family drama

21-year-old cuts ties with parents over lifelong habit of breaking bad news on important dates, special events, and birthdays: ‘My siblings think they're just heavily in denial’

Etai Eshet

Grandparents lie to 10-year-old granddaughter that he father doesn't love her, he cancels beach trip with them in retaliation: "I don't trust you alone around my children"

Briana Viser

Absent bio children fail to take care of their aging father, his stepdaughter considers not giving them a warning if he writes them out of his will: ‘One told him she was tired of his negativity and not to [call] her for help…’

Lana DeGaetano

"Only a monster could make kids lose two mothers": 31-year-old woman ends marriage when husband won't give her bio children, he blames her for leaving her stepchildren behind

Briana Viser

Parents and 20-year-old brother insist that 18-year-old university student give $2700 of her own savings for her school to her brother to pay for his rent debt: ‘He owes $2,700 in rent and my mom expects me to cover it’

Brad Dickson

‘He was never going to tell her’: Kid exposes father's affair to their mom while on an upstate family vacation, father blames kid for ‘destroying the family’

Lana DeGaetano

Groom's brother ruins his best man speech, causing a fight with the bride's family: 'I've been going to weddings my entire life, ain't nothing as bad as that'

Ben Weiss

31-year-old man tells 3-year-old son about his late bio grandmother, his father tries to force him into keeping quiet about the past to spare his second wife's feelings: ‘He's going crazy’

Lana DeGaetano

Las Vegas woman refuses her husband’s demand to move her family into her in-laws' chaotic Maine home: ‘Of the 4 bedrooms in the house, each bedroom has been filled with clutter to the point of them sleeping in their living room instead’

Etai Eshet

19-year-old daughter grows tired of younger stepsibling eating all the food in the house, decides to only cook meals for herself, leading mom to confront her: ‘You don't like them living here’

Bar Mor Hazut

14-year-old farmer refuses to take off her dirty cowgirl boots after feeding her animals, 17-year-old sister refuses to drive her anywhere if she doesn't comply, tells her she must take the school bus: 'She owns other shoes, my car has a cloth interior'

Emma Saven

College graduate cancels graduation dinner plans after 6 family members flake on their ceremony, one claiming the affair would be too ‘boring’: ‘Out of the 8 seats reserved, only my parents came’

Lana DeGaetano

"You're financially irresponsible": Parents withhold $130,000 from daughter's bank account despite it being rightfully hers, she grapples with what to do

Briana Viser

17-year-old tries to win step dad's approval through hard work but it's never enough: "My step dad is not going to let me have any free day till the end of summer"

Briana Viser

25-year-old refuses to give up her seat next to grandma at the family table for cousin and her boyfriend, leading cousin to make a scene: ‘You embarrassed me’

Bar Mor Hazut

16-year-old girl feels grandmother favors other grandkids, mother refuses to let grandmother see her: "She won't be coming back there next summer"

Briana Viser