family drama

‘We were walked on’: Extended family insists on visiting a woman and her mother for Christmas, who are grieving the loss of their stepdad and husband, then demands a perfect Christmas from them

Lana DeGaetano

63-year-old dad decides to “practice” retirement by moving in with daughter for a month, micromanaging her home and routine until she ends his visit cold: ‘After 5 days I told him I didn’t think the month-long trial run was going to work’

Etai Eshet

Bride calls out 39-year-old who claims she can't afford a wedding gift but spends $500 on her outfit: 'We're almost 40 now and her prioritizing looking hot has long since become sad'

JR Atkinson

Family members expect stay-at-home parent to watch their newborn without asking them first: ‘You want me to give up my free time, but you won't?’

Lana DeGaetano

Entitled mom refuses to let her son go to friend's birthday party after being told she can't bring the entire family to the event: ‘Either we all go or none of us go’

Bar Mor Hazut

24-year-old plans a nostalgic Thanksgiving cabin trip, but her mother freaks out mid-restaurant dinner, pushing the daughter to cut holiday short: ‘She blew up this whole trip because of miscommunication’

Etai Eshet

Mom of 9 kids demands her sibling buy them each $100+ Christmas presents: 'I just can't justify spending that much'

Remy Millisky

Dad refuses to force his popular 14-year-old daughter to sit at lunch with her twin sister, who eats alone every day: 'Sara needs to learn to make it on her own and basically not piggyback off Mia.'

Emmy Pratt

Mom of 9 flips out when sister refuses to buy each child a separate gift for Christmas: 'If I got everyone something, that would come to over $1000'

Ally Perry

Daughter-in-law refuses to spend Christmas with her mother-in-law because she forces her to cook, clean, and serve the family when she visits: 'It’s not a vacation for me at all.'

Emmy Pratt

72-year-old trust fund baby who retired at 50 tries to lecture younger relatives about work ethic, conveniently ignoring a life built on inherited monthly checks and zero work: ‘His sister in law asked: "Don't you have a trust fund?"’

Etai Eshet

Father asks 25-year-old daughter and her two siblings to sign away their rights as beneficiaries to their grandfather's trust once he passes: ‘[He is] pressuring me’

Lana DeGaetano

10 and 12-year-old siblings get even with dad who won't let them cook unsupervised: '[We] went to the kitchen to watch what he was going to do'

Remy Millisky

Dad leaves his fortune to his daughter 5 years before he passes, leaving nothing to his son, who barely saw him for 12 years: 'My brother still thinks he is going to inherit a fortune and is already planning how to spend it.'

Emmy Pratt

Mom cries after 16-year-old daughter spills a dollop of sauce on the placemat, gets angry when her daughter laughs at her tears: 'She said I was laughing at her misfortune and I’m creating so much more work for her.'

Emmy Pratt

Cousin Janice calls 24 hours after Thanksgiving, demanding leftovers after she treated dinner like a drive-thru, showing up late and leaving early: ‘We were already heading to the concert, we weren’t home. She literally asked if we could come back’

Etai Eshet