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BoundariesMe: nurse. Working 50ish hours a week in paediatric ICU. Cry at least once a week because that s**t is hard. My salary pays our bills. All of them. Husband: 25M. Has a degree but isn't looking for a job. Works 2 days a week at the grocery store. Spends most of his time playing LoL. Today was supposed to be A Good Day. I had been begging my husband to swap his Sat**day shift to literally anyt...
OtherI look very similar to an actor and I live in New York City. Every so often a tourist would stop me and say “oh my gosh you’re that guy!” And I used to interrupt them and say “no I’m really not.” But then this guy started starring in a TV show so became way more recognizable. It started so I was being stopped 3-5 times a day by people. Once I was in a mad rush and on the phone so when someone sai...
RelationshipMy husband and I went grocery shopping and afterwards he dropped me off at the nail salon, and he went home with the groceries. I thought that since he went home, he would have put the groceries up. When he picked me up from the nail salon and we went home, I saw that the groceries were on the kitchen floor still in bags. I asked him why didn't he put the groceries up, and he argued that he pu...
RelationshipI have been trying to write this out for a couple of days, because I truly feel like an awful human being and I have so much trouble putting this into words. This involves me (27f), my husband (27m) and my son (7). My son has a different dad, and his dad his completely out of the picture. Me and my husband has been talking about kids for a long time, and about half a year ago he started aski...
BoundariesI feel like this is entirely ridiculous. I live with my roommate "Matt". We used to be pretty close friends, but over the last 2 years of living with him, we've drifted apart, and I'm just waiting for our lease to move out on my own. Matt's girlfriend "Sarah" pretty much lives with us, despite not paying rent. I won't lie, she annoys me to no end. She's an ent*tled airhead who thinks the world ...
OtherWhen I was in my mid-twenties, I froze some eggs. We ended up freezing 10 eggs. I was lucky enough that my job covered part of the costs. Fast forward: when my husband and I were ready to get pr****nt, we ended up just getting pr****nt naturally (I am currently 35, I had my baby a year ago). We do want two more children, so we will likely use a few of the eggs. My sister (30) had one kid in ...
OtherThis is a hot topic in my family at the moment. I live on an obscure little island near the UK. we have a local quiz show that’s aired on the telly that I appeared on a few years ago. The premise of the show is that you can win prizes for doing challenges. Some of the challenges were physical, some psychological, and some requiring problem solving sk**ls. I sailed through a lot of the physic...
Food & DietThere's a local burger joint that my family and I love. It's about 10 blocks away from our house and they do both delivery and pick up. I'm a ft student and SAHM to a toddler (1.5) while my husband works ft. I had a big exam and a couple of lab practicals due today and was too tired to cook dinner so I decided to order a couple burgers and fries from the local joint. It was already dark out, r...
ParentingMy sister is a single mother with 2 children. An 11, and 7 year old. The 7 year old is a boy while the other 1 is a girl. She works a lot, and doesn't have a lot of money to afford babysitting, so I started watching her kids for her for free. There was an incident one day where the 7 year old had gotten mad at me because I wouldn't let him jump on the couch. I explained to him he could get hurt...
OtherMy son “George” just turned 13 this month. George is very bright, projected to get 8s or 9s in his GCSEs, and regularly achieves these grades in his mock exams and a*sessments. But he struggles socially and has been bullied badly in the past. Things are better now, but he isn’t popular. As part of his PD cla*s, he had to create a children’s toy and give a sales pitch to the cla*s. Last F...
RelationshipI've been with my boyfriend (I'll call him Paul) for 3 years and living together for 6 months. Paul has serious problems with forgetting important documents and after the 4x he did this, I became responsible for carrying our documents in my purse. According to him, all documents have a digital version and that is enough, not all are digital (pa*sport) and not all places accept the digital form,...
RelationshipI’ve been at my job for 10 years and have 30 PTO days a year + holidays. My wife only has 17 PTO days + holidays. I try to take some days off randomly to do “me stuff”. But every time I tell my wife I’m taking a day off som**hing magically happens to ruin my day. A sniffle that we would have normally sent our kid to school with all of a sudden becomes “well you’re home you can stay with him”. ...