If you were given the choice between a big, flashy vacation and attending your niece’s college graduation, which would you pick? One of the options is objectively a lot more fun for you, but the other gives you a chance to make someone you love feel appreciated and special. Attending a graduation is a lot …
Seguir leyendo 55-year-old mom schedules family cruise right before her 30-year-old daughter’s grad school graduation, forcing the family to chose which event to attend: ‘Many have already said they can’t afford both’
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Mom insists her 23-year-old daughter, who has financially supported her for 5 years, send her and her 5 other adult children $1K per month: ‘If my mom supported me financially growing up I would have, but she didn’t’
I’ve never understood when aging parents solely rely on their kids to support them through retirement financially. These parents often use the justification that their children owe them moola for all of the years they spent raising them or they just failed to plan to support themselves into retirement. Some adult children feel great pride …
Seguir leyendo Mom insists her 23-year-old daughter, who has financially supported her for 5 years, send her and her 5 other adult children $1K per month: ‘If my mom supported me financially growing up I would have, but she didn’t’
‘She immediately went into angry hysterics and called her Dad’: 13-year-old daughter refuses to tell her mom why she got detention, demands to stay with her dad because he says she doesn’t have to
Kids should be a little afraid of their parents. I’m not saying that it’s a net positive for children to be terrified that their parents are going to scream and holler at them for minor transgressions, but they shouldn’t feel like they’re the ones running the show. Parents who let their kids take the lead …
Seguir leyendo ‘She immediately went into angry hysterics and called her Dad’: 13-year-old daughter refuses to tell her mom why she got detention, demands to stay with her dad because he says she doesn’t have to
Overly-generous daughter doesn’t give mother her usual ‘monthly contribution’ so she can have spending money on vacation, mother becomes ‘cold [and] distant’
When it comes to your parents, you likely want to give back what they gave you when you were a child. This means you’re either dishing out insults left and right or helping them out financially! Welcome to adulthood. Folks who have solid relationships with their parents often try to do right by their mom …
Seguir leyendo Overly-generous daughter doesn’t give mother her usual ‘monthly contribution’ so she can have spending money on vacation, mother becomes ‘cold [and] distant’
Mom resents 10-year-old daughter for crying at her impromptu wedding 2 years after her father passed, wants family therapist to reinforce her resentment: ‘She said I should feel guilty for hurting her on her wedding day’
People go to therapy for all sorts of reasons. I find it kind of naive when very online individuals claim that people (mostly men) who are deficient in character should go to therapy to fix their flaws. I’m sorry to say that for the majority of the therapy-going population, getting a therapist will not transform …
Seguir leyendo Mom resents 10-year-old daughter for crying at her impromptu wedding 2 years after her father passed, wants family therapist to reinforce her resentment: ‘She said I should feel guilty for hurting her on her wedding day’
Mom pressures 17-year-old daughter to shave her head for a wig for her 14-year-old sister, won’t take no for an answer: ‘[She’s] saying that I obviously don’t actually care that she’s struggling’
There’s a huge difference between asking someone to make a major sacrifice on your behalf and letting them make it because they want to. A lot of people out there want to shave their heads in solidarity with or to make a wig for a cancer patient, but it’s far less common for said patient …
Seguir leyendo Mom pressures 17-year-old daughter to shave her head for a wig for her 14-year-old sister, won’t take no for an answer: ‘[She’s] saying that I obviously don’t actually care that she’s struggling’
Aunt allows 7-year-old niece to see mom who’s only allowed to have supervised visits with CPS, attacks sister with custody for questioning it: ‘No need for me to tell you because that is her mom’
There are some members of our population who, at their big ages, still can’t follow basic rules. I know how easy it is to be tempted to break any rules you find unfair, but if you’re going to break the rules, you have to develop a sense of which ones are worth breaking. If you …
Seguir leyendo Aunt allows 7-year-old niece to see mom who’s only allowed to have supervised visits with CPS, attacks sister with custody for questioning it: ‘No need for me to tell you because that is her mom’
Mom buys 13-year-old daughter 5 items at the mall during father-son boys trip, son complains about the so-called shopping spree: ‘She got all these cool things and he got nothing’
If you’re a parent, you know that your kids aren’t always treated exactly equally. You want to give them equal opportunities at big-scale things like going to college and extracurricular activities, but sometimes, whether you intend it or not, one kid will get more than the other. This could be for financial reasons or because …
Seguir leyendo Mom buys 13-year-old daughter 5 items at the mall during father-son boys trip, son complains about the so-called shopping spree: ‘She got all these cool things and he got nothing’
‘She said I had to use the name, her daughter deserved that’: Bereaved mother freaks out when adult son refuses to name his daughter after his late baby sister
Grief is a messy and complicated thing we all have to go through at some point. It’s rarely something that someone can get over in a matter of months or weeks. It’s a long and winding road, with low lows and the capacity for high highs. While the maxim «there’s no wrong way to grieve» …
Seguir leyendo ‘She said I had to use the name, her daughter deserved that’: Bereaved mother freaks out when adult son refuses to name his daughter after his late baby sister
‘That’s not wandering off, that’s sneaking away’: Mom abandons 13-year-old daughter at store for 2 hours, claims she accidentally put her phone on Do Not Disturb
When you’re a kid, getting left behind at the store is one of your worst fears. As a young child of the aughts, I thought that ‘No Child Left Behind’ was designed to ensure that kids wouldn’t get left behind at the grocery store or the shopping mall. Naturally, as kids grow older, that specific …
Seguir leyendo ‘That’s not wandering off, that’s sneaking away’: Mom abandons 13-year-old daughter at store for 2 hours, claims she accidentally put her phone on Do Not Disturb