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AITA for preventing my daughter from getting a new phone/allowance?
Boundaries
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AITA for preventing my daughter from getting a new phone/allowance?

A few months ago, my daughter smashed her iPhone for a social media post. In the post, she said “it’s okay, my parents will buy me a new one.” The thing is, I definitely would have bought her a new one that same day and would have never known if it wasn’t for the fact her brother tipped me off and showed me the post. Her father and I were obviously extremely angry. We both came from rough child...

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AITA for yelling at a lady who was looking into my windows to stalk her son?
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AITA for yelling at a lady who was looking into my windows to stalk her son?

I'm 19f and live at home with my family. My younger brother 'Mike' is 14. He is has a group of friends in the neighborhood that he always hangs out with, they all enjoy skating and longboarding and stuff so that's what they're doing most of the time. The boys are 14-15 and really nice kids but most of their parents are h**la weird. They have a groupchat where they're secretly supervising the b...

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AITA for letting my daughter still sleep with a teddy bear?
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AITA for letting my daughter still sleep with a teddy bear?

My daughter (8) still sleeps with a teddy bear her grandmother gave her when she was 3, she's always been shy and timid and gets easily frightened, so at night she's inseparable from her bear. I (34F) have been told by a few of my extended family members at a family reunion last week that she's too old to be sleeping with a stuffed bear afterthey saw her sleeping with it in her grandmothers liv...

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AITA for telling my mother-in-law that she can't control how I act in my home?
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AITA for telling my mother-in-law that she can't control how I act in my home?

My mother-in-law moved in with us about three months ago. It's been ok. She and I are clashing personalities and cultures, and it's come up more often now that we share a similar space. She is a traditional Hispanic woman with a strong sense of decorum and family hierarchy. I am white, liberal in all ways, and agnostic about most traditions, including and especially the need to obey elders. ...

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Fiancé lied and spent all of the money she was reimbursed for after her work trip that I paid for. AITAH?
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Fiancé lied and spent all of the money she was reimbursed for after her work trip that I paid for. AITAH?

My fiancé had a work trip planned to attend a conference. I decided to tag along because it was a city that I had never been to before. She informed me that her work would reimburse her after the trip once she submitted an expense report. Her credit card was completely maxed out and didn’t have enough money to cover any of the costs so I offered to help pay since she was going to be reimbursed...

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AITA for being offended that my daughter called me ugly?
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AITA for being offended that my daughter called me ugly?

Yesterday at dinner, my daughter (15f) was telling my wife (40f) and I (45m) about a guy she likes in school and she thinks he likes her back. My wife and I were happy for her and I would support her liking anyone that treats her right and makes her happy. She was telling us how he’s smart, funny, and has a great 6-pack (I’m used to the girl talk). My wife laughed and said som**hing along the ...

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AITA for telling my girlfriend her dream of moving to another country will never happen?
Relationship
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AITA for telling my girlfriend her dream of moving to another country will never happen?

My (25M) girlfriend (23F) has always talked about how it’s her dream to move to X country. She brought it up on our first date (we’ve been together for a year and some change) and has mentioned it practically every other day since. At the beginning, I went along with it, told her how cool it would be, we talked about if I would go with her, how c**ppy our current country is (I’m an expat and s...

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AITA for accepting cake at my friend's birthday party?
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AITA for accepting cake at my friend's birthday party?

I (41M) was at a friend's birthday party on the weekend just past. There were 9 of us at the party including the birthday boy. Amy (30ish F), one of the guests, baked a cake for the birthday boy. After the relevant party traditions, I went back to talking to one of my friends when Amy came up to me and the other friend with 2 plates of cake and offered them to my friend and I. We both said...

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AITA for demanding my son take his daughter on his family trip to Disneyland?
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AITA for demanding my son take his daughter on his family trip to Disneyland?

I got pr****nt with my son Julius (28) about a month after my 18th birthday. I tried to do my best for him and he got into a good engineering school but at 19, he got his then girlfriend Iza pr****nt and they had Annabella together. I've been the one who has mostly raised her (Iza got deported but they spend July together and FT every night). Julius got married to his girlfriend Katja after gr...

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AITA for kicking my daughter's boyfriend out of the house for eating from the birthday cake before the party started?
Relationship
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AITA for kicking my daughter's boyfriend out of the house for eating from the birthday cake before the party started?

I'm a mother of 2 girls (lily 14, and Monica 21). Monica has a boyfriend (20) who visits with her often. To be frank he's not too polite or to rephrase, he lacks social sk**ls and always ends up doing things that can be annoying wether intentional or not. It's been affecting Lily and there had been instances where Monica's boyfriend ruined Lily's math project and ruined her camera by dropping ...

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AITA for telling my daughter the truth about why I wasn’t in her life?
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AITA for telling my daughter the truth about why I wasn’t in her life?

To start, my ex and I were 19 when she got pr****nt. We had recently broke up and she found out a couple weeks later that she was pr****nt. She said she planned to get an abortion but only wanted her sister there. So I was always under the belief that she had aborted. She only contacted me once saying it was done and we didn’t speak again. Fast forward 19 yrs later, I found out a month ago ...

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AITA for refusing to help my neighbor and her two young children when their wipers were frozen?
Parenting
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AITA for refusing to help my neighbor and her two young children when their wipers were frozen?

I (59M) live in a major city in Ontario, Canada. I live in a small subdivision and have 5 neighbors total on my street. For the past few years during the winter when we're getting a lot of snow or a bad storms, as I'm leaving for my overnight shift at around 8-9pm I'll put my wifes windshield wipers up on her car and do a quick walk around to my other 5 neighbors and put their windshield wipers...

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