When one finally moves into a house they are ready to call home, there is a series of decisions they have to make to ensure everyone feels truly comfortable in the new space. One of the biggest decisions a person has to make is what purpose they will assign to all their new rooms. One room should obviously be the bedroom, but everything else is entirely up to them. If they plan to start a family soon, they might consider making one room a nursery. If they work a lot from home, an office would b…

He could've avoided all of this...

They staged an intervention to stop her from... being independent?

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. No one likes to feel like one of their parents are playing favorites, especially when it’s with a step-sibling. There’s no excuse for making your child feel so bad by abandoning him or her, and omitting yourself from their life. It’s an empty hole in their heart that will never fully heal, and everyone who wants kids one day should understand the burdens of parenting first and foremost. This brings us to the Reddit thread. In this story, the or…

When Parenthood is Off to a Rocky Start

Parents absolutely love to get involved in their kids’ lives, with the firm belief that they are entitled to that involvement because of who they are. However, while it is reasonable to want to be a part of your children’s lives, there has to be a line drawn to keep the peace between everyone in the family. The one who usually draws the line in the family is the outsider, or in other words, the partner. My husband, for example, is the person who tells my parents when they are stepping over the…

Some people think that just because they are forgetful, everyone else should forgive them for acting irresponsibly. Forgetting things, even if it is by accident, should not be a valid excuse, and there is a point in your adult life when you simply can't use it to explain your way out of commitments you failed to attend. It seems like the daughter in this Reddit story thought that her ignoring, or ‘forgetting’, her mother's wishes would simply be forgotten, but she could not have been more wrong…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. When we get married and settle down, no one can anticipate what our future will hold. We date, fall in love, get married, and before we know it we live on a farm in the middle of nowhere with our wife and kids, when 10 years ago we thought we’d be a suave bachelor with a New York City apartment. Or hey, maybe it’s the other way around for some people. The point being, is that life takes us on all sorts of turns, and when we agree to be with som…

Nobody's gonna know...

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Boundaries have become a bit of a buzzword these days. It seems like anything someone doesn’t like, they want everyone to tiptoe around their ‘boundaries.’ It’s true that it’s hurtful, disrespectful, and frustrating when someone steps on your boundaries. You feel like you’re not in control, and that someone else dictates aspects of your life that you didn’t want them to have a say in. It’s hard to see someone the same after a situation like thi…

I don't think insulting people is the most effective way to get people to do favors for you.

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Living with a parent as an adult can cause a lot of friction; when we’re with our parents, it can be easy to slide back into being obstinate, petulant, child-like versions of our adult selves. While we may not like to be reminded of those qualities, we were children at one time too. And some people will always feel like they’re parents to their own parents. In this Reddit thread, the original poster (OP) is a man whose father needs a place to s…

He said, she said!

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Everybody makes mistakes, and especially when we’re young. When your parents are divorced and fighting, it can be difficult to understand the situation and know how to navigate it. Ultimately it’s up to the adult to be the bigger and better person in the situation. Having divorced parents is immensely difficult, and any breath of relief from the stress is like a breath of fresh air. For the poster of this Reddit thread, she chooses one side for…

Even cute girlies need to let their dad's side out sometimes.

He really thought he was going to walk her down the aisle after all of that?