‘He was trying to put us in $800 a month worth of debt’: Entitled wife persuaded by car salesman to purchase a car $36,000 over given budget, angry husband refuses to view car and walks out of the dealership

Everybody likes to see how far they can stretch the limits. Sometimes we think we should all live our lives as if we’re negotiating the last dazzling elephant-covered scarf at an Asain flea market. That extra $1 feels so valuable after knowing you’ve worked for it. However, when most people create a thorough budget when …
Seguir leyendo ‘He was trying to put us in $800 a month worth of debt’: Entitled wife persuaded by car salesman to purchase a car $36,000 over given budget, angry husband refuses to view car and walks out of the dealership

41-year-old Disney-obsessed mom forces her family to visit Disney World from the UK 35 times in a 10 year span: ‘After the first 20 or so times I started to get rather bored of the parks’

Disney Adults are one of the most oppressed groups in the world today. Well, not necessarily, but they do get a lot of slack for the mere crime of liking a theme park. Sure, maybe wearing mouse ears and crying when you meet Donald Duck is «cringe» by the standards of conventional society, but within …
Seguir leyendo 41-year-old Disney-obsessed mom forces her family to visit Disney World from the UK 35 times in a 10 year span: ‘After the first 20 or so times I started to get rather bored of the parks’

30-year-old stepmom refuses to adopt her 12-year-old stepdaughter because she doesn’t think they’re close enough: ‘Her mom passed when she was 2! This woman is the only mother she’s got.

Whether a stepparent will adopt their stepchild has a lot to do with their specific family situation. If the mom has been raising her daughter on her own since the day she was born, and she marries her daughter’s stepdad during her daughter’s childhood, he might be a good candidate for adopting her. He has …
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17-year-old refuses to forgive dad for prioritizing his 2nd wife and her kids over him after he lost his mother when he was 13: ‘I told him that he was too late’

A lot of absent fathers aren’t total deadbeats. They go to work, pay the bills, and are physically present in the home, but they aren’t emotionally present. They don’t particularly care if their kid is doing well in school, or who their friends are, or if they get to see them before they go to …
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28-year-old dad refuses to lend baby stroller to 35-year-old brother, brother ignores him and takes the stroller anyway, leading to a family dispute when dad demands it back: ‘You’re stealing from a baby’

If you know people with kids, and you plan on having kids yourself, you can rest assured that they will happily give you so much free baby stuff. Whether it is clothes, a crib, or a stroller, everyone has at least one hand-me-down they got from their loved ones, and if it helps them save …
Seguir leyendo 28-year-old dad refuses to lend baby stroller to 35-year-old brother, brother ignores him and takes the stroller anyway, leading to a family dispute when dad demands it back: ‘You’re stealing from a baby’

Family of 3 get invited on Hawaii vacation with in-laws, husband insists on going alone with 6-year-old daughter because of wife’s flight anxiety: ‘She says she can’t go that long without her daughter’

With the sheer number of scary stories about airplanes that have been hitting the headlines in the past couple of years, there has never been a time when those with aerophobia have felt more justified. It is all too easy for those who are anxiously inclined to think about all the potential there is for …
Seguir leyendo Family of 3 get invited on Hawaii vacation with in-laws, husband insists on going alone with 6-year-old daughter because of wife’s flight anxiety: ‘She says she can’t go that long without her daughter’

Dad divorces wife after she refuses to punish her 16-year-old daughter for stealing from his 13 and 15-year-old kids: ‘My kids were so relieved when we moved out, so I knew I made the right choice’

Blended families can exacerbate issues that were already present before the families got blended. If a kid mistreats his parents and they don’t do anything about it, chances are he’s probably going to treat his stepparents and stepsiblings with as much cruelty as he treats his parents, if not more. It’s difficult enough for kids …
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UPDATE: Childhood friend’s family tries to sabotage a man’s marriage to help their daughter win him back, so he cuts ties with them and saves his marriage, putting his wife first: ‘I was ready to fight’

This woman’s husband must have been quite the catch because he had his childhood friend’s entire family chasing after him like he was «The one that got away.» What this entitled family didn’t realize was that he loved his wife far more than he loved his childhood memories, so chaos ensued when they tried to …
Seguir leyendo UPDATE: Childhood friend’s family tries to sabotage a man’s marriage to help their daughter win him back, so he cuts ties with them and saves his marriage, putting his wife first: ‘I was ready to fight’

‘Oh boy, you should have probably left it’: 8-month pregnant woman is forced to use broken driveway gate that she shares with her in-laws, her father discovers the gate and fixes it to help daughter, her elderly father-in-law claims that it wasn’t broken

Have we perhaps not thought about this as deeply as we should have?  We’ve always known that there must be some sort of unspoken competition between mother-in-laws. Who makes the better chicken soup? Who gives the best grandma cuddles? But we didn’t think about whether this type of rivalry exists between father-in-laws too, until today! …
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Disorganized wife put husband’s job on the line after her behavior causes him to miss important conferences on his work trip: ‘You’re always making me late’

Are you an overpacker, an underpacker, or are you one of the few people on earth who always pack exactly what they need for their time away? I am almost always an overpacker. I would much rather bring stuff that I don’t need than regret leaving stuff that I do need at home. I will …
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