From Bumping Heads To Best Friends!

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Family reunions can be heartwarming, fun, and exciting to meet with family members that you haven’t seen in a long time. To see your aunt and uncles again, and all your little cousins, it’s a great opportunity to meet with everyone, debrief about your lives, and catch up with them. There’s fun, there’s food , and you walk away feeling like you could wait another year before seeing your distant relatives again. Now, family reunions usually mean…

Some people think that just because they are forgetful, everyone else should forgive them for acting irresponsibly. Forgetting things, even if it is by accident, should not be a valid excuse, and there is a point in your adult life when you simply can't use it to explain your way out of commitments you failed to attend. It seems like the daughter in this Reddit story thought that her ignoring, or ‘forgetting’, her mother's wishes would simply be forgotten, but she could not have been more wrong…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. When you fall in love and get married, you adopt not only your partner into your life, but you also adopt his family. You become so intermingled that you may even refer to your in-laws as ‘mom and pop.’ The close familial bond can be beautiful, and you may find yourself with a whole new set of family members who have your back when times get tough. Your mother-in-law could be like your second mother – nurturing, loving, and a shoulder to cry on…

Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. We all know the illustrious, entitled, stereotype of the vegan who’s always on their pedestal of judgment for what everyone else’s diet looks like. We all have that vegan in our lives whose sole purpose seems to be shaming others for eating animals, and giving themselves a pat on the back for abstaining from this monstrous practice. Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, or a carnivore, mankind has been eating animal products since the beginning of…

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She didn't sign up to be the star of the show.

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. When merging two families together, it’s important to maintain tact, meaning that no child feels they’re unappreciated or unequal to the others. It means that each parent does their part as adults to make everyone feel included, and to form bonds with their new step-children. Not everyone has this sensitivity or perspective though. In this Reddit thread, the original poster (OP) is a frustrated father. He’s been married to his wife for years, a…

She put her ego over her sister's health.

It’s not a given that we will understand the decisions and motives of our friends and family. Have you ever watched a loved one make a series of appalling decisions, and just facepalm when it all blows up in their face? We all know someone with the worst taste in men and relationships, always trying to expose their red flags before they get hurt, but our suggestions go through one ear and out the other. Or what about our friend who can’t hold down a job, who’s always between one Ponzi scheme or…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. No one wants to be financially responsible for anyone but themselves. I think it’s fair to say that every family has the spendthrift; the person who lacks rationality and reason when it comes to swiping their credit card. The person who is somehow always poor, yet always going to expensive restaurants to eat, and unnecessarily spending money on little treats throughout the day. The money really does add up, and it shouldn’t be anyone’s responsi…

When it comes to money, inheritance, or owning property, families can become so split that it affects relationships eternally. Materialistic tendencies come out, and everyone wants to get their greedy hands on anything they possibly can. Greed is one of the ugliest sins in my opinion. It’s ensconced in pettiness and immaturity, and isolates the people who have these qualities. It lacks politeness and caring, and sometimes it’s the people who have the most that are the greediest. Aside from gree…

The pain of family favoritism is like a sting of a bee right into your heart, the wound solidifying over time in a way that will remain indelibly in your memories of childhood. To grow up with wistful envy towards a sibling or relative is far from healthy or normal, and ultimately it’s the parent’s job to make sure all the children are loved and respected equally. No one wants to feel like a second-class citizen in the company of the people who are supposed to make them feel the most loved and…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Have you ever been in a relationship where you are suddenly hit with the epiphany that your partner is an insane person? There are a lot of psychopaths out there, and sometimes they hide their true colors all too easily. Some people develop specific methods to hide their combativeness, their malice, or their inability to respect others, and it may take time to actually notice something’s wrong. But don’t be fooled by blinders to red flags , the…

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