For kids, not a lot can beat the gifts they get from their wonderful grandparents. Somehow, grandparents know exactly what to gift their beloved grandkids to make them the happiest kids on the block. They are the master gift-givers in every family. The only «person» who can even slightly compete with grandparents in that sense …
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New dad assumes stay-at-home sister will watch his newborn while he works, she confronts him after he announces it at Thanksgiving: ‘They never even asked me!’
Everyone, say this with me: A stay-at-home parent is not required to provide free childcare to your own kids. It is a full-time job to take care of children. If you have a need for a stay-at-home parent, either do it yourself or hire a nanny! The brother in the story below is in desperate …
Seguir leyendo New dad assumes stay-at-home sister will watch his newborn while he works, she confronts him after he announces it at Thanksgiving: ‘They never even asked me!’
Woman disinvites late brother’s widow to Christmas, claims she’s not family anymore because of her previous behavior, separating her from her 6-year-old stepson: ‘She doesn’t get forgiveness for past crimes just because something bad happened to her’
Once family, always family… right? Family can be a permeable idea. You’re born into one that you didn’t get to choose, and that’s one version of family. Then there is the extended network of aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and distant 3rd cousins. Maybe you see them often, maybe you’ve never met them. But they are …
Seguir leyendo Woman disinvites late brother’s widow to Christmas, claims she’s not family anymore because of her previous behavior, separating her from her 6-year-old stepson: ‘She doesn’t get forgiveness for past crimes just because something bad happened to her’
‘It’s a waste of money’: Entitled «girlfriend-in-law» doesn’t make any effort to get to know the family of her children’s father, so “sister-in-law” removes her from the holiday gift list
Family dynamics can be funny, especially during the holidays. Take this sister’s «girlfriend-in-law.» The brother has an on-again/off-again girlfriend that he has two kids with. We don’t know the relationship between the two other than it looks very toxic, hence the on-again/off-again. So, this coldness also comes out in how she treats the family of …
Seguir leyendo ‘It’s a waste of money’: Entitled «girlfriend-in-law» doesn’t make any effort to get to know the family of her children’s father, so “sister-in-law” removes her from the holiday gift list
63-year-old dad decides to “practice” retirement by moving in with daughter for a month, micromanaging her home and routine until she ends his visit cold: ‘After 5 days I told him I didn’t think the month-long trial run was going to work’
Many things in life require rehearsing: asking your mirror out on a date a couple of hundred times before actually asking your crush, delivering the work presentation in your car a couple of times before doing it in a meeting room. That kind of thing. But this Dad is one of a kind. He decides …
Seguir leyendo 63-year-old dad decides to “practice” retirement by moving in with daughter for a month, micromanaging her home and routine until she ends his visit cold: ‘After 5 days I told him I didn’t think the month-long trial run was going to work’
Business owner refuses to give sister $15k raise after she helped them more than double their profits, claims $80k is enough: ‘I gave her a $3.5k Christmas bonus’
Working with family is not an easy task. There’s a reason they say not to mix business and pleasure, because you’re bound to run into a crossroads one day where you’re going to have to decide what’s more important to you, and nobody likes to be backed into a corner. Family should come first, but …
Seguir leyendo Business owner refuses to give sister $15k raise after she helped them more than double their profits, claims $80k is enough: ‘I gave her a $3.5k Christmas bonus’
24-year-old plans a nostalgic Thanksgiving cabin trip, but her mother freaks out mid-restaurant dinner, pushing the daughter to cut holiday short: ‘She blew up this whole trip because of miscommunication’
Like many other holiday stories, this Thanksgiving trip starts out soft and sentimental and then slowly slides into the same old family drama rerun. Daughter drives four hours to a cabin that meant a lot when her dad was alive, brings her little brother, tries to give everyone a sweet weekend of swimming, dinners out, …
Seguir leyendo 24-year-old plans a nostalgic Thanksgiving cabin trip, but her mother freaks out mid-restaurant dinner, pushing the daughter to cut holiday short: ‘She blew up this whole trip because of miscommunication’
Mom of 9 flips out when sister refuses to buy each child a separate gift for Christmas: ‘If I got everyone something, that would come to over $1000’
The holidays get more complicated the more people who are involved. Getting together with a big family at Christmas can be a wonderful experience, but there is a lot to think about. The various relationship dynamics, who is going to host, and what the gifts are going to be like are all things that can …
Seguir leyendo Mom of 9 flips out when sister refuses to buy each child a separate gift for Christmas: ‘If I got everyone something, that would come to over $1000’
Father asks 25-year-old daughter and her two siblings to sign away their rights as beneficiaries to their grandfather’s trust once he passes: ‘[He is] pressuring me’
The last thing on your mind when a loved one passes is what you’re going to do with their assets—most of the time. Sometimes, conniving family members lurk in the shadows, awaiting the perfect moment to slip into the will and take everything. How can they do this, though? Familial manipulation and the hope that …
Seguir leyendo Father asks 25-year-old daughter and her two siblings to sign away their rights as beneficiaries to their grandfather’s trust once he passes: ‘[He is] pressuring me’
‘Mom dropped her fork’: 28-year-old accountant gets roasted by her parents for being boring, so she exposes the secretly-unemployed Golden Child, revealing she’s been covering $115,000 of her bills; chaos ensues
Family dinners can descend into madness pretty quickly. One minute, you’re all smiling beside a freshly carved turkey, and the next, you’re leaping across the table with the electric carver poised to slice. At least in my family, a semi-volatile collective of well-intentioned folks, career advice can be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. …
Seguir leyendo ‘Mom dropped her fork’: 28-year-old accountant gets roasted by her parents for being boring, so she exposes the secretly-unemployed Golden Child, revealing she’s been covering $115,000 of her bills; chaos ensues