Family is family and all that, but at some point you just gotta put your foot down, don’t you? Because family has a way of turning one sibling’s success into a debt that everyone else feels entitled to collect. In this family, the child who figured life out becomes the safety net for the one …
Seguir leyendo 26-year-old refuses to babysit his older brother’s kids after he dumps them on his porch unannounced: ‘He [says] I should be grateful that he trusts me’
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12-year-old girl asks parents if she can share a room with her 14-year-old brother instead of her 11-year-old sister: ‘I’m not 100% convinced by this arrangement.’
Would you let your kids do this? If you didn’t grow up having to share a bedroom into your teens, you have no idea what that experience is actually like. Sharing a bedroom with your little sister is pretty untraumatic when you’re five and your sister is three, but as you age, it can be …
Seguir leyendo 12-year-old girl asks parents if she can share a room with her 14-year-old brother instead of her 11-year-old sister: ‘I’m not 100% convinced by this arrangement.’
Tech employee gets promoted, entitled sister assumes she can take his old job despite having no experience, only for him to refuse to recommend her: ‘She called me selfish’
Does getting a promotion mean your old job suddenly becomes a family hand-me-down? We all know that family relations can be not only a very complicated subject, but also a sensitive one. Some family members become entitled and think they deserve things because «we’re family«, and that’s it. But out there in the real world, …
Seguir leyendo Tech employee gets promoted, entitled sister assumes she can take his old job despite having no experience, only for him to refuse to recommend her: ‘She called me selfish’
Brother lets divorced sister stay at his studio apartment for 3 weeks, asks her to sleep on a dog bed: ‘»I just left a marriage and you’re putting me in a dog bed like a stray you decided to keep.’
Is it as bad as it sounds? Hosting someone at your house is not always easy. It’s easy if they’re only staying at your house a couple of days, and they’re generally low-maintenance. I have never had a problem with my college friends crashing on my couch for a weekend, and that’s probably because they’re …
Seguir leyendo Brother lets divorced sister stay at his studio apartment for 3 weeks, asks her to sleep on a dog bed: ‘»I just left a marriage and you’re putting me in a dog bed like a stray you decided to keep.’
Sister pressures her brother to sell his wife’s $60K engagement ring after they’ve borrowed $150K from the rest of the family to cover their bills: ‘They have 3 kids under 3 and are stuck in an $8,500-a-month lease.’
Was it wrong for her to demand that she sell something so sentimental? Being financially stable often comes down to avoiding the dumbest possible decisions with your money. It can be difficult to know what counts as a dumb financial decision because such decisions are so normalized. The population at large is addicted to buying …
Seguir leyendo Sister pressures her brother to sell his wife’s $60K engagement ring after they’ve borrowed $150K from the rest of the family to cover their bills: ‘They have 3 kids under 3 and are stuck in an $8,500-a-month lease.’
Older sister pressures younger sister to give her the $10K inheritance their parents left her for her education so that the older sister can pay her bills: ‘It’s what mom and dad would’ve wanted.’
She also got an inheritance, but that wasn’t enough for her. Inheritance is one of those things that is not frequently discussed in polite society, and for good reasons. It’s kind of a morbid reality that fortunate young people can come into a great sum of money after the passing of their grandparents or parents. …
Seguir leyendo Older sister pressures younger sister to give her the $10K inheritance their parents left her for her education so that the older sister can pay her bills: ‘It’s what mom and dad would’ve wanted.’
Brother gets kicked out of family trip to Hawaii after failing to agree on accommodation, parents still expect him to pay his portion: ‘I’m no longer going’
Why would someone pay for a vacation they are no longer invited to? It has been years since my husband and I went on a family vacation with his siblings and parents. The reason we stopped is because every time we did go on vacation together, it turned out to be a disaster. People kept …
Seguir leyendo Brother gets kicked out of family trip to Hawaii after failing to agree on accommodation, parents still expect him to pay his portion: ‘I’m no longer going’
College student refuses to watch his 14-year-old brother for 2 months unless his parents pay him $75 a day, saying he is already overwhelmed and not a 3rd parent
Family love can get real transactional when someone decides free labor is a birthright A parent saying, «we raised you, so now you owe us» turns parenting into a weird little bookkeeping system where affection somehow comes with an invoice. That is especially absurd when the person being asked is a full-time college student already …
Seguir leyendo College student refuses to watch his 14-year-old brother for 2 months unless his parents pay him $75 a day, saying he is already overwhelmed and not a 3rd parent
Sibling removes brother from car insurance after he fails to pay his share, leading brother to get a suspension when he’s eventually pulled over: ‘He had plenty of warning’
How many warnings are enough warnings before you should actually act? We all know those people who, no matter how many times you remind them of something they need to do, will never do it in time. Having a shared deadline with these people is quite the nightmare, because not only do you know they …
Seguir leyendo Sibling removes brother from car insurance after he fails to pay his share, leading brother to get a suspension when he’s eventually pulled over: ‘He had plenty of warning’
Food truck worker films his female coworker to prove to his girlfriend that he’s not near her, boss tells the female employee that it’s her problem to fix
Can she not trust him to go to work without looking at her on FaceTime the whole day? Have you ever had a boyfriend or girlfriend who didn’t trust you, and it subsequently ruined your relationship? You couldn’t go to your mom’s house or hang out with your friends without them constantly texting you, asking …
Seguir leyendo Food truck worker films his female coworker to prove to his girlfriend that he’s not near her, boss tells the female employee that it’s her problem to fix