for four years and have finally decided to get married. His parents bare happy and mine are overjoyed. One small wrinkle is that my parents expect us to have a ma*sive church weddin...
OtherMy son has a conge***al heart condition. I didn’t know when he was born, but at 9 days old, he had his first open heart surgery with a valve replacement. Over the years he has many different surgeries and recently had his 4th aortic valve replacement due to a bacterial infection and truly almost d*ed. He’s 29 and doing great now. He has a gf with whom he has lived with for 4 years now and this...