There are tantrums, there are unfortunate road trip playlists, and then there is the special endurance trial that is driving two and a half hours next to a grown man performing existential sighs like he’s auditioning for a community theater adaptation of Les Misérables.
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‘I can see how many red flags I overlooked’: Woman blocks her ex-fiancé’s attempt to take her son’s trust fund, setting off pressure from family and work connections as he tries involving everyone from bosses to relatives to get his way
Some relationships are less about romance and more about navigating a joint venture, except the only assets merging are your emotions and someone else’s financial wish list. There are people in this world who view other human beings the way aspiring CEOs view quarterly reports.
Parents ramp up their efforts to keep their 24-year-old master’s grad daughter apart from her ex, prompting her to plan to move out and live independently: ‘While we dated, my parents made my life TERRIBLE’
Parental disapproval is a time-honored tradition, but this twenty-four-year-old woman could write the manual on how to weaponize guilt and control. Her parents have turned her relationship status into a full-scale family crisis, all because her ex-boyfriend had the audacity to bring a child into the mix. While she and her ex spent a year …
Seguir leyendo Parents ramp up their efforts to keep their 24-year-old master’s grad daughter apart from her ex, prompting her to plan to move out and live independently: ‘While we dated, my parents made my life TERRIBLE’
Brother’s ex-girlfriend, Lisa, crashes family dinner uninvited, disrupting the evening and forcing the host to intervene and send her home: ‘She’d heard about the dinner from my cousin and decided to «drop by»’
As we all know, basically since we were around the age of 6, Family gatherings are, by design, the ultimate test of patience and nerve. There’s some mysterious cosmic power that guides a relative or some other force major to find the worst possible moment to reappear. In this case, it’s Lisa, armed with some …
Seguir leyendo Brother’s ex-girlfriend, Lisa, crashes family dinner uninvited, disrupting the evening and forcing the host to intervene and send her home: ‘She’d heard about the dinner from my cousin and decided to «drop by»’
“She started to sob when I said I know what you did last summer”: 4-year-strong long-distance girlfriend Victoria bursts into tears when her college boyfriend reveals he saw her secret summer photos with another boy
As if life doesn’t already hand out enough reasons to be anxious, Victoria here practically moonlights as a one-woman anxiety generator, always ready to top up the dread tank with a fresh batch of cryptic summer behaviors. This is precisely why most people try to postpone their worries, tackling one disaster at a time: save …
Seguir leyendo “She started to sob when I said I know what you did last summer”: 4-year-strong long-distance girlfriend Victoria bursts into tears when her college boyfriend reveals he saw her secret summer photos with another boy
‘I won $211,000 back’: Girlfriend drains man’s bank account, sells his $115K Cadillac, swipes belongings, and takes off to LA with another guy, forcing him to sue and win a massive settlement and sparking an international pursuit for her lover
It’s not easy to get to the point where your romance ends with a courtroom drama and an international manhunt instead of a happily-ever-after. In this (pretty crazy) story of Alyssa’s online affairs and financial entanglements, loyalty came with an asterisk, and shared bank accounts became the first stop in her great escape plan. Trust …
Seguir leyendo ‘I won $211,000 back’: Girlfriend drains man’s bank account, sells his $115K Cadillac, swipes belongings, and takes off to LA with another guy, forcing him to sue and win a massive settlement and sparking an international pursuit for her lover
25-year-old father of 2 gets angry at 19-year-old first date for not wanting to date someone who has kids, claims younger women like experienced men: ‘I don’t even see my kids that often. I was baby trapped. I have it way harder than you’
I used to laugh about people being inflammatory about age-gap relationships. It wasn’t that I was the foolish 20-year-old who thought that I really had a future with a 35-year-old: I just hated when people acted silly about perfectly normal age gaps. I dated a 19-year-old sophomore when I was a 22-year-old senior in college, …
Seguir leyendo 25-year-old father of 2 gets angry at 19-year-old first date for not wanting to date someone who has kids, claims younger women like experienced men: ‘I don’t even see my kids that often. I was baby trapped. I have it way harder than you’
People Share First Date Stories That Made Them Decide Against a Second Date
First dates exist for particular purposes. They’re not really about discovering if you’re in love with someone or feel a crazy amount of chemistry with them. Sure, that can happen, and if it does, good for you, but that’s not the #1 priority. The most important thing about a first date is finding out if …
Seguir leyendo People Share First Date Stories That Made Them Decide Against a Second Date
Clingy Texter Divides Twitter Over Whether He’s Too Desperate or His Date is a Bad Communicator
A single screenshot of a text conversation can say a thousand words, even in so few. From just a couple of measly messages, you can tell who has the power, who is more invested in the conversation, and who is the superior communicator. As someone who is a terminal bad texter, I understand the struggle …
Seguir leyendo Clingy Texter Divides Twitter Over Whether He’s Too Desperate or His Date is a Bad Communicator
Women Share Weird & Cringey Things They’ve Experienced On Dates
Dating is hard. And now that things are dying down a little, Covid-wise, we expect the scene is going to get a whole lot crazier. While it’s great that those romantic Zoom meetups are (mostly) a thing of the past, there were some perks to getting acquainted to a Tinder or Bumble date ahead of …
Seguir leyendo Women Share Weird & Cringey Things They’ve Experienced On Dates