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I Locked Myself In The Bedroom While Sick And My Partner Is Furious I Didn't Parent
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I Locked Myself In The Bedroom While Sick And My Partner Is Furious I Didn't Parent

I (27F) have three children (8M, 6M, 3F). My partner and I both work, but since my hours are more flexible I’ve picked up most of the childcare such as dropping the children off at school/childminder, picking them up, taking them park, doing homework etc as well as 50% housework so meals, ironing etc. My partner will help, after a little nagging as well as usually taking the children out to th...

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AITA for favoring my scapegoat brother over his golden child twin sister?
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AITA for favoring my scapegoat brother over his golden child twin sister?

I (20m) has two younger siblings, "Joe" and "Jill". They're twins, both 18 and graduating high school this year. Jill is my parent's favorite, because they've always wanted a daughter, while Joe is their scapegoat, because I guess he's the bonus baby they never actually asked for. I'm mostly better off than Joe, as I'm the oldest grandson from both sides of my family, almost all of whom are ju...

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AITA for "babying my wife at the expense of my children"?
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AITA for "babying my wife at the expense of my children"?

I've been married to Lacey for 18 years. We have a great marriage and two daughters. The 16 year old isn't relevant in this and we'll call the 14 year old Madison. Madison and Lacey have been clashing a lot lately and that's what inspired this post. So I absolutely love my wife, but she is ridiculous, and vain, and still my favorite person in the world. Lacey cares excessively about appearance ...

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Mother-In-Law Pesters Pr****nt Daughter-In-Law To Share Baby's Gender Before The Gender Reveal Party
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Mother-In-Law Pesters Pr****nt Daughter-In-Law To Share Baby's Gender Before The Gender Reveal Party

I didn't really want a gender reveal party but my husband's family made a big deal about it so I agreed. My mother-in-law was convinced that I knew the gender and insisted I tell her. I totally didn't and I told her that fact. She wore me down after a month of bothering me about it. She begged me and promised that she wouldn't tell anyone. This was all in texts. I told her it was a girl. ...

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AITA for telling my SIL to practice keeping her opinions to herself because she doesn't get a say in how my kids eat?
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AITA for telling my SIL to practice keeping her opinions to herself because she doesn't get a say in how my kids eat?

I'm (30M) a stay at home dad. My wife (29F) and I have two kids together. Our oldest is 4 and our youngest is 18 months. I became the stay at home parent when our oldest was born. My brother (36M) is married to SIL (39F) and they have five kids together between the ages of 4 and 10. SIL was "stunned" when I became the stay at home parent vs my wife. She has a more "traditional" view of marriag...

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AITA for making my friend send me a picture of her dressed so I can pick her up as she's constantly late?
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AITA for making my friend send me a picture of her dressed so I can pick her up as she's constantly late?

I(20F) have been friends with "Mia"(20F) for years now and she's one of my best friends. I love Mia but there's one problem that annoys the h**l out of me: she's constantly late. Whereever we go Mia's at least an hour late, even when we pick her up at her house. I can't even count the times when Mia asked me or our friends for a ride just to make us wait in front of her house in the car becaus...

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AITAH for wanting to divorce my husband of 17 years because he hit my son?
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AITAH for wanting to divorce my husband of 17 years because he hit my son?

For some context, i (35f) married my husband, Jack (37m) when i was 18, we were dating all through out high school and we've been in love since. We have 2 kids, Luka (15m) and Lily (5f), Luka is not our biological son, his actual parents, my best friend and her husband, unfortunately d*ed in a car crash when he was 5, and ive been his legal guardian ever since. He knows all about his real pare...

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AITA for snapping at this lady at the grocery store because of my son’s crying?
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AITA for snapping at this lady at the grocery store because of my son’s crying?

My son’s (6 months) been cranky all morning because he’s teething. I (27m) had to go grocery shopping and since it’s just me taking care of him he came with me. Normally he’s calm when I have him in his baby carrier because right now he just wants to be held by me but I forgot that at my mom’s yesterday so went in with his stroller to the market. The plan was to be in an out in under 5 mins bec...

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AITAH for demanding my boyfriend’s sister pay me back for the cost of the spiritual materials she threw out?
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AITAH for demanding my boyfriend’s sister pay me back for the cost of the spiritual materials she threw out?

I (28F) have been a practicing pagan witch for over a decade. My faith and spiritual practice are deeply personal and important to me. Over the years, I’ve created several altars for different deities I worship and work with. Some of those altars rotate in and out of active use depending on where I’m at in my practice so I keep them neatly packed away in labeled storage boxes. My main altar, h...

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AITA for taking back my doll house that my sister’s kids have started to destroy
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AITA for taking back my doll house that my sister’s kids have started to destroy

When I was a child my dad built me a dollhouse. It was lovely. He worked so hard on it, everything was so detailed, down to the tooth brushes, light switches, etc. imo, it’s a piece of art. I took care of it very well and he even installed a sliding plastic door with a lock on it so I could protect it from my more destructive little sister. I moved out and the doll house stayed at my mom’s....

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AITA For telling my entire family to leave when they berated me for paying for my friend's son's surgery?
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AITA For telling my entire family to leave when they berated me for paying for my friend's son's surgery?

I 37M had experienced 2 loses in a short period of time. I lost both my daughters (bio9/adopted14) both suffered from chronic conditions. I was a single dad dealing with so much. Soon as my oldest pa*sed away. My youngest got sick in the same year. I had no time to grieve I found myself driving to the hospital again. Talking to doctors again. It was a difficult time. My youngest pa*sed away a ...

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AITA for ruining my work colleagues wedding and getting them arrested?
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AITA for ruining my work colleagues wedding and getting them arrested?

I (38f) had 2 work colleagues, Mary and Adam (both in their late 20s-early 30s). Mary started in the company first and then she got Adam to join, they worked in different departments and Mary was in mine. Later, Mary left the company to pursue another carrier. When they started at the company, they were already married for a few years. Now Mary is the kindest and loveliest person I've ever ...

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