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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

Grandma tells 40-year-old mom she likes her 4-year-old daughter more than her 3-year-old daughter: 'She didn't see anything wrong with saying that she preferred one of them.'

Emmy Pratt

Single mom resents 17-year-old daughter for going on a school trip and leaving her alone for her 60th birthday: 'She hasn’t acknowledged the fact that I will be completely alone for my birthday.'

Emmy Pratt

28-year-old dines out with mom, uncle, and 11-year-old cousin, uncle flips out when nobody will pay for his son: 'I'm never going out to eat with him again'

Ally Perry

Single mom demands roommates take her 8-year-old son on their road trip, they refuse, she bans them from using the shared kitchen in response: ‘You're being selfish’

Bar Mor Hazut

Extended family insist on attending 30-year-old's doctoral graduation in Miami, shun her when she refuses to pay for their accommodation: 'I was on the naughty list for canceling [the] vacation'

Ally Perry

Aunt and uncle insist on getting custody of their 8-year-old niece for Thanksgiving and Christmas despite not contacting her for the entire year since her father's passing: 'They said I was keeping her away from them.'

Emmy Pratt

Mom demands ex-husband takes 4-year-old son with different partner on vacation with long-distance girlfriend and kids, gets upset when they don't want to take him: 'The kids don't want to babysit on all our trips'

Ally Perry

Dad allows his 7-year-old daughter to stay up all night after she constantly resisted her 10 PM bedtime, cries from exhaustion during her after-school activities: 'My wife questioned my parenting technique.'

Emmy Pratt

35-year-old single woman skips Thanksgiving after her mom calls her an embarrassment for not having a husband and kids by now: 'Everyone else has a family. Doesn't that make you lonely?'

Emmy Pratt

27-year-old vilified when she cancels a romantic vacation with her boyfriend to Japan because his mother decided to tag along: 'This is OUR trip, she invited herself without permission'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Mom pressures 16-year-old son to see his 16-year-old stepsister as his sibling because she's paranoid they'll start dating if they don't feel like siblings: 'They treat us like siblings and want us to feel like siblings, but we don't.'

Emmy Pratt

German parents force 18-year-old to use $4K of his birthday money on his drivers license, let his twin sister keep all $4,500 of her birthday money: 'They’ve always told me that they‘d pay for my driver's license for me.'

Emmy Pratt

'Don’t correct him, it disrupts his autonomy': Gentle-parenting mom lets her 5 and 3-year-old destroy her sister's house, until the aunt finally snaps after her nephew pours orange juice on her carpet

Jesse Kessenheimer

College student refuses to use her new credit card to buy her mom new clothes and shoes, mom demands the card back: ‘I’ll keep it so I can use it when needed’

Bar Mor Hazut

Wife ends 28 years of marriage after husband retires early, but leaves her carrying all the bills, moving house, and handling family crises: ‘He promised me when I moved up here that he would always take care of things’

Etai Eshet