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Sometimes giving a gift becomes a way of establishing an obligation on another person I’m not saying this behavior is a conscious choice; in fact, I believe it mostly never is. But regardless of whether it’s conscious or not, it still happens, and I think we should all start being wary of it.

22-year-old woman cooks for friend and then takes home the groceries they both paid for: ‘She then proceeds to split every single item in half, regardless if, for my portion; she, for example, used 1 slice of cheese from the 14 bought’

This employee not only experiences her coworker’s attitude as annoying, but also as a threat to the boundaries of her identity There is a difference between borrowing something from you and claiming a relationship with you that you haven't consented to. If, let’s say, a coworker buys the same top as you, that’d be inoffensive imitation;

[She] said, 'I want to be you'. She corrected herself: "No, I want to be like you”’ Woman rants about a coworker who seems way too interested in her

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Are the youngest generations bad at making friends, or do we just not understand them? There are a couple of reasons why Gen Z might seem worse at relationships than previous generations. By now, we’ve all realized that social media has created new forms of intimacy that have reshaped how we think about relationships.

Woman reflects on why Gen Z is so bad at friendship: ‘There is a huge need for belonging, but very little tolerance for other people's mistakes’

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Friend refuses to pay $100 for best friend's birthday dinner even though she can afford it: 'The restaurant has a $1,200 minimum and only allows one credit card for the entire bill'

I think we’ve all liked a friend at some point in our lives, and we can all agree it always gets very confusing. When we like someone a lot, we naturally don’t want to lose them, so we will likely say yes to keeping them as a friend even though we want more.

Woman shares “unpopular advice” for dealing with a friend who has a crush on you: ‘They'll usually lie about their feelings going away, because they want continued access (even if it hurts them). And they WILL resent you’

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'What do I do with my "poor" friend?': Wealthy woman is fed up with lower-income friend's constant judgements on her purchases

I have a theory about kitchens and roommates Look, I’ve lived in many houses with many roommates, and kitchens have always been the center of conflict for some reason.

Woman doesn’t know how to keep her invasive roommate away while she’s cooking: ‘He also keeps trying to make convo, lingers, and literally watches me prepare dinner when I just wanna focus, chill, and not make conversation’

I’ve ended relationships for much smaller reasons I think part of our mandatory emotional education should be that we’re allowed to end any relationship we want for whatever reason we choose.

Woman struggles to find a good enough reason to break up with a friend: ‘99% of our conversations revolve around her life, her problems, her interests, and the things happening with her’

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Entitled friend asks a friend to pick her up at the airport, changes the flight and arrival time without telling her and gets upset when the friend refuses to adjust to last minute changes: 'She felt like I'd left her stranded'

Giuliana Tiscioni

I don’t think overreacting is the right word for what happened in this story How a person handles money is as important as how they handle many other things. And knowing how people manage their income is a crucial part of getting to know them.

Woman disappointed with how her friend handles money: ‘It also hit a nerve because I’ve had this issue with family too, where people seem to assume that because I have nice things, I can just absorb costs’

He transformed a cheap, ridiculous college memory into ancestral culture. You gotta give it to him; he is an artist We all do this when we want to impress somebody

Man tells his friend's girlfriend where the family’s pasta recipe really came from: ‘I laughed and said we originally got it off the back of a pasta box in college. The table went completely quiet’

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New employee refuses to listen to friend’s warnings about their toxic company, only to be proven wrong on their first day of work: ‘I told you so’

Melissa Knudson

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Woman refuses to lend anymore money to unemployed friend after discovering he spends all of it on video games: ‘He couldn’t manage his own money’

Melissa Knudson

Birthday blues I don’t know about you guys, but for me, birthdays are the most sensitive days. What they say is true: if you don’t cry at least once, it’s not your birthday. I remember once I cried only because I THOUGHT nobody was going to come (I think only two people texted me saying they couldn’t make it).

Woman decides to cut all her friends off because they bailed on her on her birthday: ‘I know people say “show up for yourself,” and I can. I always do. But for once I wanted someone ELSE to show up for me’

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I swear to God, this is somewhat normal behaviour in the ‘fitness community’. Why are they so obsessed with making everyone else follow their strict eating habits and rules?

Man Returns Home After a 12-hour Shift, And His Roommate’s Girlfriend Had Thrown Away His Food: ‘She’d thrown away my frozen pizzas, Hot Pockets, and chips because they are "literal poison," and she wanted the apartment to eat cleaner’

Is it a boundary or a form of coercion? I can’t tell! I believe some people can’t tell the difference between a genuine, heartfelt boundary and an entitled claim.

‘I was just sharing my sadness with her about my own break-up and how I wanted to heal/move on, but she flipped it and made it about her and her ex’: 32-year-old Woman Threatens to End Friendship if Friend Goes to a Conference Her Ex Will Be At