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Stepdad "grounds" 30-year-old stepdaughter when she comes home after midnight during a weekend visit, mom urges her to play along to keep the peace: 'Why am I being treated like a rebellious teenager?'

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27-year-old gym rat seeks validation from female best friend after he proposes to his girlfriend at the gym, she sides with his fiancé's disappointment instead: 'I don't want to be proposed to when I'm sweaty and stinky'

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16-year-old forced to give up bedroom for 6-year-old nephew's visit but refuses to remove "scary" posters, internet helps him find a middle ground: 'I'm not ripping down a permanent poster for people I don't want in my room'

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16-year-old finds out she is barred from "big brother" uncle's child-free wedding, he and fiance stop attending family events to avoid backlash from decision: 'If they waited one more year, [I'd] be able to go'

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'Let this be a sign to delete Tinder already': 23 posts to embrace your single era in your 30s

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Bride-to-be “Katie” coordinates heist with mother to steal best friend’s wedding dress for her own engagement photoshoot, tries to play it off as having borrowed it: ‘[I] wanted to feel special too’

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58-year-old dad demands that daughter give back $15,000 “no strings attached” gift for a down payment, family split when she refuses: ‘If we give it back we lose the house and thousands in fees’

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Woman's fiancé sells her late father's Fender guitar behind her back while on a "minimalism kick," she calls off the wedding when he refuses to get it back: 'I told everyone that this guitar was off-limits'

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Dad skips daughter's rescheduled wedding to go on a motorcycle trip with his buddies after spending $22,500 on her first wedding, which she cancelled last-minute after a fight with her fiance: ‘I was stuck with the bill’

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Entitled dad eats through $250 worth of groceries in a week while staying at adult daughter's house, refuses to chip in despite earning triple her salary: 'Family doesn't charge family'

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Retired elderly woman, Marge, repeatedly tresspasses on neighbor's property to tend to the vegetable garden, reacts negatively when asked to stop: '[She's] weirdly territorial about [her] dirt patch'

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Entitled cousin demands that makeup artist do a full glam look on her for free despite constantly criticizing his work, she refuses to compromise with a 30% dicscount: 'Family should help each other'

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Woman offers to "treat" best friend on her 30th birthday, ends up feeding her a single pita, withholding her birthday cake, and making her share a room with her adopted kids: 'No candles, no singing, no warmth'

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'The answer should be collaboration, not compromise': Marriage Hacks We Wish We Knew Sooner from Wise Women in Long Term Relationships

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Only child kicks parents out of her house on dad's 61st birthday after he does her laundry without her permission, reaffirming their inability to see her as an adult: '[They] blatantly disrespect my boundaries'

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Adult daughter withholds spare key to first home from her mother after growing up in a household with zero privacy: 'She'd go through my room constantly, read my journals, and treated my privacy like an inconvenience'

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