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'I feel like a "cash cow"': German man feels used as his girlfriend quits stable job for failing business, refuses to send 2 and 4-year old kids to full-time childcare, and pressures him to marry for financial security

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40-year-old mother to young child left exhausted by husband insisting on turning on bright lights and leaving his phone buzzing all night, calling her requests for quiet “controlling”: ‘It wakes me up, though it does not seem to bother him’

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Toronto man visits girlfriend’s family in the Philippines, gets sick, labeled a bad provider, and gets kicked out at midnight after she consults an AI to justify it: ‘I left the gifts at her house and just flew back to Canada’

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Newly retired 56-year-old man spends his days relaxing while his 53-year-old wife works full time, gets confused when she’s angry that dinner and groceries don’t magically appear: ‘It’s as if now that I’m retired, she thinks I should clean the house’

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‘I'm not doing a family Christmas with my ex’: Ex wants to keep Christmas trip to boyfriend’s family’s home days after breakup, but he refuses to play house right before his deployment

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‘It’s important to me because I am changing careers to be able to retire’: New boyfriend pushes 53-year-old woman to prioritize a Thanksgiving trip to Colorado over her classes, kids, and long-term retirement plans, so she cancels to protect her future

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‘I literally froze. Because that’s my ex. Like my actual ex’: Roommate brings her new situationship home without realizing it is actually her housemate’s ex, leaving the housemate wondering whether to warn her or stay quiet

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Wife returns from maternity leave after husband is promoted to feared plant boss, tanking her social life as his strict policies at work start spilling into their marriage: ‘Even people I know stopped inviting me for lunch’

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Wife ends 28 years of marriage after husband retires early, but leaves her carrying all the bills, moving house, and handling family crises: ‘He promised me when I moved up here that he would always take care of things’

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Woman asks for a special 40th birthday for a whole year, husband gives her coffee, flowers, and a Groupon instead, driving her to divorce him after years of being undervalued: ‘It’s not so much about the gift but about the effort’

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‘I can barely afford to get by at the new place on my own’: Grad student moves away for school, stops paying for groceries at fiancé’s place because her budget can’t cover it anymore, but the engineer fiancé doesn’t take it well

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‘If she's choosing him over a friendship of 10 years, then maybe we're not as close as I thought’: 29-year-old Jade uninvites her best friend from their "all-women" Montreal trip because she invited her new boyfriend, Ethan, who feels left out

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‘Excuse me, can you not stand like that in front of my husband?’: Jealous wife scolds grocery shopper in leggings and a hoodie for “distracting” her husband, turning a quick bread run into a petty public scene

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29-year-old gets big raise, and her unemployed fiancé keeps saying “we” when referring to her income, pushing her to demand credit: ‘He didn’t get a raise. He’s between jobs right now. I’ve been covering most expenses for months’

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‘Someone's gotta keep the lights on’: Man pays full $2,800 rent and covers every expense, working 70-hour workweeks in cybersecurity, while girlfriend contributes $200 monthly and complains about him never being around

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Bride-to-be Lila uninvites her best friend because she refuses to splurge $2,300, excluding flights, on a five-night luxury Tulum bachelorette trip: ‘I haven’t talked to her since. It’s been three months’

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