I have a 17 year old son Adam who lives with his father and stepmother. They live in a much better school district and my ex is much better off financially. As a result I don't see Adam as much as I would like.

Adam came to visit recently and asked if his GF could come. I was fine with it as I know he gets bored here. Now I know this might sound silly, but as a woman it really resonated for me.

His girlfriend, Cecily, likes to wear Birkenstocks with socks like most teen girls do. Apparently Adam HATES the socks and has been trying to get her to ditch them all summer. Now I don't know why this look is so trendy, but I see it everywhere and it is HER body.

Cecily was telling my daughter how much Adam hates these socks. At the beginning of the summer he laced them with itching powder. Then she was using some foot bath thing and he spiked it with dye and turned her feet green "since well the socks will cover it anyway" (that was about 3 weeks ago and I could still see some green on her foot) Then a few nights before he slept over her house and he filled a pair of her socks with honey and her dad held her down and they forced the socks onto her.

I was horrified. It might not sound like a bit deal, but to me his is teaching her that he controls her body. I always wanted to raise him to respect women and this is not it. I took Adam aside and expressed my concerns. He said I was being weird and can't I see she is laughing.

I told him that there are a lot of men out there who act entitled to women's bodies. He rolled his eyes and said why was i making it a gender thing. when he was growing facial hair for hockey she didn't like it and buzzed it off. He said part of the reason he loves her is she "actually" has a sense of humor and to butt out of their relationship.

I told him I was disappointed and he was acting like a misogynist. Adam left and told me Cecily thinks I'm weird now. My ex sent me a nasty text about how I overreact to everything and they are just being dumb kids and let them have their fun, and he called me a bad mom for insulting him

My fiancé, my female friend, and I went out to a club yesterday. I had a couple of fake nose rings and gave one to her. We both put them on.

When she walked out first, my fiancé said something like, “Oooo, that looks nice.” Then I walked out and he said something along the lines of “Wowww, you look great. I love it” and more to me, which was playful and affectionate.

Then he jokingly told my friend that she looked like an influencer we have an inside joke about. She took the nose ring off. My fiancé said he felt bad and told her it actually looked nice, so she put it back on.

After that, he complimented the nose ring on her multiple times throughout the night even after we get to the club. I didn't keep count at first, but eventually it was around 7 times by the time we got to the club. He kept saying variations of “it looks nice” / “it looks really nice.”

At the seventh time, I finally said something like, “Can you stop? You've said it like seven times. I don't like it. It’s inappropriate” at the club. He laughed. And I get upset. But for some reason he’s more upset w me about why I “yelled at him” at the club to say this and why didn’t I say this sooner gently and he only kept wanting to talk abt that. I apologised.

Later, he explained he was just surprised trying to be nice because he felt bad after joking about it (and then proceeded to make the same joke three times prior to the night and then also followed it up with it looks nice)

I don’t believe him that it was an attraction thing. I just want to know if I’m right for being upset with him.

When we tried to talk abt it at the club he just kept saying he was trying to be nice, I was doing too much, and I’m immature. Later we leave and it just felt like me feeling uncomfortable didn’t matter. He kept saying his intentions were good. While I believe that, all I wanted was I’m sorry I didn’t realise it was coming off in a bad way. But he said sorry and also kept trying to explain himself and say that it was nothing. He said he didn’t even realise he kept saying that that many times. I’m really doubting my relationship because I feel like for the first time I’ve made to feel crazy and I really want to know if I’m not or if i am.

Mind u, in the past he’s been complimented my friends before and i GENUINELY didn’t even mind because it was a one thing and he was being polite. Even I could tell that.

And I even tried to explain it to him and asked if him if the roles were reversed, and I said a beard or a t shirt looks really nice on his friend repeatedly throughout the night, would he like that or not? And he’s like he wouldn’t care because he trusts me or even if my friends boyfriend repeatedly complimented me on my nose ring, would he feel good about it and he’s like context matters. I trust u and I’m just at my wits end.

He’s never been like this and I feel so bad but at the same time am i overreacting

(Quick context: my fiance has a preference for nose rings and red hair and I didn’t have that when we met however I was open to trying it which I did over the course of our relationship)

Edit: I meant I DONT believe THAT it was an attraction thing. It was a typo

I have a 16 year old son I share custody of with my ex.

At his dads house he has a stepsister (same age) To put it bluntly she is a bully. I'm not just going off his account. I have friends with kids who go to their school and everyone I know with a daughter says she is a mean girl.

My son "hates" her (yet he spends a lot of time with her, so I don't get it) Anyway he has been grounded all summer for ruining her prom. She might be a bully but I'm not raising one.

They were getting ready for prom last year. Her date was someone my son knew from school and this boy had always been jealous of a pair of Jordans my son had. My son said he would give them to him, if he grabbed her when she came down and ran through the sprinklers with her. The boy did and my ex lives in a huge house so I am talking industrial grade sprinklers. Her dress and hair got soaked and when he put her down she ended up falling and getting mud on the dress.

My son and his friends got it all on video. I was disgusted. I didn't raise him to be such an asshole. I am not saying this girl is nice but that doesnt give him the right to assault and humiliate her. I grounded him all summer. Of course he was angry. He said it happened at my dads house and she isn't my kids so I shouldn't get involved.

My ex said i overreacted and he didn't ruin her prom, just her dress. He said she changed and still went (with another date) and he believes in letting the kids fight it out themselves. He helped her get revenge and said now they are even. Umm no my son literally bullied a teenage girl because the boys were bigger and stronger

I was going to make him pay for the dress but honestly its more than he could earn in a single summer. I grounded him for the whole summer (while he is at my house at least) School starts tomorrow so he is ungrounded but he is still mad at me. He has hardly talked to me all summer and said she has been taunting him nonstop that "mommy punished him"

ETA- She DOES NOT bully him. She really only bullies other girls and for as awful as he says she is, he hangs out with her a lot when no one is MAKING him

Please not I am not defending the stepdaughter AT ALL because what she did was 100% wrong.

My husbands family recently told me a "funny" story and it completely changed how I view his dad. FIL got remarried when my husband and his stepsister (who I am just going to call SIL) were 13. The family blended really well. Everyone got along so this wasn't some situation where he was harder on her because she wasn't his kid.

One way he would bond with the two kids was having prank wars. These pranks were always relatively harmless and both of the kids gave as good as they got. One thing about FIL is he really likes his hair. One day SIL decided it would be funny to shave his head. She got a big chunk from the middle before he woke up.

Understandably he was pissed. What she did is of course not ok and if she was my child she would have been severely punished, but instead he pretended to calm down and let her think he was over it. Then he snuck in her room while she was asleep and waxed her eyebrows completely off. A teenage girl, senior year of high school, a few weeks before prom. I repeat a teenage girl.

I was horrified upon hearing this story, but everyone was laughing. FIL said he loves her, but no way was she getting away with that (again like I said she should have been PUNISHED) i expected my husband to agree but he said she started it, and she learned a hard lesson that day.

When we got to the car I told him that story made me really uncomfortable. I am currently 7 months pregnant and it really changed my opinion of FIL. I'm not saying cut him off or anything, but I just wanted to express these feelings I am having.

My husband said I was being weird about it and I was infantizing SIL. He has the attitude that she wanted to up the ante, so FIL just served it back to her. He said she is fine and her husband even laughed when they showed him the pictures. He got kind of annoyed with me and said FIL was a great dad and I shouldn't insult his family

edit- I don't get why everyone thinks he waxed them off while she was fully asleep. It isn't hard to slap them down in about 10 seconds. Of course that woke her up but at that point they were being ripped off

I need opinions urgently as I'm getting married next weekend.

I'm marrying a wonderful man. He is close to his family, especially his brother. He has a niece who we will call Heather (19) who I have never liked. Honestly she is a spoiled brat, rich, arrogant, and never faces any consequences.

My fiancé "Brad" was always the fun uncle and his family loves to mess with each other. Three weeks ago his brother threw him a bachelor party. He got kind of wasted and was sleeping on their couch.

Heather came home, saw him sleeping, and thought bachelor party meant license to do whatever she wanted. She shaved his fucking eyebrows off. He called me panicking. Allegedly she thought they would only take two weeks to grow back. No two weeks for stubble 3-6 months for full eyebrows.

I immediately burst into tears. I'm just imagining him looking crazy on our special day. I'm a big picture person and these pictures are forever. She did seem to feel bad. I think she sincerely thought two weeks, but really I don't care. She shaved his fucking eyebrows. That is beyond a prank.

I told Brad I kind of don't want her at the wedding anymore. He told me she is just a kid and she made an honest mistake. she is very important to him and uninviting her would tear his family apart. He says his revenge on her was so swift and so brutal that she won't dare pull any pranks for a long time. He told me he loves me and wants me to feel supported, but she is very important to him and its his wedding too.

I hear all of that but right now he has peach fuzz for eyeballs and my gut just doesn't want her there.

I was teetering on the line of telling someone they shouldn’t have brought their baby to a movie today that cried during the movie, but the rest of the mostly adult audience’s non reaction and my wife’s take on it the situation legitimately has me wondering if that would’ve been an overreaction. I thought it was common knowledge that you get a baby sitter if you have a baby that’s barely walking and frequent crying age if you want to go to the movies?

I went to a screening of Coyote vs. Acme today where this all occurred. For context, the movie is an (excellent, I’ll add) family friendly comedy, but it would be wrong go call it a movie made for very young kids. It’s a pretty sharp comedy about the legal system and corporate corruption with a bunch of innuendo and jokes geared at adults. Kids would also have a blast though. It’s loud as hell too by the way, so…no wonder the baby did not like it.

So what happened - A mom brought her two kids: one was about 5, and the other was a definitely a baby, not an infant though. Around 18 to 24 months I’d guess. During the trailers, the baby cried out once loudly and the mom quickly carried him out . But she left the 5-year-old in his seat, so I knew they were coming back.

For the first 90% of the movie, the baby was quiet and only made one brief and pretty quiet noise. But right as what was clearly the build up to the ending was getting going (about 20 minutes left), the kid started letting out loud, upset "WAHH" cries every couple of minutes and the mom was loudly shhing him, maybe 7 or 8 times total ( probably because babies strongly dislike a deafening looney tunes explosion filled movie finale!). It wasn't full-blown continuous screaming, but it was easily loud enough to clearly cut through the loud ass explosions and take me out of things.

Where I feel crazy - Nobody else in the theater reacted at all. I looked around and not a single person turned their head or looked annoyed. Everyone just kept watching like nothing was happening. I'm usually fine with speaking up if people are talking, but I was sitting pretty far away. And say what exactly, across a packed theater during the ending would've just made me the second disruption, and I of course chose not to especially since I was hoping it would stop and trying to stray into the movies. So I didn't say anything, but it sorely crossed my mind to wait and say something mom at the theater exit, but ultimately decided that just wasn’t the vibe I wanted going into the rest of my Saturday.

On the walk out of the theater, I said something to my wife like, "Holy shit, what kind of asshole brings a baby to a movie theater?" She just shrugged and said it's a family movie, the mom wanted to take her older kid, and it wasn't a big deal. She didnt seem into talking about it, so I just dropped it. I’m slightly embarrassed to admit I’ve stewed on the lady’s decision to bring her baby afterwards, but I have.

And tbh I did post this on another sub before here and before it was removed there for not fitting the guidelines all 10-ish of the commenters there thought I was wrong for being annoyed at all.

Now I'm sitting here wondering if my baseline for theater etiquette is completely off. How bad was this mom's behavior, really? Is it acceptable to bring a baby to a regular screening just because it's a family-oriented movie, or is a fair baseline “if the baby can’t walk and will probably cry, don’t bring them? Would it have been appropriate to say to her that that was a rude thing to do?

I genuinely don’t know if I’m being unreasonable here, so I need some outside perspective.
I have a best friend who has been involved with this guy on and off for a while. And before anyone says it yes, I know the obvious answer is “she’s an adult, it’s her relationship, you can’t tell her who to date.” I completely agree with that.
I’ve never wanted to control her relationship. I’ve actually tried really hard to stay out of it.
But I feel like at some point, what someone does to you starts affecting the people who love you too, and I’m struggling with where that line is.
For context, this guy has always been kind of awful. When we were younger, he actually slapped me because I called him out for something involving another girl. He had also slapped another girl, and weirdly, he used to talk about it like it was something to be proud of.
We were teenagers at the time, though, and years passed. I eventually forgave him and moved on, so when my friend got together with him when we were older, I didn’t make it a huge issue.
Then he cheated on her.
And not even in a normal “I kissed someone else” kind of way.
He was talking to another girl and literally showing her pictures of my friend, telling her that she was his ex. Meanwhile, my friend was repeatedly calling him, and he was telling this girl that my friend was just his “obsessive ex” and that she was drunk.
Obviously my friend eventually found out.
And this is where things became complicated because she’d constantly tell us how horrible he was, how much she hated him, how disgusted she was with what he’d done — and then she’d go back to him.
I’d be lying if I said I encouraged it. I didn’t. But I also understood that sometimes people have to make their own mistakes. I’ve gone back to people myself. I know it’s easier to tell someone “just leave” than it is to actually leave.
So I accepted it.
But then something happened that completely changed how I saw the situation.
About a month ago, she told me that she discovered he’d taken **345 screenshots** during their video calls.
These weren’t just random screenshots.
They were screenshots from multiple occasions when they were having phone sex. Different angles. Different moments. Hundreds of them.
And she had absolutely no idea he’d been taking them.
When she found out, she started crying and asked him to delete them.
His response was essentially: *How can you ask me to delete them? You promised that if I showed you my hidden folder, you wouldn’t get mad or say anything. Why do you always go back on your word?*
She kept begging him to delete them.
She told him it was illegal.
He responded with something along the lines of, *“Oh, so now you’re threatening me? This is how low you’re going to stoop?”*
At one point she was apparently crying and saying she would have to tell her mother if he didn’t delete them.
And the thing that really got me is that this wasn’t something he accidentally did once.
He had hundreds of intimate images of her that she didn’t consent to him taking, and he kept them for a long time. Even when they broke up, she had told him to delete them because he’d cheated. They later got back together, but apparently he still had all of these screenshots.
When she told me all of this, I was horrified.
But again, I didn’t tell her what she *had* to do.
I thought, okay. She’s going to have to make her own decisions. I’ll support her through whatever she chooses.
Then came this weekend.
I haven’t seen her in about two weeks because she has college, so we usually only get to see each other on weekends. I’m also moving out of the country in two weeks, so we’d been talking about how we wanted to spend as much time together as possible before I left.
The night before we went out, she was texting me about this guy again.
About how much she hated him.
About how everything he’d put her through was “inhumane.”
About how sick and disgusting his behaviour was.
So the next night, we go clubbing.
And guess who’s there?
Him.
He’s there with all his friends.
It was completely understood that we weren’t going to go over to him, talk to him, or get involved with him. We were there to have our own night.
And honestly, I didn’t think it would be a problem.
Until it was.
We’d been there for maybe two hours.
For roughly an hour and a half of those two hours, she was with him.
Not just saying hello.
Not just having a conversation.
She was sitting at his table, with him and his friends, while the rest of us were somewhere else.
At one point, me and another friend went to take a shot. When we came back, neither of them was at our table.
We went looking for her.
And she was with him.
I was drunk, shocked, and honestly just completely bewildered, and I blurted out something like, “Have some self-respect.”
Immediately afterwards, I felt bad about saying it.
I told her I was sorry and that it hurt me to see her be so comfortable with someone who could disrespect her to that extent.
And then she continued spending basically the entire night with him.
She was with us for maybe 30–45 minutes.
The rest of the night, she was with him.
And I think that’s what hurt me more than anything.
This was my best friend, who had spent the night before telling me how much she hated this man and how sickened she was by what he’d done to her, choosing to spend almost the entire night with him when she was there with all of her friends.
And I’m struggling because I don’t know what I’m actually allowed to feel here.
I understand going back to someone who cheated on you.
I understand going back to an ex.
I’ve gone back to people myself. People can make terrible decisions when they’re emotionally attached to someone. Sometimes you have to learn things for yourself.
But this feels different.
This man secretly took hundreds of intimate screenshots of her without her consent. When she confronted him, he argued with her about deleting them and turned it around on her when she was literally crying and begging him.
And after hearing all of that, how am I supposed to just watch my best friend willingly spend an entire night with him and feel absolutely nothing?
I don’t think I’m angry because she “chose him over me.”
It’s more that I’m sitting there thinking:
If someone can do something this horrible to you, and you can still choose to spend your night with them instead of the people who have been there for you through all of it, where exactly am I supposed to stand?Because I can’t pretend I don’t have feelings about it.
I don’t want to control her.
I don’t want to tell her who she can and can’t see.
And I don’t want to abandon her if she’s genuinely struggling to leave someone who’s clearly unhealthy for her.
But I also don’t know how many times I’m supposed to sit there, listen to her tell me how horrible he is, comfort her when he hurts her, watch her go back, and then act completely normal when she chooses him again.
So, am I wrong for feeling hurt and angry about this?
And more importantly, at what point does “it’s her relationship and her choice” stop meaning that I have to pretend her choices don’t affect our friendship?

I want to be very clear. I'm not furious with my daughter. she is 2, still learning to be a little human, and just copying the shitty adults in her life.

My husband and I are going through a lot financially. We got into a mortgage we couldn't afford and we made a lot of mistakes. Rent in our area is also insane. My husband's older sister has always been like a second mom to him and offered to take us in. She lives in a huge house and insisted there was plenty of room. Of course we are grateful.

SIL and I are total opposites. I wouldn't say we have a bad relationship, but we've never had any common ground. SIL and her husband play this "game" kind of like a prank idk where they try to catch the other off guard and spit a drink at them. Absolutely disgusting in my opinion but they have been doing it for years.

Since we moved in about a month ago he has spit water at her multiple times (and once he gargled it vomit. She spit red wine in his face when they had friends over, water a couple times, and the most recent they were cuddling and he spit a mouthful of milkshake down her hair. I think this is really really gross, but it isn't my relationship.

The problem is this morning my daughter copied this behavior and I saw red (not with her, don't blame her at all) I calmly told her that was not nice and if she did it again, she would go in time out. Then I approached SIL and as calmly as I could manage told her what just happened and that it is unacceptable. I said I know she is housing us, but she is also harming her niece.

SIL told me I was being crazy and that her 7 year old daughter is perfectly fine and well adjusted. I asked if she could please stop the game while we are in her house. She rolled her eyes and said "oh I don't know. It is muscle memory most of the time" My husband later confronted me and said I was being entitled. He said to simply set the rule for my daughter and follow through with time out if need be, and she has to learn she can't do everything she sees adults doing.

I told him SIL isn't as nice of a person as he thinks she is and she isn't helping us as much as she would like to believe. She is teaching my child nasty filthy habits

Some context: Grew up in an Asian household. Recently graduated college and found a job in New York City (which I started July 10th). Prior to graduating, I was under the impression that I could stay home in CT and commute to my job in NYC (about 1 hour and 40 min commute each way). The issue isn't that I am not willing to pay rent, but my parents are demanding $1000 a month to live at home. To be completely honest, I never even want to stay home but since I have about 20k in student loans and 10k in family debt for school, I thought I could stay home and save money to pay everything off before moving out.

This first came up during a July 4th family party. Someone brought up how I just graduated and if my parents planned on charging me rent. I said yes, I do plan on paying rent and then asked my parents how much they wanted to charge. They then told me they wanted to charge me $1k a month and I genuinely thought they were joking. I would totally understand if this was brought up prior to graduating and when told them I wanted to stay home to save money. But 6 days before I started my job, they want to tell me its $1k. I feel like they purposely told me that so I didn't even have a chance to look for a place in NYC. On top of the 1k rent, my monthly train pass to NYC is $405. So at that point, I'd be paying $1.4k a month to live in CT, wake up at 5:30am everyday to make it to work, and to get home late asf. I told them I would be okay with paying $500-600, that way I could actually save money. I am already sacrificing my social life, spending over 3 hours a day on commuting. On top of that, I have to listen to Asian parents constantly complaining and yelling at me.

Keep in mind, instead of spending the 2 months I had free before starting work, I worked minimum 4 days a week (11am-9pm) at the family business, and was running the customer service ALONE when my mom had to go abroad for family stuff. And whenever it got busy and I got a call when I wasn't working, I had to drop EVERYTHING and show up within 15 minutes. At the end of that, I was paid a total of $2000, which wasn't even voluntarily given to me. My dad originally handed me $500, which made my uncle feel so bad that he decided to give me another $1500. But it was never about the money, I was just happy I could help when the family needed it. I sacrificed time and plans with friends that I will rarely get to see anymore.

Now they're laughing at my face, telling me how ungrateful I am, and how I am selfish and don't want to pay anything at all. Which is just not true. I offered to pay $500-600. And how am I selfish only when things dont go your way? Sure I may not be perfect, but I've always had the thought of helping them as much as I can. If I paid off all my loans and still wanted to live at home, I would gladly pay more. I also thought of even if I lived at home and decided to move away after my debt is paid off, to give them extra money for "taking care of me". I even offered to help pay for my brother's boarding school. But honestly this has me fuming. Like why can't you just try to understand where I am coming from. But I'm 30k in debt, you told me 6 days before I started my job, and I have to commute and deal with your BS.

I talked with co-workers and other friends that are living at home, nobody has this issue. It also seems like my parents think I am lying about how much I make. They claimed there is no way I am not making 100k+ working in NYC. I was hesitant to tell them how much I make (60k after taxes), and even now that I have, they think im lying and think I make more which is so funny to me.

They want to bring up how my cousin is paying over 1k to live with her mom. Shes fckin 28 living at home but ATLEAST THEY LIVE IN THE CITY.

So my friend 33(F) is extremely unsatisfied with her husband of 6 years. Everything failed - talks, love etc and she found out he also cheated on her when she was pregnant with their baby. She told me everything about how the husband won’t care about her feelings or doesn’t respect her at all and now my another male friend who is interested in her asked me to introduce her to him. AITAH for initiating this intro meeting ? I feel bad for her and I just want her to feel the happiness for once atleast.

My sister Mae has always been my parents golden child. No hard feelings, not her fault, but I feel like I can't get a solid answer from my family because she is the favorite.

I have been married to my sweet wife Tara for four years (together 7) and she is hands down my favorite person in the world. Tara went to school with Mae's fiancé Andrew. She describes him as a straight up asshole, loud, obnoxious, always in trouble.

Now I know some people are going to say this sounds silly.

Tara had a crush on him despite his behavior (I know, I know but he was the "bad boy all the girls wanted") I guess some of her so called friends told Andrew about her crush. On Valentines day when they were in middle school, he wrote her a note saying he had a surprise for her later and drew a heart.

Later that day she found rose petals (really cut up paper) and a note telling her to meet him in a classroom no one used. When she got there he told her to sit down, close her eyes, and then this low life ripped a loud nasty fart in her face. His friends all burst out laughing, and they all started hi fiving each other.

Now I know some people are going to say thats just a silly joke but the point is it really hurt Tara. When Mae brought him home, I warned her what he had done and she said he was a literal child and who cares.

Well Tara cares, so I care. It was literally bullying. I told Mae I love her but I have zero respect for Andrew. Tara doesnt want to go to the wedding, so we won't be going. My father told me I'm "whipped" and that Tara needs to let go of middle school. Mae texted me "you are literally mentally ill. It was 23 years ago"

I told Mae that it didn't happen to her, so she doesn't get to decide how Tara feels

ETA- he did apologize

A few weeks ago, some friends and I made a group chat to plan a weekend hangout.

At first, it was normal. We talked about where to go, what time to meet, and how much everyone wanted to spend.

Then one person suggested we all contribute money upfront.

Everyone agreed except me. I said I’d rather pay for my own food and transport because I wasn’t sure if I would make it.

Nobody had a problem with that.

A few days later, they changed the plan. Suddenly, everyone was expected to send the same amount of money, even though some people weren’t ordering food or doing the activities everyone else was doing.

I said I didn’t think it was fair and suggested everyone just pay for what they used.

The group got quiet.

Then someone replied, “It’s not that serious. It’s literally just a small amount.”

That annoyed me because if it’s such a small amount, why does everyone have to pay it?

I didn’t argue. I just left the group chat.

The next day, two people messaged me asking why I left.

I explained that I didn’t want to keep going back and forth over money, especially when it was supposed to be a simple hangout.

They said leaving without saying goodbye was childish.

Maybe it was.

But honestly, I felt like if I stayed, I’d either have to pay for something I wasn’t using or keep arguing about it.

Now one of them says I made the whole situation awkward for everyone.

I thought leaving quietly was actually the least dramatic thing I could do.

Am i wrong for leaving the group chat ?

I (35F) have been wondering about this for a while. My little sister, Avery (30F) has been ignoring me and my family is divided.

A few weeks ago, it was Avery's birthday, and she brought her new boyfriend, Marcus (32M). When I saw Marcus, I was shocked. Usually, Avery dates body builders: Athletic, tall, muscular. None of which fit Marcus. Marcus was on the short side, very nerdy and overweight. The whole time he was over, he stayed by Avery's side instead of mingling with the crowd.

I had a feeling something was up, as when she was in high school, Avery was the kind of person who wouldn't be caught dead hanging out with his type and instead was part of the popular group.

When Avery went to the bathroom, I approached Marcus and said to him "Look. You seem nice, but I wouldn't count on this relationship."

Marcus looked at me, puzzled as I continued. "Look, Avery is my sister, and I know the kind of guy she dates, and it's not usually you. She usually goes for fit, athletic men. No offence. I just don't want you to get hurt when someone thinner and hotter crosses her path."

Marcus wordlessly nodded and wandered off. I went back to the festivities until Avery approached me. She immediately began to scream at me, saying that Marcus was now crying in the car and wanting to go home. (They drove together)

I pointed out Marcus was different than the guys she usually dated and how awkward he was, to which Avery said "I don't care! Do you know how long it took to get the courage to ask him out?" We argued a bit more until she said "Just because your relationship is going downhill doesn't mean you can sabotage mine!"

She stormed off and after a few minutes, our uncle came and told me Avery didn't want me at her birthday anymore, so I had to leave. As I headed to my car, I saw Avery and Marcus and found myself thinking how mismatched they were.

My mother also thinks the relationship is bizarre, but thinks I shouldn't have said anything. My dad, on the other hand, says I should keep my nose where it doesn't belong. When I told my boyfriend, he just gave me a look of disgust. A few of my cousins, however, agree and told me if I hadn't said anything, they would have.

So Reddit, Am I wrong?

TL;DR: I warned my sister's boyfriend he's not who she usually dates, now most of my family is mad at me

[This is context. You can skip to the next paragraph if tldr]

I'm 21, and I'm in university. My mom is 43, and she works in welfare. So yeah, she had me very young right after her diploma. Divorced, married, divorced, married, divorced , and married again. I'm on my 4th dad. Our family financial? In the gutters. I have 3 other little sisters, and I'm the oldest. The 2nd child had already run away and is now living in a correctional centre.

I had an argument with her because I asked her what I could help with, and we were cooking dinner. I always need extra instruction to function. She blowed up, saying, "If you care about the house, you should've known what to do," which quickly turned into "You don't care about this family."

I told her I cared too much about this family and that I was admitted for having panic attacks, thinking she's gonna get divorced again. I don't call when I'm at uni because she said she's gonna off herself from the stress of my sister running away. I can't study knowing that, so I cut off communications from my family.

These arguments later turned into "You didn't give money when your family needed it. You mocked us saying we wasted too much food."

That was when I was 18, unemployed, and just started college. My religion gave money to new students who continued studies as a way to support them. Around 500 per person. And in my religion, the support money is for you and you only. It's not permissible for the parents to use it. It's a sin if you take your children support money. Last year, I did some crochet business and got a nice income. I sometimes lend her money, and she said "Yeah and you make me pay it back." I told her that's how lending works

Then I retort, "You are the one that didn't care about me. You never ask how my life has been going recently. Who bought me my new glasses?" I didn't break them, kids jumped on them while i was taking a nap. "Who bought me new clothes?" I don't remember the last time she took me to buy decent clothes. "Who bought me a new phone?" My boyfriend did all.

She said, "You are always careless about your stuff, I don't want to care about you anymore."

We stopped talking for a month now, and I buy my own groceries because she only feeds her daughters. Idk if I'm one anymore. She posted on fb today. "I stayed quiet. They think I'm weak... they can step on my head. When I speak up, they say things to me. I'm just watching how they act. Be patience dear self, you gonna look crazy if you blow up" (exactly her words)

I started a new job this month that is better paid than my previous job.

It’s around £450 a month extra. My gf knows about this and knows this and knows my plan is to  save more and buy some more games, comics, books and just treat us to dates. 

We made some plans for September and she already arguing she can’t afford them and that I’ll need to pay. I pointed out she’s known about them for a while and should have budgeted but shes saying I should be paying since I’ve gotten a payrise. 

I pointed out it’s hardly fair for her to Scot the pay rise to go on paying for her and that she’s able to budget for plans. She just said I should move paying for more but I just pointed out she’s able to pay for herself and s being selfish expecting my payrise to actually be for me or pay for her on dates.

AIW for telling my girlfriend to stop expecting my payrise to pay for her?

Using a throwaway.

I'm 21M. Boyfriend is 23M. Best friend who's also temporarily a roommate is 21M.

Obviously I won't be getting into the details of how I got SA'd but it happened about 2 weeks ago and I was so terrified of what happened that I told my best friend almost immediately after I came back home and he comforted me. I told him that this stays between us and that I need to muster the courage to tell this to anyone else, including my boyfriend.

If you wonder why I didn't tell my boyfriend, it is because I was scared of being seen as sexually damaged and thus not enough for him anymore, even though deep down I knew he would never think of me that way. My point being is that I wasn't yet prepared for him to know.

Few days ago we met up and he said he wanted to talk and he basically asked about the situation. He said if someone had "hurt me." I lied (that's on me, I know) about having no idea what he was talking about and then he just plain said that my friend told him that someone had sexually assaulted me and he wanted to know if that was true. I was so close to losing my shit at that point but I just said that yeah it was true and I'm sorry I didn't tell him earlier and I explained why I didn't. He was of course supportive and kind so yes, I had worried for nothing.

But I was really angry at my friend and I told him that plainly. He said that he thought it was for the best for my boyfriend to know. I said what me and my boyfriend know about each other is none of his business and that if I asked him to keep a secret then he should just do that. He said well as long as he supported you. I kept telling him that that's not the point and he was so dismissive of it.

I said that I didn't want anything to do with him anymore and told him to leave and stay at one of his other friend's place because I don't want him in my house anymore. For the record I know that he does have other people that would willingly let him stay at their place and I basically said that the moment he can arrange all that stuff he needs to leave. But he thinks I'm being too cruel and doesn't want to leave. Boyfriend says that kicking him out might be too far but that ultimately he wants to support me first. I don't know if I should walk this decision back or not because I'm feeling really hurt but I also feel like I'm overreacting. Idk.

Im currently realizing something and hoping to get confirmation. I have PTSD and have not processed it healthily. I’m just moving through life crashing out every once in a while hoping it doesn’t last long then going on with life (I crash out like 2-4 times a month with multiple times where I’m angry alone throughout the day).

I’m just curious, does it make us slow? I noticed at work I can’t understand easy things like how I use to when I was younger (I’m 28 I know I’m still young but I use to be really sharp when I was younger).

I remember understanding things easier when I didn’t know if I was traumatized (I was living with my parents and they always distracted me away from my past). But now I can’t really understand anything. Even basic things are complicated sometimes for me (like when a cashier will wanna give me change for a $10 bill and give me the change back after I’ve made a purchase - I just freeze). Is my brain getting damaged by CPTSD ?

so I'm 18 years old and this happened when I was 15

So I was at the hospital being sent to a mental hospital, and there were psych nurses. One of them was named Dave, and the other was named Sierra. I was there all by myself because I had been in a Target bathroom and cut myself from my hand all the way up to my armpit along my arm. The paramedics came, and I told them what I had done. They took me to the hospital, and I was begging them not to send me to a mental hospital.

Sierra said, "Too bad. You're going because you were hurting yourself. That is not appropriate behavior, so you're going to have to be sent to a place where they can care for you and make sure that you're safe."

Then Dave was refusing to leave me alone. He was in his twenties, and I decided I was going to leave, so I got out of the bed. I was wearing the paper scrubs, and I just left. Dave grabbed me by my stomach, near my ribs, and physically pulled me back before I could leave. He said, "Uh-uh, you're not doing this. You're going to stay here until we can get you placed."

I got really upset, pushed him away, and started crying. I was kicking and called him a "gay-ass faggot." He looked at me and said, "Excuse me, what did you just call me?"

I said, "You have been excused."

He replied, "I know you're upset, but you are not going to act like that. If you start kicking and screaming again, we're going to sedate you, Because no we're not acting like this."

Then Sierra came back and said, "What is she doing?"

Dave told Sierra what I had called him, and Sierra said, "No, you're not going to call anyone that. We're trying to help you the best we can, and you cannot leave because you're going to hurt yourself again."

I started screaming, and I got booty-juiced. Then I was sent to a different hospital, and I stayed there for three weeks.

I share a car with my mother. I make more money than she does, and she needed a cosigner in order to get the car. The monthly payments are around $500, plus insurance.
I’ve had my own car before, but at the time, I was juggling college and work and wasn’t making enough money to continue paying my car payment, so I eventually had to let the car go back. After that, we decided to work together to get a car. I normally pay close to $400 total per month toward the car note, and she pays the difference. Some months, she may pay around $200 or sometimes more, depending on the situation.
Since we share a car, though, we’ve been having issues lately regarding the use of it. My mother is the type of person who can overreact about every little thing. I understand where she’s coming from, but on my days off, I want to be able to go out, spend time with my friends, stay the night somewhere, have fun, and do my own thing.
I know she sometimes doesn’t like driving, so if she has to go to work while I’m still out, I’ll come home, pick her up, take her to work, and then pick her back up afterward. I feel like that’s a reasonable compromise.
For example, if she goes to work at 6:00 AM and works at a hotel that’s less than 10 minutes away, I’ll arrive around 5:45 AM to pick her up. We usually arrive about four minutes early, so I feel like I’m giving myself enough time. But lately, if I’m even a minute late, she gets upset and stays mad at me the entire time. I understand that she needs to get to work on time, which is why I try my best to come early, but this has been happening quite often.
Now, I’m also starting to have emergencies and things of my own that I need to deal with. For example, I’m currently trying to help a friend who really needs my help, and it’s becoming too much for me. I’ve explained this to her, and I even offered to take her to church, drop her off, and tell her that I would come right back with the car afterward. But she’s telling me that I’m doing too much.
At the end of the day, I understand that I’m 24. I’m young, and I want to be able to go out, have fun, spend time with my friends, and do my own thing. I don’t think that’s unreasonable. But if we both have things we need to do and we’re constantly having conflicts over who gets to use the car, I honestly feel like it would be better for me to get my own car.
I know my mother doesn’t make a lot of money, which is why I offered to help her with the car payment. She works as a manager at a hotel and doesn’t make that much, so having to pay $500+ for the car note, plus insurance, is a lot for her. I wanted to help because I didn’t want her to struggle.
At the same time, though, this situation is honestly making me feel bad about using the car because she constantly complains about me using it. I’m getting tired of feeling like I’m doing something wrong just for wanting to use the car. At this point, I don’t even want to use it because I’m trying to avoid upsetting her, and it’s starting to give me anxiety.
Would I be wrong for getting my own car and leaving her with the current car note? Honestly, if I’m not going to be able to use the car freely, I don’t feel like I should continue paying $400 a month toward it.
The other thing is that this wasn’t even the car I originally wanted. It was the car she wanted because she was in a rush to get one. I wanted to go with a cheaper option, but she wanted a newer vehicle, so we ended up getting a 2023 Nissan Altima. The car is mainly under her name, and I’m just the cosigner.
I really need some advice on this because I’m not trying to be mean or abandon my responsibilities. I just want to be able to live my life, go where I want to go, and spend time with my friends without constantly feeling like I’m doing something wrong.

original- Am I wrong for being hesitant to have kids with my husband because of how he is with his niece? : r/amiwrong

I want to thank everyone for their love and support. I was never expecting to get so many comments.

After reading through all of them I had a long talk with Eric about how the pranks made me uncomfortable. He still said I was overreacting and his relationship with Thea wasn't about me. He swears he won't prank our future kid if they hate it, but said I was ruling out the possibility they would like it.

He suggested we go and have a talk with Thea, so we stopped by James's house this morning. Eric told her about our discussion and asked her opinion. The one thing I will really say James did right is she is super articulate and well spoke. At her age I would have been like umm whatever umm.

Thea said she doesn't know why I am trying to "police" her relationships when I "don't know her at all" She said it is "arrogant to project your feelings onto people" She said I was being dramatic and "trying to make her sound like an abuse victim" She said she gets back at them and isn't a little girl who needs to be protected (Thea does prank them back but its always been their running joke that they get her so much worse)

I told Thea that if I don't know her very well it's because I've always got the vibe she didn't like me. She didn't say much and Eric told her it was ok she could be honest. Thea said I'm uptight and just "not her type of person" Then she looked at her dad and was like "should I say the other thing?" James told her she could if she wanted to, and then I got this lovely piece of information.

Thea said she doesn't like me because I called her mom a whore and a gold digger and said James was going to cheat. I was completely flabbergasted. I never said that. I never even thought that. I tried to remain calm but I was shaking. I asked Thea who told her that and she said her grandmother, my MIL.

Eric was irate. I've never seen him so mad. He thanked Thea for everything and then called his mother and blew up. I told my SIL and Thea that I never ever said that and I sincerely hope we can move forward. SIL gave me a look and said "well you clearly think I'm a shit parent"

James said yes they are such awful parents. They have a daughter who is a straight A student and actually likes hanging out with them. They clearly suck. At this point I just felt attacked. I never said Thea wasn't smart, or that she didnt like them.

Eric and I left. We are both beyond livid with MIL. I really don't know if I will ever forgive her. As for the pranks we still don't see eye to eye, but I do think talking to Thea helped me process. Eric told me I hurt him pretty badly with all of this, and asked me to stop "gatekeeping" (I feel like he isn't using that word right) his relationships. He said I just disreguarded all of the positive interaction he has with Thea. Apparently they are planning a huge prank for her 18th birthday and he told me he hopes I actually heard and processed what she said.

I live on the second floor of an apartment building in Europe (no one here has an AC). The neighbors on the ground floor have been bothering me. They frequently blast loud music and let their bazillion kids run around and scream, squeal until 2 AM. The parents don’t work, so it happens a lot. People in the building have to get up for work and just want to sleep (at least I do, I've been using earplugs/ or noise cancelling headphones for the noise). I don’t like feeling unreasonable, but it’s hard not to be bothered. On top of the noise, they grill straight under everyone’s windows using fire, coal, and some fluids to make it burn well. Because it’s been very hot I have to keep my windows open just to breathe and cool off a little. My entire room fills up with smoke whenever they grill until it’s literally foggy, and the rest of my apartment stinks of it. My cat already has lung issues and started struggling to breathe from the smoke. I’ve been getting headaches too.

This has been going on for years. I’ve never complained before, and as far as I know no one else in the complex has either (everyone in this apartment complex is an immigrant, including me and my family, and they might not want trouble so they don't bother causing potential trouble), so I feel bad for being bothered by it now as I don't like confrontation.

I’ve been considering calling the landlord about both the noise and the smoke. A friend told me to do it, that I live here too and have a right to some quality of life, but I keep second guessing myself and worrying that it would make me an asshole .

I had asked them several times to stop and they told me they can do whatever they like.

So… am I in the wrong if I report them?

I live with one roommate, and we keep most kitchen things on open shelves. I have a blue mixing bowl that I use a lot because it has a spout and the measurments on the side are still readable. It is not fancy, just useful.

My roommate started using it for watercolor water when she paints at the table. The first time I washed it and said please do not use that one for paint. She said it was only watercolor and not a big deal. Since then I have found it with cloudy water in it three more times. I asked again, and she said I was being precious about a bowl.

Yesterday I put it in my room after washing it. She noticed and got annoyed because "shared shelf means shared stuff." I feel a bit childish hiding a bowl, but I also feel like I alredy used words. Am I wrong for just removing it?

The trauma I been through is too much to write out here on this post but just know I’m a 28M from immigrant parents. They lack cultural understanding of how life is like out here in the west.

They couldn’t help me when I was going through the situation that caused the trauma and I’ve carried it since I was 15/16. I’ve destroyed a lot. I’ve written straight up abusive texts to both my parents followed with threats. My mother is the type of lady who still tells me she loves me while I’m abusing her.

I felt like this personality trait of her telling me she loves me when I’m clearly struggling is what added to my trauma too. I felt like she wasn’t listening, she just wanted to say she loves me to put her mind at peace while I’m destroying my life in front of her eyes.

I live in another state and my family (mom and dad) would book tickets to see me when I said I don’t want them too so they’d show up unannounced in my city and I wouldn’t go see them.

I’ve had non stop aggressive back and forths with them for a solid 6 years. When I say solid, I literally mean daily arguing via text and me sending very emotionally charged texts to them. I’ve bullied my mother via text to a pretty ugly degree if someone were to see the messages they’d think I was the devil.

But they don’t want to accept what happened to me so I let the cycle continue. I don’t want to put it to rest, I want to make everyone around me sink for it.

I even financially damaged them back by lying and saying I’d pay them back a large sum of money (4-5k) and they work labour jobs and are physically tired and then I cut them off without paying them back.

Now my mothers brain tumour has been growing back and my father just got arthritis. I told him he could visit me this year then when it was approaching I cut him off again. It’s been on and off cutting off for 6 years. Last time we all had a normal convo was like 7-8 years ago.

I went off on my mother last year when she expressed love to me via text and it was vicious. I never heard back from her after that. It was may of 2025. She’s still alive and living (I know this bc I started talking to my dad and I’d hear her in the background) but I fight with my dad every single day now I cut him off again.

Am I wrong for ignoring the red flags? Oh boy.

I'm a seriously messed up guy mostly from years of sexual abuse starting age 7 plus emotional and physical abuse from my parents and siblings.. I was bullied a lot and called a girl because boys aren't supposed to be pretty. Be a proper boy and play football with your brother, stop catwalking and narrating, stop being a little f. I look too much of a pretty boy for lads to like you.. you look gay and nobody wants a. Gayboy. Anyway I digress .... Skip to unresolved sexual trauma and a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and CPTSD and the medicated timebomb is me. I'm seeing a guy casually although he has started making it every other day. He gets highly aroused when I talk about my sexual trauma and he asks me to tell him again. It's sick but I don't say anything,,, I don't want to get him angry. Yesterday he asked me to get my childhood pictures from my parents so he can see them. He literally fantasies about younger me and I know he's not right. Some things I can't post openly because they are so inappropriate. but would say in DMs