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AITA for leaving my 5 year old daughter at home and just taking my son to the cinema?
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AITA for leaving my 5 year old daughter at home and just taking my son to the cinema?

Daughter is 5 and can be difficult a lot of the time. This could be keeping her sister awake at night, bursting in our room at night, waking up the entire house, making excuses to not do things and generally not listening. Today I planned to take her and my son to the cinema. It was time to eat breakfast and I told her that if she doesn't finish her food on time, she's not coming. Then comes al...

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AITA for not trading seats on a plane?
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AITA for not trading seats on a plane?

This happened a few days ago and my girlfriend thought I was a bit rude, but I thought I was completely justified. So we booked tickets for an almost full flight and the only row with 2 seats near each other had someone that already booked the seat in the middle. I figured they did this because they didn't want anyone booking next to them, but they were the only seats left so I booked the windo...

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AITA for saying "No thanks" when my parents told me my birthday gift is picking out a car/getting a car?
Family Conflict
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AITA for saying "No thanks" when my parents told me my birthday gift is picking out a car/getting a car?

So I am 17 years old and I got my license about a year ago by now. I didn't get it because I needed or wanted to drive anywhere, we live in the middle of town, my school is a 2 minute walk, job a 5 minute walk, most of my hobbies like the gym are within 10 minutes and almost all my friends live within a 20 minute walking distance. I only got it because it is good to have if that makes sense yo...

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AITA for telling my step-mom that she can use the missing child-support payments to fund my part of my dad's gift?
Family Conflict
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AITA for telling my step-mom that she can use the missing child-support payments to fund my part of my dad's gift?

My dad left my mom when I was 6. Four years ago he met and married my SM Aida, she had 3 kids from a previous marriage that my dad loved to parent instead of me. After they got together, I saw him, at best, 7-8 times every year because they moved 5 hours away. A year later he had 'a change of heart' and demanded his 50/50 custody, which made me miserable. He built a room for me at his new hous...

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AITAH for evicting sister for stealing my kids savings.
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AITAH for evicting sister for stealing my kids savings.

My sister who is 37 has been staying with me for a little over a month now. She got evicted from the extended stay where she had been staying for a year now. My wife and I decided she could stay with us while she looked for shelter or housing options. She only works 30 hours a week at a low paying job. And doesn't have any money. She was supposed to be looking diligently but was barely putting ...

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AITA for lying to my husband's grandmother about the severity of an injury she caused to my son?
Relationship
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AITA for lying to my husband's grandmother about the severity of an injury she caused to my son?

My husband's paternal grandmother has an "oh don't worry, everything will work out fine" mentality. I didn't think it extended to the safety of newborn babies though, or I never would've let her babysit my 3mo son, even for just 3 hours. About a week and a half ago while she was babysitting, I got a call from her saying my son had "a bit of a tumble". I heard my son screaming in the backgro...

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AITA for “kicking a pr****nt woman out of her seat”
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AITA for “kicking a pr****nt woman out of her seat”

Basically I was doing a long travel day( 5 ish hours) so I booked my train in advance to ensure that I had a reserved seat. When I get on the train a woman is in my seat, so I politely inform her that I think that’s my seat show her my ticket and ask her to move. She checks her ticket and just says well I must have sit in the wrong seat and puts her head down. I say that it’s my seat and could...

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AITA for telling my cheating ex-husband I will never feel bad for him and I will never "help him make this better"?
Relationship
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AITA for telling my cheating ex-husband I will never feel bad for him and I will never "help him make this better"?

I (46f) was married to my ex-husband John (48m) a decade when I found out he had cheated multiple times with multiple women, one of whom became a fully fledged affair. We had three young kids at the time. How I found out was I started suffering some concerning symptoms, went to the doctor and some tests were ran and it was discovered I had gonorrhea which had caused pelvic inflammatory disorde...

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AITA for refusing to host Christmas after my mother woke my sleeping babies?
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AITA for refusing to host Christmas after my mother woke my sleeping babies?

Due to a bunch of soap opera level bu****it I (26f) am raising 2 babies (a boy and a girl) who were born within 2 months of each other, and only one of them is biologically mine. My ex husband is the father of both, and he stuck around long enough to give me custody before he f**ked off to be irresponsible somewhere else. The babies are 6 and 8 months old. Despite the aforementioned bu****it, I...

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AITA for telling my wife she should've tid*ed up the house if she didn't want my mom's negative comments?
Family Conflict
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AITA for telling my wife she should've tid*ed up the house if she didn't want my mom's negative comments?

My mom visited us yesterday morning at 10am while I was at work. She must've found the house a mess because once she left, she called me to rant about how filthy and cluttered the house was. She went on a long rant about my wife having an att*tude and almost kicking her out for pointing out that the house looked filthy and smelled. I just nodded and uh-um'd through the entire call then went...

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AITA? Paid $18,000 cash for a car, but my grandma is gaslighting people into thinking it was a handout
Family Conflict
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AITA? Paid $18,000 cash for a car, but my grandma is gaslighting people into thinking it was a handout

I recently bought a car from my aunt and uncle and paid full price for what it was worth ($18,000). I had no problem paying that because I know the car was maintained well and honestly I would not give a family member a discount on som**hing that big either. The problem is my grandma has been boasting to everyone that my aunt gave me the car for free. Idk why she is saying that but it really pi...

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AITA for locking food so my roommate doesn’t eat it?
Food & Diet
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AITA for locking food so my roommate doesn’t eat it?

I (19F) am a university student living with two roommates (19F & 25F). My roommate, the 25-year-old, has been consistently eating the food I meal prep on Mondays for Tuesday through Friday, despite my long schedule that keeps me out of the house until 7 pm. If I prep for the week, the food is gone by Wednesday night, leaving me nothing for Thursday and Friday. When confronted, her excuse wa...

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