family drama

Stepmother demands custody of her estranged 16-year-old stepson so she can have help babysitting his half-siblings; he refuses: 'She said she raised me for 9 years and should be allowed to 'keep me''

Jesse Kessenheimer

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24-year-old refuses to forgive her deadbeat dad who hasn't seen her since she was 10 years old: 'He messaged me, said he misses his little girl and wants to reconnect.'

Emmy Pratt

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Overseas family asks cousin to contribute £150 to wedding she's not attending, says it's 'charity': 'I am deeply unmotivated to contribute'

JR Atkinson

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29-year-old bride demands her cousin let her host her wedding in her pottery studio, badmouths her to her family when she refuses: 'My studio isn’t licensed for events like that and the cleanup would be a total nightmare'

Emmy Pratt

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‘It feels like my space is never really mine’: 18-year-old puts a lock on his bedroom door and stocks up on food while his mother is abroad due to his extended family, who are living with him, repeatedly invading his room and belongings

Lana DeGaetano

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'I told them they can’t come back': Mom bans the neighborhood kids from her house after they let her dog escape 4 times, teaching them the consequences of their negligence

Jesse Kessenheimer

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17-year-old uncle raises his baby niece alone until her mom decides to take over, he accidentally reveals the truth to niece years later: ‘Your mom tried to give you away as a baby’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'I pay for everything': Man threatens to charge his long-time girlfriend $900 in rent for her two kids after he gets yelled at for sharing his parenting opinions

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘[I told] my mom I’m not her retirement plan’: 55-year-old mother demands her 28-year-old engineer son fund her many golden years as he deals with student loans and urban rent

Etai Eshet

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‘[He] isn't my dad… I never got to meet my dad’: 17-year-old daughter tells stepdad that he isn't her real father, her mother continually tries to pressure her into having a father-daughter relationship with him

Lana DeGaetano

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'This set off a domino effect': Mom bans kids from bringing their expensive toys over step-sibling jealousy, so they choose to live with dad who respects their boundaries

Isabella Penn

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Twin gets snubbed out of his brother's engagement celebrations and repeatedly left out of family events after moving to Portland, so he skips the wedding entirely: 'I was only invited for optics'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Mom refuses to let dad of a 7-year-old and 8-month-old twins go on a solo trip without the rest of the family: 'I’m working, we don’t have full time child care, and it’s honestly just a lot with the 3 kids'

Emmy Pratt

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Mom tells teenage step-daughter not to marry a loser, despite the fact that she is a high school dropout without a job: 'When I married her, she had no car and no job'

Emmy Pratt

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17-year-old son refuses to attend mom's 40th birthday party after mom confronts him about breaking up with his girlfriend, dad takes son's side: ‘You owe him an apology’

Bar Mor Hazut

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13-year-old stepdaughter cries after her step-mother puts more effort into decorating her 3-year-old brothers room than her room: 'She accused me of playing favorites because he's “actually mine."'

Emmy Pratt

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