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It's always a tough decision what to get your beloved mother for Mother's Day. There are go-to gifts, flowers, chocolate, candles. But that stuff can get so boring. Also, in these trying times, there are limited places you can go to celebrate. This all means it's time to get creative. What better place is there to start than asking a bunch of moms what they actually want for Mother's Day. Lucky for you, there's already a Reddit thread full of answers!

Your relationship with your in-laws is one of the most important but trickiest to handle. If you're lucky, you get a set of in-laws who treat you like their own child, who respect your boundaries and are all-around decent human beings. Unfortunately, not everyone is blessed with such perfect in-laws, and if you have a particularly bad set, they can make your life pretty miserable. These people share the worst gifts they've received from their in-laws, and I won't lie; they are bad. The passive-aggression behind the thoughtless gestures are enough to give anyone the message that their in-laws hate their guts. In-laws: the gifts that keep on giving.

Divorce lawyers see the ugly side of love—the breakdowns in communication, the anger, and the resentment. Divorces can seriously bring out the nasty and petty sides of people. These divorce lawyers reveal the evilest, funniest and dumbest ways that spouses tried screwing the other over. From splitting everything physically down the middle to figuring out how to educate a shared parrot, they genuinely have seen it all when it comes to love, or the lack thereof.

It takes a lot of confidence to go on a date. There are a million ways it can go wrong, and yet we still manage to sum up the power to do it all the frickin time. I believe we all deserve a round of applause for consistently putting ourselves out there. Most of the time our dates do not lead to something bigger, but we learn from each one. We gain lessons from every person we open ourselves up to. But sometimes that lesson is just: Stop going after a-holes.

If you've ever had a lightbulb moment that's blown you away, or a stroke of genius that made you question whether or not you might be the next Einstein, then you might have had a Shower Thought. These are the brainwaves of the average Joe which, once released into the world, change humanity forever. Each week we bring you the top shower thoughts the world has had over the past seven days and this week's haul is as profound as ever. And here are last weeks in case you missed them.

A large part of growing up is gaining new obsessions. While it's happening, we like to believe that, 'It's not a phase, mom!' But it doesn't take too long to realize, yep, that was definitely a phase. For example, I used to be obsessed with Spongebob. Yeah, Mr. Squarepants. I actually wanted him painted all over my room. I guess I thought I was going to forever be into iconic Nickelodeon shows... but alas, this phased probably lasted no longer than 6 months.

People are sharing the things they used to be obsessed with that they didn't exactly take with them into their adult life. Classic.

Okay, it is seriously getting really difficult to understand whether marketers are just incorporating sex into their every project, or we are all just way too quick to see erotic things in totally innocent objects. Can someone please come up with a decent explanation? I'm really starting to believe it's the former. So many of these photos just seem way too real. And I believe marketers do it on purpose. Yes, sex sells, but where is the line?

If you see some dirty images too, just remember it's not you, it's the world.

Brides come in all shapes and forms. Some are chilled out, only wanting to have a good time on their big day, surrounded by their loved ones. Others, however, become full-on bridezillas and make life a total nightmare for everyone around them. Those are the brides you should avoid at all costs, ideally having as little contact with them as possible. But what happens when the bridezilla is your sister, and her unreasonable demands include requesting that you not wear makeup to her wedding? To make matters worse, what do you do when you suspect that the ridiculous condition is actually coming from her fiancé? Surely it would raise a red flag or two? One woman posted this predicament on Reddit's Am I The As*hole, questioning whether her sister was being unreasonable, emphasizing that she wouldn't feel comfortable attending the wedding without wearing makeup.

Moving to a new house is always a roll of the dice regarding what type of neighbors you'll get. You might luck out and end up living next to people who respect your privacy, don't make a loud noise, and are friendly at just the appropriate level. Or, you might land yourself nightmare neighbors who make your life a misery. Unfortunately, there isn't any way of knowing until you've moved. One woman, whose new neighbors fell into the latter category — in the form of noisy kids, decided to take action and drown out the noise by playing loud music. She posted on Reddit's Am I the As*hole, asking whether she was in the wrong for doing so. 

Being on a dating app can be very exhausting. Some people are so cringy and it seems that nobody has told them. Like, I hate to break it to you Chad, putting women down is so 20th century. Now we actually go for people who respect us, or at least we try. It can be hard when the dating pool appears so limited! At least we know the kinds of creeps to avoid... for the most part.

People are sharing the dating app bios that make them want to delete the entire app, and boy are some of these cringe.

There are so many signs that someone is a complete d**che. It doesn't have to be huge, they can be found in the way they react to things, or their political opinions, or their lack of politeness in most settings. In any case, it's super annoying. Why people choose to behave in these ways, we may never understand. But at least we have a Reddit thread that we can use to call them out. Who knows? Maybe there will be some changes made. (Probably not).

Confidentiality between therapists (and all other medical professionals) and their clients is kind of a big deal, which, if breached, is cause for dismissal and removal of their medical license. I mean, if I found out my therapist had shared information discussed in our sessions with someone else, I'd be furious. But If I discovered that she'd shared it with anyone in my family, it would be a whole new level of hell. A hell which one girl found herself in when she found out her therapist had been sharing notes from their sessions with her new stepmom.

Being married into a family is always difficult. But it is even harder when your new spouse has already been married and everyone prefers or rather misses, their old wife. There are little things a family can do to make someone feel included, like invite them to events, include them in the yearly Christmas card, or give them the secret family recipes. But sometimes family members get protective, especially when a new person enters the scene with no blood relation.

When we are growing up, we have to follow our parent's rules. It's just the way it is. They feed and clothe us, so we basically have to do whatever they say. 

"Be home by 11."

"Oookay." 

"Finish your homework."

"Oookay"

"No closing doors when a boy is over."

"Ookay."

They make these rules (usually) to keep us safe, productive, and out of trouble. But sometimes our parents can forget that at some point we pay our own bills, buy our own clothes, and have to make our own decisions. At some point, they have to realize that we're not kids anymore, and we've already moved on from the possibility of teen pregnancy.

A lot of us try to be as attractive as possible. It's a part of the 'look good, feel good' phenomenon. We don't necessarily do it to attract the opposite sex, but it does matter to us that people, in general, get a good first impression of us.  Whether it be at a job interview, a first date, a party, a chill meeting, whenever we meet somebody new, we want them to think, "Hey, this btch takes care of herself, I like that." But what are the things need to do to ensure that we give off that impression?

Well, people are sharing the little things that make someone more attractive (in their opinion), and maybe you'll find some inspo. Or maybe you'll just think, "yeah this sht doesn't really matter to me." And that's cool too.