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Do we get married to please family and friends? I don’t think the concept of marriage is independent of gatherings and celebrations; the origins of marriage as a ceremony are directly linked to community, family, and groups. It was originally a celebration precisely orchestrated within society and a ritual that symbolized a passage from one role inside it

A couple gets secretly engaged, then secretly married, and ends up disappointing their loved ones when they eventually find out: ‘From our perspective, we didn't do it to exclude anyone or because we don't love our families and friends’

Money is a sensitive topic Maybe this will only be understood by people who have gone through a hard time economically. The woman who posted this story mentioned growing up with financial stress, and I can relate. Some people react to that financial instability growing up by becoming super cautious and responsible with money, and others do exactly the opposite; they become extreme spenders and compensate by spending all they couldn't spend while they were growing up. Paradoxically, the second a

20-year-old woman exposes her 21-year-old sister by saying she always pays for everything: ‘She got upset and said she never knew I thought like that, and maybe I should start taking money from her’

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I don’t know how I feel about this story because I think an innocent person is paying for somebody else’s mistakes. The resolution here is clear: What should be drying the countertop should be one of the boyfriend’s belongings, but I don’t think the brother is seeing things clearly.

24-year-old man uses his sister's towel to clean the sink’s countertop in revenge for her boyfriend always leaving it wet: ‘I just get her towel and dry the sink (and floor if he lets it get wet too) with it’

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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.'