I understand the desire to elope. Weddings are massively expensive and time-consuming, and if you’re a person who doesn’t thrive on attention and white dresses, it might not be for you. I feel like the public perception of elopements is that they only happen for illicit reasons… like if a couple is running from something, …
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‘My wife microwaves lettuce’: Weird quirks long-term partners have learned to put up with
Everyone has a little idiosyncrasy. If you don’t, then you’re probably a robot. And the funny thing about love is that those little quirks, that might be totally annoying on another person, become tolerable, or even lovable, when you love a person. For example, I had a friend whose boyfriend never wore matching socks, on …
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Husband spends $160k on baseball cards behind wife’s back, lawyers up when she asks for $80k back: ‘The cards are everywhere’
Financial infidelity is one of those common things that we’ve only just started learning how to talk about. When you have a joint account, you need to have a lot of discussions about how that account gets used, and just what you’re spending money on. Even if the relationship has a foundation of trust in …
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Parents make son chose between paying student loans and having kids, son gets vasectomy: ‘I don’t really think I owe them anything’
Student loans have been a hot topic in recent years with rising college tuition and teases of loan forgiveness. If you have student loans, you get it. You can find yourself trying to pay them off after 5, 10, 15, or even 20 years after you graduate. This is one of the reasons why more …
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‘She told him ‘it’s the pig or me’: 20+ of the wildest relationship break up stories
Love is a very juicy topic. We wouldn’t have thousands of songs, books, and movies dedicated to the topic if that wasn’t the case—nor would they exist if romantic relationships were always plain sailing. A big part of the reason for our interest in love is that the highest of highs can be followed by …
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Wholesome boomer husbands paint their wives, get applauded by the internet: ‘Wife guys have been the backbone of the art world for centuries’
Not too long ago, there was a trend on TikTok where couples would have a date night where they sit down and paint one another, then reveal the results to their partner. It sparked a whole round of discourse after many men who partook in the challenge made conspicuously unflattering creative decisions when making a …
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‘It’s easier having 1 person to take care of instead of 2’: Couple divorces after lazy dad refuses to help wife at home, gets 50/50 custody and she soars while he sinks
If you’re old enough to have a kid, you shouldn’t need somebody to tell you to take the trash out. Equitable distribution of housework within families is a hot-button issue that people discuss online with much frequency but with very little nuance. So many trad individuals like to say that since husbands work, the wife …
Seguir leyendo ‘It’s easier having 1 person to take care of instead of 2’: Couple divorces after lazy dad refuses to help wife at home, gets 50/50 custody and she soars while he sinks
‘My dad jokes are wasted’: Child free folks discuss the cons of the no-kid lifestyle
One of the biggest decisions we’re asked to make in life is whether or not we’re going to have children. There’s so much social pressure to conform, and nobody pushes parenthood like parents. It’s the choice they made, after all. But there are definitely some drawbacks to going full steam into parenthood. It’s expensive, it’s …
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‘The bride burst into tears’: 20+ Hilarious moments when wedding guests didn’t ‘hold their peace’
I haven’t been to many weddings in my day, which I kind of regret because I love spectacle. Any time that a group of people gets together in the hopes of things going well, there’s always potential for things to go wrong. There’s too much comedic tension. Like funerals, when something is funny at a …
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‘[Traveling] is not at all on her bingo card’: Elder Millennial couple feud over how to spend $100k in annual benefits, debating van life over a white picket fence
Elder Millennials have been presented with a unique opportunity with their generation. While a lot of folks argue that this generation received the short end of the stick in a lot of ways, one man, an ex-military guy with staggering VA benefits, would argue otherwise. After being injured in combat abroad, u/highspeed_haiku got his golden …
Seguir leyendo ‘[Traveling] is not at all on her bingo card’: Elder Millennial couple feud over how to spend $100k in annual benefits, debating van life over a white picket fence