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Parents charge young adult $87k in "back rent" they claim was accrued over 5 years of living with them: 'They don’t need the money, and I genuinely thought the “rent” was a budgeting exercise'

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Dad and stepmother insist 17-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter cut ties with dad's ex-girlfriend, with whom they have a deep connection: 'Me and my sister never got close to [my stepmother] like we did [with dad's ex-girlfriend]'

Brad Dickson

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Mom blames 17-year-old daughter for her divorce from teen's stepfather when the teen rejects her stepfather as a father, despite him being in her life since she was 10 years old: 'He told mom he couldn't live without being a parent'

Brad Dickson

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Dad gives the family business to brother-in-law instead of his son, who has worked there for 17 years since he was 15 years old, son starts a new business, forcing dad to beg him to come back: 'The business is now 100% my brother-in-law’s'

Brad Dickson

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Mother draws backlash for telling her 15-year-old son that he couldn't take his stepmother to his mother-son football team event: 'She's not his mom, nor did she have the respect to call/text me and ask how I felt about it'

Brad Dickson

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19-year-old brother tells his 24-year-old single mother sister to raise her own child if she has a problem with how he is helping her after she critiques his assistance: 'He got mad and said that I have no right to judge her parenting'

Brad Dickson

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20-year-old rejects his stepmother and her family after they treated him like an outsider since he was 5 years old, despite his dad's demands that he consider them family: 'I was left out and they were angry I was even there'

Brad Dickson

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17-year-old gets forced out of the house by his parents for telling his 15-year-old sister that she is their favorite child: 'Sometimes they just let my sister choose what we should do for my birthday'

Brad Dickson

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Divorced father buys his only son a luxury car for his 16th birthday, sparking conflict with his ex-wife, who demands that he buy equivalent gifts for her new husband's children: 'With the money, you could have gotten all three kids cars'

Emma Saven

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17-year-old forced to babysit stepmother's kids for 6 hours on his day off, he leaves the house instead, forcing the stepmother to cancel her plans: 'She was trying to guilt-trip me about canceling'

Brad Dickson

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17-year-old refuses to invite her stepmother to her graduation party, leading to the resurfacing of older disagreements in the family: '[Her dad is] threatening not to show up at all if [her stepmother] isn’t welcome'

Brad Dickson

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17-year-old sets her mother and her mother's husband straight when they get upset at her for telling others that he isn't her dad: 'My mom's husband isn't my dad'

Brad Dickson

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44-year-old man and his son move in with younger girlfriend, refuses to pay rent or groceries, offering to contribute only $400 to utilities, while she is left with a $2000 mortgage: 'I am paycheck to paycheck and feeling like he is using me'

Emma Saven

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Father refuses to offer financial support or inheritance to his illegitimate love child, his brother steps in to ensure the child is cared for: 'I have been personally sending money; I'll never let him hear the end of it'

Brad Dickson

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Stepmother demands that 16-year-old stepson stay to care for her children even after she and his father are separated: 'She tried to say she had raised me for 9 years and should be allowed to keep me in her and my half-siblings' lives even if dad isn't'

Brad Dickson

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Stepmother gets shut down by 17-year-old stepdaughter after forcing her to go to family therapy to get the teen to admit that she is an adequate replacement for her mother: 'She was never second best [...] because she was never in the running'

Brad Dickson

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