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33-year-old son lashes out at parents’ favoritism after “golden child” sister gets $15,000 house payment: ‘That’s when I lost it. I told them I was sick of being treated like an afterthought’

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Woman discovers parents secretly took out $14,000 in student loans in her name, leaving her in debt with a destroyed credit score

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Mother-in-law throws crying tantrum over daughter-in-law’s no-shoes rule, and sends father-in- law to complain when emotional manipulation fails to work: ‘she feels like I’m “trying to assert dominance” over her in her son’s home. (Our home, actually.)’

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32-year-old sister-in-law pretends she was fired after quitting her job to move in with brother, gets kicked out when wife discovers the truth: ‘‘She didn't want to have an irresponsible reputation but still wants to stay with us to "sort things out."’

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Man demands brother feed his picky-eater children before family dinners after they refuse every meal, constantly insult his wife: ‘I told him we weren’t running a short-order kitchen and that my wife puts effort into these meals. He ended up not coming’

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Bride invites cousin’s ex-wife and bans his kids, pushing him to skip her wedding only to change her mind last minute: ‘All the drama got me rather exhausted with the whole situation’

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Woman refuses her fiancé’s stepmother’s attempts to use her to gain more family ties and bypass her stepson’s rejection: ‘She believes she's my future mother-in-law and we should be allies’

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Update: 68-year-old woman reunites with her bio family living across the globe, immediately guilted into caring for the mother who gave her away: ‘[Bio-mom] isa very strict and spiteful woman who treated the people who worked for her horribly”

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Judgmental parents dish out unsolicited diet advice, get sharp, humorous response from daughter that ends in a family feud: ‘My mom tried to make it about me lacking accountability for my own weight’

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‘Guests paying for their own food? Absolutely not’: Mother withholds wedding funds after daughter plans to make guests pay for their own rehearsal dinner

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Woman bans mother-in-law and brother-in-law from her home after a visit filled with insults and tears: ‘Spent the whole time insulting us, calling us fat, saying no one likes me, and that I’m going nowhere in life’

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68-year-old woman reunites with her bio family living across the globe, immediately guilted into caring for the mother who gave her away: ‘I don't love her, don't feel any emotional connection to her’

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16-year-old girl refuses father’s unfair babysitting demands as he insists she cancels plans to stay with her step-siblings, forcing him and stepmother to cancel theirs: ‘ I never signed up to be their babysitter’

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Mother demands to “borrow” son’s car indefinitely because she doesn’t want to take the bus, involves the whole family when her son refuses: ‘I stood my ground and said I won’t give my car away’

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Woman clashes with husband and sister-in-law over “men-only” trip that excludes her tomboy daughter from bonding with father, brother and cousin: ‘Sister-in-law said I’m being petty and controlling and ruining a good experience for the boys’

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Groom bans fiancée’s entire family from their wedding, calling them “embarrassing,” prompting his sister to side with the bride and expose his classist reasoning: 'Everything has exploded. She confronted him and is considering calling off the wedding’

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