family

‘I feel like I’m constantly being told I’m out of place in my own home’: Recently married woman tells mother-in-law to keep her decorative opinions to herself after an agonizing few months of her critiquing the woman's choices

Lana DeGaetano

‘Is it normal for moms to be jealous of their own daughters like this?’: Daughter makes $500 after working for her father and her mother loses it, falsely claiming that he never gives her any money

Lana DeGaetano

‘You have to give him back—he’s our family’: After a devastating breakup, woman finds comfort in a senior rescue dog—until his original owners demand he be returned, months after giving him up

Laurent Shinar

30-year-old man refuses to loan $15,000 to 33-year-old cousin's budding food truck business, family tries to guilt-trip him due to his success: "I thought you'd be more generous than that"

Ely Bulnes

Small salon shop owner overcome with heartwarming gratitude after her team throws her a surprise birthday party: ‘They don’t know that it’s the only birthday celebration I’ve had since I was 7…’

Elna McHilderson

Neighborhood mom gets blamed for "loading kids up on sugar" at her 6-year-old's birthday party, despite no one telling her food preferences: "I can't read minds"

Briana Viser

Family entitlement is passed on to older brother, little sister finally claps back after being guilt tripped into living with him and a leak springs: ‘[He had] wide eyes Pikachu face.’

Elna McHilderson

"I will always put my kids before you": Drama unfurls on Father's Day when 32-year-old single dad texts girlfriend unprompted that he prioritizes his kids, she separates herself

Briana Viser

26-year-old woman refuses to continue babysitting sister-in-law's kids after discovering she and MIL regularly criticize her, husband takes his sister's side: 'It's not a big deal'

Bar Mor Hazut

Expecting stepmom leaves family vacation after her husband constantly jokes that the new baby is going to replace him and his 10 and 13-year-old kids: '“I’ll miss when you used to have time for my kids.'

Emmy Pratt

26-year-old daughter refuses to go on the family beach house vacation after 23-year-old stepsister demands to get the bigger room and dad agrees: ‘He said I was being territorial’

Bar Mor Hazut

Brother and sister-in-law name their baby an identical "matching" name to couple's already-born baby, forcing them to change their baby's name: 'We'd pretend to keep the original name until there was zero risk of SIL changing my nephew's name'

Brad Dickson

Stepmother stops 18-year-old stepdaughter from using one of her cars after daughter's car breaks down, insisting she needs to get a job instead: 'She is now a lazy adult'

Bar Mor Hazut

7-year relationship on the line 6 months before wedding when 28-year-old man refuses to move states for girlfriend's promotion that would double her salary: "It's the kind of opportunity that doesn't come around often"

Ely Bulnes

67-year-old grandma wears two piece bikini to 19-year-old granddaughter's birthday party, 44-year-old daughter scolds her for not dressing her age despite teen's approval: "[It's] inappropriate for a woman [your] age to wear that"

Ely Bulnes

"I'm your son, not your backup plan": 16-year-old refuses to be the nurse his parents dreamed of for him and pursues media instead, causing family hostility

Briana Viser