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AITA for asking my younger cousin to return the designer dress I lent her now she’s refusing and says I embarrassed her by asking?
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Then comes the emotional gymnastics. The cousin flips the script, saying she feels “embarrassed” for being asked and “too stressed” to give it back right now. She manages to turn a conversation about responsibility into an award‑winning performance about sensitivity. The real trick? She’s stalling while pretending to be wounded. Family politics kick in, half siding with “she’s young, let it go,” the other half whispering “you’ll never see that dress again.”
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It’s the oldest scam in the playbook, borrow, delay, deflect, and hope guilt does the rest. What’s really funny is how fast people start treating basic fairness like an overreaction. The lender isn’t harsh; she’s just done funding someone else’s delusion of entitlement. In the end, it’s not about couture, it’s about boundaries. Sometimes the only way to get a borrowed item back is to remind people that generosity isn’t the same as a gift receipt. The dress was expensive, but the life lesson was free.
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‘I said no, I’d like it back now’: 36-year-old lends pricey designer dress to her younger cousin, Lily, who keeps it for herself and claims being reminded it’s not hers is “embarrassing”
Look, this isn't about me, but this one hits hard. I once put my trust in a friend with a very special one-of-a-kind designer item, which was seven years ago. I obviously haven't seen it since, and I would be lying if I said I'm not still absolutely furious about it.
It always starts the same way. Someone asks to borrow something "just for an event," and you think sure, it's family, what could go wrong. A woman lends her designer dress to her younger cousin, a pricey showpiece she wears maybe once a year. The only condition was simple: bring it back within two weeks. Fast‑forward a month, and the cousin suddenly develops selective memory and a sense of ownership. She claims she "felt so amazing in it" that returning it didn't feel right. Translation: she decided it's hers now.
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