family drama

28-year-old new mom bars mother-in-law from delivery room for saying the baby isn't officially her grandson until he takes a paternity test: "I don't want her energy near me or my baby"

Ely Bulnes

'I pay for everything': Man threatens to charge his long-time girlfriend $900 in rent for her two kids after he gets yelled at for sharing his parenting opinions

Jesse Kessenheimer

18-year-old living with 3 families puts lock on his food after seeing people stealing it, his aunt gets upset: “It feels like she’s punishing me for setting boundaries”

Briana Viser

‘[I told] my mom I’m not her retirement plan’: 55-year-old mother demands her 28-year-old engineer son fund her many golden years as he deals with student loans and urban rent

Etai Eshet

Husband tries to take solo vacation while wife juggles working full-time and 3 kids, so she shuts him down: 'It's about mutual respect'

Isabella Penn

‘[He] isn't my dad… I never got to meet my dad’: 17-year-old daughter tells stepdad that he isn't her real father, her mother continually tries to pressure her into having a father-daughter relationship with him

Lana DeGaetano

'This set off a domino effect': Mom bans kids from bringing their expensive toys over step-sibling jealousy, so they choose to live with dad who respects their boundaries

Isabella Penn

25-year-old blatantly tells stepmom to stop calling her daughter during intimate family dinner, stepmom is shambles: “You didn’t have to humiliate me”

Briana Viser

“She wants a co-parent”: 16-year-old accused by stepmom of being unhelpful for refusing to free babysit half siblings when bio dad isn’t around, he doesn’t care

Briana Viser

Twin gets snubbed out of his brother's engagement celebrations and repeatedly left out of family events after moving to Portland, so he skips the wedding entirely: 'I was only invited for optics'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Mom refuses to let dad of a 7-year-old and 8-month-old twins go on a solo trip without the rest of the family: 'I’m working, we don’t have full time child care, and it’s honestly just a lot with the 3 kids'

Emmy Pratt

Suffocating in-laws show up at engaged couple's home 6 weeks before their wedding, future bride is concerned about the in-laws' expectations for the couple to cover all of their living costs: ‘None of the adults that came to visit, work’

Lana DeGaetano

Mom tells teenage step-daughter not to marry a loser, despite the fact that she is a high school dropout without a job: 'When I married her, she had no car and no job'

Emmy Pratt

'If she moves in, I move out': Bratty sister-in-law "can’t stand the drama" of her roommate, so she demands to stay in her brother's tiny apartment; his wife and mother of their toddler refuses

Jesse Kessenheimer

22-year-old daughter blocks mother and goes no contact after finding a secret tracking app on her phone, family begs her to forgive mom: "It's not like you were doing anything worth hiding, right?"

Ely Bulnes

Overwhelmed husband kicks wife's family out of his home after they continually extend their stay day by day, treating his house like a free hotel: "I want everyone gone!"

Ely Bulnes