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Wife spends $10,000 hosting husband's unemployed sister for 3 months after she books the trip without asking, husband calls her "cheap" when she sets a spending limit for future visits: 'I’ve started feeling resentful towards this setup.'

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37-year-old refuses to take over $40K Parent PLUS loan her father took out without her knowledge 20 years ago, sister dismisses her $400-a-month concern: ‘Figure it out’

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Being a scapegoat is not easy, especially if you are one in your family. This Redditor wonders how to soften what she confessed to her family (that she is almost never included), and I think it might be time to stop explaining and explore other groups of people. Dynamics, to continue functioning, have to be fed through both sides; if one stops, the dynamic can't perpetuate itself.

32-year-old woman is the only one not invited to stay in an Airbnb with family on vacation: ‘They go to dinners without me all the time, do things that I specifically say I’d like to do, and claim they forgot to invite me’

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Woman's mom has lived in her house for years paying $180 a month, daughter raises it to $500 before the baby arrives, mom says her brother "loves her more": 'It doesn't feel fair that my husband and I are carrying the cost of another adult in our home'

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Homeowner refuses to let his younger brother move back in after spending nine months supporting him while he stopped helping with chores, groceries, and job applications: 'I felt more like his parent than his sibling'

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23-year-old discovers her parents secretly gave her college fund to her sister's business, leaving her with $60,000 in student loans, then gets asked to be a bridesmaid at her wedding: 'They all lied to me for years'

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Michigan woman turns her car around and drives 12 hours home instead of taking her sister to the family's North Carolina beach house after the sister refuses to stop kicking her seat: ‘You can drive yourself and we will just drive back to MI now’

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18-year-old holds her ground when parents expect her to hand over her old $1,000 laptop to 7-year-old half sister for free: 'Why should I be the one expected to absorb that cost?'

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Sometimes gifts come with weird expectations attached. Well, they’re not exactly ‘weird’, but one typically assumes that a gift is a gift and it doesn’t have a receipt, but it does. In the majority of cases, it most certainly does. This is one of those stories in which, to me, both parties are equally in the wrong; therefore, they’re also equally in the right, if you know what I mean, so I will dedicate my time to elaborating each sister’s perspective (or at least my idea of it, of course).

Woman spends all Saturday baking a cake for her sister's birthday, only for her to tell all her guests she got it from the local bakery, so she takes it back home with her: 'She rolled her eyes and said, "Does it really matter?"'

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Engaged couple splits rent 50/50 while he saves his inheritance for their future home, his mom and sister still call it unfair: 'We agreed he would pay $700 each month unless he is putting money into the house that his grandparents are giving him.'

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Man skips anniversary dinner for a baseball game and lies to his fiancée, sibling reveals the truth, now the wedding is on hold: 'She deserved to know'

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I have no idea why this is so common; I’ve heard and watched so many related stories. Mothers-in-law are, not for nothing, represented in so many folk tales like this. They act very jealous with their sons; they sabotage relationships; they always present themselves as ‘the one who knows best’, and every time a husband is on their side, you are sure to lose.

Bride-to-be specifically asks her wedding guests to wear any colour but white and green for the ceremony and mother-in-law buys two white and green dresses: '“It’s like champagne” she said as she looked it up, and I just knewwww!!'

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.'

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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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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Mother refuses to let her 18-year-old daugther go on a trip to Miami with her boyfriend: 'We know she's legally an adult, but she still lives at home'