Despite how some might think, it is not unreasonable for parents to expect their kids to help out around the house if they decide to keep living there after high school. They might not like it, especially since they still are technically teenagers, and therefore still behave like teenagers, but if they want to keep …
Seguir leyendo Single mom demands 18-year-old college dropout son take up cooking responsibilities for the family after he quits his job, son refuses: ‘Mom, you’re being unreasonable’
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‘Jog a little, you look […] sad’: Professor makes fun of student’s appearance in front of her peers, she immediately calls him out
Professors sometimes need to be taken down a peg. Some of them walk around wielding unbridled power just because they have PhDs and a group of eager students trying to impress them. Some of them get a little high on their own intellectual supply and aren’t the nicest kinds of people to be around. But …
Seguir leyendo ‘Jog a little, you look […] sad’: Professor makes fun of student’s appearance in front of her peers, she immediately calls him out
24-year-old gets chastised by boss for calling out mansplaining colleague interrupting her presentation: ‘When I stand up for myself, I’m creating drama’
It is an unfortunate truth that even in this day and age, there can be specific difficulties with being a woman in the workplace. While the ideologically brainwashed tradwives of the world may be wrong in their belief that a woman’s only place is the home, the observation that an office can be an uncomfortable …
Seguir leyendo 24-year-old gets chastised by boss for calling out mansplaining colleague interrupting her presentation: ‘When I stand up for myself, I’m creating drama’
‘They called me money hungry’: Son is made sole beneficiary on late parents’ stocks, refuses to sell them to pay off brother’s share of the inheritance, family gets involved
Last week I was visiting my parents for dinner, and we got to talking about their inheritance. I have two sisters, and we keep joking that my parents will have to choose their favorite daughter, and leave her 34% of the inheritance, while the other two only get 33%. So every time someone mentions my …
Seguir leyendo ‘They called me money hungry’: Son is made sole beneficiary on late parents’ stocks, refuses to sell them to pay off brother’s share of the inheritance, family gets involved
‘Imagine my shock when I saw him standing there’: Man walks out of his own birthday party after discovering girlfriend had invited his neglectful dad he had not seen since he was 15
We all have people we wish we could leave in our past and never see again. We want them to be an old memory, someone we will never have to face, and never have to deal with. Even though we are constantly being told we should get closure, to forgive those who did us wrong, …
Seguir leyendo ‘Imagine my shock when I saw him standing there’: Man walks out of his own birthday party after discovering girlfriend had invited his neglectful dad he had not seen since he was 15
14-year-old adopted son keeps in contact with bio dad but refuses to meet his new wife, dad insists on making them bond until wife puts her foot down: ‘He wants nothing to do with me’
We all forget way too quickly how hard it is to be a teenager. Even though we all agree it is clearly much harder to be an adult, those teenage years are not a picnic either, and we should not let ourselves forget that. During those monumental years as a teen, everything simply feels extremely …
Seguir leyendo 14-year-old adopted son keeps in contact with bio dad but refuses to meet his new wife, dad insists on making them bond until wife puts her foot down: ‘He wants nothing to do with me’
Friendship group falls apart before a big vacation, leading one friend to cancel everyone’s hotel rooms without a word: ‘I do not want to stay at the same hotel as them’
When you enter a new romantic relationship, one one the main things people warn you about is the idea of scheduling something months in advance before you are sure the relationship is serious. You don’t invite a potential boyfriend or girlfriend to your sibling’s wedding in September before you are sure they are actually going …
Seguir leyendo Friendship group falls apart before a big vacation, leading one friend to cancel everyone’s hotel rooms without a word: ‘I do not want to stay at the same hotel as them’
‘I don’t have a legal responsibility for this child’: Dad refuses to raise youngest child after discovering he is not the biological father, mom claims the child deserves the same care as their other kids
When one hears about certain scenarios, whether they are work, relationship, or family-related, they often try to imagine what they would do if they experienced said scenario themselves. Just yesterday, I met up with a friend who told me about a conflict she was having with her husband about him getting jealous of her friendship …
Seguir leyendo ‘I don’t have a legal responsibility for this child’: Dad refuses to raise youngest child after discovering he is not the biological father, mom claims the child deserves the same care as their other kids
Husband asks wife and teen daughter to turn off music from a concert he insisted he join them for despite mom planning a girls night: ‘So we ride home in silence’
Everyone is entitled to their own music taste. This doesn’t mean that you have to like it, but you must respect it. Some people want to spend their days listening to Imagine Dragons. While I can’t quite fathom this reality, I don’t go around trying to stop their fans from buying their records. Music is …
Seguir leyendo Husband asks wife and teen daughter to turn off music from a concert he insisted he join them for despite mom planning a girls night: ‘So we ride home in silence’
Mom spends son’s college tuition money, promises to pay him back as long as he doesn’t tell dad: ‘For four years I thanked him for the money while I took out loans’
Different parents have different approaches to saving money for their children’s future. Some parents do not save money for their kids’ college education or wedding because they can’t or because they think their kids should learn to work and pay for it themselves. They want their kids to figure their own future out (while, you …
Seguir leyendo Mom spends son’s college tuition money, promises to pay him back as long as he doesn’t tell dad: ‘For four years I thanked him for the money while I took out loans’