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AITA if I lock my freezer full of ice cream when my sister and her teen kids come to visit?
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AITA if I lock my freezer full of ice cream when my sister and her teen kids come to visit?

My house is sort of the place where most family meetups happen. I kept my parents house and have lived there since then. I've noticed that my sister doesn't really have a good handle on her kids in terms of discipline. The past 2 times that they have come they have eaten so many of my ice cream bars and they always make such a f**king mess. It's aggravating. I would be fine if they grabbed ...

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AITA for telling DIL I won’t watch her older kids so she could take the baby on a vacation
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AITA for telling DIL I won’t watch her older kids so she could take the baby on a vacation

My son and DIL have 3 kids, 2 girls and a boy. The girls are 3 and almost 1 and her son is 4. I’ve always believed she favors the youngest. With the older two, she was going back to work at 12 weeks, had them in daycare all day every day, didn’t b***stfeed, and just seemed disinterested in becoming a parent. It’s night and day with this baby though. She quit her job so the baby wouldn’t be in ...

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AITA for completely banning my daughter from using anything internet related?
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AITA for completely banning my daughter from using anything internet related?

So my daughter (12F) is literally in love with roblox, she plays it everyday with her friends any chance she gets. Obviously my wife and I aren't happy with this, but she does well enough in school, and has her priorities straight when it comes to education. One day my daughter came crying to me that her account got hacked by someone on roblox, and that she lost her entire account. I was freaki...

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AITAH For Telling My Nephew That My Baby Is In My Uterus And Not My Tummy?
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AITAH For Telling My Nephew That My Baby Is In My Uterus And Not My Tummy?

I’m Jewish, but it was more of a cultural thing for my family. In contrast, Paul was raised in a strict, Christian family. He told me that when he was a kid, he knew nothing about his body and thought babies came from the stork. This was very different from how I was raised, but I never put much thought into it. Paul is no longer religious, and we have similar values and ideas about how we wan...

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AITAH if I accept my uncle’s inheritance after he disowned his own children (my cousins)?
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AITAH if I accept my uncle’s inheritance after he disowned his own children (my cousins)?

So my uncle was a total a*shole. He made lots of questionable choices in life and I’m not proud of him at all. We weren’t close either. But I was always polite to him. He was serial cheater and left to be with his mistresses, marry them, only to cheat on them with someone new again. The children of his first wife absolutely despised him. The divorce was messy and rocky between their parents....

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AITAH for not rescheduling my wedding after my sister was widowed?
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AITAH for not rescheduling my wedding after my sister was widowed?

My partner's sister (35F) was widowed last month. Everyone has really tried going above and beyond for his sister, making sure she's as comfortable as possible. And I truly can't imagine, you know? You'd probably have to inst*tutionalize me if som**hing happened to my boy. My partner's mom came to him a few days ago and asked if he would consider postponing the wedding. She said they would ...

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AITA for not giving my brothers wife a role in my wedding?
Relationship
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AITA for not giving my brothers wife a role in my wedding?

Long story short my brother married Gemma 4 years ago. She and I have a history. She was a bully in high school and I was one of her targets. She bullied me until it got to the point my parents changed my school because I was struggling. I have a history of anxiety disorder as well as depression (that was later diagnosed as major depressive disorder). She made me so uns**ble and took joy in it...

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AITAH for basically crashing out at my MIL over the gender of our baby??
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AITAH for basically crashing out at my MIL over the gender of our baby??

I (26F) and my husband (32M), married for 2 years and together for 5, are expecting our first child and are thrilled. We decided not to find out the gender, wanting a surprise, a decision my husband shares. I had a good relationship with my mother-in-law (MIL) and shared updates, including ultrasound images. I am 8 months pr****nt, and my MIL constantly asked if we changed our minds about k...

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AITA for kicking out our tenants because we want to move into the house ourselves?
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AITA for kicking out our tenants because we want to move into the house ourselves?

My husband and I have 2 children. I own our apartment outright and inherited a a 5 bedroom 3 bathroom house. I had no use for it and rented it out to a family with 3 children. The house comes with a beautiful pool so I asked for only half the market rent with the agreement that we could use the pool if we give 24 hour notice. This worked beautifully for both parties. My tenants were happy b...

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AITA for speaking a foreign language with my kids that upsets my wife because she can’t understand?
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AITA for speaking a foreign language with my kids that upsets my wife because she can’t understand?

So we have 3 kids, 17, 15, and 10. I’m only a quarter Japanese but spent ~7 years in Japan when I was a teenager living with my parents there. I’m pretty fluent as my job requires a lot of Japanese as well. My wife doesn’t speak Japanese at all and only speaks English. A few years ago my oldest and second oldest wanted to learn Japanese in school which she initially encouraged. Recently they’ve...

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AITA for not sharing my prize with a mentally handicapped person in a contest?
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AITA for not sharing my prize with a mentally handicapped person in a contest?

Every summer my community has a cookoff compet*tion. Usually about 20-30 individuals or couples try to cook xyz and then they can win a portion of the entry ticket fees while the rest go into the community parks. It's not summer yet but they decided to do it early. This year it was pasta sauce. I've been going to these for years, ever since my wife and I moved here but this is the first time I...

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AITA for replacing room keys for $2 to avoid a $250 fee in our housing units?
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AITA for replacing room keys for $2 to avoid a $250 fee in our housing units?

I live in a housing unit / dorm just outside of our college. It's not affiliated and is run by a third party company. It's a bit average, but it's an nice place to live and is a bit cheaper than living on campus. The problem is our room keys. We use cards with magnetic strips on the back, like you would find in a motel. Most of these cards are between 3 and 6 years old, and in terrible conditio...

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