22-year-old girlfriend scolds 22-year-old boyfriend for spending $360 on 18 gallons of grape juice: ‘She said I can’t spend that type of money without first discussing it with her.’

Is he spending too much, or is she being too controlling?  It doesn’t matter how much money you bring home: it’s essential to keep a budget. I’m not one of those people who writes out exactly how much I’m going to spend on every expense, though that’s probably the most optimal way to budget. I …
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California woman refuses to move to Texas with her on-again off-again husband who she has been with for 19 years: ‘He agreed to stay in California!’

Is he trying to get her to break up with him again? If so, he’s doing a pretty good job.  Before you get married, you should have a long, hard discussion about where you would and wouldn’t be able to live. Some people think they love their partner so much that they could live anywhere …
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Boyfriend Breaks Girlfriend’s Curling Iron and Replaces It Using a Promo Code, Girlfriend Demands He Pay Full Price

Should you have to pay full price when replacing something? Most people have some amount of attachment to their belongings. Some folks might feel pretty zen about letting things go, but odds are there are still some things you’re clinging to. And if something gets broken, stolen, or lost, you might feel some type of …
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Lazy boyfriend refuses to pick up his trash off the apartment floor; girlfriend forbids him from using her credit card until he cleans up: ‘Why are you marrying this man-baby?’

What is wrong with him?  One of the hardest things about living with other people is agreeing on a standard level of cleanliness. Everyone grew up in a different environment where «clean» meant something different. For some people, «clean» means there is no literal trash on the ground, and all the crumbs on the floor …
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Girlfriend introduces her boyfriend to hiking, boyfriend pretends that he was the one who got her into outdoorsy activities: ‘This his has been my passion for years.’

It’s the little things you do together, do together, do together, that make perfect relationships.  It’s healthy to share hobbies with your boyfriend or girlfriend. If you marry somebody who loves college football with all of their heart, you’re going to have a tough autumn every year if you can’t at least try to learn …
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25-year-old boyfriend asks girlfriend to post him on his Instagram for their 1-year anniversary, she refuses

Is that a reasonable request? We would probably all be better off if we didn’t attach our self-worth to social media. But that’s much easier said than done. Like it or not, we live in a world where social media has so much influence on our personal lives. Even if you’re not on it yourself, …
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Aspiring musician gets ghosted and blamed by toxic ex, turns betrayal into a thriving music career and gets revenge as songs about him play on his favorite radio station: ‘He made me small, I made it art’

After nearly three years of an on-and-off relationship, she believed she understood who he was, flawed but ultimately decent. When they reconnected, she set clear expectations for growth and honesty. Instead, he disappeared without explanation, only for her to later discover he had been seeing someone else behind her back the entire time. When she …
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Boyfriend surprises girlfriend with kitten after she told him not to, he tries to guilt her into keeping the animal: ‘He kept calling me cold’

A relationship will never work if something you say goes in one ear and right out the other.

Boyfriend asks his 47-year-old girlfriend if she can write her mortgage off on his taxes: ‘What he’s proposing is tax fraud.’

She needs to drop this boyfriend because he’s bad news. We all have a friend who needs to break up with her boyfriend. It’s not because he’s not good-looking enough for her, or they aren’t a good match: it’s because she’s financing his lifestyle while he sits at home and does nothing. The same logic …
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‘I always talk to my fish after work’: 36-year-old gets jealous that his boyfriend talks to his fish more than he talks to him

If he wants his boyfriend to talk to him, he should at least seem interested in what he has to say. One of the best things about animals is that they can’t talk back. Some might say that’s the worst thing about them, but I believe that not knowing what my dog is thinking is …
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