entitlement

17-year-old spends the entire summer babysitting her 26-year-old sister's two kids, only for the teen's sister to not pay her the $1500 she is owed: ‘I worked for that money’

Lana DeGaetano

Parents praise their oldest golden child and ostracize their ‘black sheep’ son for years: ‘I'm chasing the shadow of my family's approval’

Lana DeGaetano

Woman receives an angry email from her sister-in-law, detailing her 7-year-old daughter's food mess that she left under their dining room table earlier that evening: ‘I… was quite shocked and offended by the intensity of judgment and shaming’

Lana DeGaetano

Father refuses to allow ex-wife's new husband to take his 10-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son out alone, citing child safety risks: ‘To me he's just a stranger’

Lana DeGaetano

Husband and his family try to guilt his pregnant wife into bringing their 4-year-old daughter to soccer practice every Saturday morning, despite the wife's busy schedule and chronic illness: ‘I’m at my personal capacity’

Lana DeGaetano

‘She acts entitled. Like she is OWED this’: Ungrateful 16-year-old niece acts out and berates her aunt, who drives her to school and supervises her when her parents are unable to, and parents refuse to discipline her

Lana DeGaetano

Pet owner refuses to sacrifice his 9-year-old dog's $11.5k surgery so he can instead financially assist his girlfriend's struggling sister: ‘I shouldn't have to suffer for another person's poor life choices’

Lana DeGaetano

‘[It] started feeling like surveillance with a smile’: Clingy older sibling repeatedly follows their younger sibling using location sharing on Life360, so the youngest decides to stop sharing their whereabouts with the whole family

Lana DeGaetano

14-year-old shortens her name to mirror her late mother's name, only for her father, who encouraged the name change prior, to forbid it when he remarries a jealous woman: 'She wanted that extra connection to her mom'

Lana DeGaetano

'Chores are valuable, but they don't build equity': Man refuses to give live-in girlfriend 50% equity on their first home because she refuses to put any money toward the mortgage, she insists that doing 60% of the cooking and cleaning is enough

Lana DeGaetano

She texts me from random numbers asking for money’: Man cuts contact with narcissistic mother after she racks up nearly $50k in credit card debt in his stepfather's name, gets into a screaming match with his wife, and irresponsibly purchases an $1800 dog

Lana DeGaetano

Entitled Disneyland-goers falsely accuse a mother of cutting the line for a Jack Skellington meet-and-greet, but an upstanding park employee doubles down and defends her: ‘"She has been here the entire time. I remember her"’

Lana DeGaetano

Entitled bachelorette party tries to leave unassuming Comic-Con goers with their expensive drink tab at a bar: ‘[They] were told to pay up or risk being arrested for dining and dashing’

Lana DeGaetano

Divorced parents refuse to be in the same room as each other and their new partners, even if it means missing their 16-year-old son's competition: ‘I want mom AND dad’

Lana DeGaetano

Identical twin sister decides to start a life of her own after her parents encouraged an unhealthy, codependent familial relationship for years, family implodes as a result: ‘I just can't be enmeshed with her for the rest of my life’

Lana DeGaetano

'My boyfriend is constantly bothering the cat just for his own entertainment': 24-year-old girlfriend babysits her friend's sweet and skittish cat, but her boyfriend shows red flags when he's with them

Ayala Sorotsky