family drama

Cousin Janice calls 24 hours after Thanksgiving, demanding leftovers after she treated dinner like a drive-thru, showing up late and leaving early: ‘We were already heading to the concert, we weren’t home. She literally asked if we could come back’

Etai Eshet

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Son writes a poem about his late mom for school, then discovers his teacher sent it to his stepmom thinking it's about her, stepmom demands he apologize: ‘She got her hopes up’

Bar Mor Hazut

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17-year-old adopted son discovers parents set up college fund for 14-year-old sister, but not for him, he confronts them after they refuse to talk to guidance counselor: ‘That's none of your business’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Retired Army warrant officer loses it on Thanksgiving guests who mock his service and his wife, delivering a speech that clears the room: ‘My dad said something that just set me off’

Etai Eshet

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Grandma tells 40-year-old mom she likes her 4-year-old daughter more than her 3-year-old daughter: 'She didn't see anything wrong with saying that she preferred one of them.'

Emmy Pratt

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‘If I pay for it, it's mine’: Daughter refuses to let mom read her therapy homework after mom claims she's entitled to it since she pays for therapy, mom reads it anyway

Bar Mor Hazut

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Dad forces 15-year-old son to drop out of high school and work for the family business, tells the state he's homeschooling him: 'He was bragging about how our state doesn’t check that an education is actually being provided.'

Emmy Pratt

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28-year-old dines out with mom, uncle, and 11-year-old cousin, uncle flips out when nobody will pay for his son: 'I'm never going out to eat with him again'

Ally Perry

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Mother-in-law demands her son and his New York native wife, who is expecting a baby, move to Virginia after living in NYC for 10 years: 'She said outright it’s only fair that we move to Virginia now.'

Emmy Pratt

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‘He asked me why I wasn’t helping financially. I answered honestly’: Oldest daughter refuses to help her brother pay parents' mortgage after being raised by her grandmother, explaining she does not feel she owes them

Etai Eshet

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‘She brags how she is ahead of the game for retirement and stuff’: Older sibling pays parents' bills while 26-year-old sister lives at home rent-free, travels to Japan, so the sibling tells them if they keep subsidizing her, they’ll cut financial help

Etai Eshet

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Extended family insist on attending 30-year-old's doctoral graduation in Miami, shun her when she refuses to pay for their accommodation: 'I was on the naughty list for canceling [the] vacation'

Ally Perry

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16-year-old refuses mom's demands to use her weekend job earnings to buy essentials for stepsiblings, grandparents get involved: ‘I didn't give her any money’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Vet tech prioritizes her career when her socialite mother-in-law deliberately schedules important family events on days she knows she has to work: 'I'm not going to keep feeling guilty for having a job'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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18-year-old drops hyphenated last name belonging to his stepfather, his mother tells him she's deeply ashamed of his decision: ‘It was forced on me’

Lana DeGaetano

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Digital nomad denies her presumptuous sister's family a 3-month stay in her home abroad, gets cut off for her lack of hospitality: ‘How dare you give a time limit’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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