"She has a fit, demands to bring him, going as far to tell my friends at my bachelorette she was just going to show up with him regardless..."

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. In parent-child relationships, there should be nothing transactional about the dynamic. When one chooses to have a child, they’re choosing to selflessly sacrifice someone’s needs before their own, or at least that’s how it should be. This isn’t always the case, and many parents have children to fulfill something else entirely. Maybe they just figured everyone else was doing it, maybe they wanted to get a similar love and support back for their…

The dating world is a rough place. It’s not easy to be on the same terms as someone else, and you can be going along for a while until you realize you’re speaking different languages or have different expectations. To expect to be a priority in your partner’s life should be the bare minimum. It’s shocking how many relationships I know where one person isn’t getting their needs met, and the other acts as if they’re single. There’s no worse feeling than seeing your partner put someone else’s (non…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Everyone’s familiar with the indelible archetype of the peeping Tom. You think you’re alone, but you’re not…just when you’re intimately changing, showering, or laying in bed, little did you know that someone is watching you. It breaches the trust and privacy, and there’s never a good excuse for it. Guys, it’s 2024, you have the internet to see whatever you want to see. You don’t need to go around subjecting women you know to humiliate themselve…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Rent prices have become astronomical. When a studio in a Pacific coast beach town used to be $700/month, it’s closer to $2,000 now for the same apartment. People are making it work with roommates, and unique living situations, such as living in garages, sheds, or a gallery. Resentment can start to build when you see your roommates not only breaking even, but surpassing their rent costs while you’re struggling. It’s not easy out there, but despi…

It’s never easy to watch your parents get divorced. The legal disputes and separate houses can embitter a child with resentment that lasts their entire life. Divorce should be done with tact and empathy for the child’s needs. Split families can result in splitting relationships and growing favoritism, either by the child or the parent. How would you feel if your sibling was being taken on a luxurious vacation by your mother, but you weren't invited? In this Reddit thread, the original poster (O…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. For some people, food is their love language. Cooking with your partner is intimate and meaningful, you can open a bottle, rehash your days, and even start conversations about your innermost desires. Feeling like you’re taking care of your partner and nurturing them is a special way of expressing your love. What happens when your partner becomes critical of your culinary skills? It can be a hard pill to swallow if your love language is cooking…

Honesty and loyalty are the backbone of any good relationship. Without this critical foundation, it’s difficult to navigate through any tumultuous hardship if you can’t even trust your partner's words to be honest and sincere. Though one should always be transparent and trustworthy towards their partner, there’s a point where withholding certain information could be a protective mechanism. There’s absolutely necessary truths, and then there’s unnecessary truths. If your mother cheated on your f…

MIL didn't realize she wasn't the one getting married!

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Public school systems play a major role in the education of a child, not solely formal education about equations or English literature, but it also formulates for the child ideas about the world they live in, socially and culturally. Though a parent may try frivolously to instill certain values in their child, the child will always have such a strong part of their upbringing and influence come from their school days. Interacting with other chil…

Any healthy relationship should be predicated on trust , loyalty, and honesty. There’s no excuse for lying to your partner’s face, or hiding things behind their back. Although it may seem pedantic to have such stringent rules about betrayal, when you see the red flags that your partner could be hiding something from you or potentially cheating, there’s only one answer – run! In this Reddit thread, the original poster (OP) is a man who has noticed some strange behavior from his wife while she’s…

Having shared values with your significant other is one of the most important dynamics in a relationship. I always felt like it’s even concomitant to find someone who has overlapping values to you, because if they didn’t it would have been difficult to get further in the relationship. How a person feels about money, marriage, or children matters a lot. If you’re someone who isn’t so into contrived aesthetics, normal hygiene, or materialism, then you're probably going to attract another similar…

Lesson learned, you should never tell family or friends about a lottery win.

The slow burn we all needed.

Usually, when a woman finds out that her husband is being unfaithful to her, the first thing she will want to do is leave him and never look back. Unfortunately, for some women leaving is not that easy, especially not for stay-at-home mothers. Having no financial stability to fall back on when leaving your spouse can understandably make women question whether or not they should leave at all, which is exactly what happened to the woman who wrote this story. Luckily, this brave woman carefully an…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Baby names can be a touchy subject for some people. Some women attach themselves so tightly to a certain name that they feel they have essentially a legal claim on it. It can cause relationships to cloven. It’s a little selfish to assume someone else will adhere to your desires to own a baby name. The truth is that someone else out there will probably have the same name as your baby, and it’s something that every parent just has to get used to.…