#21

The trip was amazing, and I loved every second of it. Imagine my surprise when I get a text three days after coming back from my SIL telling me off and calling me rude and ungrateful cause I didn’t send her a text thanking her for “babysitting” on her own and having to do everything around her house for a whole week while I had fun with her husband (yup, that’s exactly how she worded it).
Perhaps that’s why it’s worth remembering that having children is a responsibility, not a credential. As Lazar puts it, “Many people consider their children their biggest achievement. And there’s nothing wrong with that, but producing the children is not the achievement. Raising them right is.” And that doesn’t look like “Change my child’s grade” or “Someone else will clean that up, sweetie.” It means teaching them to handle frustration, accept consequences, and solve problems without expecting the world to bend around them.
#22

My aunt sent me the following text from my estranged mother:
“Let your niece know the honeysuckle is in full bloom. We will not be home tomorrow if she wants to come get some then but I want a couple jars of her strawberry jam in exchange and I think -stepfather’s name- will want some honeysuckle when she makes it.”
Wow, the entitlement! I’d rather collect flowers sprayed with toxins and make jelly out of that. It would still be less toxic than her.
#23

Quick backstory: my mother didn't raise me and her parents did. She's always chosen guys and partying over me and my siblings. This is why CPS has taken all 3 of her kids away. Once I became an adult joined the military she would hit me up every couple of months asking me to give her different sums of money. She works but it's a BS job. Eventually I asked her why doesn't she get a real job and her response, "because I would be miserable doing that. Here I got to talk trash to people and have fun." That's all good if you can pay your bills, but she can't. She's done the same thing to my sister who was also in the military.
Anyway, I talk to her roughly 3 or 4 times a year. Last week she was asking me when I finish school where I will be moving to. I told her I don't know. Her response was "well wherever you go, you know I need a mother-in-law suite to stay at." My response was no I don't. After that, I got bombarded with how my generation doesn't know anything about respect and how I wasn't raised properly (mind you I was raised by the same people as her), also how my dad wanted an abortion and if it wasn't for her I wouldn't be here. After all that I said thanks, but I'm still never going to have an in-law suite for you. "Well enjoy your life," is the last thing she said before hanging up. I'm sure in a couple months she'll call asking for something again.
Sorry this so long.
#24

So I just found this reddit and I was reading some of the stories, and I was like, “hey I’ve got one!” Well here it is. My mom was and still is a crazy homophobic protester, like the one that’s at a pride festival with an offensive sign. She even told gay couples they couldn’t be like that because they might scar me. Anyways this was the summer after I graduated high school and was moving on to college, I had a boyfriend (we’re still together) and I always told my mom he was just a close friend. Then my mom told me we were going to go protest at a pride festival. I had had enough, so I began to think of a master plan. First I put on rainbow colored clothes, then put on some black pants and a hoodie, and made a protester sign with two layers so I could peel off the first. When we arrived at the festival I took out my sign and stood with the other protesters, once my mom came over I ran over to the parade, took off my hoodie and pants, revealing the rainbow outfit. Man I will never forget the look on her face! Then I peeled off the first layer of the sign which made it say, “HI MOM!” That was the best day of my life! My mom just walked away, got into her car and drove away. Even though I had to wait half an hour for my friend to come pick me up, I still remember that day as the greatest day of my life. here’s the picture of me at the parade.
As Lazar adds, “You don’t get moral credit for creating dependency. You get responsibility, and that responsibility is not transferable. It doesn’t spill into restaurants, airplanes, workplaces, or strangers’ lives unless you force it there—and we all know people don’t enjoy coercion.”
Parents can ask for consideration, support, and the occasional helping hand. What they can’t reasonably assume is that everyone else is obligated to rearrange their lives around their child. Your child may be the center of your universe. That’s perfectly normal. But it doesn’t mean they have to become the center of everyone else’s.
#25
My Entitled Dad is a hardcore conservative and hardcore Christian. I’m very much neither of these things. He invited me over to family dinner Sunday night, and I was hesitant to go, being it was two days before the election. I decided to put aside politics in favor of family and love, and opted to avoid all topics around the subject during dinner, knowing it was an emotional and incendiary subject for all of us. Dad, however, did not. He couldn’t resist, and started talking about the Trump rally he attended. I sighed and let it pass. At the end of the evening, I also received a heavy guilt trip about why I don’t come over to their house very often.
The next morning, I texted him. I tried to be honest, and told him the reason I don’t come over very often was because he couldn’t avoid talking politics, despite him knowing how much it bothered me.
He responded back saying, “I will not be muffled in my own house!” He said the decision to avoid the subject, or avoid seeing him was mine. “I guess your sister will tell you when I’ve died.”
Muffled? I was enraged, thinking of all the things I’ve hid about myself for 40 years, afraid of encountering his rage around his religion. I had enough. I decided to shoot him a text with a long list of the things about myself I’ve kept “muffled” from him for my entire life:
Bisexual Polyamorous relationship Medical stuff smoker Wiccan Had an abortion My boyfriend I’ve dated for 8 years (dad disapproves)
I told him I’ve muffled more about myself than I’ve ever showed him, to the point of I don’t even know how to talk to him, for all the topics I’ve got to avoid.
After dropping all those bombshells in a single text.....I haven’t heard back from him.
#26

TL;DR Stepmother wears white to a wedding, bride tells her she's rude
So I was at a wedding today that was a mess from the word go. The bride was beautiful, it was hot as hell, and yet she still shone.
Her groom was 35 minutes late TO THE WEDDING VENUE, but she didn't let that bother her.
Their kids (they were married before to each other,) kept talking and walking around, once the 3 year old almost toppled into the pond. The bride was graceful and all smiles.
It was mentioned that this was an unplugged wedding, but her dad, and his mom BOTH stood up and took photos interrupting the ceremony. The bride laughed and carried on.
It appeared it was going to be a perfect day, then she saw her step mom. The 70-something lady was wearing a white gown!!!! Who does that? Seriously! I was appalled by it, and I even text messaged my husband (who wasn't there,) beforehand to tell him! The bride refused (understandably,) to talk to the lady! She (the entitled mother,) made a huge deal that "MY DAUGHTER won't talk to me today, and it BREAKS MY HEART!"
The bride was epic though, she finally looked at the 70+ baby, and said "My 3 year old knows that you don't make scenes like that in public without repercussions!" The EM acted shocked and said "Well I don't know what you mean!" The beautiful bride just said "You know full well that you don't wear white to a wedding, so sit down, shut up, and have fun, or leave!" I was impressed!
Not as climatic as some, but it was amazing in person!
Edit: There seems to be some confusion, so I'll attempt to clear a few things up.
I am not the bride, I haven't been a bride in well over a decade
I realize in some cultures this is not a big deal, even within the USA, however in my area of the United States, this is considered rude, and disgusting behavior, and since her stepmother has been her stepmom for 20+ years, she knew this wasn't appropriate. It is commonly known by the MAJORITY of people that women don't wear all white gowns to a wedding. It was not a traditional ball gown, but a gown nonetheless. White is reserved for the bride only, and it's considered rude, and a slight to the bride to wear white.
I worded it poorly, it should've read "Their kids..." as the 40+ year old couple were married before to each other, and had multiple children together
This is indeed my experience, I'm sure there's been other stories about people wearing white, maybe even a mom/mother-in-law/stepmom/cousin/sister/friend, but I experienced this yesterday, if were going to rip off someone else's story it would've been more epic than the daughter just telling her stepmother to shut up, seriously!
I wrote this on my cell, sounds like the formatting blew, sorry, I don't post much on here! So I updated my formatting and added TL;DR
#27

For the record I’m 25, I’ve moved out and live with my girlfriend. My mother is constantly smothering me and making me feel bad about not wanting to go over to her house every single week. Calls me and yells at me over the phone guilt trips me etc. Sometimes I just want to chill at my own place and not have to do anything social. I try talking to her about how I feel and she just says I’m a bad son and I should feel ashamed for how I “treat her”. I just don’t know what to do it’s like this for my brother too and the guilt tripping just gives me anxiety I really can’t do it anymore. I’m not obligated to do anything I don’t want to and I know that but I just wish she would get it. Sorry if this is a rambling post I just wanted somewhere to vent if you read this thanks for reading I love you
EDIT: Dang this really took off! Thank you all for the comments, advice, and links to support groups this has been very helpful. I am working with my brother on laying down some ground rules and hopefully this will help her understand what she is doing. I appreciate this sub for everything!
#28

I was playing on a minecraft server with 5 friends at the time this happened and this new kid joined our game and our Skype call. He kept breaking our builds and demanding we give him stuff.
We originally decided to ban him, but we wanted to have some fun, so we kept ending him. The Skype call was basically 6 guys laughing and a little kid screaming, calling us hackers.
We were talking on Skype when EM called.
"LET MY SON PLAY ON THE SERVER, YOU UNGRATEFUL JERKS!"
"No," we all said at the same time.
"MY HUSBAND IS A LAWYER AND HE WILL SUE YOU AND I WILL CALL THE POLICE FOR HARASSMENT!"
"Shut up, lady!"
"DON'T YOU TALK TO ME LIKE THAT! MY SON DESERVES ALL YOUR ITEMS MORE THAN ALL OF YOU COMBINED!"
"get lost, woman!"
"YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SWEAR! ONLY ADULTS ARE ALLOWED TO USE THAT KIND OF LANGUAGE!"
One of us makes a christian minecraft server meme and she gets really pissed.
"HOW DARE YOU INSULT MY RELIGION! YOU ARE ALL GOING TO HELL!"
"ALRIGHT. WHERE DO YOU LIVE?"
We start making up addresses like "69 st" and "420 get lost ave".
"THAT'S IT! I'M LEAVING!"
"About time."
She left and blocked us.
Me and my friends still joke about that incident.
Edit: Thanks for the awards!
Edit edit: to all you people from Pyro's video, yes, I am Pielord.
#29

Title says it all.
My now fiancé said that my mom told her husband that she wanted to upgrade hers the moment she saw the ring my fiancé picked for me when he asked for their blessing. “Time for an upgrade!” Is exactly what she said. It’s been a few weeks and they went to get a quote on her ring (which at first I was fine with and kind of teased her because I thought it was silly she was jealous) to trade it in. I told her as long as it didn’t look like mine and they both confirmed it wouldn’t be as she liked a different cut. Well she came out with a massive similar shaped stone with a huge/thick band made of smaller diamonds( but still larger than average, mind you.) they sent all us a photo of it, and it’s nuts how much they spent on it. When I asked her why she really needed such a large piece she told me I didn’t deserve to have a larger ring than hers because I’m not even married yet, so they agreed to get her a bigger one because she “earned it.” First of all, I think this is insane to equate your self worth to a ring, but what? And secondly, they said they had been having money problems and the amount they spent seems irresponsible. I just wanted to vent a little and see if anyone has had something similar happen.
Edit: took out some specific details that might identify me if this gets too big. Also thanks for the awards! I am going to let this roll off my back now, and just enjoy the engaged life and wedding planning with (hopefully) as little drama possible.
#30

Alright so, a few warnings: first post, on mobile, etc. blah blah blah. You get it, you’ve seen these stories before. Gonna try to keep it clean.
LET US BEGIN!
So a few weeks ago I was in a grocery store, right? Nothing unusual. I had a particularly rough day and so I wasn’t in the mood for dressing up, just a blue t-shirt from one of my old schools, shorts, and sneakers. I had just finished getting everything I needed when I got into line. That’s when I saw Ep.
Now, this woman only had two things in her cart. Her toddler, a little boy who was probably around 3, and way, WAAYYYY too much booze. I mean like the whole cart section of the cart was absolutely filled with bottles. Also, worth mentioning that this woman (probably mid thirties) was wearing a hot pink CROP TOP. Alright, that’s pretty bad, but it’s not my business and I’m not in the mood to argue with someone.
She pays for her things and begins to leave, so I begin to do the same. I’m at the card chip reader when I feel a tap on my shoulder. I turn around, and the trouble begins.
Me: hello ma’am, can I help you?
Em: yes, I was wondering if you could change your shirt.
Me: (dumbfounded) I’m sorry, what?
Em: well, blue is not a girls color and I don’t want my son to get the wrong idea about what is acceptable to wear.
Me: I’m sorry, I will not be doing that. If you want your son to learn those types of things you can do it at your house, but I’m allowed to wear whatever I feel like wearing.
Em: oh, don’t be so unladylike! Just change out of that shirt!
Me: I will if you can give me one good reason.
Em: blue is not for girls!
Me: okay well, crop tops aren’t for witches, but you’re here.
At this point I just made sure I had everything and walked away. I heard her mutter something to the cashier as I left but I couldn’t hear her and I honestly don’t care.
#31
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I'm not sure if this counts but here you go. My parents are a special brand of stupid, this happened a few weeks ago so bare with me.
Me: 16F
Mom:43
I was sitting in my room doing schoolwork when my mom came in. Now in my room, I have my privacy. I wasn't in a google meet or anything or in class (I take online classes) so I wasn't wearing a bra. Now because of my chest size, 38E, It's very noticeable when I'm not wearing a bra unless I was wearing an oversized shirt, which I normally do even if I am wearing one.
My mom came into my room and when she noticed that I wasn't wearing a bra she began yelling at me, telling me I should be more of a lady. I kind of just sat there and stared at her before going back to my schoolwork. She began to yell at me even more for ignoring her and slammed my computer shut so I had to listen to her. I didn't even get a word in to tell her to leave me alone, she just said, "From now on, if you don't wear a bra you're grounded."
Now, normally I do wear them but mine are a little too small at the moment, and my parents keep putting me off to get new ones so they're very uncomfortable to wear. I'm unsure if I'm complaining for no reason or if my mom is just trying to find something new to yell at me for. Advice?
Edit: Many one many people are asking me why I don't get one myself. It's because I don't have access to my accounts. My parents keep my debit cards in their wallets and then take those with them to work. The only time I ever get them is if I'm going out with friends, and even then they monitor what I get, or if I'm with them and they're standing right there. No I haven't done anything to warrant this. I'm actually a penny pincher and hide cash in my room, maybe like twenty bucks, so I don't have the urge to spend it and it's a surprise for later.
Edit 2: Thank you everyone for your help and kind words, I'll be sure to update when I have more news for you. Right now I managed to convince my mom to take me out to get at least one bra, however I still have to wait a few weeks for it.
Final Edit: This is the last update. I've taken many people's advice to fast track the shopping trip and over all just being petty by wearing the bras on my head like ears whenever I'm asked to put one on. My mother took me out and got me bras that actually fit. Thank you again for all your love and support!
#32
I know the title makes me seem like the entitled one, but hear me out. My dads girlfriend of about 8 months now got really mad at me this morning because I said I didn’t want to mow the lawn today. Granted it isn’t hard work, but I have a lot of other things I have to do today. I have to go to my neighbors and help her with her sprinklers because she physically can’t do it herself because of her age and her physical problems, I have to help my girlfriends dad move a ton of stuff to storage, and I also have to go into work today because one of my friends called off sick and I told him I’d cover for him. I told her I’d just do it tomorrow because it’s easy work and she lost her mind saying how I have to do what she says. I tell her that if she wants it done so badly that HER son can do it. (He’s 15 and does nothing around the house besides making messes that I have to clean). She gets even more mad and starts yelling at me that I need to give her my phone, my iPad, my switch and every other electronic that I own. I tell her to eat shit, I didn’t like that I did but she was pissing me off, and I went out to go let my chickens out like I usually do every morning. Can someone tell me if I was in the wrong for saying that I’ll just do it tomorrow? Or is she the crazy one?
Edit 1: So I talked to her a little bit ago, and I told her flat out that if things don’t change in the house that I will talk to my dad about charging you rent. I told her that I wasn’t ok with how she was trying to push me around and that if it continued I would stop doing anything she needs. She tried to talk over me a few times but I raised my voice the a way a teacher would to get everyone’s attention and it shut her up really quick. I think we came to an agreement, but just in case I had a voice recording of the whole conversation that I had with her. So if I have to, I will show it to my dad and let him decide.
Edit 2: This is just an update from my other edit. I had a talk with my dad, his girlfriend, and her son. I explained to my dads girlfriend that I have been super busy with work and many other things and I asked if either her or her son could maybe help me around the house. She said that her and her son would help when necessary and she apologized for how she’s been acting while she’s been with my dad and I. So far she’s been fine, has been helping me with different things, has been helping me with cooking, and she is even looking for a job nearby. Her son is now starting to take more initiative and has offered to do part of the mowing on the weekends. I’m surprised that she apologized but I’m still a little iffy with her because people can change pretty easily. Hopefully things get better and so far things have been better
#33

my mom is not really good at cooking but instead of improving or acknowledging that her food isn’t really great she invents or imagines that it’s our favorite. she will always say “we need to make your favorite chicken dish” or “that’s your favorite casserole!!” “we haven’t made your favorite soup in a while!” to my sister, dad and me. sometimes we’ll say we don’t really like it and she will insist “but you always liked it so much last time!!” while pouting and acting angry. it’s funny because we just politely eat it and sometimes my dad throws his away in the trash. yet even if we ask her to stop making it or even to make something else she always insists she will make it for us because it’s our birthday or whatever. she also has things like favorite desserts, movies, candy (i hate sugary food), flowers, scents, even animals or cars that she assigns to us. i initially thought it was just whatever she likes and she assumed that we must like it because she does, same with things she dislikes. but the main thing is she seems to have assigned specific things to each family member based on imaginary criteria and she thinks it’s what we like despite having no evidence whatsoever. my sister and i have long stopped telling her what we like or dislike because we know she will just ignore it.
#34
She also ruined his relationship with his brother because MIL constantly tells him my husband doesn’t do enough.
How can I help fix this??? More info....
My husband works 50 hours a week and travels out of town often, has other property, vehicles, our own family and house to take care of.... we never ever ask MIL for anything. We take her out for dinner and pay once or twice a month and buy her nice things on Mother’s Day and her bday and buy her things she needs like recently special bulbs, a walker, portable potty....
His brother works part time, lives in his friends basement, just got a car from MIL and she pays his auto insurance, gas plus for his phone and health insurance. He takes her garbage out, changes light bulbs, cooks for her once a week, does other chores for her.
So apparently she has been complaining to his brother about how my husband doesn’t do enough and how we didn’t visit her during covid(!?). Now brother said he is never talking to us again.
My husband spoke to her and she basically doesn’t think she did anything wrong. And she actually lied about the scene at first to try to defend the brother.
#35
I (21 FtM) work at a convenience store/gas station in a pretty conservative section of my city. As the title implies, I'm gay. Gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide. I'm discreet at work around customers, but I'd answer some of my coworker's questions, since I'm the first openly trans gay guy most people meet.
At the time, I'd only been working there for about 1.5 months, and corona wasn't a thing yet.
One specific coworker, S, was asking about my boyfriend, A. I'm always delighted to gush about him, so, I did. S did her usual "aww, that's so sweet you two are cute" type thing, we both went back to doing our jobs, and the rest of the shift only had normal gas station nonsense. All was well.
Or was it?
S's mom had apparently heard about me talking to S about my man somehow and was out for blood. She's a literal Karen, haircut and everything, only very aggressively Texan. She's also a military wife. This is EM.
EM came storming in the next day with S and dragged the GM outside. I wasn't working that day, so I don't have specific dialogue, only the gist of what GM told me later when I worked next.
Outside, EM started yelling at GM about how I'm disgusting and going to taint her daughter because I'm gay and don't have a disco stick, culminating in telling him he needed to fire me because of the conversation S and I had had. Poor S was standing there also, probably wanting to melt into the ground as her mom reamed out her boss (doubt it's the first or the last time it's happened). GM somehow mollified EM and got her to leave, so everyone could go back to normal.
My next shift, GM pulls me aside and asked for my side of events. I told him that I was just answering a question S had asked. Then, he told me about the meeting with EM and asks me to be more careful with phrasing to keep things hush hush. Didn't get fired, or even written up. Still work there, so does S (who is bi and out by the way).
Oh, one thing I forgot to mention.
EM is a lesbian.
#36
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Hi. It’s currently 3 am and atm I am sitting in the back of my moms car because the monoxide alarm went off a whole THREE TIMES before she got my family out. I was basically begging her to get us out and she scolded me because apparently her intelligence was insulted because I told her we shouldn’t be ignoring it. What does she do? Scold me and tell me to go back to bed. 15 minutes later the alarm goes off again. Of course it does. By the time I’m getting dressed and telling my brother to get out of the house, she finally decides to tell us to leave. As if we weren’t gonna do that. Keep in mind that I(14 years old) had to get my brother ready to leave because she thought opening the windows would keep us safe. She’s been neglectful before but this is a ne low. I’m already nauseous and in pain and when I tell her this, she gets angry again at me because apparently I sounded too aggressive.
Sorry for venting about it here. I’m just sick of her acting like this it’s disgusting. She could’ve gotten my brother and the rest of us hurt.
#37
I (14 non-binary) was talking to my mom (43 cis f) yesterday after my brothers high school graduation and I noticed his diploma was sitting on the dining room table and I thought he just left it so I ask, "hey mom, brother left his diploma! Do you want me to call him to pick it up or do you want me to walk to our other house and drop it off?" Which my mom replied with "neither, the diploma is mine" .. which did catch me off guard a little but I managed to mutter out "what..?" And she said AND I QUOTE "I DESERVE my kids high school diploma's because I birth y'all and raised y'all. So it's my actchivement".. y'all right then and there I was not able to deny how manipulative my mother is anymore.
#38
#39
I'm adopted and my adoptive mother has always been very thin. She's currently a size 6 and freaking out that she's morbidly obese.
Needless to say I did not have the best relationship to food and weight growing up. I hit puberty early and blossomed with hips, backside and chest.
By the time I was 14, I was 130 lb with rather large chest. I was measured as a DDD at a bra store
My mother refused to believe this and completely freaked out because it was utterly unreasonable that mine were bigger than hers.
I would have to cup my chest with my hands to prevent them from spilling out of the bra when I bent over. I couldn't run or jump without them bouncing out.
My mother thought this meant that I needed an underwire bra and so she bought me a bunch and insisted I wear them, rather than be less painful non wired bras.
Do you have any idea how uncomfortable it is to be wearing and A cup when you're a DDD?
I literally have scars under my breast and it decides of them from the underwire digging in so deeply. It's been years and I'm still not over it. I'm still very bitter and upset. Every time I look at myself naked in the mirror, I see those scars on my side and I get angry
#40
So, my parents are not as bad as other parents, but with how many times stuff like this has happened I think this story belongs here.
I got in trouble for having a migraine on my own birthday. Let me explain how, It was my 13th birthday and my sister never shut up. I asked her to stop, she didn't. I got a screaming migraine. 4 days later it's my sister's birthday. Since I still had the migraine I didn't want to be nice to my sister.
Me:"I'm sorry SHE gave me this migraine"
My Dad:"It's your fault because YOU yelled at her so much" (mind you I didn't yell at her at all)
My mom:"Go up to my room NOW!"
A few moments later and a "stern talking to" I'm in my room crying my eyes out.
TL;DR:I got in trouble for having a migraine on my own birthday even though it was my sister's fault.
Edit: Okay I know this is cringey, but I have to thank the kind strangers who gave me an award.
Edit 2: I just want to clear things up, where I said "I didn't want to be nice to her" is because I was being forced to be overly nice to her. Another thing is, where I mentioned the migraine last 4 days it had calmed down into a headache by my sister's birthday, but it got worse because of the yelling. I have also seen people saying migraine's can't be caused by loud noises, while I dont know if this is true or not I have been having migraines for a while now. Also, I have seen stuff about how the oldest child is always the one in trouble, I am not the oldest I'm actually a middle child. Hopefully this cleared things up for people.
Edit 3: Okay I want to clear another thing up, my dad usually isn't like this. He just was annoyed at me and has been suffering from anger issues his entire life, he has gotten it taken care of but only a few times it shows. I also want to mention I also have anger issues and when I get mad I usually end up crying because I feel bad. That is what happend on my sister's birthday. I apologized and I went back to my room with my electronics taken away for the day. I also looked into how migraines happen, Hormonal changes in women, sleep changes, stress to which I was suffer form all of those at that time. Mind you I am in no way an expert.
Edit 4(I didn't want to make this many edits): I've seen some comments saying that I only avoided my sister in her birthday just to be petty, to where those comments are wrong, I locked myself in my room only going out for the essentials.

