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‘[It] started feeling like surveillance with a smile’: Clingy older sibling repeatedly follows their younger sibling using location sharing on Life360, so the youngest decides to stop sharing their whereabouts with the whole family

Lana DeGaetano

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'Choices have consequences': Divorced dad plans family vacation, refuses to take 14 and 16-year-old kids because they sided with ex in custody dispute

Ally Perry

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Mother blames her 17-year-old daughter for ruining her marriage when daughter refuses to let stepfather act like her real dad, he leaves the two of them: 'I'm not gonna wait around for you to feel differently at 40'

Briana Viser

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'Don't ever talk to me again': 17-year-old girl finds her 12-year-old stepsister reading her private journal and mocking her, 17-year-old freaks out but bio dad takes stepsister's side

Briana Viser

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Childfree friends tell mom of a 12-day-old baby that she's spoiling her by holding her while she sleeps: 'How does one spoil a newborn baby???'

Emmy Pratt

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She texts me from random numbers asking for money’: Man cuts contact with narcissistic mother after she racks up nearly $50k in credit card debt in his stepfather's name, gets into a screaming match with his wife, and irresponsibly purchases an $1800 dog

Lana DeGaetano

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‘His best friend!’: New parents thought the first day of school would be the hardest on them, but it's their dog who sits sadly all day waiting for his favorite boy to come home

Elna McHilderson

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'Your mother sounds insufferable': Mom sneaks cinnamon in apple crumble 18-year-old is baking despite their known hatred of it

JR Atkinson

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‘He’s a mother now': Woman adopts a tiny orange kitten and is surprised when her boy cat steps up to be the best father ever

Elna McHilderson

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'I am perhaps being petty, but I don't want to give him the money': Stepdad refuses to contribute to stepson's college fund despite funding his 3 biokids, stepson flips out

JR Atkinson

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Husband and his family try to guilt his pregnant wife into bringing their 4-year-old daughter to soccer practice every Saturday morning, despite the wife's busy schedule and chronic illness: ‘I’m at my personal capacity’

Lana DeGaetano

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Unemployed 28-year-old lives on his dad's farm rent-free, assumes he'll be able to move into his brother's house after their dad kicks him out: 'I can't see him homeless, but I can't take him in either.'

Emmy Pratt

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‘Guess who's not invited ever again?’: Couple briefly meets a woman while on vacation in Japan and a year later, she demands to stay at their NYC home for five nights and wants payment for souvenirs she bought them

Etai Eshet

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30-year-old daughter-in-law working for mother-in-law's family farm business quits job after MIL accuses her of trying to take over, leading to a family dispute: ‘I’ve stepped back completely’

Bar Mor Hazut

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16-year-old demands his divorced parents show up to his school competition together despite them being no contact, his step parents get involved and refuse to let relative spouse see the other: 'I always wished they could go to the same thing'

Briana Viser

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Father refuses to let 14 and 16-year-old kids join his vacation to Europe after they side with their mom during the custody dispute: ‘You chose to spend your time with your mother, you got what you wanted’

Bar Mor Hazut

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