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AITA for telling my wife she was "so close" to getting her dream job?
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AITA for telling my wife she was "so close" to getting her dream job?

I'm a 33-year-old man and my wife is 27. Since the start of our relationship, my wife has been very particular about how things get done, and tends to believe that she knows the one true correct way for anything related to anything. She has admitted that she can be a control freak. While this bothers me, it has never been a true dealbreaker in our relationship. Very often when I do just ...

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AITA for sitting with my husband and his friends although he told me he needed "privacy"?
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AITA for sitting with my husband and his friends although he told me he needed "privacy"?

So, my husband is very sociable, he has many friends from different background. He'd hang out with this group of friends that consists of 6-12 guys. When we started dating I used to tag along in all of his hangouts, but after we got married he told me that I didn't need to be present for every hang out with his friends. Like not sit with him and friends when having their "guy time" playing or ...

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AITA for using a diamond from my girlfriends family heirloom for her engagement ring?
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AITA for using a diamond from my girlfriends family heirloom for her engagement ring?

My girlfriend (22f) and I (24m) have been together for about 3 years, and I decided around 5 months ago that I wanted to propose. We share a dog and a home so it seemed the next logical step. She’s hugely into jewellery, so I wanted to get her a really sentimental ring. At the end of September, her grandma suddenly pa*sed away and as my girlfriend was the only granddaughter, she was pa*sed down...

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AITA for kicking my SIL out for making my drunk husband feel like s**t?
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AITA for kicking my SIL out for making my drunk husband feel like s**t?

My SIL, her husband and her kid (14) are staying with me and my husband for the next week because there's a family funeral and all hotels were booked out for the blue gra*s fest and Kane Brown concert. We have a big farm house so it's not big deal but SIL is very opinionated. My SIL and my husband have different fathers. Her dad d*ed from liver failure 10 years ago and his death date just p...

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AITA for starting a house project without discussing it with my wife?
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AITA for starting a house project without discussing it with my wife?

My wife, Amy (27F) and I (27M) have a spare room in our home. We’ve gone back and forth since we moved in two+ years ago about what we wanted to do with it, but we never took the initiative to actually implement any of these plans. We already have a sufficient number of guest rooms and an office so the room just sits there, unutilized. I’m not that worried about it, but my wife brings it up no...

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AITA for getting my husband kicked out of the delivery room?
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AITA for getting my husband kicked out of the delivery room?

My husband and I (married for 3 years, together for 7) had our first child 3 weeks ago. She is perfect, and everything I could ever wish for, even if she is a handful. Unfortunately, her birth was complicated. I have always been a private person, and very terrified of pregnancy due to the risks a*sociated. My husband knows this, and I specifically asked him, when we found out about this pregnan...

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My friend is kicking us out because my wife refused to look at his wedding photo
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My friend is kicking us out because my wife refused to look at his wedding photo

Me (M32) and my wife, Dahlia (F28) lost our apartment 2 months ago and moved in with mom temporarily. Issues began to arise between Dahlia and mom and I had to ask my friend, Anthony (M31) to let us move in til I get enough money to rent out. His wife was away visiting family and he agreed but even there, some issues started to arise. Fyi, Dahlia is very shy around Anthony. She grew up in c...

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Girlfriend Giggled While Her Parents Bullied Me So I Walked Out On Dinner
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Girlfriend Giggled While Her Parents Bullied Me So I Walked Out On Dinner

So, I (30M) have been seeing Maya (27F) for a little over two years now. Things are good between us, but her dad… he’s not exactly my biggest fan. He's one of those guys who thinks he needs to "test" me to see if I'm worthy of his daughter, and honestly, it’s getting old. This weekend, Maya invited me to her parents’ house for dinner. I didn’t want to go at first, but Maya really wanted me ther...

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Boyfriend Made A PowerPoint Critiquing My Cooking And Now He's Mad I Stopped Feeding Him
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Boyfriend Made A PowerPoint Critiquing My Cooking And Now He's Mad I Stopped Feeding Him

For context, I (28F) have been with my BF (30M) for about 2 years. We live together, and I’ve always done most of the cooking because I genuinely enjoy it, and he claims he can’t “even boil water” without setting off the smoke alarm. The other night, I made one of our favorite meals, and while we were eating, he got a weird smirk on his face. He then says, “You know, I’ve been taking notes.” I ...

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AITA for telling my daughter she cannot introduce her African American boyfriend to her grandparents?
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AITA for telling my daughter she cannot introduce her African American boyfriend to her grandparents?

My daughter (Anna) has recently started to date an African American man (Jamal). While I'm not exactly what you would refer to as "liberal", he's a nice young man and as long as my daughter is happy, I'm happy. The problem is Anna is rather naive about the community she lives in. While her friends are quite content to see a relationship like hers, more than a few tongues are wagging in the com...

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AITA for breaking up with my girlfriend because of a “caught cheating” prank?
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AITA for breaking up with my girlfriend because of a “caught cheating” prank?

I (26M) broke up with my girlfriend (25F) of 2 years because of som**hing that happened recently, and now my friends are saying I ma*sively overreacted. So, a few days ago, my girlfriend and a close mutual friend decided to play a prank on me. The prank was that they filmed a scenario where I “caught” them in bed together, pretending they were hooking up. They set up a hidden camera in the ...

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AITA for telling my husband my ex and I traveled to 56 countries together?
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AITA for telling my husband my ex and I traveled to 56 countries together?

I (44F) am turning 45 August 3rd. Two months ago my husband of 5 years (45M) surprised me and said he booked us a 10 day vacation to Italy. We leave July 28th. My husband is a special ed middle school teacher so school is out until September. He has been making extra money on the side as a tutor. So we had some extra money and no kids so I got a great idea: instead of having a birthday we...

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