28-year-old woman refuses to give her younger brother $4500 after he’s been begging for money for years, mom insists that it’s her duty as his older sister to help him: ‘

Anyone who has been in the cycle of giving a family member money knows precisely how it goes. They mess up, you fix their problem by throwing the money they ask for at it, and they keep making the same mistakes over and over again because they know that they have you to fall back …
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‘[I don’t] want to deal with her kid’: Dad’s girlfriend demands her 15-year-old ‘stepson’ handle night parenting for her clingy 5-year-old, then the teenager forces her to parent by locking his door

This teenager set boundaries with Dad’s new girlfriend after she and her 5-year-old son moved in, protecting his peace and locking his door after the clingy child refused to let him sleep. I’m not an only child, but sometimes I wish I was. Dealing with a sibling can be emotionally taxing, especially if you have …
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‘They used to call me mom and dad’s mistake’: 4 older siblings force their 16-year-old ‘accident’ younger brother to babysit for their kids unpaid, exclude him from family vacations and get-togethers

It can be pretty obvious when a child is a «mistake.» We all know at least one family who had kids relatively young, and when those kids were nearly grown up, their parents randomly had a much younger baby from an unintentional geriatric pregnancy. One of the most famous oops babies of the modern era …
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‘That’s what he gets for stealing my money’: Older brother teaches a thieving brother a lesson, ending a sibling feud with a cleverly placed clown doll

Siblings mess with each other all the time. We eat each other’s leftovers, we ‘borrow’ shirts indefinitely, and we might even rat on our sibling to our parents if it’s warranted. But there’s a line that cannot be crossed in siblingdom, and that line is downright theft. If your sibling steals something of yours without …
Seguir leyendo ‘That’s what he gets for stealing my money’: Older brother teaches a thieving brother a lesson, ending a sibling feud with a cleverly placed clown doll