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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?'

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'

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!!'

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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'

Sometimes doing a good deed can get out of hand. At first, you do it because you can and because it has a positive impact on the other person; then you begin to wonder whether the positive impact would be to let that same person be aware of their reality and where they stand, even though it can hurt a little at first.

34-year-old man secretly pays for his 28-year-old brother's credit card debt and now his brother thinks he is a financial genius: 'Last week, he told our parents he's writing a BOOK about personal finance'

There are always many sides to a story, and depending on which you tell it from, it benefits one side or the other. In this son’s particular case, I don’t think it’s even that problematic; the person he messed with was doing something bad. He wonders whether or not he should have stepped into the situation at all.

Son defends father of being kicked out by digging into coordinator's records and finding shady information: 'My dad says I did the right thing but part of me wonders if I shouldve just let him handle it his own way instead of getting involved like that'

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Haven’t we all done something like this in high school? Pretending to really like a band for someone to notice us, becoming a skater to belong in a group, dyeing our hair because our crush likes blondes…OK, I might have gone too personal there, but this is an example of the same type of behaviour. Instead of about a crush, it’s about a father-in-law’s approval. In the end, it’s all the same, a never-ending search for love. I'm feeling romantic today, lol.

Man spends 4 years pretending to have an obsession with a very niche hobby just to get his father-in-law's approval: 'For the first year, we sat in agonizing silence during every family gathering. I was desperate'

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Homeowner draws the line after sister-in-law uses her spare key for uninvited lunch runs, wife’s family calls him unreasonable: 'It’s my and my wife’s house'

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Australian woman refuses to pay thousands in traffic fines her sister accumulated on a car she sold to their mom, never legally transferred, and then took back

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Stepdaughter refuses to rely on wealthy stepmom after watching her use money to control the family: ‘I've seen what financial dependence does to my dad’

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Woman changes her sister's 73rd birthday dinner to a Thai restaurant she prefers, leaving the guest of honor waiting alone at the wrong restaurant: 'If I’m paying for a meal, I want to enjoy it'