Can This Father Fix His Relationship With His Daughter After Kicking Her Out Of Her Own Room?
Blending families is hard, but there’s no doubt that the kids always get the short end of the stick. Adults are often too caught up in their own business, or struggle to relate to older kids in the ways that came easily when they were younger. Some or all of that might apply to OP...
This Daughter-In-Law’s Helpful Gesture Was Taken All Wrong. Was She Wrong?
One of the worst feelings in the world is when you genuinely try to help someone out and they take the gesture all wrong, feeling as if you’re belittling them instead. OP has a good relationship with her mother-in-law, which is great! The only issue they have is that when she comes to stay, she...
Was This Kid Wrong To Call His Stepfather Out In Front Of Guests?
Most of the time when a teenager is asking whether or not they’re wrong in relation to something they did to their parents, you can almost always bet the kid could have handled things better. It just comes down to experience, right? Well, in this case, OP might have a legitimate gripe – even if...
Should This Woman Have Spoken Up To Avoid Embarrassing A Date?
I think we should acknowledge up front that really, there’s no way for women to win in these kinds of situations. If we make more than a man we just met, he might not like to hear it. If we stay silent, he might think we were trying to stick it to him another way....
What Do You Owe A Family Member Who Has Been Judgmental In The Past?
I think that all families, no matter how close, have their issues now and again. Relationships get even more complicated when you’re dealing with blended or extended families, no matter how badly everyone involved want to make things work. This person has one sibling, a brother who makes his living as an exotic dancer. She...
10 People Share What It’s Like To Get Engaged After Just A Few Weeks
I feel like a majority of people prefer to really get to know someone before deciding to marry them – you’re entangling your lives, after all – but there’s nothing to say that people who get engaged quickly are any more likely to fail in the long run. These 10 people feel confident that they...
15 People Share Simple But Effective Ways To Change Your Life
When we think about changing or improving our lives, it can often seem like too daunting of a task to accomplish quickly or without dropping a lot of time or money we don’t have. The thing is, that’s not always true. Sometimes we just need someone with a different perspective to share what small thing...
15 People Dish On Where The “Party Animals” From Their Youth Ended Up
It’s not secret that, while people rarely actually change, they do grow and mature between high school or college and the rest of their lives. That said, some people take a bit longer than others to cross the threshold between kid and adult – if they ever make it at all. These 15 people are recalling...
16 Scams That Are Often Just Accepted As Normal
The world today is one wild ride, y’all. We have to question everything we’re seeing and the things we’re told on the internet – because honestly, half of the time (at least) we’re swallowing scams like that’s just how it has to be. These 16 things are total scams, but we all just acknowledge that...
21 Married People Who Are Definitely Using Humor To Cope
What is there to cope with in a marriage? If you have to ask, you’d never promised to love, honor, and basically put up with another person’s crap until the end of your days. Love is love, but life is something altogether different – and it can be tough! One way that people cope with...
10 People Whose Introductions Of New Partners To Family Didn’t Go Quite As Planned
It’s hard enough to find a romantic partner you like and want to keep around without also finding someone who fits in well with your family and friends. It can be a big, stressful thing to introduce the two for the first time, because you never really know how it’s going to turn out. For...
16 People Share The Sad Story Of Losing A Best Friend
No one wants to think about losing a close friend, never mind someone they would classify as a best friend. That said, life happens to all of us. Sometimes it’s sad, other times we realize it’s for the best even though we don’t like it, but most of us have experienced losing a close friend at...
How Much Leeway Would You Give Your Partner If They Asked For Their Ex In The Hospital?
We’ve seen a few posts on Am I The A$$hole where people are upset with what came out of their partner’s mouths after surgery. People say all kinds of things while under the influence, and anesthesia is weird, right? For this woman, though, things are a bit different – because her partner was asking for...
Is It Wrong To Keep A Relationship With Your Ex’s Children?
No one who has ever been a stepparent would tell you that it’s an easy gig. I do think it’s easier when you’re not an additional parent, but taking the place of a parent, the way this woman was. She married her now-ex when his twins were just six, and they divorced when the children...
Was This Woman Wrong To Embarrass Her Husband In Front Of Their Kids?
There are some instances where it seems easy to judge another person until you’ve walked in their shoes. When it comes to being a full-time caregiver to a once-independent family member, I think this is definitely the case – because we have no idea how hard it is until we’ve done it ourselves. OP in...