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Mom of 3 refuses to replace chaotic 21-year-old nanny after she throws the dog a birthday party 3 months early, husband pushes for more structure: ‘I think she is a great fit for our family and the kids absolutely love the chaos’

Being a scapegoat is not easy, especially if you are one in your family. This Redditor wonders how to soften what she confessed to her family (that she is almost never included), and I think it might be time to stop explaining and explore other groups of people. Dynamics, to continue functioning, have to be fed through both sides; if one stops, the dynamic can't perpetuate itself.

32-year-old woman is the only one not invited to stay in an Airbnb with family on vacation: ‘They go to dinners without me all the time, do things that I specifically say I’d like to do, and claim they forgot to invite me’

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After 5 years, daughter finally refuses to be the only one putting money, time, and effort into her mom's birthday, the rest of the family throws a tantrum: ‘It was my labor with everyone else’s name on it.’

Elna McHilderson

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25-year-old son keeps his mom’s secret affair from his dad for 15 years and now feels guilty, internet assures him it's not his fault: “I didn't want him to feel hurt”

Giuliana Tiscioni

Sometimes gifts come with weird expectations attached. Well, they’re not exactly ‘weird’, but one typically assumes that a gift is a gift and it doesn’t have a receipt, but it does. In the majority of cases, it most certainly does. This is one of those stories in which, to me, both parties are equally in the wrong; therefore, they’re also equally in the right, if you know what I mean, so I will dedicate my time to elaborating each sister’s perspective (or at least my idea of it, of course).

Woman spends all Saturday baking a cake for her sister's birthday, only for her to tell all her guests she got it from the local bakery, so she takes it back home with her: 'She rolled her eyes and said, "Does it really matter?"'

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I have no idea why this is so common; I’ve heard and watched so many related stories. Mothers-in-law are, not for nothing, represented in so many folk tales like this. They act very jealous with their sons; they sabotage relationships; they always present themselves as ‘the one who knows best’, and every time a husband is on their side, you are sure to lose.

Bride-to-be specifically asks her wedding guests to wear any colour but white and green for the ceremony and mother-in-law buys two white and green dresses: '“It’s like champagne” she said as she looked it up, and I just knewwww!!'

Very often, our parents want to help us or gift us something to make our lives easier, and they end up making it way more complicated. When we're offered something like this, we tend to accept because we want THEM to feel they are collaborating in some way, not because we really want what's being gifted to us.

Bride allows her mother to organize an afterparty for townhall ceremony and it results in inlaws refusing to attend: 'I instantly panicked and started blaming myself. I figured I must have said something to offend her or made her feel unwelcome somehow.'

We all use the strategies we can to obtain what we want. In a world where money doesn’t grow on trees, it seems that some people are willing to push logic to its very edges to feel like they’re entitled to something. This sister-in-law didn’t waste a second of her time debating whether she was in the wrong; she knew it was ridiculous from the start, but hey, she got to experience her present for ten long years, right?

Woman demands sister-in-law to return a kindle her father lended to her more than a decade ago: 'He said she was tripping (not his words but, you know) and that IF I chose to "return" it, the conditions weren't specified'

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Woman decides she is not hosting this year's family 4th of July party after her sister turned up 3 hours late with 8 uninvited guests last year: 'I had to rebuy food twice to cover everyone'

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Mother refuses to let her 18-year-old daugther go on a trip to Miami with her boyfriend: 'We know she's legally an adult, but she still lives at home'

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Homeowner lets 21‑year‑old relative live with her, but she secretly books expensive hotels over “noise” and sends her dad to complain instead of speaking up: ‘She thinks my house is unreasonably loud when it is just me living there'

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Sometimes doing a good deed can get out of hand. At first, you do it because you can and because it has a positive impact on the other person; then you begin to wonder whether the positive impact would be to let that same person be aware of their reality and where they stand, even though it can hurt a little at first.

34-year-old man secretly pays for his 28-year-old brother's credit card debt and now his brother thinks he is a financial genius: 'Last week, he told our parents he's writing a BOOK about personal finance'

There are always many sides to a story, and depending on which you tell it from, it benefits one side or the other. In this son’s particular case, I don’t think it’s even that problematic; the person he messed with was doing something bad. He wonders whether or not he should have stepped into the situation at all.

Son defends father of being kicked out by digging into coordinator's records and finding shady information: 'My dad says I did the right thing but part of me wonders if I shouldve just let him handle it his own way instead of getting involved like that'

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Distant family member ends up saving his cousin’s wedding after unknowingly agreeing to be a groomsman for a man he hardly knows: ‘Couldn't hear a conversation at a loud party, [but] kept nodding…’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Computer science student rescues a cat outside of his university and unintentionally names him after his classmate, now class is awkward: ‘Everyone looked at me strangely…’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Brides share the ridiculous outfits their monster in-laws wore to their wedding: ‘[She wore] a sarree… Neither side of the family is from India.’

Elna McHilderson