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When should our nitpicking stop? In these modern times, there's a pretty widespread idea that our partners should be there to satisfy our every need, and that we should be so pragmatic as to leave them ASAP if there is a very minor box they don't check. Evidently, I do not subscribe to that way of thinking, and today I'm going to explain why.

44-year-old woman considers leaving her boyfriend over a pillow: 'I just feel like I've run out of ways to calmly communicate why this is important to me'

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Job applicant uses hidden tracker to catch startup using his unpaid design test after rejecting him, sends $1,800 invoice and gets paid within hours: 'They knew they were completely caught red-handed'

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Drive-thru employee demands customer park in handicapped spot while they wait for their order, customer firmly refuses: ‘Not in the handicap spot’

Drive-thru employee demands customer park in handicapped spot while they wait for their order, customer firmly refuses: ‘Not in the handicap spot’

Who determines our relationship to love and marriage? At first, I thought this was yet another story about a guy getting cold feet right at the moment he is asked a big question. This is how it always goes for me: everything seems to be going fine, and at some point, I decide to bring up some variation of the ‘what are we?’ question, and all we had goes up in flames.

25-year-old woman asks her 27-year-old boyfriend about clarity on their future and he breaks up with her: 'He later said he spoke to his mother and she said he should marry 6 months after finishing postgrad'

I love you, therefore I feed you Food can look different in different cultures, but it always means practically the same thing. Humans have gathered around food since forever and have also constructed countless rituals surrounding it. Feeding is one of our first contacts with the world around us when we’re babies and are fed by our mothers. Most of the time, food signifies love, community, connection, nurture, interdependence, etc.

52-year-old woman is constantly pushing her homecooked food onto 60-year-old sister and 80-year-old dad: 'We don't want her pickles!'

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I think there is something to say here about a road paved with good intentions, but anyway. Sometimes we analyze a situation and come up with the best solution we can think of, and we end up breaking something that was steadily functioning. The key to success might be communicating our plans to fix the thing instead of doing it as a surprise, but well, everybody makes honest mistakes, and it even feels unfair to call a situation like this a mistake.

Employee spends months thoroughly organizing communal folder in secret, only to wind up causing office chaos: 'I’m sitting here, staring at the perfectly organized, color-coded, and searchable directory I created, terrified to say anything'

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Older sister, who has long spoiled her sibling, is accused of meddling after helping her leave a boyfriend who thought money would keep her around: 'He thinks I'm enabling her to be immature'

We’re not born knowing how to not be anxious around love, and our first experiences with it are filled with all-or-nothing scenarios. I remember how I felt every time my high school sweetheart didn’t immediately text back. I would succumb to the deepest pit, thinking my life was definitely over. At that age, it’s very hard to tell the emotional mind that the other person might be occupied and has not spend its afternoon thinking about how to destroy you.

17-year-old boyfriend wonders if its okay to not want his same age girlfriend to go to a girls night out: 'I was unable to go to the girls night because I was a boy'

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Volunteer refuses to come back after being bossed around, given no water, no bathroom breaks, and nearly having her phone confiscated, gets emails a year later telling her she needs to be a better team player

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Roommate leaves for summer internship, subleases room for $1,650 without consulting housemates, leaves 2-week gap at end of contract and expects them to cover the rent: 'I'm subsidizing your rent'

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Girlfriend making $15/hour secretly buys an $800/month truck with her dad, texts her boyfriend after signing, destroying their apartment plans in one morning

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Man leaves brother's landscaping company after years of being underpaid, later warns prospective business partner about secret plan to absorb his clients and equipment: 'Family members think i betrayed my brother'

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A hardworking man refuses to let his brother live rent-free in his second flat after years of saving to buy it: ‘I can't set myself on fire to keep him warm’

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Friend steps out of cohosting a cookout as she was in charge of all the expenses for people that aren't even her friends: 'I’d rather attend as a regular guest.'

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Mother argues with family members over going to a funeral for a distant family member she doesn't even visit, or her daughter's dance recital: 'I wouldn’t mind attending if it weren’t for my daughter’s recital.'

Manager fires UX architect after selling their work to a client at great profit, leading the employee to work directly with the client instead: ‘The company crashed’

Manager fires UX architect after selling their work to a client at great profit, leading the employee to work directly with the client instead: ‘The company crashed’