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Mother-in-law throws crying tantrum over daughter-in-law’s no-shoes rule, and sends father-in- law to complain when emotional manipulation fails to work: ‘she feels like I’m “trying to assert dominance” over her in her son’s home. (Our home, actually.)’

Etai Eshet

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Man demands brother feed his picky-eater children before family dinners after they refuse every meal, constantly insult his wife: ‘I told him we weren’t running a short-order kitchen and that my wife puts effort into these meals. He ended up not coming’

Etai Eshet

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Bride invites cousin’s ex-wife and bans his kids, pushing him to skip her wedding only to change her mind last minute: ‘All the drama got me rather exhausted with the whole situation’

Etai Eshet

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Update: 68-year-old woman reunites with her bio family living across the globe, immediately guilted into caring for the mother who gave her away: ‘[Bio-mom] isa very strict and spiteful woman who treated the people who worked for her horribly”

Etai Eshet

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Judgmental parents dish out unsolicited diet advice, get sharp, humorous response from daughter that ends in a family feud: ‘My mom tried to make it about me lacking accountability for my own weight’

Etai Eshet

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‘Guests paying for their own food? Absolutely not’: Mother withholds wedding funds after daughter plans to make guests pay for their own rehearsal dinner

Etai Eshet

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Woman bans mother-in-law and brother-in-law from her home after a visit filled with insults and tears: ‘Spent the whole time insulting us, calling us fat, saying no one likes me, and that I’m going nowhere in life’

Etai Eshet

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68-year-old woman reunites with her bio family living across the globe, immediately guilted into caring for the mother who gave her away: ‘I don't love her, don't feel any emotional connection to her’

Etai Eshet

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‘I’m sick of the favoritism’: 17-year-old son scolds parents for forgetting his birthday after years of living in adopted brother's shadow, parents take offense

Lana DeGaetano

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Mother demands to “borrow” son’s car indefinitely because she doesn’t want to take the bus, involves the whole family when her son refuses: ‘I stood my ground and said I won’t give my car away’

Etai Eshet

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Woman clashes with husband and sister-in-law over “men-only” trip that excludes her tomboy daughter from bonding with father, brother and cousin: ‘Sister-in-law said I’m being petty and controlling and ruining a good experience for the boys’

Etai Eshet

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‘He has lived with my parents his entire life and has always been a big spoiled brat’: 51-year-old Brother sparks inheritance feud after refusing to sell inherited family home and calls sibling selfish

Etai Eshet

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34-year-old woman refuses to rekindle with bio-dad despite her mother’s overstepping efforts: ‘Why are you sending my wedding photos for people?”

Etai Eshet

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Woman's sister-in-law “can’t” find babysitter months before no-kids wedding, demands exception for her children and rallies family against the bride: ‘She’s been telling other family members that I’m being unreasonable and that I don’t care about family’

Etai Eshet

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‘I’m officially done. My parents are cutting them off too’: 26-year-old woman cuts off dad-side of family following years of disregard, after grandmother, aunts, and cousin exclude her from girls' trip

Etai Eshet

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Woman’s controlling sister-in-law demands to parent her niece as a daughter, her invasive co-parenting attempts spark fierce family battle over parenting rights: ‘I told her no. My daughter and nephew are going to grow up like normal cousins.’

Etai Eshet

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