25-year-old woman puts jealous sister-in-law in her place when SIL accuses her of “shoving her dreams in her face” for posting vacation on Instagram: “It’s not my fault you don’t get time after the baby”

Briana Viser • Writer and Editor

Jul 29, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Oh, the wonders of social media. It's really shocking to me that social media can be so obviously fake, contrived, and conceited, but people will still put it on some weird pedestal of lived experience. Who decided that going on a plane, flying to another country, and walking around licking gelato was better than staying in your hometown doing what you're habitually used to doing? I think whatever makes someone happy is what should create envy, not just a blind notion of the unknown. Social media is like looking at someone through a veil, a filter; it's an avatar that has remnants of the real person in real life, but isn't an equal translation.

We live in a strange world where we desire an image more than the real thing. Even many men desire a woman on their phone compared to a real woman in real life. I don't see any way we're going back to not having these notions, ideas, and opinions about what's cool and what isn't, but we can try. Read the full story below for all the juicy details.

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Aita for telling my SIL it’s not my fault she doesn’t get time to herself after the baby?

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Envy is a hard-to-swallow pill. No one wants to feel it, no one wants to deal it. Dealing with it means looking inward at oneself, it's a product of the dissatisfaction one feels within oneself, and not about someone else.
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