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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…

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…

Lesson learned, you should never tell family or friends about a lottery win.

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…

I don't think insulting people is the most effective way to get people to do favors for you.

It’s so easy to comment about other people’s relationships or parenting when you’re not involved. Do you ever see a couple and tear them to shreds, criticizing their interactions and dynamics, knowing full well that you’re not one to brag about your own coupleship? And what about parenting? It’s so easy for mothers to denigrate other parents for their parenting, using pejorative language to demean their efforts or children’s success. But a lot of these derogatory statements and accusations real…

Sorry, the landlord said I can't have more than one roommate.

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Parenting is no walk in the park. One wrong comment, one slip of the tongue and a curse word comes out, next thing you know your kid is blabbing profanity during his daily ambulations to school. Albeit kids minds are incredibly impressionable, they’re also malleable, and you can out teach them learned behaviors. It’s important to teach your children moral and ethical lessons, or they could wind up doing something with more consequences than it’…

So uncalled for!

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Some people have strict protocols when it comes to lending money. Some might lend it frivolously, while others choose never to mix money and relationships . To be honest, I’m on the side of the latter; I think someone has to be in extremely dire need of money to feel justified in lending them money, unless it’s small amounts. In this Reddit thread, the original poster (OP) is a man who’s already lent his brother a large sum of money, expecting…

She did what had to be done.

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. These days it’s more common to uninvite someone to your wedding than it is to just invite them. The scandal that someone is omitted from the gathering will cause gossip for years to come, and let’s face it, what’s a wedding without a little drama? Everyone has their own reasons for doing so, and some are more valid than others. But when one goes around mocking your soon-to-be brother-in-law publicly, I’m not sure what they expect to happen. If…

This has to be a trick.

When it comes to free babysitting, no one should actually feel they're obligated contribute when it's not their kid. We're all aware of the notion that some people don't like kids at all, only their own, and some people don't even like their relatives kids! There's only a certain amount of empathy one can hold for others , and if personal boundaries are stepped over, then it's up to the person to redraw the line. In this reddit thread, it's about just that. The original poster (OP) is a woman w…

Ignorance is bliss, a common and quotable phrase that everyone can resonate with. There’s two types of people: one that needs to know everything they don’t want to hear, and the one who wants to be blind in blissful ignorance. Once you know something, you can’t unknow it. Once you know something, it could haunt you for years to come, and at the end of the day if you can’t do anything about it, it could very well be useless to have found out. The truth is a tricky, daunting, and fickle subject.…