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‘After I moved in with my ex-stepmom, things were quiet for a few weeks. Then, last week my dad asked to meet’: 18-year-old chooses ex-stepmom Dana’s home over her dad’s after divorce faces 2nd wave of backlash - Update

Etai Eshet

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Estranged mother hires private investigator to probe into her 32-year-old daughter, who moved away, and changed her name to escape to rebuild her life: ‘I can’t even begin to imagine what she told this pi person to begin the investigation’

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29-year-old chooses not to spend Memorial Day weekend marking trees and widening trails at her sister’s 80-acre off-grid property: ‘I do not want to spend my whole 3-day weekend doing physical labor in the heat’

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Aunt lets 19-year-old niece move in after her dad remarries and allows stepmom to pretend her 7-year-old sister is her biological daughter, faces family anger: 'She told her dad she hated him and that he betrayed her mom'

Ally Perry

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18-year-old high school senior chooses ex-stepmom Dana’s new home over her bio-father’s controlling household after their divorce, faces backlash from her dad’s family and friends: Dana makes space for me. She showed me what it feels like to be safe’

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'I don't want your charity. Thanks, but no thanks’: Niece returns Christmas gift box containing candy and a $100 bill to her aunt, after the aunt throws a tantrum over her accidentally opening 12-year-old cousin Dale’s $50 box as well

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Aunt funds her 10-year-old niece's $2000 dance camp, the girl bails at the last minute and mom pockets the 75% refund: 'She already got the money and spent it'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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19-year-old refuses to chaperone his 16-year-old twin sisters, Amy and Ava, and their notoriously bratty friend group on a weeklong cabin trip, unleashing tantrums from the other teenagers parents over summer vacation dream: ‘My parents are defending me’

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Middle child refuses to reconnect with the family who disappeared during his deployment, and resurfaced years later only to ask for money: ‘I called all of them, sent letters, and tried to visit just to find that the house was already being rented out’

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Southern California father, tired of 24-year-old college dropout barista daughter’s requests for money, insists on asking about her return to school every time: ‘She is wasting the opportunity to have an easier path we worked so hard to provide for her’

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25-year-old grad school graduate leaves his sister and brother-in-law’s camera-filled Los Angeles home after brother-in-law calls him ungrateful for blocking the indoor security system with a toy for privacy on a date: ‘I just wanted a little dignity’

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Wife’s romantic plans derailed by mother-in-law, who confuses Valentine’s with Mother’s Day, believing it’s for her, tries to force her way into their home, and breaks in when they’re celebrating: ‘When we got back, we noticed the front door was open’

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Sister invites family to an all-expenses-covered 2-day luxurious beach resort trip before flying to the UK, abruptly leaves with husband over a swimsuit dispute and sticking everyone with sky-high bill she promised to pay: ‘So much for “our treat”’

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Man living in a 200 square-foot studio inherits his grandparents’ house, but his freeloading aunt moves in rent-free with a secret lease his dad signed, demands she leave: ‘I lived in a shoebox, and she moved into my house while renting out her own’

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Mother-in-law tries to move in with her son, and evict her daughter-in-law from her own home with a poorly faked notice, has her grand plan spectacularly backfire: ‘She canceled the moving van and they had to haul her stuff back to her house’

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41-year-old unemployed, dependent brother demands the entire inheritance from his 28-year-old sibling after years of freeloading, igniting a family clash: ‘He’s been jobless for years and basically lived off our mom, all he did was to mooch, I snapped’

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