family dynamics

Woman receives an angry email from her sister-in-law, detailing her 7-year-old daughter's food mess that she left under their dining room table earlier that evening: ‘I… was quite shocked and offended by the intensity of judgment and shaming’

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Father refuses to allow ex-wife's new husband to take his 10-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son out alone, citing child safety risks: ‘To me he's just a stranger’

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Husband and his family try to guilt his pregnant wife into bringing their 4-year-old daughter to soccer practice every Saturday morning, despite the wife's busy schedule and chronic illness: ‘I’m at my personal capacity’

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‘She acts entitled. Like she is OWED this’: Ungrateful 16-year-old niece acts out and berates her aunt, who drives her to school and supervises her when her parents are unable to, and parents refuse to discipline her

Lana DeGaetano

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‘[It] started feeling like surveillance with a smile’: Clingy older sibling repeatedly follows their younger sibling using location sharing on Life360, so the youngest decides to stop sharing their whereabouts with the whole family

Lana DeGaetano

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14-year-old shortens her name to mirror her late mother's name, only for her father, who encouraged the name change prior, to forbid it when he remarries a jealous woman: 'She wanted that extra connection to her mom'

Lana DeGaetano

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She texts me from random numbers asking for money’: Man cuts contact with narcissistic mother after she racks up nearly $50k in credit card debt in his stepfather's name, gets into a screaming match with his wife, and irresponsibly purchases an $1800 dog

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Divorced parents refuse to be in the same room as each other and their new partners, even if it means missing their 16-year-old son's competition: ‘I want mom AND dad’

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Woman abroad refuses to cancel a holiday trip with her best friend when her mother books a non-refundable plane ticket to visit her, all because she couldn't afford a Christmas flight home this year: ‘[She] didn’t even consult me before booking’

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12-year-old stepson admits he is tired of being a vegetarian after having been raised meat-free, so his stepdad encourages him to change his diet but his biological vegetarian mom forbids him: ‘[He] still really wants to eat meat’

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Mother lies to 19-year-old son about his estranged biological father's neglect, only to have her lies exposed when the son does a DNA test and finds out his father didn't know he had a child: ‘He denied my bio father and me the chance to know each other’

Lana DeGaetano

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Parents travel to attend their daughter's law school graduation abroad, only for the mother to make the entire day about herself: ‘I felt scolded, embarrassed, and overshadowed throughout the day’

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Man's brother visits his home for Labor Day and brings his new wife and 9-year-old stepson, who disrespects him the entire visit and throws tantrums when he doesn't get his way: ‘As guests, there is a level of conduct and respect they need to follow’

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‘I will literally not be in it for even a year, but I'm supposed to shell out hundreds on a wall?’: Entitled step-dad expects teenage children to pay for their bedroom walls while their home undergoes unnecessary renovations

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23-year-old kid refuses to attend father's 10th wedding anniversary party after they were barred from attending the actual wedding, in addition to several years of emotional neglect: ‘After that, I started getting excluded from so many things’

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'HALF THE COLLECTION [was] missing': Woman's future nephews force her 8-year-old daughter to hand over her Pokémon card collection, so the woman steals them all back and then some

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