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…

It's the blind leading the blind out here, ladies! (And we love it.)

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…

You should start tallying how many times you hear "mom!" in a day. Just for fun...

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.…

Thanksgiving is many Americans' favorite holiday. A plenteous and convivial gathering, uncles and aunts in full merriment, carouse and playful banter, while the little ones run around playing hide-and-seek before dinner. Being a host for such an extravagant holiday is no walk in the park. From cleaning the home, setting up the decorations and food, and greeting the guests, to preparing each and every dish, is a nightmare for some, and an exciting challenge for others. But what happens when your…

‘Money, it’s a crime. Share it fairly, but don’t take a slice of my pie,’ are lyrics from the illustrious psychedelic band, Pink Floyd, in their ever popular hit song, Money . Money makes the world go round, it can make someone wildly ecstatic, or the lack of it can leave someone in shambles. It’s like an ether of everything necessary and everything corrupt. It’s too easy to lose one’s way with green tinted glasses. Money in relationships gets even trickier; expectations about financial payouts…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Family should always be there for one another. Being able to rely on relatives, parents, and siblings is the beautiful thing about family, but of course there has to be a boundary drawn somewhere. If one feels like they're being used or manipulated, it's time to stand your ground and let the person know where they’re not allowed to step. In this Reddit thread, the original poster (OP) is a woman whose pregnant sister is demanding more from her…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. There are certain things that should come concomitantly with relationships. Trust and honesty are two crucial requirements for any healthy relationship, and without these foundations, a relationship is doomed to be in insecurity purgatory. Cheating, lying, and any other form of betrayal is likely to make someone walk away the instant they smell it. It begs the question, why do people keep doing it? Fear, doubt, and insecurity are a few reasons,…

Some would say blood is thicker than water, or ‘family is everything.’ Sometimes it’s the most unexpected people that come through for us in life, and not necessarily the ones we refer to as family . We’re all well aware of the evil stepmother archetype, the one who’s mean, bashful, and fixated on her stepchildren never becoming successful. Though this isn’t always true, there are enough anecdotes that keep the rumors going. In this Reddit thread, the original poster (OP) is a woman who’s finis…

Breakups are hard for everyone. No one walks away from them unscathed, especially the longer you date, if you live together, and if there are children involved. It’s a logistic nightmare, on top of the fact that it’s emotionally draining . But what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. And in life, we have to roll with all the punches that come our way, including breakups, no matter how difficult it is to sunder ties with another person’s life. This brings us to the Reddit thread. In this story, t…