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‘My mom said I was ungrateful’: Parents expect their 24-year-old to pay their bills after he moves out, but he refuses so he can finally become independent

Jesse Kessenheimer

Parents decide to get a kitten for their antisocial cat who hates everyone, and the senior cat makes a complete turnaround: 'Things have... changed.'

Mariel Ruvinsky

Dog whose best cat friend crossed the rainbow bridge is heartbroken, so his family adopts a kitten for him, and the sweet doggo slowly finds joy again

Mariel Ruvinsky

Stray cat decides to adopt a couple of humans, they resist, then they cave, and now, the ginger kitten steals their dog's bed on a regular basis

Mariel Ruvinsky

'I told him the day he was born was the worst day of my life': 62-year-old sister who helped deliver her younger brother 55 years ago gets upset when he tells the story of his birth at her 40th anniversary party

Emmy Pratt

32-year-old mom rents a room in friend's house, wants to ban friend from bringing men around her 12-year-old son: 'If you don't like who she brings home, you need to move out'

JR Atkinson

Mom constantly ignores introvert kids' request to not announce their birthdays, they give her a taste of her own medicine: 'My brother and I kept this up for months'

JR Atkinson

28-year-old exposes her parents' favoritism by hiding her job promotion from them so they never have a chance to make it about the Golden Child older sibling: 'Oh, your brother could afford a house at your age'

Jesse Kessenheimer

'I genuinely don't think he'd be a good culture fit': Woman in male-dominated field is hesitant to hire her former coworker who constantly belittled her

JR Atkinson

Man discovers through Walmart security cameras that girlfriend stole his iPad and tried reselling it, decides to forgive her but still files police report to try get it back, sparking relationship drama: 'I don’t wanna press charges, but the state will'

Emma Saven

Woman ices out friend for not supporting her "AI music career," friend refuses to engage: 'She's using plagiarized slop and pushing it off as something real'

JR Atkinson

'4 cats + 2 Dalmatians = perfect circus': Dog owner who has never had cats finds 4 lonely feral kittens outside, immediately falls in love with them, and now is going to adopt them all

Mariel Ruvinsky

23-year-old refuses to pay $20/day to stay in friend's apartment while she looks for a job, won't contribute anything to the household: 'Your friend is the one using you'

JR Atkinson

Wife safeguards her home from a freeloading 26-year-old brother-in-law, then her husband insists otherwise, so she leaves him in charge of babysitting the guests: 'He's responsible for cleaning, meals, entertainment, etc.'

Jesse Kessenheimer

16 and 18-year-old turn against Dad's new wife when she threatens to end the co-operative coparenting rhythm between their bioparents:

Jesse Kessenheimer

Man abandons loyal cat of 7 years because his new girlfriend is allergic to cats, then attempts to dump the cat on his ex-girlfriend before the new one moves in: 'I have never understood how people can just give away their pets'

Mariel Ruvinsky