Sometimes, even family deserves a reality check.

Perfect time for an Irish goodbye!

She knew the rules...

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Family reunions can be heartwarming, fun, and exciting to meet with family members that you haven’t seen in a long time. To see your aunt and uncles again, and all your little cousins, it’s a great opportunity to meet with everyone, debrief about your lives, and catch up with them. There’s fun, there’s food , and you walk away feeling like you could wait another year before seeing your distant relatives again. Now, family reunions usually mean…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Whilst in a relationship, some people express their love through giving gifts. We’re all familiar with the five different love languages, and gift giving is definitely among the ways of conveying one’s affection and appreciation. It feels so good to surprise someone with something small, but special. It’s a way o f saying ‘I’m thinking about you. ’ I remember in one of my relationships, I would always surprise my boyfriend with homemade cakes w…

"So she threw a rehearsal dinner bigger and fancier than our wedding at a wedding venue."

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 you fall in love and get married, you adopt not only your partner into your life, but you also adopt his family. You become so intermingled that you may even refer to your in-laws as ‘mom and pop.’ The close familial bond can be beautiful, and you may find yourself with a whole new set of family members who have your back when times get tough. Your mother-in-law could be like your second mother – nurturing, loving, and a shoulder to cry on…

If the bride and groom don't care, why should she?

"[She] completely took herself out of my life."

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Everyone loves a good wedding; food, drinks, dancing, and the celebration of love. When your friend or family member is getting married, it’s exciting to see them in their element, with their love, and sealing the knot that will tie them together forever. But if there’s animosity towards the groom, you can’t expect to enjoy yourself. When someone betrays you, it stays with you forever. It will always be something you remember when you see them,…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Divorce, as common as it is, is incredibly painful for all parties involved. They say that there’s no bigger source of unhappiness than a divorce. It isn’t just the splitting of romantic love, it’s the asunder of two lives that are so intermingled, so encapsulated in each other, that to tear these tethered souls it takes years of logistic, legal, and emotional work to get over it. From separating finances, bank accounts, and material items, to…

I love my sister and I love our relationship, which is why I am smarter than to allow money to get mixed up in that relationship and ruin it. If you also cherish your relationship with your sibling, I advise you to follow suit. Nothing good comes out of mixing family and money, even if your initial plan was to do something kind for each other. The sisters in this Reddit story didn't expect their relationship to end when they decided that one sister would move into the other's apartment, but tha…

Welcome, tea-spillers of the internet. Thanks to the influence of early 2000s rom-coms, Disney movies, and fairy tale books, most little girls dream of having a big, luxurious wedding when they grow up. They envision inviting hundreds of adoring people, wearing a big, poofy princess gown, and dancing in an impossibly large, baroque-style ballroom. Unfortunately, every little girl must eventually wake up to the reality that this sort of wedding would be totally over-budget, a nightmare to organi…

Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. We all know the illustrious, entitled, stereotype of the vegan who’s always on their pedestal of judgment for what everyone else’s diet looks like. We all have that vegan in our lives whose sole purpose seems to be shaming others for eating animals, and giving themselves a pat on the back for abstaining from this monstrous practice. Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, or a carnivore, mankind has been eating animal products since the beginning of…