‘I was really embarrassed’: Whiny boyfriend spends all long road trip to mountain range sighing and complaining about driving, making his girlfriend cringe, and their friends awkwardly enduring hours of discomfort

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.

‘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.

Ex demands 100% of joint house sale proceeds, claiming their ex-partner is more financially stable and should walk away empty-handed for the sake of fairness: ‘My partner essentially asked that I turn over the keys and walk away’

Breakups have a way of revealing just how creative people can get when it comes to redefining fairness, especially when there’s real estate involved. Suddenly, the person who couldn’t scrape together a down payment five years ago becomes an expert in equity theory, armed with a sob story and a calculator that only works in …
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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’

38-year-old 5’4 single dude complains about seeing women in their 30s and 40s on dating apps who want to settle down and have kids: ‘It’s painfully hilarious. And quite sad.’

It baffles me that people are so doom-and-gloom about people getting married and having kids in their 30s. Sure, if you want to have 10 kids, you’re probably not going to be able to accomplish that if you have your first baby at 35. However, most people want 2.5 kids, so it’s not unreasonable for …
Seguir leyendo 38-year-old 5’4 single dude complains about seeing women in their 30s and 40s on dating apps who want to settle down and have kids: ‘It’s painfully hilarious. And quite sad.’

19-year-old complains that only ugly guys swipe right on her on dating apps, male friend tells her she’s just as attractive as these so-called ugly guys: ‘She should give some of them a chance’

Dating apps make everybody jaded, from the most attractive people on the planet to the hopeless cases. We all know a couple who met on Hinge and are getting married next Spring, but we have no idea how they got from step 1 to step marriage. Were they using a different Hinge than the one …
Seguir leyendo 19-year-old complains that only ugly guys swipe right on her on dating apps, male friend tells her she’s just as attractive as these so-called ugly guys: ‘She should give some of them a chance’

“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+ Memes For Singles Avoiding Cuffing Season (September 22, 2024)

As the leaves start to turn and pumpkin starts to spice, not only are we entering ~Christian Girl Autumn~ but we’re also on the slippery slope to cuffing season. What is cuffing season, you may ask? Oh, it’s the time of year when the thought of cozying up with a lover by the fire seems …
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‘Dating apps turn us all into HR managers’: Singles bemoan having to ‘reject so many people’ on dating apps

People hate dating apps so much that it has become hack comedy to complain about them. But that won’t stop us. Dating apps feel like the default way to date, in a world where everyone is glued to their phones and so much of our social lives is conducted online. It can feel like if …
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