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06/06/2026

My brother has 50/50 custody with his ex-wife over my nephew (3). My brother makes more money than his ex, so even though they have my nephew the same amount of time, he still has to pay her $100 a month. My brother will not shut the f__k up about this. He complains about it constantly. When my nephew needed new shoes, she asked him to split the cost of new shoes with her. He said no and to use the $100. She said the $100 was for monthly expenses, not large purchases. She also threatened to take him back to court. His lawyer advised him to just pay half for the shoes. Ever since then he brings the child support up every damn day. I told him a few times it was getting old, but yesterday I lost it. I said "dude, shut the f__k up about your child support. Shut the f__k up. We are all so sick of hearing about this, g__damn!" My brother said I am a rude a__hole. I think I can only listen to the same thing so many times before I get sick of hearing about it. It's $100. He spends more than that a month on stupid s__t. It's not like he has cancer or it's $700. Then I would be more sympathetic. Am I rude and an a__hole?

06/06/2026

My wife had a traumatic instance with the dentist and she is terrified of dentists. Her tooth started hurting about 2 weeks ago. I knew she was worried about having to go to the dentist so I reassured her that I would take that morning off so I can comfort her.

She didn't make the appointment. Fast forward to 3 days ago where her pain is increasing to the point where she can't stay still, drinking ice water constantly, ice packs, and finally to call and make an appointment, but it's 2 weeks out. I had to work full time and take care of the baby during the night and clean because the pain is so bad she can't sleep so she needed all the rest she can get and knocks herself out with sleeping pills.

Honestly I don't mind taking on the extra work because she does need the rest. She was able to be seen today due to the seriousness explained to the dentist. She has a series of appointments now at different dates and I have days and event that are mandatory for me at my workplace.

She gets upset with me about how I have all these events (which I can't control) when she has dentist appointments scheduled. I tell her that 'she shouldn't be frustrated with me, if anything you should blame yourself for not going sooner.' She absolutely flips. Telling me that I don't care about her emotions and how I'm not validating her feelings and don't care.

Basically she took it as it was her fault that she couldn't deal with her trauma (I believe it is) and call sooner and she says that I have no empathy for her experience. Calls me a piece of s__t and other things. I don't know what's right and wrong.

Please help. Edit: we live in Japan and some solutions in America does not work here. Like anxiety for dentist.

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06/06/2026

so my (49M) daughter got pregnant when she was 18, she didn't want a kid, especially not that young, so after some serious talk, I said I would take in her child, but she said she didn't want any responsibility for the child so ended up signing away her parental rights and I adopted her child as soon as he was born. she went off and finished college, travelled, and I fully supported her.

my son (my daughter's child, but I will be calling him my son) is now 16 and is an amazing kid. and my daughter has barely come seen him, and if she does come round, she just ignores him. he knows that she is his bio mother but after a few failed reconnection attempts when he was younger, he's given up on a relationship with her.

these last few weeks a few things happened, my daughter got engaged to her long term boyfriend, my son came out to me (i fully support him), and my son also won a small local skating competition. he been skating since he was 9 and loves it, it's his prefered mode of transport and he is known by the local skating community and skate shop.

when my daughter got engaged, she said she didn't want any secrets, so told her fiance that she has a child, but that I have adopted him. his kids (I'm not sure age but they are young), not understanding that my daughter and my son are estranged, wanted to meet their 'new brother' even after days of refusing and kid-friendly explanations they didn't give up, so they brought the kids to meet my son.

my son was friendly with the kids and their dad, and was civil with my daughter. my son and the kids went off to play and my daughter and her fiance sat with me to talk. after a while, the fiance noticed my son's trophy on a shelf and asked about it, when I explained his look interested but my daughter looked horrified. she sent her fiance to check on the kids then asked me what I was doing, letting him do something so dangerous. she said that skateboarding was for 'delinquents' and that as his mother she doesn't want him skating anymore.

when she said mother, I have to admit I did laugh, I reminded her that I had parental rights over him and that she has no say, she was clearly upset by this and called me cruel, saying that she was a child when she got pregnant and that she's a different person now and is even trying for a child with her fiance, I told her that that doesn't matter and that my son is MY son. she then got really upset and grabbed her fiance and his kids and left.

at first, I didn't think I was in the wrong but now that I think about it, it might have been rude to laugh and hold my paternal rights over her head like that, these past few weeks have been emotional so maybe I overreacted, so AITA?

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06/05/2026

So my wife has also been the sort of person who sees helping someone as being owed afterwards and will help on her terms. She now does this with pur toddler (3) when she asks for help its either I will do it after I have finished this drink or sending this WhatsApp, or if she does help she will say I will only help if you do this this and this for me. I told my wife helping our toddler shouldn't be conditional she needs to know of she asks for help we will be there and not conditional on something. My wife's response was simply I was being stupid and our toddler can do it herself or wait. Am I in the wrong.

Edit So firstly apologies for not being clear in advance I hope this example helps

So an example would be my child has recently toilet trained yesterday evening she went to my wife and asked for help to go to the toilet, she even said she couldn't hold it anymore and would p*e her pants, my wife's response was I'm busy at the moment I Will finish this cup of coffee, my child insisted she would p*e there and then so my wife said okay I will take you but then you have to leave mummy alone for the rest of the night...

06/05/2026

I know this will sound almost made up but I swear on my mothers grave this isn't a karma farm or troll job. For part one we have been inundated with scorpions this year. We think it's the wet winter just caused an explosion of them. We have had them inside, outside, in the drains, clothes...everywhere. We have an exterminator but it takes time. So far no stings, thank god.

Part two is my husband wears a CPAP mask. It works and when he puts it on he goes into super sleep mode and is dead do the world.

He had it on last night and I read reading and out of the corner of the eye I just noticed a little black movement indside the hose that connects the humidifier to the mask. I really didn't think much of it but figured I'd get our black light just in case. In the time it took me to turn out the overhead light and find the black light flashlight the scorpion had moved up the hose much closer to his face. The black light verified that it was a scorpion. I panicked and ran out of the room.

Husband must have sense my movement and screams because he woke up and took his mask off to ask me what's wrong. I didn't see it but I guess when he did that the scorpion fell into his lap. He screamed at me that there was a scorpion in the bed and to bring him the black light. I said no the scorpion is in your mask! Well that caused him to freak out even more but we were able to find the scorpion and k__l it.

He is so furious with me for not "helping him" when I saw the scorpion was close to his face. Like so furious he isn't speaking to me and texted me that he doesn't want to be around me for date night tonight. I feel bad but I packicked and I don't know what I should have done anyways. Was I the a__hole for how I reacted last night?

Edit: about 4pm, I guess date night is back on so I’m at least partially forgiven.

Edit 2: date night went good, I apoligized profusely. He said he could laugh about it now and all is well. I guess I'm not getting divorced (much to the chagrin of the meaner posters) time for some makeup DS and maybe since I owe him, CIM. Hopefully no scorpions in the sheets.

06/05/2026

I (29F) and my wife (28F) had our sons six days ago, the pregnancy was complicated and they had TTTS (Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome) which resulted in them coming early. They are currently in the Neonatal Unit and my wife and I practically live there so we can spend time with our boys. My brother and his wife got married two days ago, I didn't want to leave my sons or my wife so I missed the wedding though I sent them their gift from us and a text wishing them a fantastic day and I thought nothing more of it.

Yesterday I got a text from my new sister in law explaining that because my wife and I missed the wedding she'd need us to send her £140 for our plates of food. I asked her if she was joking and she told me that she got my wife couldn't go as she had to stay in the hospital but that I wasn't the one who gave birth so I could have went and saved two plates of food from going to waste. I told her she was being ridiculous and asked if my brother was aware she was asking his sister for money for food, she brushed that off and said weddings were expensive and she had to try and recoup her losses and this should be between us 'woman to woman'.

Between this and her thinking I should have gone anyway I admit I lost my temper. I ended up taking screenshots of the conversation and posting it to facebook. This shocked several people in the family and she must have gotten bombarded with messages as she told me to take it down, as I was making her look bad and people were taking it out of context and thinking she was some kind of villain.

My brother called me and told me not to worry about the money that it was stupid to expect us to pay for the plates though asked me to take the post down and he'd handle it. He seemed kind of shocked by her even asking this. Did I go too far?

My wife is mostly upset by our sil's comment about how I wasn't the one to give birth, as if it makes me less of their mother. Maybe I should have handled it better but I admit at the time I wasn't thinking very clearly. Edit: I thought I said in the post but I didn't (sorry running on very little sleep) I took down the post when my brother asked me to do so.

06/05/2026

So every year my dads work holds a Summer Social. It's a big important event, and my dad has always said it's important for me (15f) and my mum to go. It's usually pretty fun (apart from the evening bit which is boring) but there are obviously certain rules and etiquette to follow as it's my dads work.

Last year my dads boss (I've seen him at the socials every year since I was little) took me aside and said that I was 'really blossoming now' and that I could 'one day meet a really good husband at one of these events'. (I'd rather not, thanks) It made me feel pretty uncomfortable. I told my dad about it at the time and he said his boss was just being polite and that I'm overthinking it.

Anyway, this years social is coming up and I really don't want to go as I can't face the thought of seeing his boss again. But I know it's important to my dad to have me there, and I wonder if I'm just being over sensitive and perhaps he's right, maybe his boss was just being polite but in a cringey kind of way? What's your opinion?

Am I right to not want to go or am I wrong and completely overthinking it? UPDATE: Hey everyone! Thank you so much for all the support.

I've spoken with my dad tonight (my mum and I don't really have that kind of relationship) and told him how I felt, and how much I was dreading going. He apologised and said that he didn't realise how much it was bothering me. We had a good talk about it and he said he's going to speak to his boss about this and he guarantees it won't happen again.

It's up to me whether or not I attend. Thank you all so much for listening to me and offering advice. I'm so glad I did this.

06/05/2026

I'm going to a bachelorette this weekend for a high school friend, and the whole original HS crew is attending (8 total girls). Everything has been very normal until yesterday - we received a text from one of the girls saying she cannot be away from her 7 mo. old baby more than 2 nights, so she'll have to bring him (We are all staying in the same Airbnb).

The group chat was DEAD silent for a couple of hours until I chimed in and said 'I think it's best you stay home... I don't think a bachelorette is any place for a baby' and directly following I was told I was 'bold' and 'too harsh' because the bride was OK with it... I think this whole situation is bizarre...

we are going to be taking tequila shots and going bar hopping with a baby? What do we do during the day when he needs to nap or if he cries all night? so...

AITA? ~~ UPDATE: She brought her baby to night #1 and then brought him home for night #2. To be fair, he is an easy and well-natured baby.

She reiterated that we shouldn't feel the need to entertain him, but we have all been friends for 17+ years and are in our 30s, so it was an instinct to pass him around. It did change the experience - for one, we stayed at the Airbnb instead of going out to dinner/exploring the town. At the end of the day, I only care about the bride having a good time and feeling celebrated.

I think she might have regretted her answer from how quiet she was the first night, but it's not for me to say! Finally, I'm not regretful in speaking my mind because what's a long-term friendship without a little honesty? Yes, the baby is breastfeeding, but he also eats some food, and DOES drink from a bottle (I saw that question about being unable to use a bottle a couple of times).

Still not sure why we went this route, but I can officially check 'attended bachelorette with a baby' off my list!

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