Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. It’s not easy growing up in a blended household. Step-parents and step-siblings may feel like foreign bodies to a child forced to live under one roof with them, as if they were aliens, or weird roommates just living in your home. Even seeing your parent with another partner besides your bio parent can be damaging, but there’s not much one can do in situations like these. Therapy could help, but when you’re young it can be worthless, and sometim…

Respect goes both ways, sis

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. When lending someone something as significant and expensive as your car, one has to know the consequences. It seems like a simple gesture to lend a close friend or family member your car for the day. I mean, isn’t that what friends and family are for? It’s only a one time thing, that’s the worst that could happen? But some people get unlucky with that one time favor. I know that when I had a car, I would rather drive it in any other possible ci…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. There’s no rush in bridging bank accounts with the person you love. Trusting someone with not only your money, but their own, isn’t something you should do lightly. If you’re the type of person to save and spend frugally, then it’s better to wait to merge bank accounts until you say ‘I do.’ Mixing money and pleasure should only be done with you’re 100% certain of the person you’re with. To be honest, many couples are opting to still have separa…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Marriage is a long and arduous road. The trajectory to a happy and healthy marriage isn’t straight, it isn’t the most expected route either. It’s easy for things to be misinterpreted, or read between the lines, and sometimes it ends up tearing two people away from each other, instead of bringing them together. Love isn’t enough, and two people have to have communication, respect, and empathy to thrive. In this Reddit thread, the couple at hand…

Modern-day Pandora's Box.

Some people can barely plan a small dinner party, let alone a whole wedding!

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Weddings should be one of the most significant days of someone’s life. People say it goes by in a flash, that the bride and groom barely have enough time or attention to really stay present to absorb everything that happens during their special day. Although weddings have a beautiful veil on the surface, underneath can be some motives and manipulations that aren’t exactly derived from a place of love. We’ve all heard of the infamous ‘Bridezilla…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. You know what they say – you can’t choose your family. This saying doesn’t stay in the vacuum of your family, but it extends to your partner’s family too. Some people aren’t lucky in their partner’s family. No one has it all, and if you’re lucky enough to have a loving partner, then maybe you have to roll with the punches of their family dynamic. This brings us to the Reddit thread. In this story, the original poster (OP) is a woman whose husba…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. The workplace is our second home. It doesn’t matter if we work in an office, lab, restaurant, or somewhere else, we spend such a large percentage of our time there that it’s impossible for work dynamics not to affect us. I always say that your coworkers make or break the job, not the work itself. But let’s talk about the Reddit thread. In this thread, the original poster (OP) is a woman who works in a male-dominated field. As a woman who’s work…

Entitlement to the extreme.

Your mom shouldn't be your enemy.

The signs were there...

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Dating is a roll of the dice. You may find someone you can spend the rest of your life with, or you could find someone who ruins it. It’s painful to marry someone only for it to end in divorce, especially when there’s infidelity involved. If you do get married and end up divorcing, you are free to date anyone after that, and no one can tell you not to. This takes us to the Reddit thread. In this story, the original poster (OP) is a man who’s ha…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Family dynamics are never straightforward. You may be close with your parents one day, and enemies the next. Some parents are manipulative with money, some aren’t. Some may use finances to control their children, but it’s never a good idea. In my opinion, it sunders the idea of unconditional love. Love isn’t based on actions, so relationships that use money to praise or punish someone is just manipulative, and means the love is conditional. But…

"In my opinion, it's none of her business how I want to conduct my life."