Whoever said «Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me» couldn’t have been more off-base. I’d much rather skin my knee than get called a mean name. Because I know my knee will heal even if I don’t do anything about it. Emotional wounds need to be faced head-on, and …
Seguir leyendo ‘My boyfriend just kind of chuckled awkwardly’: Woman leaves boyfriend at dinner when his friend calls her the ‘current one’
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‘Her brother doesn’t like me and the feeling is mutual’: New dad’s brother-in-law asks him to babysit his kid on Father’s Day, doesn’t understand why he declines
Holidays are important. Sure, they might be kind of made up and arbitrary, but that doesn’t mean they don’t matter to us. We only get so many chances to celebrate someone or something in our lifetimes. We spend so much time just getting through the day-to-day that it doesn’t hurt to stop and smell the …
Seguir leyendo ‘Her brother doesn’t like me and the feeling is mutual’: New dad’s brother-in-law asks him to babysit his kid on Father’s Day, doesn’t understand why he declines
Husband chastises wife for turning down a job that pays $85k for fewer hours, doesn’t understand why she wants to stay at her current position making $65k: ‘My wife is constantly stressed about working and juggling two kids’
The reasons we like our jobs can be mysterious. There is a constellation of factors that go into whether or not we’re going to like a job. It’s not all about title and money. Maybe our commute time perfectly matches up with the length of our favorite podcast. Maybe there’s a really good coffee shop …
Seguir leyendo Husband chastises wife for turning down a job that pays $85k for fewer hours, doesn’t understand why she wants to stay at her current position making $65k: ‘My wife is constantly stressed about working and juggling two kids’
35-year-old man refuses to invite girlfriend to work dinner celebrating his promotion because she’s ‘dramatic’: ‘I explained my reasons and she called me shallow and insecure’
Growing older means knowing which people to invite to which type of event. You start out all wide-eyed and bushy-tailed, thinking that you can take anyone anywhere. Then you suffer a few humiliations and a few bad nights and realize that you need to have certain friends for certain occasions. Maybe you have your single …
Seguir leyendo 35-year-old man refuses to invite girlfriend to work dinner celebrating his promotion because she’s ‘dramatic’: ‘I explained my reasons and she called me shallow and insecure’
Boyfriend lets girlfriend live in his parents apartment by herself rent free, gives her an allowance that is 56% of his monthly paycheck: ‘She has no money saved, she has nothing but debt’
I’ve never understood the phenomenon of «stay-at-home girlfriends.» It’s one thing to be a stay-at-home mom who has a lot to do all day long for child rearing, but if you have no job and no kids, what are you doing all day? One might argue that cleaning and taking care of the household are …
Seguir leyendo Boyfriend lets girlfriend live in his parents apartment by herself rent free, gives her an allowance that is 56% of his monthly paycheck: ‘She has no money saved, she has nothing but debt’
Mother-in-law cries and demands an apology when married daughter-in-law books her own hotel room for family vacation, insists she share a room with her brother: ‘The place they booked […] has one bathroom for 5 adults, no living area to sit’
Sharing a room is not the easiest thing in the world to do. Some of us had to do it all our childhoods, and we would never want to do it again if we had the choice. Some of us never got used to it in childhood so we feel weird about it as adults. …
Seguir leyendo Mother-in-law cries and demands an apology when married daughter-in-law books her own hotel room for family vacation, insists she share a room with her brother: ‘The place they booked […] has one bathroom for 5 adults, no living area to sit’
‘I only found out about his daughter that day’: Fiancé demands half of future wife’s lottery winnings for his secret 5-year-old daughter despite it being in a trust for her 4-year-old son
Most of us have probably thought about what we would do if we won the lottery. Every time we buy a scratch-off at the gas station or enter some numbers on a whim we have daydreams about what vacations we would take, what houses we would buy, and what we would do for the people …
Seguir leyendo ‘I only found out about his daughter that day’: Fiancé demands half of future wife’s lottery winnings for his secret 5-year-old daughter despite it being in a trust for her 4-year-old son
35-year-old husband lashes out at wife for keeping her headphones on during WFH day, says she didn’t hear him calling for help with chores: ‘My husband came in, visibly upset’
Headphones are an incredible invention. I don’t know what I would have done without them. All those times on the bus to school, looking out the window listening to whatever angsty Spotify playlist I had just cooked up… those were deeply formative times in my adolescence. Then, as I got older, listening to instrumental jazz …
Seguir leyendo 35-year-old husband lashes out at wife for keeping her headphones on during WFH day, says she didn’t hear him calling for help with chores: ‘My husband came in, visibly upset’
Mother-in-law refuses to see daughter-in-law’s remote programming job as ‘real,’ calls her out at a family barbecue: ‘Yeah, and that […] paid off your son’s student loans’
There’s a big generational gap when it comes to attitudes about work. Older generations might think that since they were forced to work a certain way, others should too. They spent countless hours commuting, stayed at a company for decades, and sometimes put work before family (especially if they had a wife at home taking …
Seguir leyendo Mother-in-law refuses to see daughter-in-law’s remote programming job as ‘real,’ calls her out at a family barbecue: ‘Yeah, and that […] paid off your son’s student loans’
Husband refuses to open door for food delivery man who his wife knew from work, was afraid to expose her location to: ‘To me this is a safety thing’
Being a woman can mean having a sixth sense for a guy who might cross a line one day. Whether it’s someone on the street, a neighbor, or someone you see at work, you might have reasons to have your guard up around someone, even if it’s just intuition. You hate to say it, but …
Seguir leyendo Husband refuses to open door for food delivery man who his wife knew from work, was afraid to expose her location to: ‘To me this is a safety thing’