Family is more than just flesh and genetics; it’s hours spent at the soccer tournaments, invested grandparents, family recipes, lake house weekends, and sibling rivalries. Complicated, messy, and oftentimes frustrating, no family dynamic is perfect, but we have a choice to consider some relationships worthy enough for the title. Sometimes, good friends will become like …
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Stepmom refuses to pay for her 10-year-old stepson’s private school, dad and mom get angry despite saving $0 towards his education: ‘He has 2 parents and I can’t understand why it’s all up to me to save’
Nobody is entitled to attend a fancy private school, which will undoubtedly have a positive impact on their life prospects. Life is truly not fair, and if we actually lived in a meritocracy, the smartest kids would attend the best high schools instead of merely settling for the best colleges. Whether a kid attends a …
Seguir leyendo Stepmom refuses to pay for her 10-year-old stepson’s private school, dad and mom get angry despite saving $0 towards his education: ‘He has 2 parents and I can’t understand why it’s all up to me to save’
‘I need answers’: 35-year-old uncovers a mysterious $500,000 loan from her family business to her ex-husband, exposing her parents’ favoritism and shady business deals
Mysterious bank charges can leave any reasonable penny-pincher with a sinking feeling in their gut. One time, I received a fraud alert on my bank account for an unapproved $1000 charge. I was horrified, stressed out, and spent the entire afternoon investigating all of my credit card statements. That was for only a meager $1000, …
Seguir leyendo ‘I need answers’: 35-year-old uncovers a mysterious $500,000 loan from her family business to her ex-husband, exposing her parents’ favoritism and shady business deals
23-year-old daughter refuses to babysit five younger siblings, moves to new apartment and concierge finally stops family from coming in unannounced: ‘[They] called the cops’
Anyone who grew up as the oldest sibling knows the drill — you’re often handed responsibilities way beyond your years. But for one woman, being the eldest turned into years of acting more like a third parent than a kid. She shared that ever since she was young, her divorced parents relied on her to …
Seguir leyendo 23-year-old daughter refuses to babysit five younger siblings, moves to new apartment and concierge finally stops family from coming in unannounced: ‘[They] called the cops’
Grandma takes in and buys car for son’s 16-year-old daughter from an affair, he complains she won’t buy one for his 17-year-old son: ‘You’re literally raising her’
Every child deserves to be treated equally. We call come out innocent. It’s nobody’s fault that they were born. Unfortunately, though, some adults make them feel like it was. Life gets complicated as you get older, and sometimes you end up with a family that you didn’t expect. That doesn’t change the fact that they’re …
Seguir leyendo Grandma takes in and buys car for son’s 16-year-old daughter from an affair, he complains she won’t buy one for his 17-year-old son: ‘You’re literally raising her’
16-year-old discovers her dad isn’t her biological father, mom harasses her to confess which family member told her the truth: ‘He told me now that I knew I could start calling him Drake instead of dad’
This poor girl has been through the ringer. Some family secrets are incredibly banal. It doesn’t affect your life that much to know that your mom had a fling with a cowboy in South Dakota during the summer of 81, or that your dad was engaged to a woman in Wisconsin that never came to …
Seguir leyendo 16-year-old discovers her dad isn’t her biological father, mom harasses her to confess which family member told her the truth: ‘He told me now that I knew I could start calling him Drake instead of dad’
‘I’m not ruining my trip because she didn’t plan ahead’: Niece refuses to cancel her vacation despite her entitled aunt insisting she needs to stay behind to babysit
Mothers have an extensive checklist when planning a trip without the kids. Is the laundry done? Is the fridge filled? Where is my passport? Most importantly, though, is ensuring you have a babysitter lined up to watch over your children in your absence. Surely, that’s the one item on the checklist that would never slip …
Seguir leyendo ‘I’m not ruining my trip because she didn’t plan ahead’: Niece refuses to cancel her vacation despite her entitled aunt insisting she needs to stay behind to babysit
‘I’m not rearranging my entire life because she spent recklessly’: Daughter refuses to be her mother’s fallback retirement plan after the 58-year-old mom blows her savings on «treating herself»
Retirement sounds like a dream. However, most of us probably dream of our elder years being spent sipping mai tais on the beach in Hawaii, dipping into an endless pit of cash, while healthily living each day like a tourist, but that’s not a common reality. There are few who have the idyllic retirement plan …
Seguir leyendo ‘I’m not rearranging my entire life because she spent recklessly’: Daughter refuses to be her mother’s fallback retirement plan after the 58-year-old mom blows her savings on «treating herself»
Dad excludes 20-year-old son from wedding photo with his 2nd wife, her children, and his 18 and 16-year-old children: ‘Let’s just do the core family first’
Treating one child better or worse than another is unjustifiable in 99% of cases. I’m not talking about garden-variety variations, where parents are slightly closer to one child because of common interests, but don’t give that child unearned privileges just because they like baseball. I’m talking about purposefully excluding a child out of spite and …
Seguir leyendo Dad excludes 20-year-old son from wedding photo with his 2nd wife, her children, and his 18 and 16-year-old children: ‘Let’s just do the core family first’
‘I begged her not to go through with this’: 26-year-old refuses to bail out mom after she co-signs loan for her younger brother’s work truck and struggles financially
There are usually limits on family helping family, especially when finances are involved. So long as you have an otherwise decent relationship, it is not unreasonable to expect that close relatives will want to assist you when you end up in a difficult spot. However, it is usually sensible to have a limit on that …
Seguir leyendo ‘I begged her not to go through with this’: 26-year-old refuses to bail out mom after she co-signs loan for her younger brother’s work truck and struggles financially