“You're not ‘choosing plants over him,’ he's the one creating the ‘choice’—and in this case, the choice is whether he supports your healthy, reasonable hobby/coping tool or not.”

The birth of a child is an exciting event. It is a wonderful joy to welcome a new member of the family, and it ought to be celebrated. That being said, there are typically challenges and a range of emotions involved, just like with any momentous occasion. The story that follows describes an irritated husband. The original poster (OP) is expecting a baby with his wife. The couple decided that if the baby turned out to be a girl, the wife would name it, and if it turned out to be a boy, the husba…

Don't bite the hand that feeds.

Welcome back internet ladies and gentlemen. Relationships can seem as complicated as flying to the moon, or performing open heart surgery. But why is that? It’s just two people working things out together, and somehow it drives us to stressful and unhinged places we never thought we would be. Humans are such emotional creatures…aren’t we? Always swaying this way and that; never fully sure of our decisions and in a constant state of emotional purgatory. This particular Reddit thread follows a co…

Hey there, girls and guys of the internet. Relationships are all about communication and compromise. You’re not always going to agree on everything perfectly, but it’s about the conversation and mutual respect that forwards a couple to longevity. Believing you both have the agency to make the relationship work and fantastically takes effort from both sides, it takes patience and understanding. When your girlfriend says she wants a small proposal, you do it. Blatantly disregarding her wishes, he…

Time to tightly close the love jar

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Long-term love is all about compatibility

A little tenacity never went so far

Your family should always come first. Having said that, limits should always exist in families to ensure that no one disturbs the peace within. An irate SIL is described in the narrative below. The original poster (OP) and his spouse had been married for a considerable amount of time. A few years ago, the couple, hoping to someday sell the house and recoup their costs, made a large financial investment while the wife's parents were still living in her childhood home. But as fate would have it,…

A girlfriend who laughs at the same memes as you is MAJOR green flag energy.

Above all, your family should always be your top priority. Since none of us have any control over the others in our family, we must establish boundaries if we want to lead a calm and peaceful life. The original poster (OP) and her father had always been very close. But when her mother decided she wanted to build a relationship with her husband's long-lost father, despite her husband's strong objections, things took a bad turn. The once-happy family has split into two factions: the first group i…

He kept bringing her up over and over...

As women, we all know our expectations for events; for our birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, you name it. We have our expectations known, and we expect our devoted men to follow through on them. Well, it’s not always the case. Unfortunately, the opposite gender doesn’t have the same emotional intelligence as us, and therefore, they run dry when it comes to fulfilling expectations. How hard is it to understand that a woman wants a nice Mother’s Day? And even if she doesn’t get it, it’s the tho…

Welcome back internet enthusiasts. Mother’s Day has come and went, but with it still brings interesting stories of people’s interpersonal nitty gritty relationships. Take the countless stories of the deadbeat husband not getting his wife the basic gift she asked for, or the one who refused to massage her feet or do something romantic. This is a little different angle. For this Reddit thread, the original poster, (OP) finds that his wife’s ex has been sending her flowers every Mother’s Day since…

All pleasure and all misery have their roots in the pursuit of money. Money might buy you an opulent, luxurious life, yet, conversely, it can leave you alone and desolate. The account below tells the story of the irate brother-in-law. The original poster's (OP) brother recently became engaged. OP's family is less affluent than that of the brother's new fiancé. Therefore, even if the couple genuinely loves one another and wants to contribute to the future they are building together, the contribu…