Dad Insists 16-Year-Old Community College Student Son Give Him His School Laptop So He Can Sell It: ‘My Dad Has Been Unemployed Since He Was 35.’

He’s just jealous that his kid is more hardworking than he’ll ever be, and he wants to sabotage him. I will never understand parents who intentionally clip their children’s wings for their own selfish reasons. They will sabotage career opportunities and relationships that can benefit their kids in the long run merely because it makes …
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Mom uses daughter’s Klarna account to pay for vacations she can’t afford, ruining her credit score: ‘You need to put your foot down’

This mother was set on ruining her daughter’s financial future. All over a vacation she couldn’t afford.  Family and money are often inextricably linked. You are born into a certain financial situation, and whether or not/how you get out of it can make a big difference in your life. Even if you make your own …
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Retired dad wants his 40-year-old son to move out with his family after living rent-free for 17 years, but his wife keeps overruling him asks for advice: ‘I need fresh eyes’

Seventeen years of free rent doesn’t build independence, it builds a very comfortable hostage situation, except the hostage is holding himself, and everyone else is paying the ransom. 

‘I don’t understand how that would work’: Teen daughter refuses to support parents’ decision to adopt another child after mom claims she doesn’t want to become an empty nester

What drives people to decide they want to have another child? When we were younger, the idea of starting a family and having children of our own sounded like the most exciting thing. In fact, we truly believed that the more, the merrier, and fantasized over the idea of having four or five children who …
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‘I feel very alone sometimes, I pay for both of our living expenses’: 58-year-old divorced dad demands the same financial support from his daughter that she gives her mom, despite barely contributing to her upbringing or education

Money doesn’t automatically split evenly between parents just because biology did, and this dad seems to have missed that memo entirely The math he’s running only works if you erase the last two decades. He saw his kid once a month, paid for exactly one meal a month, and contributed nothing to a university education …
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Mom says she’s selling college freshman’s furniture and turning their room into a gym, tells them to sleep on the floor during school breaks

Should your parents keep a room for you while you’re still young? We all have different speeds of independence. Some of us grow up at different rates than others. Some people are fully ready to move out of the house by the time they’re able to. Others need a little more cushion while they get …
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‘I haven’t been on a date for 6 years’: Retired, divorced dad asks his unemployed 25-year-old son to stay elsewhere for one night so he can have a date at home, and the son gets angry about it

A man in his sixties finally gets a date on the calendar for the first time since disco was apparently still cool, and his 25-year-old, still-lives-at-home, doesn’t-pay-rent, gets-a-monthly-allowance son treats the whole thing like a scheduling inconvenience he’s personally offended by. Here’s the setup: two grown adults, one apartment, one bathroom probably, and only one …
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Dad Uses AI To Write Congratulations Note After 31-Year-Old Son Buys His First Home, Son Calls Him Out for It

Would you be upset if a loved one used AI to connect with you? There is a time and a place for everything. If you’re trying to connect with your kid, then it’s not the time and place to be using artificial intelligence. You have to use your words, guys. YOUR words, or else it …
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Puddle of the Funniest 90s and 2000s Rock Memes for Everyone Lying They Don’t Love Nickelback and Their Divorced Dads

Call it post-grunge, call it dad rock, or divorced dad rock, the fact is there are two types of people in the world: people who love these bands and this genre, and people who lie about loving it, and I’m no liar. So come with me on a short Drive 3 Doors Down memory lane …
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36-Year-Old Stepbrother Asks 21-Year-Old Unemployed College Student Stepsister to Lend Him Money to Support His Unemployed Wife And Kid

He should be able to support himself at his big age.  There are a lot of people out there who can’t get a job, no matter how desperately they try. They are constantly searching for any position to put bread on the table, but for whatever reason, nothing is coming through. They might be overqualified …
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