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Company demands employees come into work on the weekend to help move the entire office, offer pizza as a reward in place of overtime: 'Manager said that nobody is being “forced” but they’ll remember who helped when performance reviews come around'

I think we’ve all liked a friend at some point in our lives, and we can all agree it always gets very confusing. When we like someone a lot, we naturally don’t want to lose them, so we will likely say yes to keeping them as a friend even though we want more.

Woman shares “unpopular advice” for dealing with a friend who has a crush on you: ‘They'll usually lie about their feelings going away, because they want continued access (even if it hurts them). And they WILL resent you’

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'What do I do with my "poor" friend?': Wealthy woman is fed up with lower-income friend's constant judgements on her purchases

I have a theory about kitchens and roommates Look, I’ve lived in many houses with many roommates, and kitchens have always been the center of conflict for some reason.

Woman doesn’t know how to keep her invasive roommate away while she’s cooking: ‘He also keeps trying to make convo, lingers, and literally watches me prepare dinner when I just wanna focus, chill, and not make conversation’

I’ve ended relationships for much smaller reasons I think part of our mandatory emotional education should be that we’re allowed to end any relationship we want for whatever reason we choose.

Woman struggles to find a good enough reason to break up with a friend: ‘99% of our conversations revolve around her life, her problems, her interests, and the things happening with her’

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Entitled friend asks a friend to pick her up at the airport, changes the flight and arrival time without telling her and gets upset when the friend refuses to adjust to last minute changes: 'She felt like I'd left her stranded'

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I don’t think overreacting is the right word for what happened in this story How a person handles money is as important as how they handle many other things. And knowing how people manage their income is a crucial part of getting to know them.

Woman disappointed with how her friend handles money: ‘It also hit a nerve because I’ve had this issue with family too, where people seem to assume that because I have nice things, I can just absorb costs’

He transformed a cheap, ridiculous college memory into ancestral culture. You gotta give it to him; he is an artist We all do this when we want to impress somebody

Man tells his friend's girlfriend where the family’s pasta recipe really came from: ‘I laughed and said we originally got it off the back of a pasta box in college. The table went completely quiet’

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Birthday blues I don’t know about you guys, but for me, birthdays are the most sensitive days. What they say is true: if you don’t cry at least once, it’s not your birthday. I remember once I cried only because I THOUGHT nobody was going to come (I think only two people texted me saying they couldn’t make it).

Woman decides to cut all her friends off because they bailed on her on her birthday: ‘I know people say “show up for yourself,” and I can. I always do. But for once I wanted someone ELSE to show up for me’

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Coworker bails on her friend, lies to cancel their plans together and gets annoyed when the friend refuses to cover her shift so she can go out: 'I also don't feel obligated to rearrange my schedule'

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I swear to God, this is somewhat normal behaviour in the ‘fitness community’. Why are they so obsessed with making everyone else follow their strict eating habits and rules?

Man Returns Home After a 12-hour Shift, And His Roommate’s Girlfriend Had Thrown Away His Food: ‘She’d thrown away my frozen pizzas, Hot Pockets, and chips because they are "literal poison," and she wanted the apartment to eat cleaner’

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Is it a boundary or a form of coercion? I can’t tell! I believe some people can’t tell the difference between a genuine, heartfelt boundary and an entitled claim.

‘I was just sharing my sadness with her about my own break-up and how I wanted to heal/move on, but she flipped it and made it about her and her ex’: 32-year-old Woman Threatens to End Friendship if Friend Goes to a Conference Her Ex Will Be At

we often stop having a friend and end up with someone who constantly asks for our advice, and then disappears to prioritize their romantic relationship. We only see them when their relationship is going south or when they’re single; we get excited, then it happens again, and they fall head over heels for someone they’ve known for two weeks, tops.

22-year-old Woman is Exhausted by Friend’s Relationship-Hopping Tendencies: ‘With Every Relationship, There's Always Plans on Moving in Together in an Entirely Different State Qith No Real Savings on Her End at Least’

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Friends tell 26-year-old who has never had a job and lives at home with his low-income parents that it's morally wrong for him not to seek employment: 'I have anxiety.'

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Ticket buyer keeps $40 apology voucher for himself after cancelled comedy show, refunds friends for their $80 tickets, then one friend demands a cut and he refuses: 'I took the financial risk'

If we’re giving therapy sessions, we should start charging for them We should keep this in mind: not everyone in our lives is our friend. With some people, we share far more time than we should, but once we see that, we can’t unsee it, and we have to act.

Woman realizes her ‘best friend’ is using her as an emotional dump but never shares anything important about her life: ‘Worse, she treats her actual life like a classified secret. Whenever I have good news or interviews, I share them openly’