Parenting

AITA for humiliating my wife on social media to "defend" my mom?

We finally have gone no contact with my mom. It was a long hard decision, but she and my wife are just fundamentally unable to get along and recently had a vicious fight, and I knew I had to put my wife first. This fight was so bad my mom didn't even protest the no contact. We are just done with each other, but I can't say it hasn't been gut wrenching. My mom has given her version of the st...

AITA for shutting down talk about having kids with “purposely controversial statements?”

Our region has done well handling COVID, so my husband and I had a small group of family over for a backyard BBQ a month ago. We’re the only ones in the family “left” who don’t have kids. We’re not going to. We prefer our lives as mountaineers. His family thinks we'll change our minds. Mind you, husband had the snip. MIL jokingly mentioned that maybe with all the “alone time” we’d be giving ...

AITA for not going to my dad's house in an emergency where his 5 year old stepdaughter was left at home on her own?

AITAH for telling my neighbor she should check her husband and NOT me?

I'm deep cleaning my house when my neighbor shows up at my doorstep. She introduces herself, which is fine since she's new to the neighborhood. But then she drops a b**bsh**l: she says I make her feel uncomfortable. I'm taken aback since we've never spoken before and I've lived here for 13 years with no issues. When I ask what I'm doing to make her uncomfortable, she says it's the way I dress ...

AITA if I tell my boyfriend not to refer to and introduce me as his "wife"?

My (30F) bf (33M) have been together for over 5 years & have a 1-year-old son together. We've been homeless together, lost a baby together and slowly built our lives back up. He never liked the idea of marriage, saying, "I don't see why the gov't has to be involved & why we should have to prove our love to anyone." I get it, but marriage/a proposal are very important to me. He said he'd marry ...

AITA for shutting my sister out after she told our mom som**hing I admitted to her in confidence?

My sister (15f) and I (16f) lost our dad 8 years ago. 4 years ago our mom remarried. Her husband came with two kids of his own (11m) and (7f) and they have a baby together (4mo m). I admitted to my sister a while ago that I hadn't been on board when our mom first told us she was getting married again, and that I really only accept it for her, but not for me. I admitted I don't love them or see...

AITA for making a dark joke at my SO’s expense

I’m extremely pr****nt (like waddling Danny-DeVito-as-The-Penguin pr****nt) and fighting a chest cold, back pain, bruised rib, overall fatigue, and a womb resident that won’t quit moving (which is a good thing, but can be painful!). I work from home, which makes it easier. My boyfriend has an abscess that requires a root ca**l. YIKES. I’ve never had a root ca**l, but tooth/mouth pain is no ...

AITAH for “training” a guy “like a dog”?

I (23F) have recently started seeing this guy (26M). he’s super pretty, but he’s kind of emotionally unavailable and he’s alluded to an uns**ble/ unhealthy childhood. for context, i also work w socializing a**sed and neglected dogs at a local shelter and i think how much time i spend w the dogs is impacting the way i interact w ppl. when we were on a date i started subconsciously making ment...

AITA for not telling my (ex)wife that we lived in a rental apartment.

Back in 2008 when I started University, I rented a 2 bedroom apartment with my (exex)girlfriend at the time and my friend & his girlfriend. We got a great deal for it, as the owner of the place lost his job because of everything that happened back then and decided to try her luck abroad where she still lives. Years went by and after University my friend and his GF decided to find a place of the...

AITA for telling my sister to get over the fact that I wore a bikini around her BF?

I LOVE to swim and since we have a swimming pool in our back yard I am practically swimming daily. I don't think I own a 1 piece swim suit so I am always wearing a 2 piece swim suit. My sister's BF lives like 5 minutes away from our place and he spends a lot of time here. the living room has a sliding gla*s door to the back yard and the window to my sister's room is looking outside the backyar...

AITA for banning my wife’s Disney-divorce friend’s plug-ins from our house?

My wife’s friend Melissa (49f) is staying with us for a few weeks while she sorts her life out. We have a large home and are very happy to have houseguests. She’s leaving her husband after 25 years of marriage because she wants to move to LA and work at Disneyland. This sounds like the plot of a bad sitcom, but I'm afraid it's it’s real. Both she and her husband are equally culpable for the fa...

AITA for refusing free dental work to my financially struggling family members?

I'm an orthodontist, 35, married to a wonderful woman, 33. Her family's always been great, but I recently had to set a boundary. My brother-in-law asked me to do free orthodontic work for his kids. I told him I couldn't, that I don't do free treatments, even for family. He got upset, saying I'm selfish and greedy because I'm successful. He made snide comments about doctors making a lot of m...