family dynamics

‘Nothing would make me share the same airspace as him again’: 21-year-old son refuses to reconcile with his older stepbrother, who terrorized him to no end when they were children

Lana DeGaetano

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‘I am done being the family's unofficial secretary’: Woman deemed ‘communicator’ of family group chat misses aunt's medical emergency due to work, entire group chat tries to guilt her into staying in the chat

Lana DeGaetano

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‘"You’re the only one not on your phone tonight"’: 30-year-old daughter puts cellphone on ‘Do Not Disturb‘ during a family dinner, her mother scolds her for refusing to get her phone to share photos of her recent travels

Lana DeGaetano

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Man's ungrateful brother, his wife, and 2 kids ignore him after he makes a home-cooked meal for all of them, so he throws the dinner in the garbage: ‘I wasn’t their servant’

Lana DeGaetano

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24-year-old and their fiancé contemplate moving out of shared home because their parents and adult siblings turned a short stay into a permanent living situation: ‘It's time to finally move forward with our own life’

Lana DeGaetano

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Grandma throws away her 14-year-old grandson's baking tools because she thinks baking is only for girls, dad kicks her out of the house: 'She said that now he can find a new appropriate hobby.'

Emmy Pratt

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60-year-old mom pressures 25-year-old daughter to keep living at home indefinitely because she thinks renting is a waste of money: 'My 32 and 35-year-old siblings have rented'

Emmy Pratt

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Woman attends family friend's funeral instead of brother's baby shower, her mother gives her the silent treatment despite brother confirming he's not upset: ‘She's hurt this was my choice’

Lana DeGaetano

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World traveler refuses to allow his sister, her husband, and their children to live rent-free in his house while he's away, they insist they'll move his belongings to the garage so they can move their things in: ‘I'm not a landlord’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘Why do I have to be punished because of their allergies’: Mom and stepdad only allow kid to eat what their dairy and shellfish-allergic step-siblings eat, even on special birthday occasions

Lana DeGaetano

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‘He was never going to tell her’: Kid exposes father's affair to their mom while on an upstate family vacation, father blames kid for ‘destroying the family’

Lana DeGaetano

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College graduate cancels graduation dinner plans after 6 family members flake on their ceremony, one claiming the affair would be too ‘boring’: ‘Out of the 8 seats reserved, only my parents came’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘Is it normal for moms to be jealous of their own daughters like this?’: Daughter makes $500 after working for her father and her mother loses it, falsely claiming that he never gives her any money

Lana DeGaetano

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Relative refuses to transfer shares of their late mom's apartment to their aunt, who is trying to pay them the market value of the apartment as it was 16 years prior: ‘The current market value of the apartment has gone up’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘This isn't a punishment, this is consequences’: Scorned 27-year-old daughter refuses to view her mother's affair partner-turned-husband as a father after the pair destroyed their family

Lana DeGaetano

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‘She told me I had two choices: Give her a share, or get out’: 22-year-old daughter is kicked out after she hides cash savings from father and his wife

Lana DeGaetano

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