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Girl forbids her roommate's boyfriend from coming in during the week after he ate all the food she prepped for herself without asking: 'I finally lost it'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Employee is tired every time she calls her coworker she puts her on speaker, so she takes advantage of that and starts saying truths that expose her coworker: 'Now you know how I feel every time you put me on speaker without asking.'

María Cetra

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Roommate repeatedly "borrows" tenant's clothes without asking, gets caught wearing a deeply personal item from her bedroom: ‘My privacy feels completely invaded’

Cata Holmes

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Employee sets boundaries after their manager keeps assigning them with “urgent task” at 4:45 pm, when his work hours end at 5 pm: ‘Last week I finally said that I couldn't stay and would complete it first thing in the morning.’

María Cetra

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Daughter refuses to let her mother move in with her because she’s tired of living with her other daughter in the family home: ‘She's tired of all of us’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Mother's husband demands to charge 20-year-old daughter's boyfriend $350 a month for rent because he sometimes spends the night in their house basement with her: 'This feels less like setting reasonable boundaries and more like pushing them out.'

María Cetra

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Employee gets pranked by her 50-year-old coworker by getting her water bottle mixed with coffee cream, she is very upset and worried she's overreacting: 'I feel like it’s not okay for anyone to mess with someone's drink.'

María Cetra

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Coworker gets asked to pick up another coworker's lunch all the time, once he did, but never got paid for the food, and now he doesn't know how to set boundaries: 'There is no reason that he can't drive to a restaurant during lunch'.

María Cetra

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Ex-husband refuses to let ex-wife dog-sit at his house while he’s on a couples trip with his new girlfriend, friends cancel over pet-sitting drama: 'If the roles were reversed, I'd do whatever it took'

Celeste Mello

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Friend refuses to buy $300 cowboy boots for a bridezilla’s wedding, setting boundaries despite getting called unsupportive: ‘I have already spent $400+ on my dress’

Celeste Mello

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Student tries to set boundaries with roommate who oversteps with her time and belongings, stands firm despite tension: 'I’m learning to say no without feeling guilty'

Cata Holmes

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24-year-old couple move out of household with close friends who don't pay or clean, sneakily takes the roommate's neglected cat with them: '[We wrapped] him in a blanket so they won't know.'

Celeste Mello

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28-year-old boyfriend unoficially moves in to his gf's apartment rent-free, roommate makes him pay up: '[It's not] fair for me to pay the same'

Celeste Mello

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Yes-man finally says 'no,' following his girlfriend's advice to stop being a pushover when she demands he dogsit for 8 days

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'I don’t see the issue if he’s just in my room': Woman refuses to let roommate’s on-again, off-again boyfriend stay rent-free in their apartment while her roommate travels, after she gives him a spare key to "feed the cat"

Emma Saven

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Helicopter-mom demands access to daughter's college emails as a way to "check on things", when her daughter refuses, she guilt-trips her over paying for college and all the years spent raising her: 'I feel that there is a line for what I owe her'

Emma Saven

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