Finances are a controversial topic in many relationships. From who pays for the first date to how the household expenses are split, the combination of money and relationships can attract some strong opinions and create crises for couples. While many people agree that there must be shared finances within serious relationships, there is a limit …
Seguir leyendo 33-year-old dad demands partner pay travel costs to pick up 10-year-old son 7 hours away , she refuses: ‘I feel like I’m being taken advantage of’
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Single friend refuses his Europe vacation buddies’ demands he sleep on a couch while couples get private rooms, the couples instantly back off when he suggests upgraded accommodations: ‘I don’t like sharing bedrooms, we are not children’
If you ever want to watch your adult friends regress to the politics of middle school gym class, just suggest a shared vacation rental and wait for the bedroom negotiations to begin. The couples in this friend group claim territorial rights faster than you can say «queen-sized bed.» And single traveling members of the group …
Seguir leyendo Single friend refuses his Europe vacation buddies’ demands he sleep on a couch while couples get private rooms, the couples instantly back off when he suggests upgraded accommodations: ‘I don’t like sharing bedrooms, we are not children’
‘Naturally, I claimed the master’: Friend pays 16% of the accommodation costs for a vacation with 5 others, then unilaterally claims the only master bedroom in the house because they “called it,» friend drama ensues
Friend vacations can make or break a friendship. Traveling with someone really brings out their little idiosyncrasies that we can often overlook on a day-to-day basis. Maybe your bestie doesn’t clean their dishes, or they sleep until noon every day, or they like to play white noise on 100% volume when they sleep—not every buddy …
Seguir leyendo ‘Naturally, I claimed the master’: Friend pays 16% of the accommodation costs for a vacation with 5 others, then unilaterally claims the only master bedroom in the house because they “called it,» friend drama ensues
Lake house vacation host Tina treats her friends like unpaid staff, demands they cook, clean, and entertain her kids, then gets mad when they leave early: ‘After 3 days of being treated like hotel staff, we packed our stuff and left’
Between summer fun and passive-aggressive servitude stands Tina’s lake house, an Airbnb in spirit but run by the management style of a 19th-century manor. Guests arrived with coolers full of food, wallets already lightened for utilities and groceries, and even their own bedding in tow, ready for some lakeside leisure. Instead, they landed a starring …
Seguir leyendo Lake house vacation host Tina treats her friends like unpaid staff, demands they cook, clean, and entertain her kids, then gets mad when they leave early: ‘After 3 days of being treated like hotel staff, we packed our stuff and left’
Freeloading 38-year-old flips out after consultant girlfriend refuses to bring him and 17-year-old daughter on business trip to Japan with her: ‘He was in disbelief when I didn’t bring her anything’
There are a lot of different reasons that people choose to get into or stay in romantic relationships, and sometimes they are questionable ones. Supposedly, most couples are together for the sake of love, but scratch the surface and it becomes apparent that this isn’t always the case. For example, it is quite common for …
Seguir leyendo Freeloading 38-year-old flips out after consultant girlfriend refuses to bring him and 17-year-old daughter on business trip to Japan with her: ‘He was in disbelief when I didn’t bring her anything’
17-year-old high schooler is pressured by friends Amanda and Sam to cover a $500 restaurant bill during a weekend trip after Amanda orders half the menu and claims she “forgot her card,” but the responsible teen refuses to foot the bill: ‘My meal was $26’
If you want to test the true strength of a friendship, skip the trust falls and just go to dinner at a fancy restaurant with a group of broke high schoolers. Nothing quite exposes class dynamics, budget delusions, and two-faced freeloading like splitting an astronomical check after everyone has spent the meal pretending to «just …
Seguir leyendo 17-year-old high schooler is pressured by friends Amanda and Sam to cover a $500 restaurant bill during a weekend trip after Amanda orders half the menu and claims she “forgot her card,” but the responsible teen refuses to foot the bill: ‘My meal was $26’
23-year-old refuses to cancel her college graduation trip because her 32-year-old sister’s babysitter canceled before her and her husband’s anniversary trip: ‘She got super upset and said I was being selfish and immature’
It’s so common to see married people prioritized above single people that we don’t even give it a second thought. We are especially trained to prioritize married people who have kids over single people who don’t. Single people’s lives are seen as less serious and important than those of married people. They are expected to …
Seguir leyendo 23-year-old refuses to cancel her college graduation trip because her 32-year-old sister’s babysitter canceled before her and her husband’s anniversary trip: ‘She got super upset and said I was being selfish and immature’
Friend group’s annual cabin trip spirals into drama when newcomer boyfriend Ed demands the master bedroom that a couple had paid extra for, ruins the vacation until he gets it: ‘Ed said he didn’t feel comfortable in open spaces and insisted on the master’
Look, I don’t want to be ageist or anything, but your late twenties are the golden hour for growing weary of «quirks» in the friend group, prime time for developing rare allergies to drama, posturing, and any new guy who thinks flexing his big boy muscles is a substitute for basic decency, especially on someone …
Seguir leyendo Friend group’s annual cabin trip spirals into drama when newcomer boyfriend Ed demands the master bedroom that a couple had paid extra for, ruins the vacation until he gets it: ‘Ed said he didn’t feel comfortable in open spaces and insisted on the master’
33-year-old gets excluded from her friend’s bachelorette party while 5 members of their friend group of 20 years attended without question: ‘I feel humiliated. Like a spare part in a friendship I thought I was still part of.’
We’ve all had the experience of being The One excluded from our friend groups, and it’s so painful. Most of us like to think that now that we’ve graduated from junior high, we’re much less likely to be intentionally excluded by those closest to us, but that’s not always the case. One of my best …
Seguir leyendo 33-year-old gets excluded from her friend’s bachelorette party while 5 members of their friend group of 20 years attended without question: ‘I feel humiliated. Like a spare part in a friendship I thought I was still part of.’
4 sisters organize a Disneyland trip with their children and deliberately exclude 34-year-old Amanda, their 5th sister: ‘I reminded her of all her trips to Hawaii, San Diego, Colorado, and the Mall of America in Minnesota. She never invited us’
Planning a Disneyland trip with your family should be as easy and joyful as picking out a pair of mouse ears. But throw in one sibling who’s got the temper of a haunted house and the unpredictability of a roller coaster with extra loops, and suddenly the group chat feels less like a vacation plan …
Seguir leyendo 4 sisters organize a Disneyland trip with their children and deliberately exclude 34-year-old Amanda, their 5th sister: ‘I reminded her of all her trips to Hawaii, San Diego, Colorado, and the Mall of America in Minnesota. She never invited us’