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I never thought this could be possible. Part of the reason ‘nice guys’ existed as a cultural phenomenon was that they were unable to see what they were doing wrong. It was always all about them and how, apparently, everyone disrespected them. I’m starting to believe in the power of cinema now, or maybe I already did; it has proven itself to be one of the most effective means by which someone can spread a message.

23-year-old man watches a film and realizes he is the classic "nice guy" type by identifying with the protagonist: 'As I watched Obsession, I found myself relating to bear on a semi-concerning level'

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Bride-to-be asks her best friend of 17 years to be a bridesmaid, tells her it will cost $4700 and gets offended when the friend can't afford it: ‘[I do not] want to spend the next year managing other people’s limitations’

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Neighbor demands homeowners delay fence construction after learning part of his sprinkler system is on their property: 'We weren't involved in choosing the fence'

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.'

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Employee contacts his manager because of an important incident, boss forbids everyone from contacting her in her free time, but also requests things from employees in their free time: 'She will have to come in on her days off if she wants to talk to me'

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It's funny how we act around timid personalities. We project all kinds of dark character traits when, in reality, we don’t know anything about them precisely because they are so reserved. I’m glad this employee found out about her coworker’s real personality in the best way possible. Her finding out he wasn’t so evil after all wasn’t that shocking

Work "enemy" turns out to be the only one to have employee's back when he needed it, worked 6-8 extra unpaid hours for him and refuses to accept a gift in retribution: 'I approached him about it and he told me basically he was busy and not to bother him'

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Girlfriend refuses to lend boyfriend her car during the heatwave after he damaged and stained her previous vehicles: 'You care more about the car than you care about me'

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'Evening Milady': 26 Dating App Fails To Scroll While on Hinge

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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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Guest reserved two hotel rooms and then got mad when front desk employee explained she had, in fact, two rooms that she had to pay for, she's blaming the employee: 'Why didn’t you call me and ask if I really needed the second room?'

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IT employee gets reprimanded over not taking his lunch on time, so he complies during a critical outage that turned down the network in which he can't really do anything: 'Boss is standing at my desk when I get back today.'

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Colorado woman received $24,000 from elderly neighbor, now parents are pressuring her to use the money to help her brother: 'His behavior upended my childhood'

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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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‘Right now they owe me over $1000’: Worker leaves corporate for a small family-owned business and faces chaotic pay, no accountability, and quickly misses the structure she thought she didn’t need

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Nobody else but us can say what’s important for us in our friendships and in our lives. When we constantly feel somebody else doesn’t listen to us, it’s ok to listen to that feeling, but sometimes we get glimpses of something else that might be going on. It’s always ok to try to have an honest conversation with ourselves, or with a forum on the internet lol, and see whether we are exaggerating through our pretensions or not.

Guy constantly feels unheard and overriden over "little things" but refuses to be more direct when they happen: 'If I did the same things he did, to my own mother, she would get incredibly angry'

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Sales manager embarrasses himself while on the phone with a long-time client by accidentally saying “I love you,” they all laugh it off, but HR still gives him 2 write-ups: ‘Basically had to convince them not to fire me’

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